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After announcing print plant closures, job cuts, format changes and a new misguided digital strategy Fairfax went on to close the week with controversy surrounding editorial independence as shareholder and mining magnate Gina Rinehart pushed for more control of the company’s newspaper mastheads. As if the stinging criticism from the public, it’s media competitors and […]

1. They Offer No Interaction With Their Readership Take a look at any story published today on The Age’s website today and scroll down to the comments section. Despite many articles reaching hundreds of comments daily, The Age is nowhere to be seen interacting with it’s readers. While the absence of comments from The Age […]

In this week’s show we performed a site review for Build.com.au and uncovered a few issues with their site that may be harming their rankings. In the video above you’ll find the full list but there’s one in particular we wanted to highlight that we haven’t gone over in some time, which is the use […]

I attended the PESA (Professional Ebay Sellers Alliance) Conference for my second time last week and I was blown away again with the quality of the speakers and the great networking opportunities. I thought I’d share with you a few of the gems I came away with. Mobile Commerce We’ve been doing a lot with […]

Google announced a revamped version of their Places service last night named Google+ Local that integrates Google+ business Pages with search, maps and local listings in SERPs. The changes also bring Zagat, which Google acquired last year for $151 million, into restaurant search results and Google+ Local search. The list of changes include: A new ‘Local’ […]

Google Webmaster Tools got given a new coat of paint earlier this month, bringing it up to speed with the visual changes Google’s been making over the last year. The main changes include a new-look dashboard and redesigned menus that make Webmaster Tools more intuitive and user friendly in the same vein as Gmail, Reader […]

We’ve had a lot of viewers asking us about Google’s Knowledge Graph since it launched in the US last week and thought we’d use this weeks blog post to answer some of the most common questions asked about Google’s Knowledge Graph. Got your own question? Send it to Ask [email protected] and we’ll post it! What’s […]

Scared of a competitor attempting to torpedo your site with links in the wake of Google’s Penguin update? While Google says they’re almost certain it can’t be done, it can’t hurt to be overly prepared when your rankings are at stake. Today we’ll take a look at what you can do to fight negative SEO […]

How To Remove Backlinks That depends on how you got them. Visit the site where you bought the links from and see if there’s a way to take your links down. If there’s a cost incurred to remove backlinks, wearing it would be a good move to ensure your site doesn’t get hit or so […]

Google’s algorithm change from last week has been code named ‘Penguin’ and boy has it upset a lot of people. I said last week I hadn’t seen a change this big to the search results from an algorithm update since 2007. Like the change back then, I love this one too. We’re in the fortunate […]