I just arrived back home from China which is why i haven’t written in a while.
It’s freezing cold there & I didn’t get much time writing here.
Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, is used almost by everyone I met there. Google is only used by some expats & foreigners.
I’ve thought about investing in Baidu but decided against it. I did, however, do a bit of research into how websites can optimize their pages for Baidu. I’ll post some more info here when I do some more research into it.
I did hear about Microsoft’s hostile takeover bid for Yahoo! but didn’t hear much about it onwards. If someone can shead some light on whether there’s been activity since, please post a comment here.
I bought off seo-sydney.net.au not too long ago (all the other better domain names were taken!) which I’m just aging for Google. Instead of parking the domain, I thought, heck, why not put something there. If you go through all the results for “seo sydney” in Google, you’ll see that it’s pretty saturated. There’s a lot of competition & any new contestants will just have to be patient. A year or so plus work plus money will just about do the job, I’d say.
Okay, now I’ve received a lot of emails on the topic of obtaining a job as an SEO in Sydney. I thought I mentioned this in a previous post but I’ll say it again. For those of you that are overseas & you’re thinking about getting into this industry, be warned, it’s nowhere near as lucrative as it used to be as there are plenty of SEOs to go around. That said, there’s still a demand for the right person with the right experience as with any job. Head to mycareer.com.au to find them.
How lucrative was the SEO trade? About $200,000 a year. A friend of mine here did $500/page optimized for a company (listed) that wanted over 100 pages optimized. I doubt you can still earn that much now.
I think salaries are at around $60,000-$100,000 on average a year now depending on experience. I stand to be corrected on this. I personally prefer to do freelance & it seems quite a few in this industry have the same preference.
March 2nd, 2008 | Uncategorized