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The TOP Websites for 2011

The Google List for the 1000 most visited sites in the world (to July 2011) has been released. Interestingly Google have excluded their search engine from the results.
Whilst there are a few surprises (eg Twitter at no. 15) the list contains the usual heavy hitters which all have one obvious common denominator. They all provide [...]

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Telemarketing Scam NK6Q55RH6Y6J

I’m sure most business owners are in the same boat as me when it comes to being rung up at least once a day with various offers of Internet Advertising. Most of these calls come from overseas and sadly most of the offers are totally bogus and simply designed to part you with your very [...]

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So You Think You Spend a Lot on Adwords

The top 10 Google Adwords clients spent a total of 44 million dollars between them for the month of June 2010. That’s close enough to $150,000 per advertiser per day.
Topping the top 10 list with a US$8 million spend was AT&T Mobility the US mobile phone giant. Bringing up the rear at number 10 was [...]

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How Important is the LOAD TIME of your Website??

How often do you go to a website and sit there waiting for it to display on your screen? And waiting and waiting and waiting……….
Chances are that website is either;

Badly designed
Is hosted on an inferior or overloaded server
Has photos which use up way too much ram
Has some arty farty flash presentation which needs too much [...]

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Why is EMAIL so important to your business?

“Of the 9 million+ Australians using the internet every day over half of them are looking for a product or service in their local area. It is a very safe assumption that a percentage of these people will use EMAIL to contact the business(s) of their choice. You as a business person owe it to [...]

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Google Tricks, Tools & Time Savers

Google not only performs search. Here are a few other nifty things you can do with Google. What’s your favourite?

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Why You Should Use Twitter, Facebook & YouTube

When I suggest to my clients that they use Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for their business I almost always get the same reply…. “I know I should but I just don’t have the time”.
Being in business myself I totally understand and empathise with that answer but that doesn’t make it right.
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are [...]

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What Is A Google Page Rank & Why Is It Important?

Google co-founder Larry Page gave his name to a system which allocates a score between Nothing and Ten to every webpage on the internet. This is known as PageRank and is a very useful measuring tool in determining the online importance and impact of any website / webpage.
When the Google Spider (robot) visits a website [...]

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Why Do Google Search Results Vary?

Often when we search for a product or service on Google our search results will vary to exactly the same search on someone else’s computer.
For instance if I search for A Melbourne Electrician I get an organic result (left hand side of the page, not “sponsored links”) for a No BS SEO client at number [...]

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Why Are Links So Important?

It is no secret that search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing place a great deal of importance on the number of RELEVANT links pointing to your website. This in turn is a major factor in a search engine determining the importance of your website and therefore how high in the search results your website [...]

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You Tube….. Just Film It!

Can you believe that just ONE You Tube video was watched over 120 million times during 2009? Another 36 million times and yet another over 33 million times.
You Tube was the 3rd most popular website visited by Australians in 2009 and guess what? Most businesses DON’T have a presence on it. In fact only 2.7% [...]

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Top Websites Visited By Australians 2009

What are the top 50 Websites visited by Australians in 2009?

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Why Do We Need SEO Consultants?

SEO consultants are a bit like political lobbyists.

Just like political lobbyists who know who to approach and what to say, SEO consultants (good ones that is) know what you need on your website to make it more search engine friendly than your competitors website.

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