Interview with SEO Web Designer Binh Nguyen
July 7, 2008
SEO Web Designer Binh Nguyen is the owner of Open Tips , an article website not yet promoted. His first blog is Binh dot Name(binh.name), later on renamed to “SEO Web Designer Binh Nguyen” mainly provides free SEO Web Design advices and tips for bloggers and webmasters. This blog later become too spread-out so he decided to divide his blog into smaller hybrid sites/blogs for well focused niche topics such as WordPress Resources, Web Design, Search Engine Optimization. He has many more ideas and plans haven’t been started.
WJ: What experiences prepared you for your current role as a webmaster/online publisher? What did you do prior to your current business?
I hold a Bachelor of Information Technologies majoring in Net-Technologies. After graduation I immediately bought an online course for $79 to learn how to make money online. Prior to my current business I was still an undergraduate student.
WJ: What do you think of Web 2.0 and how has it impacted your business? What is the next trend for user interactivity?
Web 2.0 is the next generation of WWW. I’m saying it’s “Next” because majority of the business world is still using static web pages. That’s not to mention the other majority of development countries are still taking Internet as a luxury service.
Next trend of user interactivity would be having forum-like site everywhere. People will always be able to respond to someone else message,rate, report spam, give reputation, etc. The web will be fully interactive, even online chat will be integrated into smallest site.
WJ: Should the Internet be regulated? Are there any parts of the Net that could use regulation? Please explain your position thoroughly.
Yes, the Internet sure need to be regulated. It’s not just an information medium anymore, it’s becoming a live that evolve and change. It must follow rules, just like anyone else in the world must follow. If not regulated, everyone will abuse the web as a tool for them to do unethical behaviours.
E-commerce part of the net is the first priority for regulation. Secondly would be forums. Spammers should be legally punished. Black-hat hackers certainly will have legal punishment equal to offline bank robbers.
WJ: What is the future of affiliate marketing? Where do you see yourself in this future scenario?
Future of affiliate marketing? I’m afraid affiliate marketing is the future of the Internet, unquestionable. Nowadays everyone from hi-tech to non-tech, whoever have a chance to own a blog, start to know how to do affiliate sales already. With the hugh, unstoppable growing of money maker blogs, sooner or later 99% of people will know how to make money through affiliate marketing. And that’s the future.
I haven’t make a single affiliate sales. But that will be changed, when I open a company and hire people just to do this stuff. I will hire affiliates to sell my products, if I make. And will sell affiliate products, if I can’t make. But certainly I will be choosing only the ETHICAL products. I hate scammers.
WJ: Please discuss your future plans for your web properties and other future developments.
This is a little bit of competitive advantage here. If I leak this information everyone else who appreciate it, will be using it for their own profit. But hey, that’s the cost for a link from PR5 blog isn’t it? I don’t even know if my link could get to 2nd-level page. Anyway I’m open person, so yes, I will tell you.
So here is my answer. I will be having an offline company having real staffs and assets. Fortunately for me I’m in Vietnam, and the market here is open. My weak part in the English market is that I can’t approach and make friends. I couldn’t make good enough sale letters. I don’t have enough time to make sales because I invest too much into technical development.
But all that is about to change. I’m going to open real company, provide real web services to the Vietnam market first. Here I have my advantages being graduated from Australia, of reading English articles, of knowing how to do things technically.
I will be making a few online market places for people to sell their products. I want something like eBay.com and Alibaba.com, for Vietnamese. After that, of course I will take into overseas market, targeting dollar spender. That’s a whole lot of revolution going on for years to come. I also will be making many information sites, to get revenue from advertisements.






