Search Engine Optimisation Australia – 17/5/08

Posted on May 26, 2008 by

Still catching up on these, but am trying to only give out links to decent sites instead of just examples of what crap there is out there.

A Conversation with Euro RSCG SF’s Alan Burgis

Not a bad interview and an interesting take on advertising.

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Alrighty, I thought there was more, but I’d already written out that I wasn’t going to focus on the crap and that’s, unfortunately, all that’s left.

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Web Consulting Perth 17/5/08

Posted on May 26, 2008 by

Couple of interesting ones for an alert that’s a week or so old.  Honestly, these ones are decent value.

Your Business Website – What Should You Be Monitoring?

This one seems familiar, but that may be because the RealmSurfer guy has had a couple of articles picked up by the article networks and pasted absolutely everywhere.  This is okay though, because he, as the original author, is cool with it and is credited everywhere it appears.

Making Blogging Work for your Business

I’m loving this guy more and more and am taking notes on what he does with his site and his content every week.  I know that what he writes can seem like a lot of the same stuff that others put on their sites, content for content’s sake, but I admire the way he puts it out there without being condescending or openly pandering to search engines.  He just seems to be doing it the right way, and I respect that.

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Search Engine Optimisation – 17/5/08-23/5/08

Posted on May 23, 2008 by

Heaps of these during the week, but most are Faux Press Releases that are SEO firms trying to make their SEO all Latest Newsy sounding.

"Extra!  Extra!  SEO is defined as…" and so on.  It’s NOT News and shouldn’t be treated as such.  I click and read because I love surprises.  Sadly though, I rarely if ever get any.

Do you have Search Engine Optimisation to promote your business??

The only thing funnier than this one trying to pass itself off as relevant is that the ad below it was for "Chinese Ladies for Marriage".  Classic!

"Hmm, this article about how businesses use something called… SEO, to promote their businesses online is great… and hot damn, I’ve been looking to marry a Chinese Lady all these years and here’s an ad right THERE!"

See last article about SPAM and how I feel about it.  "Chinese Ladies for Marriage" is going to be my new "Spammers all carry used band-aids and dead mice in their pockets" catch-phrase.

Search Engine Optimization (Optimisation)

If you’re going to use blog posts to amp up your SEO efforts (like I am right NOW) then at least be honest about it (like I am RIGHT NOW).

Flash – SEO Optimisation

Nice.  Finally, short and sweet and relevant and useful.  I’ve read this blog for a while now, off and on, and JustSearch seems pretty legit to me.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in Internet Marketing

Despite the fact that abdulkaremsblog6933 is an old friend of mine from WAY back (we’re tight, so I’m allowed to call him "abdulsblog6933") I find that there is a proliferation lately of stolen content.  The only reason I click on sites like this is to grab some unique-sounding content, chuck it into Google, and see how many sites show up with it on there.

Mayhap I’m a touch sensitive after a former employer came onto a popular forum the other month with tales of the "Mission Statement" being used a competing firm’s site.  Since I helped write that copy, I became suitable defensive, and then found that sites from Michigan to Bangalore had all stolen this content.  Brutal.

‘Course, nowadays I’d probably be a bit flattered before I’d get angry about it.  Maybe I’m growing up after all.

Search Engine Marketing – Search Engine Optimization is Important

Despite the glowing obviousness of that statement, I did the same thing with this article.  Grabbed some, Googled it, and saw how many sites have it.  Not many, but still enough to make one wonder if it’s even worth facing duplicate content penalties (anymore, they just don’t index one of them).

Of course, one may wonder about duplicate content when I Googled parts of this article and still got 5 or 6 sites.  Does duplicate content even matter anymore?

Ah well, at least most of them credited the right guy with the article, even if he probably never okay’ed it’s usage.

The 10 instructions of Search Engine Optimization

My favourite part of this one is "Just getting high ranking is not the end of your make money journey".  I hate to come across like a snob, but the improper use of English cracks me the hell up.

Oh, and speaking of duplicate content, this article shows up roughly TWENTY TIMES in Google.

That seals it, I’m going out and getting some used band-aids and dead mice.  No more paying for sandwiches for me, no sir.

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Grrrr, I just lost a half-hours typing when I inadvertently bumped the touchpad on the laptop and then hit the Backspace button to delete a typo.  Don’t do that.  It sucks.

And NO, I’m not writing it again, though I should because there was some awesomely witty and relevant writing in there.  Poo.

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I’m off on my make money journey.  Have a good site.

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Web Analytics Australia – 17/5/08-23/5/08

Posted on May 23, 2008 by

This one seems to get lots of miss-hits, so we’ll see what it has for the week or so.

The credit card-terrorism connection

This is another one that’s just funny.  The same title came through in the same alert linking to something like dodgyashell.blogspot.com or some such, and Surprise! it was already taken down.

SPAM is still funny to me, because it’s somehow still worth it to these people to do this kind of crap.  Somehow, they still think it works.  It’s almost like the guy that’s always carrying around a used band-aid or dead mouse, to handily stick in his sandwich so he can make a scene and not pay for his lunch.

Sure, he gets free lunch all the time, but at what actual cost?

Spammers, to me, are a bunch of band-aid and dead mouse carrying freeloaders.

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Sadly, that’s about it for this particular alert.  A half-dozen emails filled with links to news releases about this and that, but nothing about actual Web Analytics.

Ah well, I got to rant about SPAM, so that was good.

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Internet Marketing Australia – 17/5/08-22/5/08

Posted on May 23, 2008 by

I guess a lot of these make it up here for no other reason than they’re funny.

Me, A Consultant?

Not sure how this one got indexed, but click on it and you get a login screen.  I find that funny.  I actually would’ve read it though…

Angry filmmaker spills the beans on The Secret

Not sure how this made it into my alert, but it’s still kind of funny.  The guy who tries to tell us that the Universe gives us stuff if we think about it hard enough claims he had his idea stolen from him.  Hilarity ensues.

Is ‘Australian Music In Tune’?

Again, why is this here?  Not necessarily because it’s funny, but it showed up in my alert and I found it interesting that it ends with "give music away".  Rock on brother!

Are You Helping Your Kids Develop Their Own Financial Independance?

Far… Out.  She’s encouraging her kids to develop their affiliate marketing skills early?

I can only wonder how my life would’ve turned out differently if I’d have had this kind of parenting.

I gotta run now, time to brush up the 7-year old on the use of header tags.  Not before I get the 5-year old back on to proper alt tags, she’s so lazy I swear.  The baby is still working on her vidblog, but hey, she’s barely a year old, give her a break.

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