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Posted by Sam Sargent on 31.08.2010

iPhone App Review: SEO Audit

Price: FREE                                                      Get it from iTunes
This FREE app is a must-have for any website owner, business owner or web designer looking to ensure their site is SEO friendly.
Developed by our very own SEO partners Reload Media, this handy little app will show you in a flash a number of important search engine optimisation (SEO) factors [...]

Posted on 31.08.2010 at 9:05 am. See other posts by Sam Sargent   View Comments  
App Review, SEM.
Posted by Sam Sargent on 29.06.2010

iPhone Game Review: Fruit Ninja

Price: $0.99 Get it from iTunes →
This month I bring you another great iPhone game from some more guys I studied with at QUT. Yes my course included some talented individuals as you’ll remember my last iPhone review (BW News Feb 2010) also mentioned fellow course mates, The Voxel Agents, who created Train Conductor.
This [...]

Posted on 29.06.2010 at 4:02 pm. See other posts by Sam Sargent   View Comments  
App Review, Inspiring.
Posted by Sam Sargent on 21.06.2010

Google’s SEO Report Card – how would your website stack up?

I stumbled across an interesting blog post from the Google Webmaster Central team on the weekend.  It was the result of an audit which Google performed on over 100 of their different product pages and came in the form of a SEO report card.
It details how the main pages for these various products stacked up in their own [...]

Posted on 21.06.2010 at 1:19 pm. See other posts by Sam Sargent   View Comments  
SEO, google.
Posted by Sam Sargent on 5.05.2010

SEO Tools – Our favourites, what are yours?

I’ve learnt a lot in the last 12 months at Bluewire  - I can’t believe it’s been over a year already!
But one particular area of knowledge has helped me immensely, not only with the work I do here, but also with my side projects – search engine optimisation.
About six months ago the team had a quarterly [...]

Posted on 5.05.2010 at 12:00 pm. See other posts by Sam Sargent   View Comments  
Business, SEO, google.
Posted by Sam Sargent on 20.03.2010

New website launches from the Summit! What an Event!

In a busy week for Bluewire Media Developers, two projects wrapped up on Wednesday with the new St Patrick’s College and Summit Events Centre websites launching within hours of each other.

The Summit Events Centre is the only high-end, 100% customisable and versatile, fully serviced events and function centre in Brisbane and without a website they weren’t [...]

Posted on 20.03.2010 at 9:34 am. See other posts by Sam Sargent   View Comments  
web design, web strategy.
Posted by Sam Sargent on 20.12.2009

Big Day – The BAA Xmas Lunch & Bluewire Media Christmas Drinks

Anyone would think that designing & developing websites was thirsty work with the Bluewire Media team heading along to three big events last Friday. Work was put aside as we all took half-days and attended the Brisbane Advertising Association’s (BAA) Annual Christmas Lunch at the convention centre which was followed by the official after party [...]

Posted on 20.12.2009 at 12:33 pm. See other posts by Sam Sargent   View Comments  
Fun.
Posted by Sam Sargent on 30.11.2009

Movember – Changing the face of Men’s Health

Being the 30th, I thought I’d put together an animation and take you on journey through the month that was Movember!
Nic & myself as The Bluewire Media Team, managed to raise a total of $265.00. (Not bad for a couple of hairy lips) Donations are still open if you’d like to chip in…
To [...]

Posted on 30.11.2009 at 11:58 pm. See other posts by Sam Sargent   View Comments  
Fun, Inspiring.
Posted by Sam Sargent on 26.10.2009

Expert Interview – Andrew McFarlane – Digital Strategy

Our quarterly theme at the moment is “Expertise” so to tick of one of my goals for the quarter I sat down with Andrew McFarlane, our Digital Strategist, to learn a bit about his job and his area of expertise.
First of all, what does ‘digital strategy’ mean?
It’s a very loose term that gets thrown [...]

Posted on 26.10.2009 at 8:12 am. See other posts by Sam Sargent   View Comments  
Digital strategy, HR, Marketing, Trends.
Posted by Sam Sargent on 22.10.2009

Microsoft presents some Email Marketing challenges!

If designing & developing great email marketing templates wasn’t already enough of a challenge, (one we take pride in here at Bluewire Media), Microsoft has decided to use Word to render HTML in the latest version of Outlook 2010.
This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no [...]

Posted on 22.10.2009 at 10:55 am. See other posts by Sam Sargent   View Comments  
Design, Email Marketing, Trends, Web Standards, twitter.