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May, 2013

Ben Maden

Does Having Local Hosting Help Your SEO?

Despite being deathly ill with some child brewed illness I can’t help but offer advice when I see people with the wrong ideas and on an email list I’m a part of I came across someone earlier today in that category. They claimed that the miniscule page speed improvements you get from having a hosting  Read more

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The MozCon Experience

Mozcon 2013 is coming. Why is that exciting? Mozcon 2012 changed everything for me. I mean EVERYTHING. I’ve been a pro-member of SEOmoz for 3+ years, something of a lurker, paying attention, learning while not being very noisy, applying what I learned and being rewarded with results for us and our clients. There is much  Read more

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WordCamp Melbourne coming up fast!

Where did all that time go? It seems like quite a while since Matter Solutions decided to be a community sponsor of WordCamp Melbourne 2013. If you haven’t got your ticket already get to it and I’ll see you there, 27-28th April 2013 I’m really excited to see the WordCamp website filling up with some  Read more

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A short blog post about War and Peace

I’ve been looking around at some tools for considering, comparing and analysing keywords and came across something interesting. The ngrams from Google are the result of a quite magnificent project to collect data on the occurrence of words in “lots of books”. The ngram viewer tool plots lines on a chart showing the growth and  Read more

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Microsoft Outlook vs Google Apps

As Google Apps Resellers here in Brisbane we spend time talking to businesses about their email. We understand and respect existing IT service providers who have and continue to support Microsoft Exchange and Outlook for a wide range of our website design clients but we’ve found in most instances that business of all sizes can  Read more

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When The Chips Are Down Can You Be Awesome?

I don’t know where I heard it but something that has stuck with me forever has been the idea than any business can be great, a winner, successful when everything goes well but we all know life (and technology) is changing all the time and those changes mean mistakes happen. 300 years ago Alexander Pope  Read more

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MSapp Database Upgraded

Clients and past SEO training attendees who use our MSapp system will notice some speed improvements as the platform has been seriously upgraded this morning. For those of you who like website technologies and cloud hosting infrastructure read on. The entire platform was contained inside one (rather beefy) dedicated server, i.e. website, database and all  Read more

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Ben’s predictions for 2013.

My team are 100% correct in their predictions about future in their tactical areas of expertise… Steve’s predictions on Web Design: Mobile to Responsive, Retina displays, End of Flash & Location Centric Website Design Stacey’s prediction about Marketing Strategy being at the heart of good digital marketing Selina’s highlight of marketing in real-time to mobile  Read more

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How Google has changed job interviews….

Plato said… "The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. You give your disciples not truth but only the semblance of truth; they will be heroes of many things, and will  Read more

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Inbound Marketing Presentation for Brisbane Web Design

Ben is about to start his talk on Inbound Marketing for Web Developers. To get the slides click here. Inbound marketing is a hot topic in SEO at the moment, but how is it relevant for web designers and developers? What exactly is inbound marketing? Inbound marketing is the marketing practise of “earning the attention  Read more

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