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China Internet Conference 2007

1, They dont speak English
I can still remember that there were two English holding pages for China Internet Conference at 2005 and 2006. I still keep the link here. But the link is dead and there isnt any English holding page for China Internet Conference 2007. I know Mr Huang Chengqing is always looking forward to expand the brand of China Internet Conference, but I dont think the organization that runs the event really understand his idea. Although the chinese website and the event looks more fancy this year, there are just a few English words there. Yes, they dont speak english on the website. Or they just dont care.  

2. Search Engines say alike
The search engines are those I care during the China Internet Conference. From Dr Li Kaifu of Google China to Dr Charles Chang of Sohu, both believe that they care the people, the users. Agree! All the business and technology development should be user-oriented, better result for searchers and better turn out for advertisers. We havent heard anything from the NO.1 about this, very likely they will talk about better ADs, just the ADs itself, and nothing to do with user.

3. Mobile! Mobile! Mobile!
We just cant wait any longer to welcome the mobile era for internet. We truely believe that all the handhold eletronic devices will get on wap in the future, or the 3G. So everyone is talking about mobile applicaiton in China Internet Conference 2007.

More in Chinese

To be continued.

Here are two reports about the China Internet Conference 2007 Day one.

China Internet Conference kicks off in Beijing
Source:CCTV.com

The 2007 China Internet Conference has kicked off in Beijing. Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan addressed Monday’s opening ceremony, noting the rapid development of the internet in China. There are more than 1.3 million portal operators in China, nearly a four-fold increase since the end of 2000. And dot-cn domain names number 6.15 million now, the first time they have exceeded the registered number of dot-coms.

Chinese internet users spent more than 160 billion yuan on the internet in the first half of the year. This makes sense, considering China has over 160 million web users, about an eighth of the population.
P2P services slashed
Source: china.org.cn

During the 2007 China Internet Conference, a senior official from the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) accused peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading of occupying too much of the Internet bandwidth, making it impossible to launch other new Internet services.

Han Xia, Deputy Director of Telecommunications Administration Bureau under MII, pointed out that many problems have appeared during the growth of Chinese internet industry. In Han’s opinion, P2P downloading is one of the most serious problems.

Although the number of Chinese broad brand users is below the world’s average level, the P2P fluxes in China are 3 to 4 times of those in the US. According to statistics from Chinese Internet service providers, P2P downloading accounts for 35 to 60 percent of the whole fluxes in the day and 50 to 90 percent during the night. For Chinese users, the Internet is used mainly for downloading movies and music.

Yes, I am talking about Gambling in China this month.

The town is full of dice sound day and night since two weeks ago. From hotel to department store, from grocery store to shopping mall, from school to home, People shouting, laughing, crying with the turn out of six dices.

This panic will continue during next two weeks.

So here comes the official gambling month, but only in Xiamen, Quanzhou, and some parts of southeast china.

This is the Mid-Autumn festival, people doing the gambling for moon cake. Every business get involved with that.

But what happen to search? I check the Moon Cake Gambling in Baidu and Google. No one buy the keyword on the paid listing, and no business site do the SEO for the organic listing.

Yeah, search need to be more marketing, so do the marketers.

Every year, hundreds of million cash flow during this gambling month in just a singe city. There must be some real business online, event the branding for moon cake company or bakery.

Dunsh Conference @ Beijing
Oct 20th, 2007
This is going to be the conference for chinese SEOer, especially those talents and grass root SEOer. This will be a sort of AA gathering, only limited sponsorship available.

Search Expo @ Hong Kong
November 8th-9th, 2007

Search Expo @ Xiamen
April 18th-19th, 2008

Seoul and Taipei will also at 2008

Must update your calendar with Timev Events, check it all here

What’s Search Expo?
That was a good question.

From Howv network to Timev Tech, we had been working and researching on two things:
1. How to help the China companies go international thought Internet?
2. How to help oversea companies get into China?

That is where all my passion come from. International trade really make the dream come ture, and the search engine makes it fast then we can image.

China and Chinese had became the global business sources and destination. I noticed that there are two very interesting demanding groups:
1. China Companies want to go international via internet for their brand awareness and business leads.
2. Companies from outside of China want to market their brand and business in China via Internet.

Search Expo can serve this two groups very well. We are  a bilingual event with chinese and english content about search engine marketing. We want to extend our tour in Asia. We create a Global Network for SEO/SEM knowledge.

If you have been to Hong Kong, there was a out-door post on the way to Airport. The words can answer the question very well. And the Search Expo is going to Hong Kong at November 8th-9th, 2007. Check Search Expo Hong NOW!

Search Expo is a search engine marketing conference & expo, we are Asia Based, China Focus and Global Network!

Tomorrow will be Search Expo.

Those who had visited Xiamen for SES China must read the back cover of the conference book:
” See you at Beijing at this September”–Timev and Friends.

And here we are, Beijing, but the event is Search Expo ( Search Engine Marketing Conference & Expo ). I believed you can learn more about the story about Search Expo at here.

Yes, The Timev Tech Co., Ltd decided to give all the conference resources and the brand Timev to a new company. The new company will take over all the events and search marketing resources and develop a series search and online marketing event at Asia.

SES Xiamen closed at this May 26th, I noted this review but keep it for monthes. I thinked I shouldnt keep it that long, I would like to share my feeling and my thanks with my global search marketing friends.

The Thanks Giving Wall of Timev

Yes, at the top right, those chinese character stands for ” Thanks for all the partners that supported us during the past years”. And the left side are all the logos of those who were involved with Timev’s past events since year 2004.

The First Chinese SEO Championship Reward

I believed that we should make SES China a special one. We had been doing search marketing and related events since 2004, we should take the responsibility to create a stage for chinese SEOer. Duhugu was the right event to run. The Gentlemen in the middle was the champion of Duhugu, the first chinese SEO Championship. I was very glad to have Chris Sherman as the one to pass him the prize, a server and hosting service package worth USD12,000! Sponsor by Lanmang company. The beautiful lady at right end was the COO of Lanmang, the largest IDC in China. If you want to know her name and the company, better contact me for help.:)

The Keynote

Keynote to our Search Event was always challenging for me. To bring the search engine marketing theory to china couldnt be kicked off just over night. After the first SES China Keynote, both marketer’s and advertisers understood the value of search throught the Keynote presented by Jack Ma from Alibaba and Johnny Chou from Google China.
At Xiamen, Yvonne Chang, a smart and aggressive lady showed the audience how creative a search marketing can be. The Keynote between me, Chris Sherman and Yvonne Chang told a story about search marketing developement and China Yahoo. For sure we touched something about the Panama.

The Active Audience: 1200+

WOW, I never imaged a crowd like this before the event. 1200+ audiences really made the event a GREAT one at Xiamen. Delegates came from all over china, covering multi-industries.
I was thinking that, there must be a day we can post all the audience’s pictures at the Thanks Giving Wall.

Good Bye Dinner

Hi Jianfei, I must give you this Big Hug, I think I should give Matt Cutts one in the future. Your participate to SES Xiamen really showed us that Matt Cutts and his google team really care about chinese marketers and advertisers.

Bill Hunt, Ian McArin and the SES China team

Marshall Simonds and SES China Team

Rand Fishkin and SES China Team

Farah, Inway, RQ, Shari and Peter Zarf

That was always hard to say good bye. But every event needs a good-bye dinner!
Let Ganbei ( Cheers in Chinese ) !

Here came the SES China Ganbei SEVEN ( Jon Qiu, Chris Sherman, Tim Walsh, Eric Yao, RQ Zeng, Inway Ni, Stone Chen)

See you all at next show!