SEO Articles

There are Google places address verification issues when it comes to commercial addresses. When you first sign up directly with Google places for commercial addresses, Google sends a post card to that address to help verify that the address is valid. However there are a number of commercial addresses that don't have NZ Post service. If you don't have a letter box and for many commercial... > Read more

One of my website hosts moved their servers, and in doing so, messed up the ns1/ns2 name servers for a number of domains. When I tried to access the domain in New Zealand, the browser reported that the name server could not be found. But when I accessed the domain via a USA Proxy, I could see... > Read more

How soon are you able to transfer a domain after purchasing it? I have been purchasing a few domains recently, and then wanting to transfer them to another register shortly after initial purchase. I like to have all my domains at the same registrar, and hostingdirect has good prices. However,... > Read more

Consider the following for getting better Google Places rankings: fill in all the details on your google places account make sure you have a finda.co.nz listing, and have filled in all the fields (New Zealand) - or the equivalent for other countries make a custom map, and include reference to... > Read more

Sundays presentations at Wellington WordCamp 2011 Te Papa. Jason, Miraz & Jo - Inside WP – Intro & refresher Remember the Screen Options on edit post/page. You can select which items show on the screen. Yoast has some great plugins - Yoast SEO WordPress - just had a look at the... > Read more

Wow, CafeNET is outstandingly fast! I am at WordCamp 2011 Te Papa, Wellington and enjoying the outstandingly fast internet connection that CafeNET is providing as part of its sponsorship of the conference. I did a speedtest, and got the following results: - 15828 upload - I get around 5000 in... > Read more

A moment by moment blogging of the speakers and my thoughts at the WordCamp Wellington 2011. I am one of the speakers My SEO presentation My sales pitch - see us for your linking work Speaker Photos on Flickr Notes of Day one The twitter wordcamp 2011 list The finale - uks... > Read more

What is our pricing structure, and what are our linking strategies? Please see two new pages that I have created in the main menu structure of the website: Pricing Linking strategies In the past, I have not publicised my pricing or the details about the linking strategies that we use.... > Read more

SearchMasters has won New Zealand's first Search Engine Optimisation challenge. After three months hard effort getting other websites to link to the competition entry, my efforts have proven to be better than over 50 other competitors. The competition has been all about linking. Who has access... > Read more

A phone call from Google????!!!! Wow!!! I operate Time2Dine, online restaurant booking, and Google phoned me a moment ago so they could get photos of my "restaurant". They are updating Google places and including photos of restaurants. Congratulations Google. Well done on working hard... > Read more

When you log into webmaster tools, you are able to "out websites for hidden links" and other black hat spam. This has the potential of getting sites that contain hidden links to be... > Read more

What are the tools for tracking linking strategies of competitors? Google's searches show the latest pages added to its index with the following qualifiers: # Any time # Latest # Past 24... > Read more

SearchMasters has won the inaugural New Zealand Search Engine Competition for the phrase "QuadraCentifiable". The competition ran from 19 August to 28 November 2010. As at 31 August... > Read more

Who is the best at SEO in New Zealand. An NZ SEO Competition has started today, and I have started a new domain NZ NZ SEO Challenge for the competition. Actually, it's not who is the best, but... > Read more

Live Blog of WordCamp Auckland This page was updated throughout the day. I have been part of the WordCamp Auckland August 2010 Business Time and Developer sessions. I had a slot in the day... > Read more

How much traffic will top of Google get? Update 26/10/11 How much traffic will top ten get you - SearchNewz.com From 2nd to 1st - 10.05% to 18.2% - 81% increase From 3rd to 2nd -... > Read more

Feeling lost, let God find you. A music video from my friend Craig Thompson. In the business of SEO and web development you come across all sorts. I have worked with Craig Thompson in the USA for... > Read more

I have a lot of respect for Eric Enge and he has put together a great summary of a technical interview with Matt Cutts about Crawling and Indexing. I will highlight a few points below, but the... > Read more

What bias is there in Google search results to the country you are searching from? My findings are that there is not only a country bias in Google search results, but there is a regional bias. In... > Read more

Fickle Google! Competitive search phrases are not easy to maintain high rankings for given the fickleness of Google. Basic SEO is easy. Just get the right words onto the page, and have the... > Read more