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State of Search in Asia
From the beginning of search engine marketing including SEO, the work started with Baidu, Naver, and Yahoo! Japan for search engine optimization professionals and advertisers aiming to grow businesses in China, South Korea, and Japan markets. While they are still important platforms in each country, the search engine market share[…]
Continue »News From China This Week
Some of the web related news from China this week. With a total number of 400 million active users as of December 2017, WeChat Mini-Programs is estimated to reach 500 million active users in Q1 2018. Being a critical part of Tencent’s WeChat ecosystem, Mini-Programs seem to be more and[…]
Continue »Search Engine Market Share in Asia – January 2016
Asia has been a very unique market for Search Engine Marketing since the day one of SEM compare to other markets in the world as locally grown search engines have possessed the majority of the market share. However, in recent years, the search engines such as Yahoo Japan and NAVER[…]
Continue »New E-Commerce Guidelines for Businesses in China
In order to help grow the local businesses, Chinese Government announced new E-Commerce guidelines. In efforts of supporting the local businesses, which have shown the sign of slowing down, China’s State Council has released new policies for customers process for import and export of goods purchased online. It will speed[…]
Continue »Amazon’s China Strategy – If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them
The announcement of Yahoo closing its office in Beijing symbolizes the end of an era. It reminds us how difficult it is for Western businesses to enter and be successful in Asian market, especially in China. Amazon is another one of those very popular Western corporations, which have been struggling[…]
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