China Search Daily

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!

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.