Category: Search Engines
Google – 94% of Australian Web Searches
I was having a look over at Statcounter.com recently and specifically their public reporting tool gs.statcounter.com. This tool lets you see search engine, browser, mobile search stats etc for almost every country in the world. What has always been interesting is seeing the strength of the Google brand in Australia and how basically everyone uses […]
Read More | ShareWeb Directories are Finished!
In the old days of SEO, getting links from Web Directories was standard practice for building incoming links to your website. Often Google and other search engines would rank these links and pass the pagerank through to your website, thus increasing your domain authority and ranking. But Google has cracked down on sites offering Paid […]
Read More | ShareUnderstanding your Search Engine Ranking
One area that I focus a lot of time to (on this site and others) is SEO and my overall search engine ranking. I really do believe search engine marketing and social media marketing go hand in hand with each other. Analyse your websites SEO and look at the following 7 critical points to SEO […]
Read More | ShareSearch Engine Market Share – July/August 2011
It’s been a little while since we looked at the Search Engine market shares in Australia. We reported some figures in April and wanted to check now and see if there has been any movement. According to the gs.statcounter website these are the Australian market share figures for July 2011: Google – 94.02% Bing - 3.87% Yahoo […]
Read More | ShareGoogle +1 Button rolled out to Google Australia
Hi All – just a quick note to let you know Google has rolled out the Google +1 button to their Australian search engine. The Google +1 button will now show for all users who are logged into their Google Account and running a search on google.com.au Why not go and run a search for […]
Read More | Share3 fundamental SEO tips
If you want to get any sort of traffic from the Search Engines, knowing how they work is extremely important. Sometimes we get too consumed in the finer details we forget about the basics. Here are 3 fundamental and simple SEO tips you should take note of: 1. Relevancy If you talk about a particular […]
Read More | ShareBing upgrades Webmaster Tools
Bing has upgraded their Webmaster Tools site with a number of enhancements for site owners to take advantage of. If you are not aware – Bing has their on Webmaster Tool site in which website owners can submit an XML sitemap and check our particular search engines stats for their site index in Bing, and […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Mobile Search localising with Google Places
Google has rolled out some updates to its Mobile Search platform in Australia, now taking advantage of localising user content and prominent positioning of Google Places. Australia, USA and many countries now have an updated Google Mobile site with simple navigation for accessing Google Places. Look at the below screenshot on Google.com.au showing my location […]
Read More | ShareSearch Engine Tips
If you want to maximise the traffic coming from Search Engines like Google, Bing & Yahoo have a look at these tips we have put together to improve your website search engine rankings. You may think you are following standard SEO best practices, but there may be more things you can do to get some […]
Read More | ShareUsing Internal Linking & Keywords to Boost Page SEO
The other day I did a post on Link Building Strategies for your blog – both internal and external techniques to boost your blogs SEO. Today I am going to look at 2 specific internal strategies to improve the SEO for selected pages on your blog: 1. Internal Linking 2. Keyword placement Internal Linking One […]
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