Internet marketing in Japan can be challanging. There are language and cultural hurdles to consider when engaging in business relationships, both for foreign and Japanese companies.
This site contains a range of specialist internet marketing advice for foreign companies that want to establish a presence in Japan, and for Japanese companies who wish to expand internationally.
Please browse this site and check out the links and information about developing your website in Japan.
Although Japan is home to massive amounts of hitec computers, cell phones, laptops, PDAs, etc if you’re living here and don’t read or write Japanese then access to this technology can be limited!
Of course you can just buy a PC and hope for the best, but many shops do offer alternatives, and there are also […]
When considering a marketing service there are many things to think about. First you have to decide your goals and aims - what do you want the seo consultant to do for your site? Achieve higher conversions on your sales, get better rankings or better qualified traffic or simply overhaul your website tomake it more […]
First it was link exchanges, then link buying, then republished article writing and now the latest big thing in internet marketing is getting mentioned in blogs to increase your incoming links.
Some things happen naturally, people see your site and you get linked or digged and traffic gets insane. However, a sensible marketing strategy should be […]
Keeping tabs on your position in the world’s most popular search engine is a time consuming job. It’s important to keep an eye on where you stand in the rankings relative to that of your competitors for your keyword terms so that you can feedback the results into your site and tweak the onpage and […]
I recently got a Hikari Fiber connection from NTT Flets broadband provider and to be honest I wasn’t totally impressed to begin with. Sure the webpages loaded a little faster but I couldn’t really see much difference in my broadband internet.
However, as I’ve used it more and more I’ve come to appreciate how fast it […]
Once you’ve got your Japanese website up and running you need to start getting links. One of the easiest ways to do this is to submit your site to web directories.
There are quite a few directories in Japan that accept submissions so here is a brief list of some of the better ones I’ve found. […]
Pay per click is an advertising system used by search engines where you bid on a keyword term and you ad gets displayed on the search engine or affiliate websites and whenever someone clicks on the ad you have to pay for it. The amount depends on other bidders and the popularity of the ad, […]
Paid for inlcusion, or PFI, is where you pay to be included in a directory or similar website which will then bring you website traffic and/or better search engine rankings.
However, the PFI model has basically died when yahoo removed that option and went for a PFI and Pay Per Click model. All that remains are […]
If you’re new to SEO, or even an old hand, all the terms and jargon can cometimes be baffling.
However there is now a really funny alternative SEO / webmaster glossary written by a UK consultancy.
Some examples:
Content Website: A site put together by someone so full of himself that he believes what he has to […]
With the advent of widespread internet use and ecommerce paying by credit card online has become an everyday occurrence for millions of people around the world.
The problem faced by merchants who run ecommerce stores is how to integrate a credit card processor into their store so they can accept payments online.
There are many credit card […]