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Google Penalizing Interflora & UK Newspapers Googles on the war path. Cutts wrote: Please be wary if someone approaches you and wants to pay you for links or “advertorial” pages on your site that pass PageRank. Selling links (or entire advertorial pages with...

Google updates - January Google released a major update for backlinks. No longer can you just make links for keywords. This looks to spammy to Google. They require a more rounded approach. For every 100 links built, you should build the following: 18 links with anchor...

That's right we re-branded! I recently had some time to look at my site and realised that I haven't made any major changes in over 2 years.I asked myself the standard branding questions: Is Tyranny memorable? Yes Is Tyranny easy to pronounce? Most of the time Is...

Do you know the 80/20 rule? 80% of your business comes from your top 20% of your customers? Well I didn't!For me I think it's more like 40/40. I don't have an active farming plan, so to speak, where I push side services.Most business it seems to be the other way...

Maximise Referrals Recently the MYOB business quarter report come out. In a survey of a thousand Aussie businesses it was found that only 35% had a website!The business owners with a website report a more successful year.Only 51% of finance and insurance businesses...

HTML 5 when can we use it - September I have had a few people ask about the new and exciting html5. Whilst it has some great features like animations and transitions its still a long way off from working in all the browsers - W3 say 2014.Meanwhile some of the html5...

How to rank in Google Maps - August Local business listings have their own specific ranking factors which have changed a lot over the past years. Here are some tips to help expand your map reach. 1. Don't load your title with keywords, while a lot of business get away...

Maps new scoring system and browser sizes - July Google has introduced a new scoring system for the maps.Its all part of the new push for more social ranking factors, the new maps is called +Local.Google actually conducted a massive test including real people to...

Chrome overtakes IE in browser wars According to StatCounter chrome is now the king. Internet explorer a close second and Firefox third. While other more western stats still see IE holding fast its only a matter of time.What's this mean for you and me, a safer move to...

Google updates and Alt tags for images - May While the new analytics has some great new features some of the basic info has become frustrating to access.Gone is the old left hand menu with all metrics that the average person could ever want. Google now forces the user...

New cms videos and marketing packages - April We recently updated our very old CMS videos. The new videos are full screen captures with voice over that are more informative and easier to understand.Your feedback and thoughts are...

Newsletter March Make sure its fastWhen your site was finished it would have had 0 errors and super fast but things change. Especially if you have a CMS so try to keep your images cropped and the file size down. Try not to change the font, colours or styles as this...