Ever been listening to your iPod (or your chosen brand of MP3 player) and a series of seemingly random tracks come-on that relate directly to what you’re doing or thinking?
Sometimes we’ll shrug it off and think it’s just co-incidental, other people may use these songs as a “sign” that they should (or shouldn’t) do something… [...]
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Networx Panel – Updated Info on ‘How to win links and influence people’
Published by June 23rd, 2009 in Blogging, Link Building and Social Media. 0 CommentsThe Networx Marketing SEO panel on link building is now over and Matt, Andy and I have done our part in (hopefully) educating a group of Brisbane business-people on how links work, why they’re important, linkbait, content, keywords, anchor text, social media and different ways to potentially gain links for their websites.
Well, not all the [...]
Networx Panel – How to win links and influence people
Published by June 22nd, 2009 in Link Building. 1 CommentThis-evening I’ll be speaking on the topic of links at a Brisbane Networking function. So in preparation, I’ve put together some notes on the things I’d like to cover. I don’t know if the questions on-the-night will allow me to cover each of these topics, so if there are changes, I’ll be back [...]
Where have we been? Everywhere but here…
Published by June 18th, 2009 in Blogging and Link Building. 2 CommentsThe SiteMost blog has been a bit quiet lately although that doesn’t mean we’ve been quiet – in fact we’ve been doing things all over the internet, just not on the blog here.
The rest of this post is a run-down of what we’ve been up to lately and doesn’t contain any proper SEO-related [...]
How to appeal to web users with a shorter attention span than a goldfish
Published by April 1st, 2009 in Usability and Web Development. 1 CommentJust before composing this post, I was flicking through YouTube. As always, I went looking for a particular clip and before I knew it, half my morning was gone. Yet despite clicking on a lot of videos, I only really watched the start, perhaps a minute or two, before being distracted by another [...]
When you compete in a running race, there’s a few things that we generally assume:
You have a functional set of legs and an understanding of how to use them
You have (at the very least) a reasonable level of fitness
And it helps if you’ve done some training and/or other preparation for the big race
None of the [...]
Social Media – The Rube Goldberg Machine of the Web
Published by March 16th, 2009 in Social Media. 1 CommentI’m a big fan of Rube Goldberg and his convoluted machines that would trigger dozens of tiny processes to perform a very simple task.
When chatting with a friend recently, it made me realise that social media works in a very similar way to a Rube Goldberg Machine.
Before I explain the relationship between the [...]
Often when we think about the concept of link building, we usually consider things like – contacting relevant websites and seeing if they’d be interested in give you a link, submitting to directories, purchasing ‘editorial endorsements’, creating articles or other topical pieces of content for linkbait etc. etc.
But there’s a whole world of offline linking [...]
This is just a quick note to advise that SiteMost’s Brisbane SEO Blog is moving to a slightly different location (instead of the URL being http://blog.sitemost.com.au, it will now be http://www.sitemost.com.au/blog ).
We’ve been meaning to do this for sometime, so we figured now was as good a time as ever.
Hopefully the change-over should [...]
The blurred line between what is SEO and what isn’t
Published by February 26th, 2009 in Blogging, Marketing, SEO, Social Media, Usability and Web Development. 2 CommentsJust read an interesting post on Ben Wilks’ Blog about SEO and Social Media.
Basically Ben comments on a thread over at WMW which indicates that social media is a waste of time and doesn’t yield a great deal of SEO value.
I both agree and disagree with this.
But before continuing, it’s important to understand what [...]
