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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  
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Posted by Adam Franklin on 10.05.2010

SEO & Blogging Secrets with Glenn Murray

Glenn Murray’s SEO secrets have been somewhat of a guiding light for Bluewire Media’s SEO efforts in recent times (along with the tips from our SEO friends at Reload Media of course).
Glenn was generous enough with his time to do this interview with us.  Thanks Glenn!
If you stay all the way through the 17 minutes, [...]

Posted on 10.05.2010 at 10:15 am. See other posts by Adam Franklin   View Comments  
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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 Adam Franklin on 24.03.2010

It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you

The popular saying goes, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”. But on the web, I’d argue this doesn’t hold true!
Why?  Two reasons.
1.  ‘What you know’ is very important. It matters to Google, therefore it matters! Your search engine rankings are based primarily on the content you publish on your website.  If you don’t publish what [...]

Posted on 24.03.2010 at 9:45 am. See other posts by Adam Franklin   View Comments  
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Posted by Adam Franklin on 10.03.2010

How I got to #3 on Google

If you want to get to(wards) the top of Google, I’d like to share my story.
I’ll confess, 12 months ago SEO wasn’t part of our marketing strategy.  Yet in one year, we’ve climbed from unfindable to #3 for competitive search phrases like:
‘website design brisbane‘ (#3)
‘web designers brisbane‘ (#3)
‘website designers brisbane‘ (#3)
‘web design brisbane‘  (dropped to [...]

Posted on 10.03.2010 at 9:01 am. See other posts by Adam Franklin   View Comments  
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Posted by Sarah McVeigh on 20.01.2010

SEO Copywriting – Making Sense To Humans & Google

SEO can seem pretty confusing – and it seems that many in the game like to keep it that way. But yet again Glenn Murray has landed us with a goldmine of pointers on how to write optimised copy to please both readers & the mysterious beast that is Google in his eBook SEO [...]

Posted on 20.01.2010 at 12:34 pm. See other posts by Sarah McVeigh   View Comments  
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Posted by Sarah McVeigh on 11.11.2009

Google Headings & Descriptions – SEO Brisbane

Reaching the top of Google (and staying there) is akin to playing a game with ever changing goal posts. There are so many elements that contribute to where your website is placed and for how long.

And while it’s granted that Google moves in mysterious ways, and you will never be able to control every single variable, there are nevertheless loads of techniques you can use to keep kicking goals when the Googlers make it tricky for you.

Posted on 11.11.2009 at 11:36 am. See other posts by Sarah McVeigh   View Comments  
SEM, SEO, Search Engine Marketing, copywriting, google.
Posted by Sarah McVeigh on 27.10.2009

Fishing for backlinks – Tips from SEO Secrets

I’ve just finished reading SEO Secrets by Glenn Murray. As a copywriter, Glenn manages to make even the clunkiest aspects of SEO accessible to the layperson.
What was most striking in reading the book was that much of optimising your blog or website is naturally intuitive. Most SEO is more related to time and effort than [...]

Posted on 27.10.2009 at 10:30 am. See other posts by Sarah McVeigh   View Comments  
Digital strategy, Marketing, SEM, SEO, Search Engine Marketing, social media.
Posted by Sarah Hyne on 28.08.2009

Weekly round-up

Conversation UX design — Zeus Jones
Essential tips for designing an effective homepage — Six Revisions
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) vs PPC (Pay Per Click) — Digital Ministry
Introducing Typedia — The online typography encyclopedia
Survey reveals who is running the social media show — Jeff Bullas
You auto complete me — UI Trends
One-hit wonders to cash in on YouTube [...]

Posted on 28.08.2009 at 9:01 am. See other posts by Sarah Hyne   View Comments  
Business, Design, SEM, SEO, Trends, social media, technology.
Posted by Adam Franklin on 28.07.2009

Interview with SEO expert Llew Jury

Bluewire Media interviews search engine optimisation, SEO expert Llew Jury, of Reload Media.
In this interview, Llew addresses the following questions:

What’s the best thing about SEO?
What led you to become an expert in the field of SEO?
What are Top 3 things you need to know to be successful in SEO?
What’s the best way to get started?
How [...]

Posted on 28.07.2009 at 9:30 am. See other posts by Adam Franklin   View Comments  
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