January 15th, 2008
A client of ours recently asked for a bit of advice on an email newsletter they were about to send out to their customers. They have a great newsletter – catchy, pretty and informative. There are also plenty of links back to their website to increase web traffic, it’s all good stuff.
As we were checking the newsletter links for them we noticed one went to a page on their website named “specialsex.html”!!!
Now, once we had stopped our chuckling and put ourselves back on our chairs we clicked the link (purely to check it worked for our client) to find that the link wasn’t in fact a link to a page about “special sex” but a promotional page for special items that were exclusive of GST (“Specials Ex”).
We informed our client that the page name may be mis-interpreted by their customers, and they agreed that although it may get a few laughs, it was probably safer to change the filename. Perhaps a good time to make use of the hyphen (-)!
January 14th, 2008
Hi guys! Funny thing just happened, I typed “getting number one on google” into my google search box and was surprised to see that my SEOMoz / YOUMoz article on how frames based websites are holding strong at the top of Google search results for “website design adelaide” is now ranking number 3!
So incase it’s moved down a few pegs lately, I took this cool screen shot as proof!
Just goes to show the power of blogging / article writing.
Update:
In an interesting twist to this article there are some latest developments! Turns out my article on SEOMoz is no longer number 3, its sad i know, but search engines are fickle creatures. The good news is though - this blog about my article getting 3rd position is now at number 4!
The origional article is no longer in sight but both this article and my article about the SEOMoz article are at number 4 and number 5 in google.. you can see the proof here:
I wonder what will happen next? Only Google can tell…
January 3rd, 2008
Happy new year! Have a look at this great tool to find any potential problems with your website! See the results from our test here: DBG Technologies Scan Results
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December 17th, 2007
If you thought I was going to give out some magical secret as to how you can achieve this result, sorry, I’m merely pointing out that it can (and has) been done!
Earlier this week I was analysing local web design firms in Adelaide, Australia, and I noticed something interesting about the website that came up in first place for the phrase “website design Adelaide.”
My blog article on SEOMoz created quite a bit of discussion, it also managed to spread the word of the great city of Adelaide around the world and even created an inadvertent plug for Mcleod’s Daughters! If that isn’t inspiration for you to start a blog I don’t know what is!
Read the full article on Getting Number One on Google with Frames here!
October 10th, 2007
I just took the SEOMoz.org online SEO Test. Wow lots of tricky technical questions.
If you think you’ve got what it takes to be an SEO Expert, click the link below and try your luck!
Apparently I am an:
SEO Dark Lord - 93%
Interesting…
Are you an SEO Expert?
August 23rd, 2007
Parents are checking if their babies domain name is available! Apparently its becoming a key factor in child names in case they become famous one day! Check you kid’s domain names now before the world goes crazy.
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August 16th, 2007
As I listen and watch and podcast and twitter and scribefire and fleck and stumble and youtube and web 2.0 my way through the pre-season of the 30 day challenge I find myself learning more about the tips and tricks and leverage of the social media sites, blog tools and new media than I could have ever thought possible within the given time frame.
As someone who spends all day online as part of my job I found it amazing how much I managed to learn from watching Ed’s videos and taking part in the challenge!
If you’d like to learn more about internet marketing and using social media sites to increase your brand or product awreness online check out the 30 day challenge. But be prepared to listen… Ed likes to talk!
Have a great day 
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June 16th, 2007
Top signs that you are addicted to search engine optimisation!
1. You check your rankings every day just to see if they ‘might have changed’
2. You hold your breath when your ranking analysis program says ‘updating’
3. You open up 200+ SEO blogs per day and never get to read half of them because you keep clicking links to ‘other blogs on this topic’
4. You have 40 social media profiles
5. You see the sites ranking above you as your “Arch Nemisis”!
6. You check to see if someone has written a wiki entry about you or your business.
7. You analyse every site you visit for linking potential
8. You check the PageRank of every webpage you visit
9. FLASH, FRAMES & JAVASCRIPT = EVIL!
10. You dream about the day you are ranked number 1 for ALL your key phrases
June 16th, 2007
Google have created a lot of fantastic tools for various purposes but as a friend of mine recently discovered there are also negatives.
My friend had a client ring them recently up and exclaim “you’ve broken our website!”, confused my friend asked exactly how their website was broken… “all my form fields are yellow, why did you do that, please change them back to white!”, after explaining to the client that no updates had in fact been made to the site recently, my associate had a look to see what was going on, all looked fine on his machine so asked a few mates to check it out, all looked good on theirs too!
Eventually he went to the client’s office to look at the site on their machine - when he got there he found that they had installed Google toolbar (which by default change your forms to yellow!) Problem solved, however do you think he sent Google the bill for the hour of work he spent trying to solve this problem??
If you know of any “Helpful tools” that also cause headaches, please share them!
May 9th, 2007
Imagine the joy on the faces of Internet Service Providers all around the world when they realise that thousands of people would be increasing their monthly download by about 500%…
That may seem like an exaggerated figure but when you think about MySpace, YouTube, Facebook and other social media site profiles all containing music, slide shows, uploaded pictures, videos, games and animations it isn’t hard to imagine.
Let me give you a case study:
A friend of mine has the internet which she uses for checking her bank account, paying bills, emails, and university research. She is on a cheap plan with a small monthly cap with a 300 MB transfer limit. A friend invited her to join MySpace to “keep in touch and share photos”.
Many of her friends had music, videos, and many photos on their MySpace profile and she had a great time looking through all the photos and leaving comments… until she got her next internet bill!! Her monthly download had gone from around 100MB to over 5 gig! And of course had a price to match for exceeding her cap.
She didn’t understand and asked me how she had “downloaded” so much when she hadn’t “downloaded” anything! After explaining to her the best I could the ins and outs of data transfer, she has since given up on using MySpace on her home computer.
There must be thousands of people jumping onto other social media sites unknowingly downloading tonnes of data and then being hit with the bill, thousands more parents screaming at their teenage children and ISP’s laughing all the way to the bank.
