The big news for the last week has been the Google PageRank updates which I mentioned in my last post. The topic still has some hype but fortunately it’s starting to die – I personally like what Lyndoman from CornwallSEO.com had to say on the issue - My Opinion on the Google Page [...]
Archive for October, 2007
PageRank broken - is it time to introduce BrinRank?
Published by October 27th, 2007 in Google. 0 CommentsIt’s virtually impossible to navigate your way through a blog or forum on the topic of SEO (even a lot that aren’t) without seeing a post about the second Google PageRank updates (or more accurately downgrades) for the month.
Basically what has happened is a lot of blogs and directories that promote the selling or buying [...]
Google Confirms - Fires are so hot they are ‘On Fire’
Published by October 24th, 2007 in Google. 0 CommentsI was looking through the Google Trends for the last few days and made a staggering discovery - Google has identified that searches done for words pertaining to ‘Fire’ have been particularly ‘HOT’ lately… so hot in fact, that they are ‘On Fire’:
Obviously the trends above are due to the devastating fires occurring throughout the [...]
I’m a few days behind on my blog reading, so some of these post which would usually cover the last 7 days might extend to 10 days and some of the more recent stuff from the last 24 - 48 hours will have to wait until next weeks recap.
I’m a member and fan of SEOMoz [...]
How to make money from SEO without selling SEO services
Published by October 18th, 2007 in Marketing. 10 CommentsThere are roughly 15,000,000 Internet users in Australia which is just over 70% of our total population. 94.4% of these Internet users use search engines to find and access websites each month, yet research shows 54% of Australian business cannot easily be found in Australia’s major search engine - Google!
These statistics were re-enforced earlier today [...]
I was chatting with another local SEO guy today and the topic of Hat’s came-up (black, white, blue, gray and all the variations in-between).
Before I go to much further, it should be known that even though I label myself as a White Hat SEO, I still read about and experiment with some Black Hat techniques. [...]
Once again it’s been a busy week in the blogosphere and here are a bunch of posts that I particularly enjoyed. When I started this post, there were about a dozen more blogs that I was going to mention, but I had to refine the list a little to keep it to a reasonable [...]
A client contacted me wanting to get some SEO started prior to the launch of their brand new site. One of their concerns was that they didn’t want to put-up an ‘under construction’ page because they read somewhere that Google bans parked domains.
Search Engine Roundtable confirms that this isn’t the case in their post [...]
Everyday I check the statistics for each of my sites. I look at the number of visits, what pages people are looking at, how they arrived at my site, where they went on my site, how long they were there for etc. etc.
Knowing how your website is performing is crucial for any online marketing [...]
As always, there’s been a fair bit happening in the search industry lately and lots of good posts to recap.
I’ll start with some good stuff from SEOmoz:
Advanced Web 2.0 at the Shop.org Summit - some good stats from Rebecca
QR Codes And Physical Hyperlinking, No More Typing And No More Search Engines? - Thanks Shor… this [...]
