Category Archives: Search

Negative Keywords for AdWords Ecommerce Campaigns

If you’re running an AdWords campaign for an online store, there are generally a list of keywords that you don’t want your ads to appear for. I was looking for a generic list on the net to compare with mine … Continue reading

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SEO for Bing

I’ve been ignoring Bing as a search engine, mostly because it’s made by the evil Microsoft. However, it’s now overtaken Yahoo for most of our clients sites as the second largest search engine referrer. That is no threat to Google … Continue reading

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Beware of Netregistry Traffic Accelerator SEO or other Mass Links Pages

This morning we had a client lose all of the hard work we’ve applied for the last four months. This client was making their way up the rankings for a number of competitive keywords and were sitting at page two … Continue reading

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SEO and Google : The future of promote and remove

If you have a Google account, you’ve probably noticed the new buttons on your search results: What do these mean for the future of search engine optimisers? Well, it seems Google is finally yielding to the fact they can’t create … Continue reading

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Google Insights – New Keyword Search Query

Google have added a new Beta tool called Google Insights for Search. It’s sensational. With a quick search you can see the regional differences between keywords. For instance, in the last 30 days more people in Victoria are searching for … Continue reading

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Google Search Engine Market Growth

Google continues to be the dominant player in the Australian search engine landscape, with Hitwise reporting another hike in its popularity. Last month, 87.81% of all Australian search engine queries were through Google. They’ve taken back some of Yahoo’s share, … Continue reading

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I have better things to do on a Friday night thankyou Google Maps

I was following up with our friends of Google to see if Rob’s Google maps business listing has returned to normal (read here). No, it’s got worse, the mother ******* Nestsoft people have hijacked my mother ****** listing as well. … Continue reading

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Ecocho: Google says "No"

I was meaning to write a post last week about the newly launched Ecocho.com as I had another of those “Why didn’t I think of that?” moments. Ecocho combine Google and Yahoo sponsored search listings, and allows people to search … Continue reading

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How often do people click on first page search results?

Don’t scratch your head any more. iProspect has just released a study on all the meaty information you’ve been asking yourself. It’s no surprise to learn that people don’t go past the first page, but it is interesting to note … Continue reading

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Flight Centre busted trying to trick search engines

At last weeks SMX in Sydney, two SEO experts stumbled across flightcentre.com.au cloaking their pages. Those naughty people had been presenting the search engines with different content to what was actually on some of the pages. Apparently the situation is … Continue reading

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