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Reasons to choose Aussie web hosting

14 hours ago

Are you running an Aussie business? Are your customers also located in this country? If so, here's why your website should be hosted in Australia, not overseas:More >>

Why speed is more important than ever

May 30th

Now that Google considers page load speed to be an important quality score indicator, how will your small business be affected?More >>

A brief introduction to Google Places

Apr 27th

Recently I was asked by a mate of mine why I thought submitting his business to Google was worth doing. Watch this two minute promo to find out why every small business should register their online profile right now: Google places used to be known as local business center, but irrespective of the recent name change, it offers tremendous marketing value to all small businesses looking to attract more customers. If you haven't registered your business yet, then you need to get a move on.More >>

Google improvements for home based businesses

Apr 1st

Here's some great news if you're a service based business and working from home.More >>

Local business profile registration

Mar 28th

While there are millions of websites out there, as a small business owner you can still compete with the big boys when it comes to being found on the internet.More >>

The keywords meta tag is dead

Sep 28th

As some of us have been trying to tell folks for a number of years now, Google does not pay any attention to the keywords meta tag. Now you can hear it straight from Matt Cutts himself: Hopefully that settles it once and for all. So please stop stuffing your page headers with keywords just in case someone writes a brand new search engines which takes them into account.More >>

Google, as it was once

Apr 6th, 2009

The original Google beta home page, as of December 1998, and captured by the Wayback Machine snapshot:More >>

Microsoft's cashback and Yahoo

Jun 2nd, 2008

Microsoft recently announced that it's willing to pay people money for using their crappy search engine, provided the people buy something, and provided the people live in America.More >>

Live advertising on Google

Mar 17th, 2008

I just noticed that Live now advertise on Google. How peculiar that a Google's competitor would pay money to Google, just to have a user redirected back to its own search engine results page.More >>

Our visitors sure prefer Google

Feb 18th, 2008

Like almost all websites, the overwhelming majority of our visitors come to us via a search engine. Knowing that Google dominates, I was nevertheless curious to look at our own statistics, just to see to what extent.More >>

What do Dimmeys sell?

Dec 21st, 2007

This is what happens when you get your website builders to make your brand new website and they forget to change the content meta tags:More >>

Picasa XML template for Simpleton

Aug 18th, 2007

I have created a lightweight XML template for those of you using the Simpleton image viewer in conjunction with Picasa.More >>

Google moves into top gear

Jun 11th, 2007

Will Google's collection of business office tools, combined with their brand new offline web application technology, make the operating systems on our PC's irrelevant?More >>

Simpleton image viewer

May 23rd, 2007

Simpleton is an open source PHP application which enables you to view Picasa image galleries on the web, using nothing more than the Picasa XML web export feature and an FTP client.More >>

Search engine referrals

Jan 2nd, 2007

The other day I was looking at our website's stats to get an idea of search engine referral ratios. While I fully expected Google to win comprehensively, the actual figures based on the last 10,000 page views were certainly an eye-opener:More >>

Google loves blogs

Oct 23rd, 2006

If you want any proof that Google loves blogs, have a look at some specifics for our own website below:More >>

Searching for search engines?

Sep 16th, 2006

If you want proof that there's still a significant percentage of internet users who haven't bothered to learn even the basics of how to use their browser, look no further than the Wordtracker top keywords list:More >>

Google is now officially a verb

Jul 11th, 2006

According to the folks behind Merriam-Webster, google is now officially a verb, after having been submitted for consideration some three months ago. It's approved meaning is:More >>

Why every business needs a CMS

Jul 7th, 2006

According to Melbourne IT, while more than 90% of internet users get to websites via search engines, more than 50% of all Australian businesses who have a website cannot easily be found in a major search engine like Google.More >>

Windows Live? Hardly.

Jul 4th, 2006

It's been over three months since the launch of Windows Live, Microsoft's klutzy Google killer project. Like Google, Windows Live is offering personalisation of your homepage, with news, weather, mail, and (apparently) more.More >>

Google maps Australia, finally.

Jun 13th, 2006

Some fifteen months after it's announcement, Google Maps have finally got Australia covered. The new version of the API makes it a snap to add a customised interactive image map, such as this one, to your website.More >>

Hottest search engine optimization software?

Jun 2nd, 2006

That's what the people behind the RankAttack SEO Technology website claim anyway. Apparently, their aggressive technology (whatever that means) enables the overwhelming majority of webmasters to enjoy improved rankings with the search engines in a matter of just days. Yes, that's right, days. Not weeks, not months but days.More >>

Spamming search engines with invisible text

May 11th, 2006

Got some SMS spam from my current spouse telling me she found the chaise lounge she was (apparently) looking for and could she buy it while it was a bargain of a lifetime?.More >>

Is SEO overrated?

Apr 29th, 2006

For those who visit here regularly, my views on search engine optimisation techniques are pretty much known. Recently, I engaged in an online discussion in a forum thread which attempted to get different opinions on whether SEO was in fact overrated.More >>

Sony's stupid email patent

Apr 25th, 2006

I have to admit that I do enjoy getting stuck into Sony and their inferior software. According to US patent 7016940, Sony now own the exclusive right to make a piece of software which will:More >>

Infosys from the inside

Apr 3rd, 2006

I got a weblink sent to me by a friend, who suggested it would make a very good read, considering it appeared to be written by someone who either dislikes the infamous Indian outsourcing giant Infosys and still works there or dislikes the infamous Indian outsourcing giant Infosys and no longer works there.More >>

Where's your home page?

Feb 23rd, 2006

I got an email from a friend of mine who occasionally reads this blog. His comments about one aspect of this website, and my subsequent reply, were interesting enough for me want to use them as the basis for this blog entry.More >>

Google death sentence

Feb 13th, 2006

Now that BMW and Ricoh have been caught spamming the search engines and their German websites have been removed from the Google index, I hope that BMW and Ricoh sack those idiots who obviously thought that trying to fool the world's biggest search engine was a good idea.More >>