Category Archives: SEO Tips

Email Marketing for Long Term Relationships

If you’re looking for a way to build up a genuine relationship with your prospects and customers, you can’t beat email marketing. By sending regular short emails and longer newsletters, you can alert your market to your offers and build … Continue reading

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Content Marketing Goals SEO

Like most web businesses keen to increase web reach and gain more leads and customers, you’re probably investing much of your time and effort in content marketing. It’s a major part of today’s SEO. After all, putting out useful information … Continue reading

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Internet Marketing: The Art of SEO Copywriting for Today’s Google

Do you miss the good old days of Internet marketing when creating content that ranked well was as simple as having your target keywords in all the right places? The actual text didn’t have to be that special; it just … Continue reading

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Web Directories for Today’s SEO

Time was when submitting a website’s details to web directories was one of the cornerstone tactics of SEO. Hundreds of such directories existed and submitting to them via software or low cost outsourcing was simple and for a while, effective. … Continue reading

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The Art of Anchoring

Skim any Search Engine Optimisation text from just a few years back and you’d inevitably be told to use the exact keyphrase for the term you wish to rank. Doing that now is a recipe for all kinds of penalties. It … Continue reading

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Do Your Blog Posts Measure Up?

One issue that emerged from the recent Google crackdown on guest posting is the matter of content length. In most peoples’ minds, brevity equates with low quality. After all, no one would spend a whole day crafting a 2000 word … Continue reading

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How to Keep an Eye on Your Clients’ Links

With Google clamping down so vigilantly on unnatural links, it make sense to keep a wary eye on who’s linking to your clients sites. After all, just one link from a bad neighbourhood can undo months of painstaking white hat … Continue reading

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Content Marketing for Today’s Google

Content marketing is the strategy of choice for many webmasters nowadays and with good reason. Done well, it offers a sustainable way to promote your brand and authority, attract traffic and showcase your expertise. The question is, are you doing … Continue reading

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SMX West – Key Issues for Australian SEOs

Produced by Search Engine Land, SMX West held from March 11-13 in San Jose discussed an enticing array of topics related to search, online and social media marketing. The main attraction of the event was the chance to interrogate the … Continue reading

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What to Do Now Guest Posting’s Off Limits?

You’ve no doubt heard that Matt Cutts recently identified guest posting as a spammy practice. If you’re one of the Australian SEOs who’d come to rely on submitting guest posts as a key SEO strategy, that was quite a blow. … Continue reading

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Avoiding Rich Snippet Spam Penalties

As you no doubt heard, last month Google began imposing manual penalties on sites accused of rich snippet spam. Rich snippets (also known as microdata or structured data) is a way that allows webmasters to use a special syntax known … Continue reading

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Guest Blogging – The New Face of Content Spam?

Have you being using guest blogging to enhance your clients’ rankings? If so, Matt Cutt’s recent declaration that the practice was rife with content spam must have been worrisome. Guest blogging rose to popularity following a successions of Google updates … Continue reading

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4 Free Keyword Research Tools

Do you miss the old Google Keyword Tool? Do you find its replacement the Google Keyword Planner uninspiring? Don’t worry, here are some alternatives that can deal up the keywords you need for your next SEO campaign. And the good … Continue reading

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Are You Making Your Clients’ Websites Sticky? (And Why You Really Should Be)

How do you feel when you land on a website that engages you from the word go and tempts you to stick around? Pretty good, I bet, and I’m sure you become a faithful repeat visitor. As an Australian SEO, … Continue reading

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Do You Follow? If So, You Should Be Careful

If you’ve been working in Australian SEO circles long enough (say two years), you’ll surely remember how garnering backlinks with the ‘do follow’ tag was the holy grail. These links were precious because they passed along some of the site’s … Continue reading

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How a S.M.A.R.T Brief Can Help You Get the Results You Want

If you’re an Australian business looking into giving your online presence a boost in the search results, you’re in need of effective SEO service. Only professionals who work with the search engines on a daily basis and keep abreast with … Continue reading

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Local SEO Tips and Tricks

As an Australian SEO specialist, you know how important the net has become for people researching and buying goods and services. Recent statistics revealed that over 50% of Australians are now shopping online. 

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7 Questions You Must Answer Before Publishing Your Landing Page

So your SEO firm has done its job and got you ranking. Now searchers are clicking through to your site. But will they be happy with what they find there? Answer these 7 questions to find out if your visitors … Continue reading

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Keywords as Buyer Intent – Looking Beyond the Numbers

Do you get the maximum value out of your keyword research? If you’re just looking at the search count, you’re probably overlooking a lot of valuable data. As Australian SEO specialists, we sometimes lose sight of the big picture when … Continue reading

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Guest Blogging for Links and Traffic

As an Australian SEO firm, you’re always looking for ways to get your client’s names in front of potential customers. But how do you do that in these uncertain times? The days of mass article submission and throwing up hundreds … Continue reading

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