SEO
List of Australian Web Directories
As Google and the other search engines move towards localized search rankings I thought I’d share with you some of the better Australian web directories. Directories are still a good source of links back to your page when you are looking to optimize your page. Links from local directories help Google identify the market your website is trying to target. So if your business is Australian based and targeting Australia customers then you might want to look at these web, blog, travel and business directories.
Popularity: 50% [?]
Microsofts Google Adwords Strategy
The Google search engine and Google Adwords has transformed the way that businesses find customers. The Google Economy has created thousands of new businesses and jobs and billions of dollars in revenues each year. Now Microsoft is trying to get in on the search engine action with their own Search Engine Live.com. A month or so back I spotted an interesting and intelligent strategy Microsoft is adopting to try and take users away from Google.
Popularity: 44% [?]
The weeks wrap up
There are no naked pictures in this weeks post but I do expose a few other things. For those of you who are not easily intrigued this post will have at least one thing that will make you laugh or smile or your get your money back… (I know you are smirking at that bad joke, I’m watching you or at least your IP!) Please visit this site often, or at least more than you visit Rob Kingston’s site so my Alexa rank goes higher than his.
This article is full of the highest standard of professionalism and corporate etiquette and is written as eloquently as you would expect from a 17th century poet. I will also reveal why the world is round and the exact date the world will end… You really are hard to convince aren’t you, can’t you just read the post instead of insisting on hanging on my every word like it was law. I wish you would stop reading so I could stop writing, I’m telling you this is really a very professional and well written post of the highest quality, it even has pretty pictures… Not naked ones but I’m sure I could convince Peter Newsome or Ben Wilks it would be good for link bait so stay tuned on that front. Look I give up I’m not going to write forever, unless you are a beautiful women who wants to call me 27 times a day, a rich lady look for a toy boy or a millionaire wanting to send me an anonymous check with no strings attached you should read this post, otherwise if you are the fore mentioned you should visit my “contact me” page. Alright I’ve given up on you, you’re beyond my help!
Popularity: 79% [?]
More Search Engine Query Action
Last week I discussed the unique oddity of being ranked highly for both the search terms “best looking man” and “best looking site” while one of those rankings has increased, the other has moved off the first page. While I will turn my attention to ranking for more useful Brisbane Geo related keywords I thought it interesting to continue to share some of the keywords I am ranking and getting traffic for. I am sure you will be in for a few surprises as I was when I first discovered them so without further ado here they are.
Popularity: 79% [?]
Meeting with Peter Newsome
Last wednesday night I caught up with local Brisbane SEO Peter Newsome and local Brisbane Web Developer Nathan Ridley. Catching up with both was a great pleasure and I really enjoyed my conversations about our plans for world domination and grandeur with both of them. Peter is a very down to earth and grounded guy who is easily to get along with, Peter shared a few content creation gems that I will be utilizing a lot in the near future.
Popularity: 72% [?]
Hijacking Peter Newsome’s Name
This is a post about my unintentional hijacking of the keyword Peter Newsome in Google. Last week I just happened to make a post that exposed a revealing picture of Peter Newsome during his time off posting on his blog. You can see it here by reading the post below this one. Well it seems as per usual google dug the awesome content on this blog (to quote Ben Wilks) and decided to give me a double indented listing for the keyword “Peter Newsome”.
Since Peter and I have made an arrangement to partner together on some future SEO projects he is unlikely to be too upset but I thought it was funny to point out how this little blog is slowly aiding my quest for world domination more than I could ever have expected, one double indented listing at a time. For those of you not in the know double indented listings usually increase conversion by at least 200% and I currently as at the date of this post have the number two and three listings for Peter Newsome.
This post is mostly about being search engine friendly rather than Peter Newsome and I because we are not vein enough to think that you would be interested in reading about us.
Popularity: 76% [?]
What is Search Engine Optimization Really About?
I was reading the CEBIT site earlier today and it confirmed what I already knew, Search Engine Marketing is the fastest growing area of ICT. The simple fact is there are new incompetent Search Engine Optimization and Web Development firms starting every day. Even I receive the direct marketing materials that these start up firms are sending out. Good on them for engaging in aggressive marketing campaigns, I’m sure they are very effective. The sad thing is I have looked into a lot of these companies and a lot of them offer SEO and cannot even optimize their own web pages properly. Most of them offer web design and development and I can tell they are using web templates from Template Monster. Now I cannot do much more than basic web design, however I do not sell my services as a web designer. I do outsource web design projects and project manage them and I alway make sure I deliver more than I promise. Most of these new companies promise the world and deliver nothing!
End of Search Engine Optimization Company Rant
What is SEO really all about anyway? If you are just getting started, you probably think it’s about keyword research, optimization title tags, writing meta tags, producing great content and getting back links. That is what I used to think it was all about, now my view has been enlightened…
Popularity: 74% [?]
Brisbane Seo - The Amazing Race
Welcome to the new PeterLaurent.com web page. Today we are going to talk about Search Engine Optimization companies and which ones you can trust to turn up your profits and which will just waste your money. SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the process of successfully increasing the amount of traffic a website gets from search engines, optimizing conversation and increasing sales.
When I first started working in Search Engine Optimization it was a bit of a steep learning curve for me. The original domains I purchased such as powerfulattraction.com had no value Domain value. While that domain may eventually be very lucrative for myself or another end user in has no intrinsic value in terms of being keyword loaded, a great traffic source or SEO friendly. The best and most SEO friendly domains are those dot coms or dot com.au’s which have the highest traffic search volumes for consumers willing to spent money.
That is why I find it hard to believe several so called Brisbane SEO firms are optimizing their web pages for keywords like “SEO Brisbane” and “Brisbane SEO.” These keywords have little or no traffic volume, yet these so called SEO experts are optimizing for them.
Popularity: 83% [?]
