Posted by Toby Jenkins on 23.01.2012
This post is to help you answer a question we’re frequently asked: “How do I get my website to the top of Google?” My short answer? Forget about the search engines and start thinking about your customer. To understand why, there’s a quick story for you, a list of fundamental questions you need to consider [...]
Posted by Sam Sargent on 30.06.2011
You’ve probably seen these Google +1 buttons around the place. While I knew Google might be onto something, it hadn’t really clicked for me until until now. Today I got an invite and signed up to the new Google + Project. It’s basically Google’s answer to Facebook. Seeing the below in my profile screen inside [...]
Posted by Adam Franklin on 15.03.2011
Since moving to Sydney, many friends have asked “how can you live in Sydney and run a business in Brisbane?” As background, our General Manager Toby Jenkins has lived down in Sydney for 12 months now and I moved down in January this year, and our ‘head office’ is in West End in Brisbane. How we [...]
Posted by Angus Russell on 13.12.2010
If you’re from a web agency in Brisbane, you’re probably aware of how competitive the number one Google ranking for “Web Design Brisbane” is. The spot has long been dominated by John Hacking, with other, much larger companies stuggling to stay in the top 5 for longer than a few months. Recently, Bluewire Media has [...]
Posted on 13.12.2010 at 4:38 pm. See other posts by Angus Russell
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Posted by Sam Sargent on 21.06.2010
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 [...]
Posted by Lesley Hays on 24.05.2010
This week’s round-up is tinged with sadness as we say goodbye to our long-standing and well-loved designer, Sarah Hyne. Sarah’s migrating to new, lush pastures over at MAP Magazine. Sarah had been with Bluewire for two and a half years and in that time she instigated our famous “Weekly Round-up” blog posts. It’s with a [...]
Posted by Sam Sargent on 5.05.2010
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 [...]
Posted by Sarah McVeigh on 9.04.2010
Google Alerts is probably the simplest way of gauging how present you are on Google for your keywords. I use it to see what’s being said about Bluewire Media and also to monitor when web design in Brisbane is discussed. It has helped me to find websites who have used our content without attribution and [...]
Posted by Sarah Hyne on 26.02.2010
World’s leading telcos unite to take on Apple — Sydney Morning Herald The comprehensive guide to saving images for web — Six Revisions e-Commerce design resources: the ultimate round-up — Hongkiat Information gathering: a round-up of UX applications — UX Booth CMOs: Your brand is on digital time — Forbes.com The $5 guerrilla user test [...]
Posted by Sarah Hyne on 19.12.2009
Five technologies that will keep shaping the web in 2010 — Six Revisions Best of CSS design 2009 — Web Designer Wall Pantone Unveils Color of the Year for 2010 — myPantone Factors that affect usability — Six Revisions The weaker side of usability guidelines — The UX Booth Google browser size helps keep your [...]