China Search Daily

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!

SES China is ready.

The conference book, event T-shirt, passes, all prints and the Duhugu T-shirt are all ready for all the guest.

I am closing the agenda and speaker recruitment today.

Will finish some speakers interview and release it in chinese before the event.

Who is 265.com?

I have posted about 265.com and its founder Mr. Cai before.

265.com is regarded as a grass-root legend in china internet market. They maybe the simplest site in China. I said they were the teenage yahoo, like a directory or navigation site.

A similar website called hao123.com had already merged by Baidu two year ago. After that, IDG VC invested into 265.com, Google followed the coming year.

Both hao123.com and 265.com had contribute huge traffic for both Baidu and Google for since 2004. The most valuabale asset for these website are traffice and massive amount of faithful internet users. A hugh amount of chinese internet user make 265.com as their homepage at the computers.

Now, a little bird told me today,Google extend its investment and merge 265.com into its china branch. No one commeted about that so far.

The CNNIC had a press release at Beijing today. CNNIC will start a promotion package for .cn domain.

That is, the cost for the first registration year for a .cn domain will be only RMB 1 Yuan, which is less than 13 cents in US$.

CNNIC believes that the promotion will attract more chinese and companies to register a .cn domain. A expecting .cn domain rush will expand the market scale of internet business.

Although .cn domain registratin fees is the main revenue for CNNIC, they still have the resposiblity to help the chinese internet market.

I believe that more .cn domain registration will bring more commercial or non-commercial website into this market. More business is right on the corner.

Kung Hei Fat Choy and happy spring festival!

We are celebrating the chineses new year and everything will back to business at 25th. And the SES china will do a great press release at the same time.

Are you ready?
If you happen to know chinese and know something about SEO, and pretend to be very creative, you should never miss this chinese SEO contest.

Where to go?
Duhugu. They have a chinese name for that, three chinese characteristic, first first one’s chinese pinyin is “du”, second “hu”, and third “gu”. “duhugu” Which means a valley where tiger always pass the river. Yes go to this valley and apply for the contest.

How to contest?
Duhugu. Yes, although the name have interesting chinese meaning, but actually none of the search engines even index a single page about this keyword. It’s clean and clear from the very beginning. What you need to do is optimizing your page targeting “duhugu” in chinese. There is a very important thing for this contest, be creative for your content and respect to all copyright issues.

How long will this contest lasts?
You can continue enhancing your performance before next year’ SES Xiamen. Which means the contest starts from now and will end at may, 2007.

Any interesting stories?
Sure, most of the people believed that “du” is baidu, “hu” is Yahoo, “gu” is google. “duhugu” stands for the “big three” in chinese. Well, maybe ture, Yahoo’s chinese name in pinyin is “yahu“, Google’s chinese name in pinyin is “guge”, and baidu is “baidu“. Yes, why not, and name with a story and can stands for three search engine.

How about the performance so far?
If you index the “duhugu” in chinese at all the above search engines, hundreds of thousands pages are already there, but before the contest, that was 1 weeks ago, nothing!! Yes, many SEO fans had already taken part in this contest.

If you know some chinese and know SEO, come and join it now.

Chinese food, beer, talkshow, SEO to SEO, the China SEO party will launch a national tour after the Beijing event.

Although this is not a commercail organization. I believe this will be a teenage chinese version Search Engine Watch. Fans, SEO pros start from knowledge sharing, Q&A thread getting longer and longer. Topics ranged from anti-spam, SEO tips, marketing ideas, case study, search engine trends. I always like to idea of running a SEO fans forum. To read all the post and feed back everyday is a very helpful thing.

That’s always important to make people meet each face to face. So here comes the party. The party was initiated at Shenzhen, and extend to Guangzhou. Then will have a Beijing one at 16th.

Beijing party will be the largest one and more organized.

Here is the simple agenda:

The event will start at 13:00, a hostess will introduce all the guests to everyone, then the editing memebr D4 will give an wellcome opening speech together with a member at Singapore through internet video chat.

The first part of this event will be a speech session, there will be six speechs presented by six speakers.

The second part will be two round-table-discussions, topics are from SEO tips to SEO tools.

All session will be closed at around 17:30, then party time!!

Keep one thing in mind before you take off for this party, take at least 150 business cards with you or 150 pieces of papers with your name and contact information. A camera will be extra benefit for youself.

If any global friend want to be part of the party, feel free to leave a message here, someone will contact you as soon as they get that.

December 16th, there will be a chinese SEO party at Beijing.

Launched by a group of SEO pros, Chinese SEO Party national tour were spontaneous. Started from Shenzhen, Guangzhou, more and more SEO pros and fans joint this event since two months ago.

First is a group blog, then extend to be a salon offline. We will continue to watch this event.

Next step for this party is at Beijing, December 16th, from 13:00 to 17:00 with food and beverage.

All the event was opened to application, but not all the applications will be accepted. This Beijing event will about 100 people.

This is not going to be a commercial event, guests are invited only. Beijing event will be the first one opened to just one exclusive sponsor. They are looking for sponsorship from SEO tools developement company, a global player will be prefered.

Anyone want to take this valuable but exclusive chance can contact me for furthur assistant.

Anyone want to take part in, feel free to contact me in English.