Hotel Malacca

Recently i have a project to optimize the website www.hoteltropicaville.net, which is a hotel located in the Malacca town. When i search for "Hotel Malacca" and had a typo error of "Hotel Malacca" , I surpise to see that there are about 41,800 website using the wrong word "Malaca" (lack of one "c" ), , and about 17,000 website using the wrong word "Melacca" ( wrongly replace the "a" to "e")

Obviosly, Malacca being a historical town in Malaysia since 15 century, there are many spelling for this historical town. One of my friend who is in France said he find the word "Malaca" is correct in his country...

Malaysia florist

I just recently visited a client who is a florist and had setup her business on internet for 1 year.

She complained to me that she didn't receive many orders, while every month she has to pay the payment gateway provider for RM 750 for the payment gateway facility for accepting credit card online.

She also complained to me that her advertisement in Sponsor links in Yahoo and Google are also not satisfied due to her ranking in not high in sponsor links.
And I checked for her for the bidding price, my god ! The top bidder is biding USD 1.00 for the keyword "Malaysia florist"

Just imagine if in a day comes 10 visitor to click, then the top bidder need to pay USD 10.00 for these visitors yet not guaranteed to become the buyers.

I think the florist in Malaysia shall consider Malaysia SEO who can help them to rank high in the normal way.

Internet marketing and web design in Malaysia

Next year ( 2007 ) is Visit Malaysia year. Suddenly many websites appear and targeting on Tourism Malaysia and introduce Malaysia travel information.

Well, it is good to have so many website to introduce Malaysia. Some designs are good, others are really bad. Nevertheless, even some quality websites (both in content and design) , is lack of people to visit.

It is due to the website owner don't know how to promote the website. In general, the search engines are most effective way to let people find a new website. But to get listed on top in search engines is not an easy job, and that's why SEO ( Search Engine Optimization) come in.

To learn more about what SEO is, please visit Singapore Search Engine Optimization..

Line down - web hosting provider nightmare

From 1st June until 6th June , it is really a nightmare for the web hosting provider in Malaysia. this is due to submarine cable failure at the SMW3 cable towards Tuas in Singapore and Pyapon in Myanmar. As a consequence, access to USA and Thailand website is affected.
( please see the TMNET and Streamyx annoucement here )

I don't know why and how it happened. My friends received numbers of calls from clients complained that they cannot access to website or emails. In this few days we keep explain to them and it really waste our time.

Many local web hosting providers are using USA as a base for allocated their server. This is because the cost of setting up servers and the cost of data centre in USA is comparable cheap than setting up in Cyberjaya in Malaysia, and also the speed of the data centre is faster than the local one. But while the line down case happen, it is time for the local web hosting provider to re-consider to setup server in Malaysia, although the infrastructure here is still not satisfied. But at least, you will receive less complain than the people who setting up servers in USA.

How did you find this website ?

Dear all visitors,

if you found this website through the keyword " Malaysia web design" , " Malaysia website design" or " Malaysia web hosting" . Then you should know the important of search engines, especially when you are using Yahoo, Google or MSN to come to my website here.

Today, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the most critical success factor for a website to become popular in the Internet. For past few years, many good website, rich in content and design, finally closed down because of lack of visitors. It is quite pity for these companies to invest thousands of dollars and the result is nothing.

Since 2001, I realized that design a good website is not enough. I started to learn how to optimized the website to reach top position in search engines and I sucessfully listed some customers in top 30 position in Yahoo, MSN and Google.

If you are interested to make your website popular, please visit the website Malaysia SEO

Web Hosting Dilemma

Recently, i have a lunch with a friend who is a web hosting provider. He told me that the web hosting busiess is extremely competitive nowadays. It is because there are many web hosting providers offer high hosting space with low price. He showed me an advertisement from a local provider : 3GB space, 15 GB bandwidth with only RM 180 per year.

I asked him, "can this provider survive or earn profit with such low price ? "

He told me, " Well, I don't know, but for myself, if I offer more than 500 MB for RM 180 per year, i actually making lost -- if the client fully utilize the 500 MB and the 15 GB bandwidth"

It means many web hosting provider are playing a dangerous game - Offer huge space, low price , but at the same time "expect" the client will not utilize full space.

It this circumstance, can you expect good servces from the hosting provider that offer with such low price ? It is also a potential risk that suddenly the hosting users upload huge files and utilized fully space and bandwidth which may cause the server overload. Meanwhile, it is also easy for the competitors to pretent as a client to sabotage the hosting provider, by sign up the 3GB space, fully utilize the bandwidth and space with only RM 180.00 (USD 50) , What a low cost to saborage a competitor !!

So, Web hosting provider, you want to fight for price and space, or fight for service and quality ?