Francis Lee: Search Engine Optimisation & Marketing SEM, SEO blog

Mozilla Firefox 3 earns a place in the Guinness World Record

Francis Lee — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:32:14 +0000

That’s right, thanks to the millions of people (8,002,530 to be exact) who download Firefox 3 during their launch on the 17th of June 2008, Firefox 3 has earnt their place in the Guinness World Record for achieving the record for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.”

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Firefox 3 Download Day - 17th of June 2008

Francis Lee — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:29:03 +0000

Yes, thats right, Firefox 3 is finally complete after 34 months of development from the guys at Mozilla and many many contributors around the world and guess what, its out on the 17th of June 2008. Just to mix things up abit, Mozilla wants to set a crazy new Guinness world record of the most software downloads in 24 hours.

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I saw your profile and became interested in you - Romance Scam

Francis Lee — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:58:46 +0000

Online Romance Scam - Hello My name is Fatima, i saw your profile today and became intrested in you,i will also like to know you more,and if you can send an email to my email address,i will give you my pictures here is my email address ( *******************@yahoo.com ) I believe we can move from here! Awaiting for your mail to my email address above. Fatima.

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Taking blogging to a new level with Men’s Sense - Online Magazine

Francis Lee — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:29:35 +0000

It’s been a dream of mine for awhile to start an online magazine company with quality content as well as unbiased journals writing for me. However, it has only been a dream and I never had the chance to start it. Well that was until I realised that Bloggers are the new Journals in today’s digital age. Say hi to Australia’s newest blog based Online Magazine - Men’s Sense Online Men’s Magazine

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The new FHM - Relaunch of a men’s magazine

Francis Lee — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:19:57 +0000

As we all know, the publishing industry has been a dying industry since the start of the internet and with the help of Google, this dying process has been quickened. However, despite the impending doom of the publishing industry, the guys behind FHM (ACP) have decided to invest in a relaunch of their magazine in hope to change consumer perception of FHM and in order to drive sales. We all know what happens to magazines owned by ACP which don’t meet target.

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Amazon tells Google Teleport to shove it

Francis Lee — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:55:46 +0000

Amazon, the worlds largest online retailer of books has given Google a big slap in the face over their new Teleporting site search bar. As per my previous post regarding Google’s second search bar, which was named Teleport or Teleporting, this feature provided users with a method of searching deeper within a selected website and helps Google increase revenue (as users are being exposed to more ads). This site search bar was developed under pressure from their investors to “Go back to their core business and raise revenue”.

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When is Earth Hour in Sydney held?

Francis Lee — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:19:17 +0000

Just a very quick remind for those who don’t know what Earth Hour is, it is a energy saving CO2 reducing initiative by the WWF, the largest environmental government in the world. Their aim is to get everyone on earth to turn their lights off for one hour every year to save energy.

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Earth Hour in Sydney - Its time to give back

Francis Lee — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:16:35 +0000

I think its time for us to give back to the earth we live on, for far too long have we been wasting resources and killing the planet. The smallest changes in our lives can affect the planet in a very big way, and to demonstrate this Earth Hour was introduced. (more…)

Find me at Adtech Sydney - Hilton Hotel

Francis Lee — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:07:03 +0000

Come join me and many other online interactive marketers at Sydney’s Adtech at the Hilton Hotel on the 12th and 13th of March 2008. (more…)

A few Top SEO Firefox plugins that I use

Francis Lee — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:13:41 +0000

I am a fan of the Mozilla Firefox browser, have been for awhile and will be until some other amazing browser appears (which would probably be off the Mozilla code base anyways). Like all Firefox fans, I have a few awesome plugins which I use on every install on every computer. Most of them help with my SEO efforts and some are just play cool to use regardless. Here I will document the ones which I use primarily for my Search Engine Optimisation purposes as well as development purposes.

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Official Sync for Outlook & Google Calendar - Thank God!

Francis Lee — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:41:10 +0000

I’ve been scratching my head for awhile now regarding Google calendar and how to sync it with everything else that matters (mainly Outlook since thats permanently on for me). Unfortunately, there has been no way to do this without performing some crazy hack which is usually not a 2-way sync between Outlook and Google calendar. Chances are that I am not the only one who has been having headaches over the calendar syncing issues as Google has finally decided to give us a hand by release a little program that syncs Outlook with Google calendar - Thank god!

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Google’s second search bar helps users teleport!

Francis Lee — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:33:42 +0000

Google has recently (Yesterday to be exact) added a second search bar within the Search results page to help users fine tune their results. This is in hope that users can get more specific results for a broader topic. This is what Google calls “Teleporting”.

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Scraper Duplicate Content Sites - Do they affect your search rankings?

Francis Lee — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:36:33 +0000

In short no, the worse that could happen is that you get frustrated another website has stolen your work and repurposed it as their own. I currently have atleast 50 scraper websites with my content on them, be it abstracts of my blog posts or complete rip offs, however none of them have affected my rankings on Google (I don’t really care about Yahoo or MSN Live to tell the truth).

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Website Delisted from Google - Wonder why hmm

Francis Lee — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:42:04 +0000

Well, I’ve been shamelessly promoting my new educational websites in previous posts and everything was going fine until today. I had a quick health check on two of my international websites - Learning How Germany and Learning How Italy, and to my surprise both of them have been delisted from Google.

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Google Adwords CPC Inflation - More Money More Money

Francis Lee — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:46:43 +0000

I am not sure if its just me but are the CPC on Google Adwords starting to inflate alot faster than usual? I have been running accounts for clients on multiple verticals and have started to see an increasing trend on CPC inflation. I know Australia is going through inflation but is that directly affecting the online market?

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Learning How Italy has Lift Off!

Francis Lee — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:09:07 +0000

After two or so weeks worth of struggling to get learninghow.com.au translated to Italian and having the articles re-purposed so that people can read it in Italy, we have finally decided that everything is up to scratch and the launch of LearningHow Italy is the proof of that.

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LearningHow Spain launched Today!

Francis Lee — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:57:42 +0000

After two or so weeks worth of struggling to get learninghow.com.au translated to Spanish and having the articles re-purposed so that people can read it in Spain, we have finally decided that everything is up to scratch and the launch of LearningHow Spain is the proof of that.

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LearningHow in Germany finally launched!

Francis Lee — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:40:14 +0000

After two or so weeks worth of struggling to get learninghow.com.au translated to German and having the articles re-purposed so that people can read it in Germany, we have finally decided that everything is up to scratch and the launch of LearningHow Germany is the proof of that.

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Learning How - Online Education website goes International!

Francis Lee — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:50:16 +0000

Well, it has been exactly 23 days since Learning How - Australia launched to educate everyone on things that matters in life. Within these short 23 days, Learning How has been radically upgraded and expanded with 30 different niche category of topics and over 1000 articles all up. Because of this, we have decided to promote Learning How in five different languages. Say hi to Learning How International - Online Education Network.

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Shameless Self pimping on MyBlogLog (for SEO mainly)

Francis Lee — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:22:49 +0000

Is it just me or is MyBlogLog becoming like a shameless self pimping / viral link building community where a bunch of internet marketers gather to generate as much link value to their MyBlogLog page as possible. Do not that your the link on MyBlogLog to your websites are followed hence all that juicey internal links you get within MyBlogLog flows straight to your website.

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Heath Ledger - A Great Aussie actor died today

Francis Lee — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:40:09 +0000

Today is a sad day as our very own Heath Ledger was found dead at approximately 3:35pm(EST) in New York today (currently the 22nd of January 2008 for New Yorkers). He was found by his house keeper and cause of death seems to be a drug overdose.

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Great new way to make money online - TNX.net

Francis Lee — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:18:36 +0000

Well, been surfing the net mindlessly as I always do and I came across an interesting website which allows webmasters to sell links. I know you’re thinking that you’ve been there done that, however this advertising network has a twist, it allows publishers to sell links on all pages of their website independently (which is completely different to sitewide links).

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Plant a tree with Mount Franklin

Francis Lee — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:22:43 +0000

Seems like quite a few big brands are endorsing being Green and caring for the planet. Take Mount Franklin (the bottled water company owned by Coke), they have decided to promote the planting of Trees around Australia to sustain life and build upon caring for the land.

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Learning How launches today!

Francis Lee — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:46:32 +0000

Well its the the year 2008, 6th of January and already I have a new venture starting up. Yes, thats right, I have decided to start launching websites once again, and this year is prime time for me baby! I present to you Learning How, an article website dedicated to relatively educational topics.

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A good meta description can get you more traffic

Francis Lee — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:41:10 +0000

Here is another quick SEO101 lesson on the usage of meta description tag for on page optimisations. I have mentioned that I would make a post on meta description in my previous post on useless meta keywords, so this is basically a follow up on that. Much like page titles, meta description actually plays a big part on SERPs and works as your marketing ad copy to your potential visitor. (more…)