PageRank Update – My Photo Blog gets a 4 PR

This week many blog owners have discovered they’ve lost precious PageRank for their blogs. For years now some industry commentators have been suggesting that PageRank is ‘dead’. I don’t go along with that at all, but I suspect that PageRank has evolved and been tweaked beyond what we can measure. However, I’m pretty happy that [...]

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Sticky Note Project Management

I used this fairly basic but highly effective method of project management to work out how to get a rather large website live within a few weeks. It was a daunting prospect but once it was all on the wall it was suddenly manageable. This is also a great way of flowcharting processes that you’re [...]

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MyLive Search – Can it find my most recent post?

Well, yes it did – the test was with my Christchurch daily photo blog and a post published half an hour before the search. Click on the thumbnail to see the results (my photo blog is highlighted in yellow) The only thing I was not too keen on, was that the Google url’s came up [...]

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Search engine optimzation nz Update

I’m now ranked at number 2 and number 3 for this ‘typo term!’. And yes, still get visits.  Just goes to show that there is definitely opportunity in spelling mistakes. Oh and if you are in tourism, here’s a tip for you, zeland is apparently how many people spell zealand. 

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Christchurch SEO Update

Well, a few weeks back I posted about my goal to move up in the ranks for Christchurch SEO.  I’m now ranked at number 1 and number 2 for this phrase. Number one is my corporate site and number 2 is this blog. I’m pretty happy with that.

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Search engine optimzation nz

15th of August I was ranked at number 15 for this term.  After a few tweaks I’m now ranked number 3 for this phrase.  Not a bad effort really!  Still getting visitors on the term as well.

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MyLiveSearch will be launching its much awaited public beta on Wednesday 29th August 2007

Just received an email from the Mylivesearch Beta Release Team – the public beta is released 29th August 2007. http://www.mylivesearch.com/ It’s going to be very interesting to see how the search works.

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Search engine optimzation nz

Did you spot the typo is this subject?  Don’t worry it’s easy to miss – I did.  I put a page live which has one instance of optimization spelt without the ‘i’ between the m and the z. It may have been a mistake, but I’m currently getting a good number of visitors coming to [...]

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Christchurch SEO

I’d noticed that quite a few visits were coming into the site on ‘christchurch seo’ in Google. Are these other SEOs? Or potential web clients who know exactly what they want. Either way, I decided I should improve my ranking (which was somewhere around 14). A few quick changes and I am now number 2 [...]

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Link Building Blunder Part Two

I’ve now had a third email regarding linking to a particular site. Same company, different person.  I’ll be reporting them for spam if they don’t ‘cease and desist’.

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