Category Archives: News

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Google and Yahoo contexutal advertising, and alternatives

Pay per click is an advertising system used by search engines where you bid on a keyword term and you ad gets displayed on the search engine or affiliate websites and whenever someone clicks on the ad you have to pay for it. The amount depends on other bidders and the popularity of the ad, […]

Chinese search engine to enter Japan

Baidu, the Chinese search engine giant will soon be entering the Japanese search market.
Although the dominant search engine in Japan is Yahoo, which also controls a large ISP service, Google is trying to gain leverage and this ambition from China will see an interesting struggle for second place in 2007.
The Chinese president of Biadu, Robin […]

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