MICHAEL WONG

Webography

Exits

• In May 2000, 18 months after launching his second website, eBoz! (eboz.com) was acquired in a cash and stock deal by iBoost Technology Inc. (press release), a start-up funded by SoftBank, which also funded Yahoo! and E*Trade.
  
  SoftBank Corp. is a Japanese telecommunications and internet corporation, with operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-Commerce, Internet, broadmedia, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses. SoftBank had revenues of US$29.57 billion in 2010 and a market capitalization of approximately US$43.52 billion at March 2011.
  
  Michael developed eBoz! in 1998, which offered resources and tools on how to build successful websites. At its peak eBoz! attracted over 300,000 unique visitors and over a million page views a month.
  
  As part of the deal, Michael joined iBoost as co-Editor-in-Chief managing a team of content writers. Michael resigned from iBoost in March 2001. iBoost Technology Inc. shut its doors a few months later succumbing to the dotcom bust of 2001.
  
  The original eBoz! website no longer exists, but archived copies of the website from 1999 and 2000 are available at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

Internet Marketer

• Since 1999 Michael has generated millions of dollars in revenue for clients, across a wide variety of industries, on a pay-per-performance basis.
• Michael has practiced SEO since 1998 and has generated thousands of top 10 search engine rankings on all popular search engines, driving millions of visitors to his own websites, as well as a few select clients'.

Author

• Michael wrote and self-published Search Engine Optimization Strategies in 2002, one of the earliest published SEO ebooks (no longer for sale). The book went on to generate over $100,000 in sales.
• Michael wrote the Marketing Munch blog, which offers interesting online, mobile, and offline marketing news and stories, from 200+ leading news sources, market research, and marketing sites around the web.
• Michael wrote Text Links Guide, an easy to understand guide to text links and how you can "manipulate" them, within the boundaries set by the search engines, to increase your website's link popularity, PageRank, search engine rankings (Google), and ultimately traffic.
• Michael has written many internet marketing articles over the years. Here are a few titles which Michael offers freely for republishing on any website or blog.
• The 80-20 Rule Increased my Income by 207% in 18 Months.
• Six Figure Income Tools.
• 10 Business Decisions That Changed My Life.
• Breaking the Glass Ceiling.
• 7 Business Success Stories.
• Internet Piracy: Embrace Or Die.
• 27 Quick Tips To Top Search Engine Rankings.
• Affiliate Managers: Your Top Five Biggest Affiliate Program Mistakes.

Developer

• Michael developed Mike's Marketing Tools in 2002, which offers a suite of free marketing tools, plus a directory of internet marketing products and services, and marketing tips. The website is still going strong, and attracted 56,222 visitors, who spent an average of 3 minute 37 seconds, generating 209,290 page views in May 2011. There are over 55,000 results for "mikes marketing tools" and "mike's marketing tools" in Google.
• Michael developed Great Web Design Tips, which offers web site design, web usability and web accessibility tips to help you develop more user-friendly web sites.
• Michael developed ECommerce Dictionary, a glossary of commonly used ecommerce, computer, internet, technical, web design, internet marketing, and SEO terms explained in simple-to-understand English.
• Michael developed Search Engines 2, which offer links to over 12,500 local, regional, national, foreign, pay per click and meta internet search engines, as well as web directories.

Producer

• Michael produced AdWords Wrapper, the official site of the original, free Google AdWords keyword tool that wraps keyword phrases in 'quotation marks' (phrase match) and [square brackets] (exact match) for use in Google AdWords campaigns. Michael is flattered by the numerous copies of the original AdWords Wrapper tool. There are almost 20,000 results for "AdWords Wrapper" in Google.
• Michael produced JUMBO Keyword, a free web-based Google AdWords tool offering 70+ 1-click Google AdWords, keywords and text editing functions to help you create, manage and edit hundreds, even thousands, of AdWords keywords quickly and easily. There are almost 5,000 results for "Jumbo Keyword" in Google.
• Michael produced Instant Domain Name Search, which checks in real-time, as you type, whether a domain name is available for registration. Instant Domain Name Search checks ALL domain extensions: .com, .co.uk, .ca, .com.au, .net, .org, etc.
• Michael produced Instant PageRank Checker, which offers instant online Google PageRank reports of any domain or webpage. There are no CAPTCHA requirements to use the Instant PageRank Checker.
• Michael produced Search Engine Ranking, which offers a free, instant, online report of web site rankings in the top 4 search engines: Google, Bing, Yahoo! and AOL.
• Michael produced Top Keywords, which offers the top 500 searched internet keywords, compiled from a database of over 330 million search terms.
• Michael produced Link Popularity Checker, which offers a free, instant, online report of a webpage's backlink or link popularity rating by the top 3 search engines; Google, Yahoo! Search and Bing.
• Michael produced Missy Flowers, a website that helps convenience-seeking consumers find and compare 3000+ quality delivered flowers, plants and gourmet gifts by America's leading flower sites, such as 1-800-Flowers and FTD.
• Michael produced JavaScript 2, a search engine that indexed a number of popular Javascript libraries, offering over 4,000 free Javascript codes.
• Michael produced HTML HTML, which offers a free, online, 800+ page HTML tutorial and reference guide.
• Michael produced GoDefy.com, a comparison shopping engine for internet marketing products and services.