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Are you suffering from 'Personalised Search Results on Google'???? Many clients complain about their search results, only to find that their search results have been personalised to rank their competitors higher because they are checking up on their competitors so often. Search Results are personalised in either of two ways: You are signed into Google - history may be turned on, or search... > Read more

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Google places rankings are being more tied to organic placement than previously with one of the many ongoing changes in Google's algorithm. Per pagetrafficbuzz Google confirms panda 3.3 Quoting Google, “Improvements to ranking for local search results. [launch codename... > Read more

I have a number of clients that are wanting to target Chinese in China on the search engines. I have therefore needed to know "what search engine do Chinese use" If you go to google.cn, you get a page that when clicked on, goes to Google.com.hk. Therefore pages geotargeted to Hong... > Read more

I have just written an email reply to a client where they asked "whether they should keep a domain name. If a domain name is parked, or you have changed brands and have no further need for it, should you keep a domain name for ever? If you are to have any domain name: Keep it for domain... > Read more

I often get asked what is the best Google Analytics setup Strategy. Or I see that web developers have setup Google analytics for their clients using their own web developer account. Google analytics The new Google asynchronous code is able to be put into the head of the html The old analytics... > Read more

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... > 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... > 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... > 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... > 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... > 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... > 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