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I have been considering the use of Social Bookmarking for links and traffic. It is becoming hard to obtain links. And there is not necessarily that much traffic through Google for any one group of search phrases. What other methods are there of getting the message out there? The whole social media sphere is a hot topic these days. Vast numbers of people are spending more time trolling through... > Read more

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When you next plan for a holiday, consider Holiday Homes in New Zealand rather than a hotel or camping ground. In fact, I am planning a midyear holiday and might just use the site for obtaining some accommodation. An impressive website I am most impressed with the New Zealand Holiday Homes... > Read more

Original post 8 Sep 07-Updated 12 Feb 08-see posted reply Google hates paid links - per the Paid Link Search Engine Strategy presentation by Matt Cutts San Jose Aug 21, 2007 Buying paid links that pass PageRank violates our quality guidelines Paid PageRank-Passing (PPP) links Google is... > Read more

How to write for SEO - three simple secrets I run an SEO course SEO101, where I teach Three Simple Secrets of SEO: Search Phrase Selection Search phrases added to the Head of an html page Search phrases added to the content The next SEO training course is being held on Monday 19th May 2008,... > Read more

Writing for SEO - I am getting annoyed! Websites are copying my websites text, and my clients websites are being dropped by Google. It is making it very hard to have good writing for SEO. You have to do your best, then weeks later change the text, and again, and again. What you think is good... > Read more

Just how popular is Google??? Google's popularity as the worlds search engine of choice, continues to climb. (Updated based on November 2007 results compared to my May 2007 article that reported on April 2007 results) For USA users, comScore reports the November 2007 US Search Engine... > Read more

Updated: There is often a need for Google Analytics tracking between domains. Between your website, and a third party secure server that you are able to add code to, or maybe another secure server in your group of websites. There is new Google analytics code as at January 2008. Please see the... > Read more

How do you market a new innovative Ladder Accessories product? The Stabilad is a simple but effective add-on to the top of an aluminium ladder. It transforms the safety and ease of using extension ladders. Click through to find out how you can enhance your ladder safety with this inexpensive... > Read more

SearchMasters is likely to expand in the new year, so finding some SEO interview questions is all good, or is it? My problem with such SEO interview questions, is that I am unlikely to find ANYONE who is good enough to answer many satisfactorily. It is far easier to hire people that have the... > Read more

Part of my job is training other Web Developers. Beacon Construction is an Auckland renovations specialist. An Auckland Building Company specialising in renovating homes on the North Shore Auckland. Etienne Le Sueur of Jet-age.co.nz had been asked to optimise the website, and needed some help.... > Read more

Google supplemental results are no more. Google announced on its Webmaster Central Blog 20/12/07- The ultimate fate of supplemental results, that they are now searching the whole index for each... > Read more

How do you handle your online brand reputation? I subscribe to Small Business Newz from ientrynetwork.net and got the following article. I have reproduced it in its entirety... maybe not the best... > Read more

An algo change has occurred with the SEO of Subdomains v Domains. Matt Cutts posted 10 December 2007 that subdomains were less likely to show up for a search where they were competing for the same... > Read more

What does SearchMasters look like? What will it look like a year from now? I have been sitting on this article for several months. Since its now the end of the year, its an appropriate time to do... > Read more

Lake Ridge Condos are Luxury Queenstown Apartments. They getting good traffic from Google Adwords advertising, but had little traffic from the organic results on Google. With a view over the lake... > Read more

I wrote an article in August about How to Kick a website out of Google. The SearchMasters page has been top of Google for that phrase. As a duplicate content experiment, I have now created a copy... > Read more

How does Google Geographic Targeting work??? There is a new Google webmaster tool that allows you to Geographically target your website to users of a particular country, or area within that... > Read more

How easy is it to rank for Production Services New Zealand on Google? How easy is it to rank for the other orientation - New Zealand Production Services??? With a few tweaks on the home page... > Read more

Google is lowering the Green Bar on websites that are selling links - or so that seems to be the reason. The SEO blogging world is buzzing with the news. [26 October 2007]. And the official Google... > Read more

Webmasters now have more control over the Google Sitelinks that appear on top results for some websites (18 Oct 2007). While we are not able to tell Google what links we would like there... > Read more