A few other blogs have been doing a great job of taking to task the sensationalist mainstream English language media, but also being straight about the information available. I just wanted to provide links to some other blogs definitely worth taking a look at for information. Japan Probe’s latest post: “New York Times Quietly Edits…
Continuing my series on making money with blogs, or at least using a few ads to break even, I’d like to write a bit about link building. As I mentioned in my previous post “How to Make Money with Japan Blogs“, The Keyword Academy taught me that keyword research is an important part of finding…
In a previous post I discussed why I started a Japan news blog. This post is about what to do when you want to make a little money with that blog. First up, I wholeheartedly recommend that anyone interested in making passive income through a blog try the free month offer at The Keyword Academy….
I spent a lot of time thinking about whether to even tackle this topic. When I first started blogging, I hated how ads looked next to my work, and felt that since I loved what I was doing, I shouldn’t expect compensation. Blogging can be an expensive habit, especially when one considers the time spent…
If you live or work or have anything to do with the internet in Japan, you may have marveled at how ubiquitous Yahoo! Japan is. From Yahoo! Japan BB to Yahoo! Japan Auctions to Softbank… it’s like ebay, verizon mobile, and comcast internet all rolled into one. Not to mention that they also have their…
Submitting my Japanese language site to Yahoo brought me to the SiteExplorer page. It seems to be something like Google’s Webmaster Tools. Once you are logged in with your Yahoo! Japan idea, you can submit a site to site explorer. It asks you to either upload an HTML page or put a meta tag in…
As some readers of this blog may know, I write a blog in Japanese in addition to this one. This newzjapan blog is a good place to get things off my chest and write about things that interest me or get under my skin. SEO or Search Engine Optimization is basically making your website appealing…
I was originally planning to write this as a comment on Mashable’s recent post called When It Comes To Search, Yahoo is Big in Japan but it got too long as I read a few of the comments (some of whom were knowledgeable others did the pop-Japanology thing and generalized the whole country as “a…
Here’s a list of May First’s fastest rising keywords according to Goo (one of the major search engines in Japan) If this post goes well, I may make it a regular feature to explain some of the hottest search engine keywords in Japan just as a way of showing what kinds of topics are on…