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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]