Archive for May, 2007

I got an email at work regarding a very funny experiment you can do with Google Maps. Just follow the following steps and you’ll get a very funny instruction from Google Maps. This funny experiment with Google Maps cant get you from New York to London in under 63 steps! Read more »

More often than not, bloggers hit a mental brick wall which would hinder their creativity when producing new posts. Every blogger has experienced this at least once for many different personal and environmental reasons that forces them to stop blogging for a few days or even weeks. This is where a guest blogger comes in to save the day. Read more »

I hardly ever read The age, however I was lucky enough to read Aaron Wall’s seo blog which pointed to an article regarding search engine optimisation firms with in Australia. It turns out that recently, a well known SEO firm Found Agency, was penalised by Google for ‘unethical’ methods for their ranking. The Age took up this opportunity to quote anonymous ‘reliable‘ sources to bad mouth the SEO community in Australia. Read more »

I found this clip on youtube regarding a the etiquette within the men’s restroom. I think this will give an insight for girls who wonders what happens in the men’s room (nothing really). Humorous must watch video. Read more »

Just found a really cool wordpress plugin for inserting AuctionAds within your blog posts. Its simple to install and offers a quick in text tagging feature to insert AuctionAds javascript code directly into your post. Its called the Easy AuctionAds V1.0 by a fellow SEO over at Virtual marketing blog.

I came across a new ads publishing medium called AuctionAds which displays eBay auctions related to your content. Much like Google Adsense, you are paid for every click as well as a commission (though only if the user who clicked through to the auction wins the item). Read more »

Domain age, as the name states, is determined by the age of your domain, being an Australian blogger with an Australian domain, this usually works to my advantage. I say this because Austrailan domains, unlike other TLDs, have a minimum registration time of two years hence locking in my minimum domain age at two years instead of one. Australian domain names also have a barrier for entry as there are restrictions on who can own one and for what reason it can be owned for, this gives Australian domain slightly more trusts than cheaper generic TLDs. Read more »

I have recently noticed that most of my tag pages are supplementary results on Google, which basically tells me either those pages just don’t have enough links for Google to trust them or they are just crap (or duplicate content). It has always been wrongly implied that the more pages you have, the better the chance of you getting found. To an extent its true, however if 80% to 90% of your pages are rubbish, then you can kiss your Google ranking goodbye. Read more »

If you are a fellow SEO, you will know and understand the pain we must go through day in day out. A continual cycle of keeping up with search engine optimisation news and never ending feeds of SEO blogs to read. There are days when I wake up and just can’t be bothered to visit the dozen or so SEO blog sites to keep myself updated, however I know that as an SEO, its part of my job to keep up to date with search related news. Read more »

Its time for me to get real linky by posting up great post from the many different SEO bloggers around the world. Read more »