I’ve been playing a lot more with social media lately and although I have read it many times before, it never really hit-home until I had personally experienced it. SEO, Social Media (and unfortunately most things in this world) is very-much a popularity contest.
Celebrity Endorsement
Most major companies will pay good money to have celebrities [...]
Author Archive for Pete
Some clarification about maintaining your rankings
Published by January 24th, 2008 in SEO. 3 CommentsYesterday I wrote a post on Maintaining Your Rankings which attracted the attention of a friend and local ‘old school’ SEO Ben Wilks.
In Ben’s post he states:
Now I am not ripping into Pete too far here, but I disagree with his advice. What scares me is the fact that nobody has pulled him up [...]
I got a call yesterday from a disgruntled gentleman who explained that about a year ago they had some extensive SEO work performed on their website. Since then they hadn’t done anything wrong, but they were no longer ranking at the top. After doing a few checks, the client was right – their site [...]
As I was flicking through the lifestyle section of my weekend newspaper, I noticed an article titled Get Ready For Love. The first paragraph read:
Have you been blaming your non-existent love life on commitment phobics, obsessive types, or the fact that you just haven’t met “the one” – when it could just be that [...]
At a business networking function towards the end of last year, I met a woman who was promoting a charity cook book designed to raise money for premature babies at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital.
The One-Armed Cookbook is a collection of easy recipes (supplied by friends, family, chefs and even a few celebrities) specifically [...]
Google Updates, Penalties and Filters – A Walk Down Memory Lane
Published by January 15th, 2008 in Google. 2 CommentsGoogle have been pretty busy with updates lately and when there are updates, you can be sure to find penalties and filters being applied.
Over the past few years, Google has had many algorithm updates, data refreshes and toolbar updates… here’s the list I’ve been able to compile from the past few years:
Florida (Algorithm Update November/December [...]
Recently Wiep Knol compiled a great document about Link Value Factors. Basically the document contains the views of many well respected SEOs on the topic of link building – and more specifically which factors are most and least important.
This is yet another great SEO resource, but when reading through it, I couldn’t help but [...]
Does your website have a menu with nice shinny buttons that are images? If this is the case, those buttons / menu items probably contain text that you and I can understand, but because it’s in image (JPG, GIF or PNG) format, the search engines will have no idea about how to read it.
Even [...]
A few weeks ago the Problogger community reviewed the SiteMost blog.
Plenty of great suggestions and advice were provided by the community, so as my New Years Resolution, I’ll be making many changes and improvements to this blog over the coming weeks.
To keep tabs on the updates and to pay homage to those who offered suggestions [...]
SEO is not for everyone… Wait a minute – YES IT IS
Published by January 2nd, 2008 in SEO. 4 CommentsI read a lot of blogs and at times I get behind on my readings. To keep on top of things, I’ll often skim through posts without really reading them properly, and later I go back through the posts that seemed pretty good when I have more time.
In my recent skimming I noticed a [...]
