I am anxious to know what the current status is when looking at SEO in Malaysia? I am mainly interested in the companies that have websites running in Malaysia, with Malaysian audience as main target.

My own conclusion; if I visit a site for youngsters the sites are always pretty neat (except for the excessive usage of flash in some cases). When I look at many professional websites of Malaysian companies, I am always surprised to see the many xhtml errors, and other nr1. mistakes you can make. Still; these websites were probably made by webmasters or designstudios, but then I do not understand why they do not take basic seo into account.

Here in the Netherlands I am an web consultant (SEO/SEM/Usability/Architecture). Since I am planning to go live in Malaysia with my gf as expat for 1 perhaps 2 years, I was wondering what you guys think of one of my plans:

I was wondering whether Malaysian companies would want to let me audit them when looking at their current website. This I would do for free, but possible work at normal rates. In this case I want to send letters (paper) to the companies of which I think they could use some improvement; especially when looking at SEO aspects related to usability. I think althoug buying/selling online is not that common in Malaysia, it still is good to attract audience through website to your service or product.

Again, I know a lot of you guys are webmasters yourself, and I do not want to offend anyone. I also know there are many websites in Malaysia that are really awesome, but there are also many that simply do not deliver any clear message to their audience.

Any input would be welcome...

Regards,