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SEO Questions

Three key questions to ask before signing up with an SEO…. Where do you get your links from? How soon can I expect to see results? Can you show me some happy customers? What do you think? Feel free to comment below.

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Moving a WordPress database

Here is a simple SQL statement to run on a WordPress database to move it from one domain name to another update wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid, ‘www.olddomainname.com’,'www.newdomainname.com’) WHERE guid REGEXP ‘www.olddomainname.com’; update wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, ‘www.olddomainname.com’,'www.newdomainname.com’) WHERE post_content REGEXP ‘www.olddomainname.com’; update wp_postmeta SET meta_value = REPLACE(meta_value, ‘www.olddomainname.com’,'www.newdomainname.com’) WHERE meta_value REGEXP ‘www.olddomainname.com

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New local listings in Google SERPs

Remember Google testing new layouts with local search SERPs earlier this year? It seems that Google is showing them again. This is what we saw an hour ago in Google.com.au:

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SEO Guide from Google

Google published a new SEO Starter Guide which you can download here. Among other things the guide discusses: creating good page titles (Google recommends putting keywords in your titles, as long as you don’t overdo it) improving site structure optimising your internal and external links (by including relevant keywords in the anchor text) using robots.txt [...]

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10 Australian Directories (get free Aussie links)

A relatively easy way of acquiring some free links to your website is submitting it to online directories. Directories vary in quality and automated mass-submissions to hundreds of low quality directories usually won’t help your rankings. Submitting your website to a few good quality directories on the other hand is worth the effort. We’ve hand-picked [...]

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Microsoft shows off new Bing

Last week Microsoft demonstrated an IE9-enhanced version of Bing and we have to say it looks impressive. The new version of Microsoft’s search engine takes advantage of HTML 5 and Internet Explorer 9 capabilities. Some of the new features in Bing Users experience smooth transitions between the search page, results and filtering results The search [...]

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Indian Outsource SEO Spam

We’re being spammed many times lots of Indian Outsource SEO or Outsource Web Development companies. Not only do we get countless emails but we also now get quite a lot of form submissions. One particular Indian Outsource company that wants us to outsource SEO and Web Development work to them claims that they already work [...]

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WordPress SEO tweak

One little update to my WordPress SEO blog post way back in November 2009 is that you should update the settings in your blog to automatically notify Google’s blog search when new posts appear. To do this… Log in to the WordPress admin area Go to Settings > Writing Scroll down to the “update services” [...]

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Time Saving Social Media Marketing

Social Media in essence is about making and maintaining connections. To do it well, you have to use it regularly. Trying to frequently update your blog(s), Facebook account, LinkedIn account, posting YouTube videos and Tweeting about all this can be a daunting task. Take courage – we have a few tips for you to promote [...]

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Google Places Short URLs

Excellent hat-tip to Google’s new web address structure for Google Places. I emailed someone a link to our Google Places page last night and this was the link… http://maps.google.com.au/maps/place?cid=2896144888086337399&q=matter+solutions&hl=en&cd=1&ei=YdV9TIaQJ4aukAXQl5zUCA&dtab=2&pcsi=2896144888086337399,1&geocode=FehnYP4dsA4gCQ&sll=-27.236376,153.095856&sspn=0.071946,0.071946&ie=UTF8&ll=-27.137674,152.980843&spn=0,0&z=12&iwloc=A Now this morning its a really friendly and well structured web address… http://maps.google.com.au/places/au/margate/windsor-st/17/-matter-solutions?hl=eng This will make the whole process simple for everyone :) If you’re not [...]

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