Ryan Chua

HCM is over…

The HCM seminar organized by Internet Marketing Singapore.com is finally over. Lots of good information which left the many new comers to the realm with more than just rabid information overload.

Information overload is a problem though, and the question that always comes back to anyone who’s starting out in internet marketing is… “Where do i start?” It’s all too easy to get your heart beating faster with the dreams of passive income as well as notifications of purchases that has been made to your account, and the lure of being one of the top internet marketers……………….is sometimes, all too irresistible.

Keep it simple, boil back down to basics. Get a piece of pen and paper, start drawing out the mindmaps to determine what and which step to take to get moving forward. Focus and keep hammering away. Don’t deviate, complete tasks, test results and ask how the next move can improve or reduce the work done.
Continous action, persistance, planning and a love to provide a great form of value for people is truely the secret to getting it all moving along.

Ryan Chua

Ambatchdotcom Seocontest updates…

There’s some interesting updates over at the rankings for the ambatchdotcom seocontest. A 16 *gasp* year old, Esteban Panzera, has finally taken over the top rankings for the keyword and is currently holding it tightly with a strong backlink force comprising of thousands of backlinks in multiple domains.

He seems to have a very strong knowledge of how SEO works via buying over existing domains with thousands of indexed pages, and it’s still darn interesting to find that a young guy like him can manage to figure out how to get to the top of the rankings that quickly. Interesting how this game is truely going.

Did some SEO experiments by myself over the past 2 days, and it’s quite amazing how by changing simply the URLs, or rather the filenames in a high PR domain (PR6 site), can make the jump from 3rd PAGE to 3rd position, within 2 days, for an extremely competitive keyword. (Which doesn’t even reflect the pages at all in the SERPs, but shows the main index.

Ryan Chua

New Keyword optimisation.

Just for the heck of it, i’ll optimize my blog for the keyword “Internet Marketing Singapore”. Not too sure how this will turn out over the next few months…but it’s all for fun. :)

Some good posers that Andrew popped in the comments of my earlier post. I’ll answer based on my own personal experiences and hopefully that’ll clear some of the doubts.
1. What should their first steps be?

Well, in order to succeed in any endeavour or business…there must be a few elements which i feel are most essential.

  • Committment - Committed to make money by a certain time, and how much? Getting the numbers down and into a plan would set the wheels into motion. Day-dreaming and wishing doesn’t get one anywhere.
  • Investment - Invest some money to attend seminars and a home study guide to understand the overall gist of Internet Marketing and fast forward the process to getting started. Avoid guesswork and wasting time by looking at what others are doing. Learn, understand and then apply. Rinse and repeat!
  • Focus and continous action - Focus on the important things and get them done. Nothing more, nothing less. If you need to create a website in 5 days to meet your dateline, then do it at all costs. If not possible through your own means, find out how to leverage on others’ strengths.

2. What would be good materials to consider getting?

Corey Rudl’s Insider Secrets To Marketing your business on the internet.

The upcoming “Internet Marketing Bible” by Stuart Tan (Book Title not confirmed haha)

Internet Marketing Manifesto by Rich Schefren.
3. Lastly, are you single and available?

Fortunately, no. :-)

Digressing a little… how many views do you think normal web pages get compared to forums?

Ryan Chua

OneMotoring - BMW.SG Interview.

OneMotoring.com.sg, Singapore’s most popular motoring portal did a quick feature and article about BMW.SG and a little about..yours truely. Wondeful how technology can play a part in changing the way we view and run social communities, online and offline. Nonetheless, check out the article here.

BMW.SG Feature on OneMotoring.com.sg

Ryan Chua

Tasks for 27072006

Priority 1 Tasks:

1. Write 2 pages of FSR.

2. Complete CK build.

Priority 2 Tasks:

1. Rebuild sites (3X Zone, Pro, EG)

2. Review L.T.G

Looks like i ain’t going down just yet. Google has updated it’s rankings once again and seems like i’m in position #9!

Seems like a forum thread is position number 1, so it’s going to be quite a weird fight that the SEO’s are all going for. Nonetheless, it’s going to be a battle of backlinks..for a term which has no relations to any other keyword out there.

For those who wish to support me in my ambatchdotcom seocontest, you can check out the details in the earlier link. Remember, backlinks for charity!

Ryan Chua

Starting your forum. Issue #1. Momentum.

Lone RangerFor those who are not familiar with the guy in the mask, and the red indian…

That’s the Lone Ranger and Tonto, his trusty sidekick. This is probably before the days of Batman and Robin, but how does this tie in with the topic “Momentum”?

When you are building your community, you have to understand that it’s very different as compared to starting out as a publishing business or a profit making venture. You can survive as the Lone Ranger for a while when you are starting your own business online.

When it comes to forum building, most new forum admins are still in the lone ranger mindset, and find it hard to get the initial momentum going, they spend days and night installing, configuring, tweaking and designing their forums, and then…they will message all their friends on MSN, ICQ, email and ask them all to join the forum to help “support”.

The friends will all help out by registering and posting a few hello messages, after which, since the forum theme doesn’t suit all of them, the forum will die a painful and very quick death. A few solutions to getting rid of this momentum problem is to:

1. Look for people who are most interested in your forum niche.
Why waste your time telling people who are not interested in Internet Marketing, or Adsense to join your Adsense forum? Work smart by targetting people who are already interested in your niche. They can be found in your email list, other theme-related forums, interest groups off-line.

E.g. If you’re starting a fish forum, you can find interested members at the fishing pier where you frequent.

2. Build your organic launch party.
An organic launch party is a group who is dedicated to helping your forum get off the ground and bypass the stale period where the forum can be in the beginning stages. Launch party members can be committed to help out by posting 2-3 threads a day for a 2 week period, after which you can be sure there is some content that new visitors can read, and be enticed to become a member. So how do you get launch party members? You can phone, email, talk to potential people on the streets, through online social networks such as friendster (search for related interests).

3. Keep your forum really small (at first!)
New forum admins love to create many folders and categories when they first start out, simply because their interests have many subcomponents and niches. This is probably the most biggest and common mistake anyone can make as it can make the forum look very empty and desolate. And when people see that a site / forum is “dead”, they won’t waste even a second of their time looking at your category descriptions… Start out with 5 categories or less, build up enough posts and threads then slowly segment later when there are too many threads being posted. You won’t want to hold a party with 3 friends in a huge castle right?

4. Make the effort to make friends with your members.
When new members register onto your forums, take the initiative to ask for his / her name and what his interests / goals / dreams are. By taking note of what they want in their own lives, they will feel more attached to your forum, and have vested interests in contributing to your site. Be personal, friendly and care for your member’s needs and wants, and they will repay you a hundred-fold.

5. Encourage your team members to be as friendly as you are.
It’s quite amazing how a person can give off a certain aura (energy) online, by the way he “talks” and uses smilies :) in his postings. When people can feel that you are friendly and sincere, they will want to stay on and stick around. Encourage members of your administration team to welcome new-comers like they would welcome old friends, and you will build a very warm and enviable culture within your community.

Ryan Chua

6th Place and holding strong.

Looks like i’m in 6th place for the World SEO Championships. Not that shabby for an SEO newbie, but hey it’s all for fun, and most importantly, all for charity.

If you’re Singaporean, and want to do your country proud as well as give back to Charity, link to my blog with the keywords “ambatchdotcom seocontest” and help push me to number 1# position. Every link counts so help me out while you can!

For now..the top 5 domains are…

1st Place : www.ambatchdotcom-seocontest.name
2nd Place: ambatchdotcomseocontest.ambatchdotcomseocontest.biz/ambatchdotcom_seocontest/ambatchdotcom_seocontest.html (oh man that’s hella long!)
3rd Place: ambatch-dotcom-seocontest.com
4th Place: ambatchdotcom-seocontest.blogspot.com
5th Place :www.ambatchdotcomseocontest.com

Let’s keep this contest running..and yes..Rome wasn’t built in a day! For more information about my big charity win, read my earlier post here.

Dear all,

Just in case this is the first time you’ve been to this blog.

I’m Ryan and im taking part in an international SEO (Search Engine Optimization) contest.
This is a crazy game that everyone’s playing, and ill go through a different route. There’s no determining whether i’ll win this competition, but here is the thing. I’ll donate all of the prize money of USD 4,000 to the BCF (Breast Cancer Foundation) of Singapore should this blog be the winner of the World SEO Championship for the keyword “ambatchdotcom seocontest“.

That means, if people type in “ambatchdotcom seocontest” (without the quotes) in Google.com, and my site is first on the result list, the prize money will all go to charity.
There is no catch to it. If i get listed first on Google for this keyword, ill get the organisers (Ambatch.com) to donate all the money directly to the charity. I’m the administrator / owner of the Singapore BMW community website of over 5,000 members. My name is here for you to see, i’m not a scam artist, and i am a real person.

However, i believe that the prize money can go to a cause which needs it more than i do, rather then people spamming the hell out of search engines, blog sites, websites etc. And i believe with conviction i can change all that, and you can too.
If you wish to impact a positive change in society, take part in a great cause, as well as take part in one of the biggest contests in technology history.

You can make the difference by:

  1. 1. Linking to this blog with the keyword “ambatchdotcom seocontest” from your website, blog, bookmarking site etc. . There’s no catch to it. Just one link from your website to make the ALL the difference. You can remove that link after October 2006. An example of a link is this >> ambatchdotcom seocontest
  2. 2. Post in your blog about this story, and let your friends know how they can help a charity cause just through ONE single link to my blog. You can remove the link after October 2006 when the final results are released.
  3. 3. Post a comment in my blog, so that i can list your site down as the people who have helped the cause.

If you don’t have a blog or website, that’s fine. Just help by passing this message around, that’s all i ask.

SEO(Search Engine Optimization) counts when more and more websites link back to a single website with a particular keyword. So the more links there are, the higher this blog will go up the search results. And if it stays at the number #1 result on October 17th, the money goes to Charity.

That’s all from me. All or nothing. Let’s win this together and i need your help. We can also help others in need at the same time. Onward!

The current rankings in Google for the word “ambatchdotcom seocontest” without the quote signs.

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