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I was on the way home from central Victoria late last year for a family member’s whenwe took a detour off the main highway and decided to checkout the old gold mining town of Maldon. We had a late breakfast there and had a wander though the historic town. I hadn’t seen it since I […]

I’m hosting a webinar tomorrow on Video Marketing. Video has always been a compelling way to market products & services.. it’s what powers the TV industry right? Using online video for marketing is very different though. Sure you’re still conveying a message but the way you convey it, what you convey and how people find […]

In this week’s video I do a SEO site review for a viewer. The site is ranking pretty well already for a few phrases but not so well for the phrases that will bring the big traffic. In fact he is buying adwords for those ones. When I took a look at his competition in […]

Google Search Plus your World, which launched two weeks ago, isn’t nearly as bad as some of the headlines would have you believe. In fact it will one day be an invaluable tool for every business looking to improve their rankings. Here are some things you should be doing with Google+ to begin reaping the […]

Myths, Benefits & Next Steps In case you missed it Google made some major changes last week (seems I say that a lot eh?). We haven’t seen them roll out in AU yet but I got a chance to have a look at them & have a bit of a play. When they were launched […]

Google made a whopping 30 changes in December last year. While not all of them relate specifically to ranking, there are definite themes emerging. Today Google also started rolling out “Search plus your world“, a major change to the way Google formats and personalises results for it’s users. To make sure you’re ready for both […]

For the first week back of the new year I have a look at last years prediction that a lot of our online freedoms would be attacked by Governments around the world. Certainly that was proven to be true and continues. What we have seen in retaliation to those threats is a corresponding rise in […]

If you personally want to rank in Google news you could simply be a potty mouth on ABC live TV during Children’s viewing times. That’s what our Communications Minister, Senator Stephen “I’ll protect you’re children online… help I’m locked out of my iPhone” Conroy did yesterday. It was interesting to watch what Google chose to […]

Twitter Gets a Makeover Twitter unveiled a design overhaul early Friday morning aimed at streamlining the popular social service. Ditching the two-panel design introduced just over a year ago, Twitter’s new interface cleans up the clutter and designed a new navigation system to find what you’re looking for in Twitter. Recognising the different ways in […]

Twitter announced a major design overhaul earlier this morning, ditching their current dual-panel design for a simpler and easier to use interface. While the ‘New Twitter’ design that debuted last year tried to pack everything into one place, the redesign unveiled today targets the different types of users on the popular microblogging service. Power users […]