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Google Caffeine sandbox has now been closed. Seems we were on to something last week when we postulated that Caffeine is live or close to it. We have a look at more changes a viewer of the vlog, Tara is seeing. Movember again – Sponsor the mo! Extremely grateful for those that already have Movember […]

Remember the story on Google Caffeine I did back in August? A lot of people have been "expressing some concern" (aka screaming) over recent ranking changes they are seeing in Google. Results have been bouncing around a lot in the last few days. Curiously the results are very similar to Google Caffeine the algorithm update […]

Is Social Media the new black? That’s what I heard Cam our Social Media Administrator say the other day. For me social media marketing is a lot like web site building back in the mid 90’s. I used to sell web sites back then and people would ask me "well how is this going to […]

Google launched Social Media Search yesterday which incorporates results from your social media circles. I take it for a test drive. A Melbourne bloke in digital strategy for the Ad industry talks smack about SEOs on Twitter. I give a little pushback 🙂 On SEO Helpdesk this week I take a look at @melvindbout ‘s […]

Google Analytics got a bunch of updates overnight, however there is still some important data it is not capturing. The last 24 hours I have been wading through log files to find out why the Googlebot wasn’t indexing our latest content. Here’s what I found. JimJim’s been here for a while, you know who he […]

I signed up for blog action day, not because I wanted to " Tell the U.S. it’s Time to Act on Climate Change" but because I wanted to express my concern of pursuing this nonsensical idea that it’s ok to pollute our environment if you pay a carbon tax. I used to consider myself politically […]

Do you really need to do social media? ( I suddenly hear a herd of Social Media Experts running towards me with their Social Media Clubs raised) There was a LOT of money spent on web sites in the mid 1990s when HTML coders were charging $1000/hour. Where are those investments now? Bing & Google […]

Matt Cutts, Google’s Senior Engineer explained in his video blog yesterday, why some pages appear in the search results even though you may not want them to. According to Matt Cutts explanation, Yellow Pages seems to be blocking Google from a lot of their pages. Matt Cutts also released a video today explaining why comment […]

Google has announced some changes to the way it will display certain snippets in the SERPs. Basically if they find the structure of your page includes good anchors they link directly to that part of the page from the snippet in the SERPs. JimJim’s been here for a while, you know who he is. stewartmedia.biz

I spoke last week at the Marketing Now! conference at the Sofitel in Melbourne. I’ll gradually be uploading the video of the event here but you should also check out the Posterous page that was set up for the event. JimJim’s been here for a while, you know who he is. stewartmedia.biz