Down-To-Earth Tips and Advice for Internet Entrepreneurs
It’s probably just the Google Dance (PageRank) update still going on and if you follow your PageRank I’m sure you have noticed this too – but doesn’t it seem that PageRank is dynamic now rather than static in-between updates?
I notice when I wake up in the morning here in Australia PageRank is lower across the board and then throughout … Read the rest of this entry »
I would accuse Google of being late regarding their PageRank update because it was “due” about January based on historical data showing they update around once per quarter. Since Google makes no promises and they do what they want to, when they want to, it really doesn’t matter too much, but I can tell you as you may have read … Read the rest of this entry »
You should all be familiar with testimonials – comments, quotes and recommendations about your business/products/services provided by people that have purchased from you and experienced positive results. Testimonials are one of the best social proofing tools available in online business and if you don’t have a testimonial page on your business website I’d get to work now and produce one. … Read the rest of this entry »
A super big thank you to John Richardson from Success Begins Today for including Entrepreneur’s Journey in his Blog Success Awards for 2005 along with some of my own favourite bloggers like Steve Pavlina.
Since John gave me the title “Best Search Engine Blog” I feel it’s appropriate to point out that making a blog post praising other bloggers, … Read the rest of this entry »
I am an Australian and I often use Google Australia, which provides the option of searching the global web or pages from Australia only. Most large countries have a similar option on their local Google site.
Running an international online business with the capability to service people from any country means that you want your site to perform well … Read the rest of this entry »
I recently made one aspect of my online business more efficient. This technique demonstrates the power of an email autoresponder. In this case I turned something that used to be a relatively mundane manual business annoyance into a resource. Best of all it took about 10 minutes to get set-up and it’s been doing a great job ever since.
In The 80/20 Of Search Engine Marketing – Part 1 I covered the first four of the Top 8 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques as explained by Brad Fallon. The first four methods were applicable to On-Page SEO, techniques you can manually apply to your website internally. The remaining four that I am about to discuss cover Off-Page SEO, which … Read the rest of this entry »
I joined Perry Marshall’s Renaissance Club to get my copy of the Definitive Guide To Google AdWords at the discounted rate, however I’ve started to realize there is a lot more value in it than just the AdWords eBook, which I guess makes sense since Perry wants people to stay subscribed to his club, so he must keep dishing … Read the rest of this entry »
This is a problem I’ve never had to deal with yet watching a few friends recently start new websites has made me realize that getting a brand new site to be discovered (indexed, listed) by the search engines can be a difficult task. In my case since I’ve been operating online for so long whenever I launch a new site … Read the rest of this entry »
Brad Fallon, author of Stomping The Search Engines (try the free course, it’s very good) and one of the more well renowned search engine optimization (SEO) experts runs a blog. One of his entries, Pixel Ads — Be there by being (a small) square goes into a discussion of pixel ads and their SEO effectiveness. He’s also put up a … Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been following a discussion over at the SEOChat Forums about an … Read the rest of this entry »
I just finished listening to epipod 16 (yes it is a lame term, but if I can help it become mainstream we can all be lame together along with Alan and Andrew) from The Marketer’s Podcast. Alan and Andrew are two marketers from Australia and their podcast is one of the only shows I listen to on a regular … Read the rest of this entry »
The PageRank update (learn about PageRank) has been occurring over the past 24-48 hours. My friend Alborz, who manages the MyWeblog free blog hosting service has been jumping up and down with glee as his blog went to a PageRank 5. Regardless of what you think about PageRank, an increase can really put a smile on a … Read the rest of this entry »
Over at SEOmoz, randfish has posted an in-depth (long!) article on Search Engine Ranking Factors. It’s a massive article broken down into table data representing a lot of factors that impact website search engine rankings. Along with each factor are some nice icons indicating how suspect each factor is – whether the consensus of SEO experts agree that … Read the rest of this entry »
What is Google’s PageRank? If you have ever done any reading about search engine optimization or were just curious how you can get your site to the top of the Google search engine results, understanding PageRank is vital. I’m going to introduce you to the basics of PageRank and also provide a brief discussion on how much you should really … Read the rest of this entry »
What is Google’s PageRank? If you have ever done any reading about search engine optimization or were just curious how you can get your site to the top of the Google search engine results, understanding PageRank is vital. I’m going to introduce you to the basics of PageRank and also provide a brief discussion on how much you should really … Read the rest of this entry »
For the bloggers out there you may have stumbled across what is called a Blog Carnival. A blog carnival is a network tool that aims to create awareness of all the great content created by bloggers. Each week the carnival moves to another blog and it is that blog owner’s job to write the carnival post, which links to … Read the rest of this entry »
For the bloggers out there you may have stumbled across what is called a Blog Carnival. A blog carnival is a network tool that aims to create awareness of all the great content created by bloggers. Each week the carnival moves to another blog and it is that blog owner’s job to write the carnival post, which links to … Read the rest of this entry »
I have been considering directing my credit card paying clients back to Paypal.com. The current majority of my clients are from Australia and as I have written and podcasted about (and here 2) I prefer and recommend Paymate.com.au to any Australian online businesses. I prefer Paymate because it is Australian based, has simple and quick email support … Read the rest of this entry »
Rank leak is an often speculated, rarely proven concept within the search engine optimization community. The premise is that if you load a page with too many outgoing links you will lower the PageRank of that page. It is a reasonable conclusion given that the more incoming links you have to a page the higher the PageRank (in general), so … Read the rest of this entry »
