The “Raw Prawn” Update

We’ve recently gone through Come On Aussie with a fine tooth comb… doing a lot of restructuring to the categories available there… And a fairly “disturbing” result (for some webmasters that is) of that restructuring is that we removed over 750 listings that are no longer compliant with the standards expected. As part of this […]

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Does Your SEO Agency Do This? I Hope Not…

I am NOT trying to bag SEO companies… there are quite a few good ones out there! But you’ve just got to wonder about the calibre of some of the people who DO pass themselves off as SEO “professionals” when this is what they do for their OWN WEBSITE when submitting directory listings! The two […]

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Seeking a Local Business Website on the Internet? Good luck with that!

I just finished doing some research for a client… trying to find how their website is positioned in the search results, by carrying out a fairly typical “local search” i.e. business name town name format The amount of GARBAGE results dished up was astronomical… and extremely surprising! It makes you wonder whether anyone can actually […]

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Why Free Web Hosting is NOT a Good Idea For Business

If you’re serious about doing business online, you need to use a professional, credible approach! After all, getting prospective visitors to “trust” you enough to part with their money is not easy to do at the best of times… To your prospective customer, having your own domain name – i.e. www.yourbusinessname.com – is the first […]

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Link Removal Requests Pandamonium…

EDIT March 2014 – IF you are using a THIRD PARTY link removal service… PLEASE REMEMBER that there is NO way to verify the authenticity of your link removal request – You MUST use either: an email request FROM the DOMAIN affected (and NOT generic emails from hotmail, gmail, live etc), AND/OR POST A PAGE […]

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The Importance of Transparency for Online Businesses

Since I run a lot of website directories, I regularly receive submissions from literally hundreds of website owners every week. All these submissions, by the way, are human reviewed, and removed if they are don’t meet my own personal “quality guidelines” 🙂 One of which I see… far too often.. is people trying to “fudge” […]

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Web Guidelines For Small Business Owners

I’m a little scared about putting that heading on an article online. You can sometimes open up a very big can of worms the moment you start talking about this sort of stuff… but oh well, here goes! A non-definitive list of some of the things small business owners should consider talking to their “web […]

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