Last week in search we saw a flood of stories on Bing’s gains in the search space. ComScore kicked it off early in the week with their August Search Engine Rankings report, which showed Google’s market share dropping 0.3% while the Yahoo/Microsoft search partnership increased its market share by 0.5%. That kind of movement in […]
It was a quiet evening last night. I’d successfully repaired the leak in our cedar hot tub and had enjoyed the fruits of my efforts with a short simmering. Afterwards I sat by our fire with a nice McLaren Vale Shiraz, watching Youtube docos using the iPad & AppleTV. I love that combo. Just before […]
I did a shout out this morning on Twitter for anyone who wanted an SEO site review. I only got responses from Kiwi mates as it was early! The two sites I am reviewing today have similar issues when it comes to ranking. In summary they are; Duplicate or similar content When I checked the […]
Got an article you want us to check out? Send it to us on Twitter at @StewArtMedia Squeeze More Out of Your No. 1 Results Rank So you’ve got that coveted number 1 ranking, now what? Here’s some great tips on how to get the most out of your number one ranking using meta description […]
Jim’s video blog this week touched on a some great ideas about a process most businesses don’t think of: optimising PDF’s for SEO. Check out the infographic below for a quick rundown on how to get the most out of your PDF’s! For a more detailed explanation check out Jim’s video blog about optimising […]
If your business specialises in products that have a technical aspect to them, make sure you optimise you technical fact PDF’s. Whether it be a chemical based product, machinery or electronic componentry, people use Google to research technical aspects of products. If the PDF’s on your site outrank those of your competitors, the customer will […]
There was a great video last week from Google telling us all about the algorithm which I have put at the end of this post. One of the things that was revealed is that Google is making changes to the algorithm about twice a day! So how on earth do you keep up with those […]
Yesterday I did a webinar for Smartcompany.com.au. I didn’t get to answer a lot of the questions we’ll be answering a number of them over the coming weeks. Here are some of the ones that got asked the most. 1. Group blog or individual? A few people were asking questions around the personal voice in […]
Today I did another webinar for Smartcompany, one of Australia’s leading business websites. Often we hear business’ ask where should we be spending our time in social media. Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Google+ even? In this webinar I explain how social & search live together and the fundamental differences between the two. I would not be […]
Yesterday I wrote a blog post on why I thought Authorship Markup will become the new PageRank. Today I wanted to show you more about what we’re seeing in the Google results when it comes to social media shares. Authorship Markup and sharing of your content by others are both important but Authorship is something […]