Internet marketing
So a few weeks ago I finished creating this one website project for a government department. Then after I uploaded the site, the client called me up and told me a problem.
He says that he typed in a keyword under Google and found out his site wasn’t on the first page. He asked me why.
I said it is very hard to get on the first page of Google, even if the page is nicely designed and with quality contents. I told him the most effective way was to get other related sites to link back to our site so the Google robot can crawl from there and include it in their index.
He asked if I can do it within that same week. I told him that is next to impossible as I don’t control Google’s robot. However, I said we can pay other webmasters to link to the site.
Then he sounded a little hostile. Probably he thinks I want to get more money from his company’s wallet. And it seems to him that all these talk of Google’s robot crawling the web was stuff made up in my head. I’m sure he thinks I want him to imagine some robots from the Terminator movie crawling some gigantic spider web between the KLCC twin towers.
Just to value the client-company relationship, I told him I will ask my webmaster friends to link to the site 
I feel bad for these high ranking officers. Really excited over the web but sometimes it is hard to explain to them the whole picture. This officer also told me “hundreds of people will want to search for their site, if it doesn’t appear in google, nobody will come by to visit”. Ooo-kay.
So I told him to let his prospective visitors to type in his *exact* company name and maybe add the city name to it, sure will appear but give it a few weeks. I’m crossing my fingers it will appear then.
I don’t know what will happen if I give them a quotation for another kind of services, which is virtual marketing. Just like this San Diego internet marketing company.
They have separate prices for web development, advertising and search engine optimization.
If I put this under my quotation, nobody will take this up. At least the local clients lah.
November 16th, 2006 at 9:40 am
You are not the only one feeling this way MrBadak…But what to do?
November 16th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
High ranking officer + mun cha cha + doesn’t know what he’s talking about.. Hmm.. this scenario sounds familiar.. I feel sorry for those peoples. Just wondering, if we ever climb to that high position, will we be like them too? Ha ha!
November 16th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
gahmen opiser is like that one lah. blur blur one. what u explain is quite true. like my blog. within one month it was up in google already among the top 10 search if u search for say ‘photoblog’ term within malaysian sites. But other sites which have less link from other websites, they are less exposed and not easy to find in the search engine.
December 17th, 2006 at 4:31 am
True enough, to try explaining some simple technical thingy to non-it person is like trying to explain how baby are made to a child. Once had to explain why he could not connect to the internet