Search Engine Optimisation articles is a place for my Search Engine Optimisation musings. Where the seminars tell you how success is achieved with all the detail, the SEO articles give you peeks at the detail. The SEO Articles show you glimpses of the Search Engine World Domination you could achieve for your websites niche.
Search Engine Optimisation Articles (or for the American spellers Search Engine Optimization articles) - Case studies, latest Search Engine Happenings, and insights into the world of SEO.
Enjoy the journey.
QuadraCentifiable
The battle lines are drawn to rank for QuadraCentifiable, the New Zealand SEO Competition phrase sent via txt message on the morning of 31 August 2010. SearchMasters entry NZSEOChallenge.co.nz has been getting incoming links over the past days. It will be interesting to see whose Challenge Entry will rank top on the end of the first day. I consider that this post will rank high, as will...
7 CommentsNZ SEO Competition
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 rather who is the best at gathering community support, and coming up with a links strategy that will get them top. The sponsor for the SEO Challenge is Adam Hutchinson of Fried.co.nz Online Idea...
WordCamp Auckland
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 talking about three simple secrets of Search Engine Optimisation. See the full wordcamp 2010...
How much traffic will top of Google get
How much traffic will top of Google get? An advertising network Chitika published results of traffic into its network, and found some interesting numbers as to amount of traffic each position gets from Google. From second (17%) to first (34%) ought to get you twice the traffic. From third (11%)...
I am Found
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 a number of years on his many websites. He has just released a music video "I am Found"...
Technical Interview with Matt Cutts - Crawling and Indexing
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 full article referenced above is well worth a detailed read. Matt Cutts quotes: Matt Cutts:...
Country bias in Google Search Results
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 New Zealand results from both Google.co.nz, and on Google.com as seen from New Zealand, I found a...
Fickle Google
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 website SEO friendly with plenty of links coming into the domain. I do that to many websites and get...
'Paid Links' can reduce Google PR
Paid links can reduce Google PR. Removal of paid links followed by a reinclusion request can get PR back to what it should be - all within 7 days!. Case Study - SLAMXHYPE I recently consulted with SLAMXHYPE for SEO of their mens fashion website. Part of the SEO question was why their Google...
Backlinks can go stale
Matt Cutts says that backlinks can go stale. Matt Cutts said... "In order to prevent things from becoming stale, we tend to use the current link graph, rather than a link graph of all of time," Matt Cutts (Google employee and unofficial SEO spokesperson) was replying to a...
Google Personalised Search
How well does your websites pages rank on Google? Google Personalised Search has gone the next step, introducing personalised search results even for not logged on users. When you are manually...
Christchurch Motels - 162 Kings of Riccarton - SEO Case Study
The hotel industry is intensely competitive, and it is not easy to get websites ranked high for Motel/Hotel related phrases. An SEO case study for 162 Kings of Riccarton Motel. 162 Kings of...
Google Side Wiki
Google side wiki - Did you know that people can publicly comment in html enabled notes attached to your website? When you have the latest Google toolbar installed, you can click to see...
SEO of News websites - BBC makes changes
SEO of news websites is interesting. Headlines and intros need to be catchy and short for readers, yet they are generally too short, and don't properly include search phrases. The BBC has...
Public Relations Agency - ImpactPR - SEO Case Study
Impact PR is an Auckland Public Relations agency whose aim is to utilise the press to bring clients to the mind of their target consumer. Part of that exercise is to bring their own Impact PR...
Public Relations Agency, Alexander Communications, SEO Case Study
Alexander Communications is an Auckland Public Relations Agency right in the middle of the web 2.0 movement. Reputation management has become ever so much more, how you manage your...
Maten Floral Design - Auckland Florists - SEO Case Study
Maten Floral Design is a leading Auckland Florist. In a Consumer Magazine survey of a number of online Florists (April 2009), Maten rated the highest 95%. I like Search Engine Optimising...
More international sites in country top ten
I have noticed more international results in the top ten of Google.co.nz recently. I have surmised that Google has been reducing the country bias on Google country searches. I have noticed that for...
The Elliott Hotel - SEO Case Study
Experience the olde charm of The Elliott Hotel - Auckland Hotels. The Elliott Hotel sits in the heart of the Auckland CBD, right next to the Civic Theatre, SkyCity, and The Edge Aotea Centre....
Link nofollow changes
June 2009 is the month for cat out of the bag with use of rel=nofollow on page links. Link nofollow changes were made over a year ago in the algo, but not specifically talked about till now by...
Business Development - yBC - SEO Case Study - 11 Apr 09
Jooma SEO Case Study - 11 Apr 09
Why have xml sitemaps? - 1 Apr 09
Metropolitan Christchurch Motel SEO Case Study - 27 Mar 09
Loans 2 Go Case Study - 25 Mar 09
Google titbits Feb 2009 - 25 Feb 09
Jekz Shoes SEO Case Study - 24 Feb 09
Bounces can be Good - Google should repent for its half story - 18 Feb 09
Website Geographic Targeting - 14 Feb 09
Clearing Apache Log Files - 12 Feb 09
Affiliate Marketing Programs - 5 Feb 09
Econergy Heat Pump Water Heaters SEO Case Study - 20 Jan 09
Healthaire Heat Pumps SEO Case Study - 15 Jan 09
mysql - CREATE VIEW command denied to user - 2 Nov 08
Revize Corneal Refractive Therapy - SEO Case Study - 16 Oct 08
Septic Tanks - Dave Miller SEO Case Study - 30 Sep 08
To the top is not instantaneous - be patient - 25 Sep 08
7 SEO Basics - 24 Sep 08
Deer Velvet - Canes Deer Products - SEO Case Study - 23 Sep 08
