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I am a big fan of statistics and I used to check analytics like 10 times in an hour but shortly after, I know that it is not the way. Now I am checking and analyzing my statistics once every 1 to 3 days. Previously I have problem with analytics because I have different analytics account and also access to some of my friends blogs/websites. Previously, when you own an analytics account, other owner will not be able to share their stats with you. Therefore you will have to use another email in order to check the stats.

Today, when I check my stats, I notice some design arrangement changes and I notice a difference in the front page. I have the access to my friends statistics.

After you click on the accounts name, you will proceed to websites that are listed under the accounts.

I like this speech by Gary Vaynerchuk and start to realize how much time I spend things that are unproductive at all. His speech is very straight to the point and realistic. Take a look at this 15 minutes video.

I went to Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM) at TheMall, Kuala Lumpur yesterday for a business registration and it is actually pretty simple and you do not have to go through any agent in order to get your business registered. The only downside is the amount of time needed, but I think it is okay. SSM is located at 2nd floor of TheMall, you will see agents trying to sell you company registration services in front of SSM.

Business registration is not the same as company registration (Sdn Bhd), business regisration are names like Ah Huat Enterprise, Knowledge Tree Resources, or Metal Trader (notice that there is no Sdn / Sdn Bhd behind). Note that foreigner will not be allowed to register a Malaysia business registration, but company registration will be allowed.

Here is the steps to register your very own Malaysia business registration.

1. Bring a photostat copy of your Identity Card.
2. Line up for a form.
3. Fill up the form completely, if you have problem, refer to the wall, they have samples. (you will need to provide 3 different business names. Easiest way is to search for the business name availability online.
4. Line up again in the same counter to pass them your form and IC copy, they will provide you with a number.
5. Wait comfortably in the seat provided as they search for your company availability. The number will not go in order because if they found your names available, your number will be call.
6. Pay RM10 for business name search, RM60 for business registration for 1 year (upto 5 years allowed). You could also renew online at SSM.
7. And wait 1 hour for your certificate to come out.

I arrived there at about 11.15am, steps 1 to 6 takes me about 1 hour. Then went for lunch and head back after 1 hour. Because of lunch clashes of the staff, I took it at around 1.30pm.

Overall, I am glad that I did not go through any agent because it is pretty simple and I heard that they will charge around RM200+ for a business registration. I guess it is because of the hassle previously, but now they are much more effective and everything is done at that moment.

I am not sure about Malaysia Company Registration, it is different, therefore you should check with their website or call them and ask about it.

There is a difference trying to target SEO Malaysia or SEO for worldwide searches. You basically view a slightly different set of result even if you are using Google.com but searching in different parts of the world. I guess the question asked would be, “How can we target for one location?”.

My opinion is that including the location like “Malaysia” in your content would place more emphasis that you are trying to target Malaysia traffic. Also getting backlinks from other website in the same geographical location would definitely helps.

Here is how you can check if you are interested to know what US resident are seeing from a certain keyword search at Google.com.

http://www.google.com/search?q=KEYWORD&gl=US

For example, if you are searching for SEO service

http://www.google.com/search?q=SEO&gl=US

http://www.google.com/search?q=SEO&gl=MY

http://www.google.com/search?q=SEO&gl=SG

I used three different location MY=Malaysia, SG=Singapore and US=United States. I could omit the second query with &gl=MY because I would see the same result.

On top of that, you will also get a different result from Google.com.my. And sometimes it is better if you are concentrating in a regional Google. This is how you could check other country search result. If you check Alexa’s Malaysia Top 100 website, you will notice that Google.com.my gets more visitor compare to Google.com. This is because a lot of computer have default on Google.com.my when the first time Google detects IP from Malaysia and people do not change it as long as the searches works.

1. Go to http://www.google.com/adpreview (without the backslash, it will not work)
2. Enter the keyword
3. Enter Google Domain
4. Choose the country of the searches

You will see the result that is different from countries to countries.

It is interesting to find out the source of hosting for a particular website. It will be useful when you are trying to look for a good host or simply wants to find out who is hosting the website that you visit often.

If you find a blog/website that loads fast and do not have much downtime, you may want to consider following the same hosting service. This is where this service come in handy. It is free.

Yes, I am hosting with hostgator and so far, their service is great and I have no complaint. You may want to consider this hosting service.

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