Internet marketing in Japan

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.

  • Internet marketing strategy
  • Search engine optimization
  • Internet advertising
  • Small business consultatation
  • Affiliate internet marketing
  • Localization for Japanese or other languages

 

Please browse this site and check out the links and information about developing your website in Japan.

Latest blog posts

Programming help

I often spend a lot of time programming clients’ websites and I also sometimes get stuck on writing code. That’s where an invaluable resource such as Dream In Code comes in handy. They’ve been established over six years and have a great community with lots of helpful participants and a gold mine of code snippets […]

Buying an computer with English operating system 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 […]

Audio editing and converting

Recently I got a new MP3 player from Yodobashi Camera, a bit overpriced but worth it. However, I had a problem getting my CD collection converted into MP3s until I found this useful MP3 and CD ripper converter.
It’s got many features and supports about 15 file types which is useful as my MP3 player can […]

Online coupons

Japan has a great fetish for cell phones. In effect they have replaced the personal computer as a means of communications and web browsing.
One aspect of this is that you can get online coupons for things like computers, wireless and internet and electronics.
There is now a great American site which offers online coupons for things […]

The high price of ink

Recently a report on the cost of ink cartridges showed that the average cost of printer ink cartridge refills was actually more expensive than good champange!
In fact one printer manufacturer actually sold the printer for the same price as the cost of 1 ink refill! It’s obviously a blatant rip off by printer manufacturers, especially […]

Internet marketing

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 […]

Sponsored reviews

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 […]

Tracking Google position

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 […]

Different revenue models of websites

“Free ‘aint free”, “If it’s too good to be true then it probably is” are common sense reactions to anything that’s free or suspiciously good value. However the Internet was built around free and so how do you recognise a decent revenue model for the internet?
The three main models are Marketing tool (so recoup […]

Setting up hikari fiber optic internet in Japan

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 […]

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