The Reason Why I Started E-Alchemists
The Reason Why I Started E-Alchemists
The good thing about running a SEO Business is that i get to work with alot of different companies including oversea property agent, local insurance agent, forex, chef, traders and many more. I love educating my customers providing a valuable service to rank their sites and increase sales. Today i just had a old customer who decided to upgrade his plan to business plan 15 keywords instead of a starter package 8 keywords.
I am lucky enough to work with company that is fresh, new and just wants their website to show up on search engines. I had heard many times that the result of bad seo done by friend who is really good with computers or by a consultant who really knows how this SEO stuff works. When i am doing an analysis for them i often face google sandbox issue, poorly constructed website and also poor keywords.
Most of the cases i met are those seo agency who only do off page optimization, which should not be the case. If they are doing web design for them, most of the time these web design are poorly constructed with very little content and little optimization is done.
Guess what ? They charge super expensive every month like $1500? How many small business can offord $1500 per mth?
E-Alchemists
One of the main reason i started E-Alchemists was to provide a 1stop online marketing solution at the most cost effective way to small business or SME. The objective is to provide value and result to our client and to help them to increase their leads and online sales at the most cost effective way. I had seem some of my friends spent $5000 on a web design yet to me the website was poorly constructed and make no sense to me.
Another reason why i started E-Alchemists because i am tired of joint venture with other people, i will make this E-Alchemists the last company i started and the one will make it. It always my dream to become an entrepreneur and to start a company to make my 1st million. Starting a business is really so much different than doing MLM business as you got alot more thing to plan and decide. Unlike MLM usually the company will provide everything and you just have to focusing on your sales and downline. I choosen SEO and internet marketing is because i use to make alot of money using BLOG to drive my MLM business sales in 2007. All my leads and sales come from the blog, that was one of the reason why i started E-Alchemists because i saw the power of internet that can really drive sales just from online.
E-Alchemists in 2012
This year i will be very focusing on E-Alchemists business and also to invest my time on potential authority blog by other people. I will be developing a business portal soon and to launch by april this year. My mission for E-Alchemists was to develop cost effective way for online marketing………..
Gong Xi Fa Cai & Happy Chinese New Year
Dear All,
Wishing you a very happy & prosperous year of dragon !
Gong Xi Fa Cai & Have A Marvelous Chinese New Year!
Enjoy Your Holidays
Huat Ah !!!!
How to Minimize Windows Live Messenger to the System Tray in Windows 7
Windows Live Messenger
I know a lot of internet marketer rely on windows live messenger to communicate with customers/outsource and etc. One thing i found it very annoying ever since i change to windows 7 operating system is the windows live messenger. You probably noticed that instead of minimizing to the system tray, windows live messenger will always stay put on your task bar something like below screenshot
I am someone who don’t like alot of programs to stay put on my taskbar, it make me feel that i got a lot of incomplete stuffs to do. To make windows live messenger to the system tray we need to force windows live messenger using the compatibility mode feature in windows 7.
Forcing Windows Live Messenger
Firstly, you’ll need to close Windows Live Messenger completely by right-clicking on the icon and choosing close window or you can simply use the X function on the right hand side of the bar. After that go to start menu and find the program. In this case it’s Start –> All Programs –> Windows Live –> Windows Live Messenger.
Next highlight the program and right click properties see the below screenshot
Then click on the compatibility tab on the right.
Then change the following setting : check Run this program in compatibility mode for: windows Vista
Click ok and relaunch your windows live messenger and close or clicking the fabled “X” in the top right hand corner, your system tray will be complete with a little blueish green man like below
Minimize Windows Live Messenger
After emails to Microsoft support & a month of waiting for reply’s which were nothing but scripted reply’s. I found this solution on a forum and decided to turn into a guide. I will be writing more about pc tips and tricks that had impact on my seo business and daily usage on this blog. Cheers !
SEO And Monetization Experiment # 1: Does Silo Site Structure Easier To Rank Part 2 WordPress SEO Configuration?
WordPress SEO Configuration
In my previous post, I talk about my keyword research and my site planning on Silo Site Structure. Today I will talk about my configuration on wordpress seo for my experiment. You might wondering why is so important to have the correct wordpress seo configuration. I found out that a lot of people when they start design their blog on wordpress, they didn’t play much attention to the configuration and the onpage optimization. It is very important to have the correct configuration of onpage optimization in order to gain ranking faster and leverage the power of onpage optimization.
Below is the setup of my wordpress seo for my SEO and Monetization Experiment # 1.
- WordPress Version 3.2.1
- Azon Theme ( one of the best theme for amazon review site )
- SEO Hosting with C class dedicated ip address
- Private nameservers using the domain
- Privacy protection for domain
WordPress SEO plugins
After installing wordpress on the hosting I will install the following plugins for my wordpress seo setup.
- Affiliate product comparison (PAID) : for create product comparison tables fast and easy.
- Akismet : the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam
- All in One SEO Pack: for onpage optimization and this is one of the most important plugins for wordpress seo
- Automatic Backlink Creator (PAID) : This plugin automatically creates backlinks for your website to help with search engine rankings. It also distributes your articles throughout the ABC Network.
- Clean-Contact: To create contact form
- Easy Privacy Policy: Create privacy policy page
- Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
- SEOPressor V4 (PAID): daniel tan’s popular SEOPressor automatically optimizes your on-page SEO to hit top search engine rankings.
- SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam: Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all. This prevents spam from automated bots. WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress compatible.
- threewl-php-page (PAID): For 3waylinks network
- WP Navbar Pro (PAID): The secret weapon to create a good silo site structure
- WP Super Cache: Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.
- WP Traffic Force (PAID): strengthen on page SEO by adding new internal linking (tags) using the keywords used by visitors to find the blog post from search engine (incoming search terms). WP Traffic Force converts search terms to wordpress tags. WP Traffic Force is a custom enhanced version based on creativity and more than 2 years experiments. Other similar plugin may looks spammy (keyword stuffing), while this plugin doesn’t.
WordPress SEO Configuration
Under general setting of wordpress, i usually insert the site title with keywords. For the tagline i will put a description of the site with keywords.
Under permalink settings, i will set the custom structure as /%category%/%postname%
All in one seo plugin, enable the plugin and insert the home title, home description and keywords same as general setting
Follow by checked the following option
Easy Privacy Policy Setup, i usually unchecked the below options.
Automatic Backlink Creator
I use the default setting from for the guide, just remember to enable the indexer function. So that it will update the ping list for you.
threewl-php plugin, this is actually for creating 3waylinks resource page. I will example this more on backlinks strategy in a later post.
WP Navbar Pro i use this to create the silo site structure like below. This will enabled all the pages of the website to have the side bar.
WP Super Cache Settings, just enable this plugin and it will work as normal.
WP traffic force, Strengthen on page SEO by adding new internal linking (tags) using the keywords used by visitors to find the blog post from search engine. I used the default setting, it will alot of internal linking like below.
XML Sitemap Generator, just enable it and create a sitemap for your wordpress.
My Goal In 2012
My Goal In 2012
2011 has been a rather roller coaster year for me in my business as well as my life. The year seems to past so quickly yet so many things happened. Started 2011 with another failed business and end it up due to some human issue again. Since then for 3months I have so called the “winter mode.” While this winter mode mark my another journey of my life. I began my SEO seriously and went through intensive training myself on seo.
On June 2011 I conducted 2 workshops in Malaysia for Forex Asia Academy on SEO. It was my first time conducting workshop on such a big scale even though it was scary but luckily everything went smoothly. Below are some of the highlights of 2011
Highlights of 2011
- Started my own SEO agency E-Alchemists
- Conducted my 1st workshop on SEO
- Conducted my 1st private coaching on SEO
- Got my 1st client on SEO services for E-Alchemists
- Started 10 Amazon niche sites, which failed badly on generating income
- Hit $100 per month online passive income
- 1st anniversary of my married life with Racheal
- Bought our 1st flat in Punggol
- Received our 1st big good news ( I will announce later )
Now with 2012, I shall set my goals again. Some of the goals in 2011 I have failed to meet due to lack of focusing and laziness. Below are my goals in 2012
My Goal in 2012
- Certificated in Google Analytics Individual Qualification
- Certificated Adwords Individual Qualification
- Launch E-Alchemists Business portal
- Build 10 sites that makes at least $10 a day each – Total $3000 a month, online passive income
- Conduct 3 Major workshops on SEO, I love teaching
- Invest time on 2 authority sites with 2 people who willing to spend the time
- Cut my computer time by half so that I can more time with my wife
- Learn Taji Quan for my health
- Run 5km per week!
- Complete our renovation for our flat
- Welcome the latest member to our family
- 1 oversea trip before april
That is all for my goal 2012. These are all my stuffs that I wanted to achieve in 2012 and wish me luck.
