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 […]
Wow people who read my newsletter love chocolate. Big news flash chocolate is popular. My false promise of chocolate in last week’s newsletter increased opens by 15%. I made a lot of chocoholics angry though, sorry about that. According to Google keyword suggestions, a lot of people think Stephen Conroy is either a douche, idiot […]
I admit it. I have not sent chocolate with this blog post. It was a blatant ploy to see if the promise of chocolate would get more people to open the blog post. I’ve spent some time this morning going over a viewer’s site. There are some basic things you can do to work out […]
I keep hearing reports in the media that Senator Conroy thinks that the marginal slowing of the web that his filter will cause is no big deal. It is a big deal. It will cost business millions in lost revenue. Google knows it which is why they’re trying to speed up the web. Do you […]
I’v started a new blog over at jimboot.com where I can keep it separate from SEO stuff. One of the first blog entries was about the Government Internet Filter. I recorded a vid for the ABC Q And A program on Monday night. They didn’t show the video so I’m now promoting it as "The […]
It’s been revealed that it won’t be illegal to circumvent the Australian Government’s proposed mandatory Internet filter, so today I show you how. There are also unintended consequences for business from this revelation. Also a couple of questions from viewers on country level domain best practice for ranking. We’re hiring again! We’re looking for another […]