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Are you having fun with Google Caffeine? What’s the fastest you’ve ranked for a phrase? I did another video on Monday where I had some Caffeine retention issues (WARNING: explicit language) but despite my hand/eye co-ordination challenges, the post still went to no.1 in a couple of minutes. Today I try a slightly more competitive […]

Last week I was impressed that a post got on the front page of Google within 30 mins of publishing. Today in a live demo, I write a blog post and get it to no.1 in under 2 1/2 minutes. Are you blogging yet? Google today also launched its Australia Votes site. It did something […]

jim boot is what the guys over at warcom.com.au are trying to rank for because we went to no.1 for this post http://jimboot.com/alex-hallett for the phrase Alex Hallett. It will be interesting to see if Google caffeine indexes this Joomla blog as fast as the wordpress site. JimJim’s been here for a while, you know […]

We’ve all heard that the Google Caffeine update was all about indexing the web in real time. Well yesterday we watched it happen with a blog post I wrote. It appeared on the first page of Google within 30 mins of being published. However the speed of indexing seems to have a side effect of […]

Yesterday Jine & Joel, (not a vaudevillian act) two of our top rankers pointed out some blackhat going on in one of our clients keyword spaces. It turned out that 4 of the top 5 sites for this phrase were doing blackhat. Their pages were riddled with hidden keywords. How do you check if you’re […]

Yesterday Smartcompany.com.au published an excellent article on blackhat SEO. Today I show you a couple of techniques to work out if your competition is doing black hat. Today we have a look at http://haul.com.au SEO & also http://auspost.com.au SEO. JimJim’s been here for a while, you know who he is. stewartmedia.biz

I always find in interesting to see how people use search after a major media event like the ousting of our Prime Minister. Today I take a look at what seems to be the start of a federal election campaign and how it’s been reflected in searches & content I also take a look at […]

A viewer asked us on the FB page why a site is ranking so well when it seems to have bugger all SEO. Today I show you why some sites rank well for no good reason. Usually it means more ranking opportunities for you. Australian politicians want to legislate to hack your computer… seriously. Post […]

Someone asked me on the YouTube channel to take them through a step by step tutorial of how I rank a site. Well today I start by showing you the things you have to consider when choosing keywords, assessing the competition & working out what you have to do to beat them. We got comment […]

Google has updated webmaster tools to monitor soft 404s. What’s a soft 404? Well it’s a bit like being served chicken when you ordered fish. The kitchen was out of fish so they just served chicken, when what they really should have done was told you they were out of fish. Ok I think I […]