Francis Lee – Australian SEO blog: Search Engine Optimisation, SEM, SEO

The financial strain on the Australian economy continues to worsen as troubles in Europe compound and Chinese growth slows. Job losses are a common theme throughout Australia and can be seen nightly on the news. What are things you can do to try and avoid or minimise financial stress and potential money issues?

It is amazing how important balustrading is to the overall aesthetic of a home. Whether it is a building or a single family dwelling, the balustrade adds greatly to the charm and visual impact of the home. In many cases, balustrading also serves an added safety or privacy purpose, as the balustrade can act as [...]

Local search provides businesses with great opportunities, but these opportunities must be kept in perspective and expectations realistic. Business owners must understand that depending on their products or services, there may or may not be a large volume of people within their local area searching for them online.

There is little doubt that local business, regardless if you are a plumber or a lawyer, requires an online presence. This fact has become increasingly evident over the past few years as more and more Australians join the online revolution. However, the majority of local businesses are still paying a large amount of money for [...]

Ok, I know some of you guys have probably had this interface for the past couple of weeks already, however it has only just appeeared for me and I’m kinda annoyed that it has. I can understand why there have been some design changes, but the first thing that really struck me was the similarity [...]

Well, time for another shameless self promotion of my new Online Flash Game portal launched last night.Its essentially an online arcade where very bored people can kill heaps of time playing random action games, sports games, and puzzle games.

Recently started a new webcomic using www.bitstrips.com on marketing, internet and various other topics. I have been wanting to do that for a pretty long time and its great to finally get a chance to do it using an online comic maker. Check out my new comic at www.smsu.com.au – SMSU is short for “Sell [...]

No one can deny that KFC is the bomb, and I have many fond memories of the KFC Bucket back in the hay days when I lived with my parents (big family = big KFC bucket). But what happens when you really REALLY need a KFC bucket and you’re stuck at the Cricket with no [...]

There are people out there who are super excited by a Tweet that links to itself. In theory, its not humanly possible to do it, and hence the sudden interest and “hype” over it. It was so hyped that it got on the homepage of Digg making this world just that little more weird.

Ok, I haven’t blogged for awhile due to a busy lifestyle which is keeping me very far away from my website, as well as Twitter for thoes who follow me. Anyways, I was using www.seo-browser.com to check out how my website looks on a text browser, and to my surprise I fould hundreds of spamy [...]

I guess we all saw it coming, it was really only a matter of time before Google invests in having real time search results at a click of a button like Twitter. Ofcourse, the difference between Twitter search and Google is that Twitter only shows tweets where as Google shows actual quality results (including tweets). [...]

Ok, I know no one really cares about my rankings but I thought I’d continue to keep track of the keyword “Australian SEO” which I am now ranked 4th on Google Australia. This is a very dramatic change from the 6th position just 8 days ago. I have not done anything to the website and [...]

Ok, I’ve been documenting my rankings for the keyword “australian seo” on Google Australia after I changed my page title. From my last post, my rankings have moved up from ranking 8th, to ranking 6th within 4 days. So for thoes who thinks onsite changes for SEO are useless, think again. Anyways, this is a [...]

Talk about long tail eh, I’m ranking 5th for “Australian SEO Blog” and ranking 8th for the keyword “Australian seo” on Google Australia. I think I might devote a month or so into trying to rank first for both of these keywords as well as related Aussie SEO stuff. I was actually initially ranking 12th [...]

well.. not its not actually dead, just down for unscheduled maintainence, I just wanted to rant about it being down, but realised I couldn’t rant on Twitter about it (ironic). This brings me to a new point of realisation, that I use Twitter to rant (whinge) about stuff all the time. Anyways, just thought I’d [...]

Don’t you love it when your old posts still get heaps of traffic even though its like written a few years ago. I guess certain topics never get old. I wrote a post about how to restart your Apple iPod mainly for my own reference but it seems that it has moved up on Google [...]

Ok, I never thought I’d say this but Twitter is actually pretty cool. At first I had no idea how I could use it and hence I decided to make it a private diary of what I do during the day. However when I started following people, I realised that it could actually be a [...]

So what do you do when there are heaps of mosquitoes around? Well you wrap a fly net around your head ofcourse! What better way to keep mozzies at bay than to have your very own portable fly & mosquito repellent strapped straight to your face!

We all know how hot Australia is this summer (2009), but you will seriously start getting worried when you see a kangaroo leave the country by sea. Below are a few photos (unknown source) of a kangaroo “going for a swim” in what seems like an attempt to leave the country. Scary stuff… scary stuff…

Well, like all SEO geeks, I am very curious as to how quickly I get indexed. The last time I actually kept track (a few months ago), my blog entry was indexed in approximately 7mins on Google.com.au. I am assuming this post will be indexed at about the same time, however I’m going to take [...]