seo

Blog Spam Increasing

Almost everyone is affected with email spam. Spam detectors / email filters have improved substantially over the past few years but unfortunately the skills of the spammers have also improved. It is not just businesses involved in the fight against spammers but also governments; The Australian government, for example, is taking spamming and the negative [...]

SEO Objective Setting

Website Objectives are the cornerstone of effective SEO. There is no point in performing random SEO activities (or any other website changes) without knowing where you want to be in regards to your website. Below is a walkthrough of website objectives and acting on these objectives from an SEO perspective (from previous posts you have [...]

Quantity versus Quality: SEO Tradeoff

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is about getting visits to a website from organic search results right? Yes….and no; SEO is also about the quality of visits to a website. Whilst the primary objective of SEO is to get visits, the secondary objective (and often equal in relevance and importance as the primary objective) is ensuring [...]

MS Live Doesn’t Understand Website Region

I noticed recently that Microsoft Live does not display my website or page on Australia specific searches. My TLD (Top Level Domain) is a .com however I have made numerous efforts to tell the search engines that my site is primarily for the Australian audience.  Unfortunately Microsoft Live is the only one of the major [...]

Can your Business afford NOT to be on the Internet

If you doubt just how enormous the Internet is, just consider this: 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. WordPress.com gets 18,000 pageviews a minute on the Blogs it hosts Flickr hosts over 3 billion photos More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day