http://www.seosyd.com Free Search Engine Optimization Information Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:53:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just arrived back home from China which is why i haven't written in a while.It's freezing cold there & I didn't get much time writing here.Baidu, China's biggest search engine, is used almost by everyone I met there. Google is only used by some expats & foreigners.I've thought about ... http://www.seosyd.com/2008/03/02/baidu-google-yahoo-seo-jobs-in-sydney/ There are many companies in Australia at the moment that really aren't utilising their website for optimal search traffic results. Some of the largest companies in Australia could easily have their brand name taken advantage of on the web. Sometimes, there are large corporations that haven't registered their brand name in ... http://www.seosyd.com/2008/01/20/australian-companies-seo/ Yahoo! & MSN have got to be the easiest search engines to succeed in. Just get thousands of spam backlinks, get your page titles right & up, up you go! For a search term where there are over 6 million results, I've already obtained first place spot on Yahoo! (& 4th ... http://www.seosyd.com/2008/01/20/another-success-on-yahoo/ I was recently emailed about a sitefinder tool. The tool utilises the ODP together with the Internet Archive to find DMOZ.org listed websites that looks like it's been left in the blue for a while. You can find expiring domains as well with this tool. View top picks or use the filters ... http://www.seosyd.com/2007/12/27/trusted-dmoz-listed-domains-sites-for-as-little-as-10/ I get asked this question fairly often so I decided to write a little bit about it since I'm doing some converting on one of my new website, Graduate Jobs Static pages are your best bet if you're optimizing for any/all of the major search engines. On the grad jobs website, the ... http://www.seosyd.com/2007/12/27/static-pages-or-dynamic-pages/ http://www.scoreboard-media.com/ringtones/ I mentioned on a previous post how Google values .edu more for being "trusted".. It appears that a commercial website has taken hold of a .edu domain to sell ringtones! Google appears to have picked up on the spam though Surfers and searchers sitting all time at their computers love to have internet ... http://www.seosyd.com/2007/12/27/high-ranking-edu-ring-tones-site/ http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=58http://www.textlinkbrokers.com/http://www.linkadage.com- DigitalPoint is a popular forum for webmasters.- Textlink & linkadage are commercial venues to buy & sell linksPowered by ScribeFire. http://www.seosyd.com/2007/12/27/backlinks-for-sale/ Alison University seems to have taken advantage of the perception that .edu links are worth a fair bit of $$$.You'll often notice that .edu sites have pretty good PR because they're seen to be "more trusted" with Google.Alison offers a blog at her .edu for $35 a month or $320 ... http://www.seosyd.com/2007/12/27/get-your-own-edu-blog-for-35month/ There's a lot of directories out there that I think are rubbish & are only out there to make an easy buck. The ones that you generally can't go wrong with is: DMOZ - Free. Lists sites and relevant useful deep content. Listing may take a long time. Difficult to get listed ... http://www.seosyd.com/2007/12/27/quality-directories/ So it looks like Google's at it again, being hypocritical & selling its high PR page for $10k.This is interesting given that Matt Cutts hates paid linksAs long as we’re talking about links, this seems like a pretty good opportunity to talk about a simple litmus test for paid links and ... http://www.seosyd.com/2007/12/27/google-selling-pr7-links-for-10000/