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Well rich snippets (sound like a comedian’s dog name) are finally being rolled out internationally. They’ve been in US results for a while now. If they suit your content they’ll definitely increase your clickthrough rate in the SERPs. Facebook ditched the "become a fan" button during the week. Now you only have to "like" something. […]

Well this is a bit good! In Google webmaster tools you can now see how many impressions AND clicks your key phrases are getting. This will help with keyword analysis & measuring effectiveness of your description tag. Remember Google Buzz? Well it’s not going to well. Another good reason not to jump on board every […]

Mumbrella Bully – strange heading eh? In a recent post on Digital Citizens Tim Burrowes (@mumbrella) mused that he thought Laurel Papworth (@silkcharm) was trying to rank for that phrase in their ongoing, online very public spat. Without going into the very boring, tedious, time sapping details on what the feud is about, it’s a […]

Google is now rolling out site speed into their algorithm as a ranking factor. I’m not one to say I told you so… well actually I am. I told you so. Rupert Murdoch whines about the market correction his industry is going through… again Are you seeing wikipedia results in pages from your country? Annoying […]

I spoke at the ConnectNow conference in Sydney yesterday & got myself into trouble again oops. I probably shouldn’t have told an audience of social media gurus that social media is not the answer to all your marketing needs. A lot of social media experts have been prematurely announcing the death of SEO They claim […]

This week I take a look at a viewers site and what they can do to improve their rankings. We finally launched our Facebook fan page. We’re using it so you can post SEO questions & get SEO help from our staff. We’re giving away a free website analysis this week to the most pathetic, […]

Dealsdirect.com.au was reported this week as being hacked and blocked by Google. Today I show you a couple of simple things you can do to minimise the chances of this sort of attack and if your site does get hit, how you can revive your rankings. Google has temporarily redirected Google.cn to it’s Hong Kong […]

This morning I got a spam email from Hewlett Packard Australia. I define it as spam because it was sent to an email address created purely for a directory entry.  The only way to even know this email address existed,  was to have harvested it from a web page. Back in the late 90s a […]

Matt Cutts, who heads up Google’s webspam team, was interviewed yesterday & he revealed some very interesting things about the way the GoogleBot behaves. If you’ve been wondering why your site is still not ranking this article may reveal why. We’re hiring again! As you know we’re a complete bunch of rankers, however we now […]

I was asked a question about payroll software yesterday. It is a good excercise in keyword research. For instance, the two most popular brands for small business bookkeeping in Australia are MYOB & Quicken. As you can see Payroll software comes no where near the same level of popularity. So the people looking for payroll […]