Web Design Adelaide Blog

Here at DBG we’ve spent the last week using Google Chrome! I must say that I have really enjoyed using this new browser, it’s super quick and has lots of nice features. I’m not going to re-invent the wheel so I’ve provided a few links to the many reviews of the new browser developed by Google for you to check out.

Techradar.com’s Google Chrome Review
TechCrunch’s Google Chrome Review
Check out the live video demo of Google Chrome from Cnet Here!

Enjoy!

Today we’re proud to announce the release of the new, streamlined Curaden Swiss Australia website. Maintained and promoted using a customised version of the recently turbo charged DBG Content Management System, Curaden now has the power to completely optimise their pages in-house for all their new pages and products (not that the site needed much help, as of today it still ranks higher than the parent Swiss website).

Complete with fresh new look, improved shopping experience and increased product range, Curaden is fast becoming one of the premiere online stores for oral health care products.

My Town Adelaide is a brand new broadband video website designed by DBG Technologies to promote the lifestyle and culture of the people and businesses of Adelaide, South Australia.

A creation from the genius of Matrix Multimedia’s Stephen Webb - My Town Adelaide not only promotes Adelaide businesses through the use of high quality digital video services, but also allows website visitors to embed and distribute the videos direct from the My Town Adelaide website to their own at the click of a button.

My Town Adelaide offers multiple formats website visitors - high quality digital for the ultimate online video experience, or for social media, My Town Adelaide provides YouTube and MySpace versions of the videos as well.

My Town Adelaide really is the next step for Adelaide businesses looking to take on the online market, dive into the realms of social media and show the world that they are at the forefront of online technology. With the emergence of growing online communities, information sharing and web commerce continuing to grow, those businesses who are willing to adapt will prosper!

Take a look for yourself at: www.mytownadelaide.tv

It seems two have become one! Although this time it’s far from a match made in heaven. My two Google Local Listings have gone crazy. After updating my two business listings (for two separate businesses) today I found my self in a bit of a conundrum. When I searched for “web design Adelaide”, my first business, if came up first position in the local listings as we have for a few weeks, but in a quirky twist, the link goes to the second business I added to local listings, not the first one!

Now because clearly I want both my businesses listed in local listings and seeing they both operate out of the same office, I put one listing under our post office box which is generally accepted as the correct way to list a business within a city.

Some how Google (now don’t get me wrong I never doubted their intelligence) after realising that I own both business has decided to merge both my listings into one, and its not pretty!

Let me explain:

The Second Business, Optimise My Website (OMW), still displays correctly:

But The First Business DBG Technologies when clicked - links to the OMW website! See the green address after the first listing below:

But that’s not all, when I clicked “more” at the end of the listing I went to the more details page only to find that the information from both listings had also been combined DBG heading, OMW postal box, OMW phone number, with email addresses, website addresses, logos and the works in one giant “web design-optimisation mash up”!

I went to the local business centre, logged in and checked both listings. Each individual listing was exactly as should be. Separate email, separate website addresses, different contact details, information and different logos, not a hint of similarity, or this merger mambo jumbo. But then I found it…

My two businesses use the same land line phone number (which I used for Google verification of my listing). This is the ONLY thing connecting these two listings. So I have now updated the second website to have a different phone number. I await eagerly to see if the problem corrects itself and what affect this whole charade is going to have on my local, and perhaps even the organic listings.

Optimise My Website lisiting here has the DBG logo:

DBG Listing has the Optimsie My Website Contact Details!

If anyone knows anything about this “Google Local Listing Merger Phenomenon” I’d love to hear about it! I’ll keep you posted on the latest developments.

Well, its already Tuesday afternoon but it feels like it was Monday just this morning! After a great couple of days at SMX Sydney listening to Danny Sullivan and Rand Fishkin argue about everything from sub-domains to “The gay cowboy movie” and ultimately finding some interesting techniques used by one of Australia’s biggest travel agentsto gain good search engine positioning, I’m back with the nose to the grind stone, filtering through my notes and drinking lots of coffee!

My full report on SMX Sydney will online later, but one of the topics that were discussed wasGoogle Sitelinks. After getting back to my PC and doing a web search for “DBG Technologies” I was chuffed to find that Google has indeed decided our website has been around long enough and has enough decent content to add some Sitelinks! For those of you who don’t know, Sitelinks are cool little links in the Google results that pop up under your business listing. See example:

So thats pretty cool. Another topic discussed was keeping your Google Maps local listing up to date. So I did a simple Google search for “DBG Technologies Adelaide”and was again impressed to see that Google was nice enough to include a map of our location next to our results listing.

What is also cool is that our website is listed under the results, followed close behind by this blog!

It goes to show the power of all these little online tools we have available these days, and businesses are going to get left behind if they don’t start taking note.

In a week or so we are off to Sydney again to attend the SMX Sydney conference, Australia’s biggest search engine marketing conference.

We went last year (when it was called Search Summit) and had a great time networking, making new friends, learning some cool stuff and brushing shoulders with the likes of Adam Lasnik from Google and Andy Beal from Marketing Pilgrim. We hope to catch up with a few other SEO /SEM gurus this time round and further our knowledge in the field.

We’ll be writing a review of the event to post when we get back to little old Adelaide! But until then you can see what its all about at the SMZ Sydney website.

Hot of the press, the new Customs Agency Services website is now online! Customs Agency Services provide global logistics and customs brokerage to people sending things from one place to another all around the world.

We set up the new website to Customs Agency Services specifications, to allow customers to track their orders, request a quote online for  shipping and freighting costs and learn more about the customs process. We even added in a little flash animation for effect.

So the next time you need to send something overseas, or bring something into the country and you’re not sure how - give Customs Agency Services a call or visit their website, and they’ll help you out!

http://www.caspl.com.au

Footy season is back! And DBG are proud to announce the launch of the new, whiz bang, swanky Football Online website! Now players, fans and officials in the Central Zone of the SANFL will be able to get the latest results, goal kickers and best players even easier than before!

The Footy Online website is completely run and maintained by volunteers within the clubs, leagues and associations. Results are updated the day of the matches so there’s no waiting for the weekly paper to see the other teams results, they’re all right there in front of you!

So now you can catch up on local footy and see if you can spot some up and coming AFL stars!

 http://www.football-online.com.au

We are proud to announce that we are supporting Rally SA this year. Being avid rally fans we always love to get out to the track to check out the action and last year were lucky enough to go for a “hot lap” with Australian Rally Champion - Simon Evans!

The Rally SA Website provides information for competitors, spectators and officials. We created a design that captures the feel of the rally and segments information into the sections so its easy for each group of website visitors to find what they want!

http://www.rallysa.com.au

I like to conduct experiments on web related topics, this one is to see how you might get a high ranking on Google for a blog named “web design Adelaide” using social bookmarking techniques.

We created a new blog dedicated to providing business in Adelaide with web design advice called the web design adelaide blog and then bookmarked it on a few of social media sites to see how it would impact it’s ranking.

The blog initially was not listed in Google search index at all but after providing a couple of links it was included but is not ranking all that well just yet. It will be interesting to see over time how this blog ranks in Google. The new version of the blog will be going live soon as we are going to be saying goodbye to this blog. The new improved web design Adelaide blog will be all systems go form the 1st October 2008 so feel free to drop in and check out the latest advice for Adelaide busineses!