Blog Posts
Is Your Website Side Bar “Working” For You?
We're already well into 2010 so a good time for you to do a website review. Let's focus specifically on your sidebar. Is Your Side Bar Working For You? To make it easy to see your different options I've done a video showcasing what others are doing. Your 2010 Sidebar...
What Is the World Saying About You?
Do you know what the world is saying about you? Easiest way to find out is to Google Alert yourself! With Google Alerts you can set your personal name, along with the keywords and terms you're trying to rank for. Google Alerts will email you whenever new results for your...
Who Cares What Your Clients Think!
You should! Trouble is not many business owners even ask. Plus it can be hard to get unbiased feedback. What do your clients really think about your service, your value, prices, range and all manner of info that would help you grow your business? You try and getting totally unbiased...
WordPress 2.9.1 Fix Is Out
I made a post on the 29th December raving about the new WordPress 2.9 update. The two new features that stood out for me was the great new Image Editing feature along with the Trash Bin (no more problems with accidentally deleting posts or pages). What you probably didn't know...
New Years Eve Site Soars Up The Search Engine Charts
Just a quick update on a site and how, just in one week it has soared up the charts. This was a domain I bought a week before last new years eve. The plan was to generate a heap of traffic and build a list. I used some PC software...
WordPress 2.9 Is Available
It has been for about a week or so. If you visit WordPress.org you will notice that the classic blue download button now says “Download WordPress 2.9?. This is a major upgrade, and brings some really cool new features, including: Trash bin (no more problems with accidentally deleting posts or...
Love WordPress, and the iPhone and WordPress
On the train with my wife on our way up to the city to do some Xmas retail therapy. Just love technology. Decided to check out the App's on my iPhone and noticed the WordPress App needed updating (haven't used it for a while) and within 30 seconds I was...
Triple Your Traffic But Halve the Time You Do It In.
Sorry to post so many tests but we're going hard for our Smarter Website clients. We don't do all our tests "live" but sometimes you just need to. Being a Professional or Small Business Owner means you end up working twice as many hours and twice as hard so who's...
Simple Tip To Get More Backlinks To Your Website!
I'm really under the pump with helping new clients get their websites up in the Google charts and that reminded me of just one of the simple tips we use to make that happen. It's a no brainer for getting back links to your site, courtesy of Google themselves. Every...
Everyone Is A Marketing Expert, Apparently…
To build a really successful business we can't do it all. As a start up we might be the "Jack or Jill of all trades" but sooner or later... We get our bookkeeper to do the figures, the accountant to make it 'make sense' and work for the ATO and...
Don’t Do This Classic “I’m Gonna Get a Truckload Of Spam” Mistake!
Just caught one of my clients doing the classic - "I'll make it easy for people to contact me" mistake by putting my email address on the bottom of my post. Umm, woops! Spam galore coming your way soon. Leave it there for any length of time and I'll even...
# 1 Google Rankings in 6 Minutes… or Less!
Today you have a very real chance of becoming the 'King of the Mountain" in your field. Never before has it been easier to position yourself as the "guru" in be in spot # 1. Breaking News - "Real Time Search Engine Results" have begun! (and I have the evidence!)...
When Did You Last Do a Website BackUp?
Have you ever lost a Word document? Lost an email maybe? It happens, right! And it's an absolute pain in the butt! Not only do you lose a heap of time looking for it but there's the stress and drama that goes with it. Imagine if you lost your website!...
What Is Up With .au Domain Pricing?
Had a client who was getting ripped off for his domain name registration. To the tune of over $100. Ouch! He had a quite a few domains registered and we'd rebuilt some of his websites and well, I was getting confused because they were registered with different companies. I suggested...
Beware the “Server Upgrade” Spam Email
I've just upgraded our web hosting service to a "Dedicated Server" for all my websites, both my mine any clients. It was ironic that just after this upgrade this email came in from a client but first... Why did we upgrade? Security is one reason plus storage, speed and bandwidth...
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