A Dramatic Example of Google Personalising Search Results

January 20, 2010

A friend of mine asked to check his rankings this morning, because he was surprised to see a huge improvement in the ranking of his website since last time he checked just 2 weeks ago (and he hadn’t changed his website since). His website is www.Door.net.nz and his rankings were: door knob – 1 & [...]

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Hooray! Google Just Issued Me With 20 More NZ$125 Adwords Vouchers

January 17, 2010

Got an email late last night from Google providing me with 20 free Google Adwords Vouchers valued at NZ$125 each! Thank goodness for that, since my last batch of Adwords Promotional Credits expired on New Years Eve just over 2 weeks ago, I was starting to think they had forgotten about me. Would you like [...]

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List Of The Best Free New Zealand Business Directories Online

January 12, 2010

Today I was asked for my secret list of the best free online New Zealand directories. Since I just started giving away my Search Engine Optimisation ebook for free, I might as well share my list of NZ directories too. The funny thing about free online directories is that they might be free to get [...]

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Eeek! My Google Adwords Promotional Credits All Expired on 31 December!

January 6, 2010

This morning I was setting up a new client in Google Adwords and went to apply one of the 20 NZ$125 promotional codes that Google issued me in October 2009, but I got the error message “sorry, that promotional code has expired”. I tried the next one on my list, and the next one, and [...]

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Search Engine Optimisation – It’s NOT All About Your Content. Content Is King? Wrong!

January 4, 2010

I’m sick of hearing this: “It’s all about the content of your website when it comes to Google determining your search engine ranking” or “content is king!”. It’s just not true. Content is just one of the factors. Q: How did the phrase “content is king” become so popular? 2 reasons: Based on the assumption [...]

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