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Jan312010

Australian Online Businesses

Tags: Australia, seo australia, SEO Melbourne

Online businesses in Australia are surely one of the most thriving and profitable. For example Carsales.com.au, Wotif.com, Sitepoint.com and Digitalpoint forum just to name a few are all Australian owned sites and are very well known and profitable.

USA web businesses in my opinion are really overrated. I even know that top UK sites are also leading the market. Look at Wayn.com for example, they are UK founded and are a travel social network site with over 20 million users.

Exploroo has also some similarity to Wayn and was an inspiration for me to get involved as a founder and partner. Although my true passion is being involved with SEO and servicing clients, I am always open minded to different ventures that can bring me success.

If you can get onto a big idea then there is lots of opportunity. Fairfax saw a big opportunity in RSVP.com.au and had scraped this up for AUS$39 million.

As the internet continues to drive towards success local businesses are taking advantage of SEO services to gain maximum exposure as big companies are really stretching the gap between smaller internet businesses.

But there is still alot of success with smaller sites and bigger returns. They are sitting quitely in the background with no need of big noting themselves.

This ranges from any service related companies that use their website as an open door to direct orders. This includes clothing shops, hotels chains and many other smaller businesses.

Overall though as the economy strengthens in Australia so does business. There has not been a decline yet in property and was recently mentioned that Australia is one of the least most affordable places to live in the world, in this report included Sydney and Melbourne.

This again gives much push to RealEstate.com.au, Domain.com.au along with job finding sites such as Seek.com.au which are already one of the top 100 sites in Australia according to Alexa.

What do you think about Australia Online Businesses? Are you one of the few that are being rewarded quietly, or do you need to improve your online presence including SEO alot more before your business reaps the rewards!

Jan62010

GSEO.net – Social Networking Community

Tags: internet marketing, SEO

It has been more then 2 years since I have been developing GSEO.net and officially launched the site in September 2009. The site has over 300 members and will steadily increase as the word gets out.

The whole purpose of GSEO.net is to connect SEO Consultants or Internet Marketers with Clients who are in need of advice giving the consultant opportunity to take the client on for any future services, along with giving SEO professionals a change to promote their services by posting blogs, videos of themself or company and news articles along with contributing in the forum and anything else that interests them.

As for the Client they can also upgrade to contact SEO consultants directly enabling them to save hours of hard work doing SEO them self, they can have answers at their fingertips. The concept is unique and seems to be working well already. We are also conducting SEO competitions along with prizes and cash giveaways.

Another very nice feature is the affiliate program allowing other website owners to gain commissions on referrals they send to the GSEO.net community.

So whether you are a client seeking advice or services or an seo professional / internet marketing guru or even newbie get started and join today and benefit from the community!

Once you register, we recommend you to upgrade here while we are still a low monthly fee at only $19.95 per month. If you upgrade at this cost, this will lock you in for the future, so that you do not pay more for when we increase prices before we launch our own private SEO tools and other nick nacks for paid members!

I would also be interested to know by leaving your feedback here, what do you think about GSEO.net?

Jan42010

2010 SEO Competition

Tags: search engine optimization, SEO, seo competition

SEO competitions are a great way to get noticed in the industry and allow you to really test your own skills and see who is best

For those of you who are not aware, GSEO.net is a site of mine and I have decided to put together 2 SEO competitions. I will regularly add other competitions to the site so be sure to always keep an eye on it here.

I am giving away lots of prizes including a camcorder and cash giveaways along with 3 lifetime memberships valued at $1000 each. The current 2 competitions are running up until 31st of March 2010 so be quick to get ahead!

One of the competitions will involve getting to the 1st page for a certain keyphrase on one of your sub pages and the other competition will be for the top author in GSEO.net

It’s already proving well and lots of members who have joined the competition already are emailing me with their gratitude. This will just be a starting point and im sure you will see alot more fun SEO competitions in the future. Good luck guys and enjoy!

Dec282009

How To Make SEO Better For Your Business?

Tags: Internet, SEO

There is always a need for a certain type of understanding before moving ahead with any type of SEO strategy. The first is understanding what the problems with the site are, and the second is knowing what can or cannot be done to fix them.

When putting together your options for moving forward, understanding these facts will help you sort out which options are viable and which are not. Moving forward without being fully aware of all the facts leads to poor decisions based off of an incomplete or poorly thought about set of options.

Think about the consequences of each action. As an SEO they must be fully aware that every change to a site could have potentially negative consequences. One example is changing url structure to be more seo friendly url’s. Granted most strategies have been proven to produce a positive impact on web-sites, but this isn’t true 100% of the time. Some changes will have a positive long-term impact but have a severely negative short-term effect.

Seven of the hardest thing to do in SEO is to manage expectations properly. An SEO selling their services will often promise miracles to get the sale but then tell the client not to expect miracles at all. SEO is seldom a magic solution and sometimes what they think will be an easy job turns out to be anything but. It’s like peeling back the layers of an onions. You get seven problem solved and that uncovers several more problems.

Make sure your expectations don’t exceed your potential and your resources. As they say, time is money. Time is your most limited and valuable resource. Don’t waste it. SEO isn’t difficult but it does need knowledge. Most of that knowledge is available for free, but that doesn’t take in to consideration the cost of your time to learn it, implement it and then to ensure each strategy is performing effectively.

Every small business owner has this dilemma. How much should they do themselves versus how much can they afford to hire somebody to do for them. When it comes to SEO, the business owner must pick how much of their own time can be dedicated to doing the detailed work, or if their time is better spent elsewhere, like walking the business.

The first is that you may be wrong. Shocker! Whether you’re wrong about implementing this strategy over that strategy, or choosing seven path over another, you must be content with knowing that at some point or another you’ll make a bad decision. Nobody is 100% perfect 100% of the time. Some SEO strategies are implemented based on past performance from other sites, but there is no guarantee that the same strategy will work for this site. Be prepared to be wrong. Permit yourself a 10% risk of being wrong, a 50% likelihood of something going wrong, and a 100% commitment to survive it all.

Dec252009

Broad Vs Niche Sites

Tags: Make Money Online

There is clearly a big diference in putting a site together for the long term or for the short term.

Alot of the big players that develop lets say a search engine or social networking site have a huge advertising budget because they know what they are getting into which involves huge competition, even if they are innitially playing with other less popular social networks lets give an example of Facebook vs say Friendster, hi 5 etc, there is still alot of marketing needed to prove to others that lets say Facebook is better.

When it comes to one man marketers or smaller agencies investing in smaller key area sites these days they have no option other then to focus on smaller niche sites.

The divide between the two areas are getting wider and wider, as the bigger companies like Google and Microsoft have so much power that they can buy their way into almost anything. The niche sites keep pounding away harder and harder as the only thing that is on their side is endless hours of time and effort to put into their work.

High risk, high return sites can be a lot more rewarding for the long term and can even end up as a public company on the stock market and making billions of dollars, where is the short term low risk sites gain thousands of dollars and is a lot more guaranteed.

This then leaves middle men sites like forum community sites, article sites, and sites that are related to webmaster, design, seo, travel which gain profits from affiliate programs, advertising and memberships.

Other sites that quietly make profits are the sites which are involved in porn and gambling. Other niche areas such as “buy today only” schemes and other quick sale sites are slowly weeding out.

Here you can see that the top 30 alexa list contains around 15 sites that are all related to the big competitive niches such as social networking, search engines, video etc.

Long Term High Risk High Return Sites:

Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, Baidu)
Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace)
Blogging (Blogger.com, Wordpress)
Video Sites (Youtube)
EMail Sites (MSN)
Encyclopedia (Wikipedia)
Shopping (Amazon, Ebay)
File Sharing (RapidShare)

Short Term Low Risk Lower Return Sites:

Weight Loss
Stop Smoking
Hair Loss
Nokia Phones
iPhones
Wii (Nintendo)
PS2 (Playstation)
Religion
Politics
Soccer
Fashion
Auto

There is some odd successful sites and industries in between all this give and take. When Twitter became the talk of the town everyone started registering twitter domains and putting together twitter background sites for example. Then developers started making money from facebook applications, they were and still are a great money maker. You can thrive off other popular sites success for some time also. The beauty about all this is there is always a way to make money online big or small.

Dec222009

Internet Technology Goes Back To The Old Skool?

Tags: Internet, Technology

Such things as movie companies have adjusted to the internet market, even though torrent is still illegal. It is slowly getting harder for movie buffs to download free movies like it used to be. Most movie sites require credit card details and are not really trust worthy enough in my opinion to give out. If tomorrow they are sued or they go down, those card details I have given could end up anywhere.

Sooner or later what goes around comes around. I mean im sure the movie industry will get back on it’s feet much sooner then later. Recently I watched the movie Avatar, and I must say watching it in the Imax with 3d and special effects is the most amazing experience ever. Particularly with Avatar I found it to be one of the best movies ever seen. But my point is nothing really beats the real thing in a theatre. So one day sooner or later people will come back to reality. It is already starting to. Maybe the advanced internet tech world might have a bubble experience some time soon.

Personally I love classic TV shows like Who’s the Boss, and The fresh prince, Family Matters with Steve Urkel. Because we can get so far ahead of ourselves we need to also slip back into the past to reminisce of old times. The classic tv shows on satellite are a great example for this, even though internet speed for old tv shows are getting alot better, buffering is still an issue according to ones connection.

Look atFacebook for example everyone puts their photos up on there and stores them on their straight from their holidays or whatever. I mean its good way to archive, but when you upload your high resolution pics they are usually condensed alot smaller so the print quality is not good at all. So I tend to not really store my photos on there, instead keep them on another hard disk and printed and kept in an album as well. What if Facebook servers are hacked into or your account is blocked. My point is having a printed version is still very nice for when relaxing and this takes me back again, the need for having something in your hand, a bit of reality to keep sane.

Another example is skype, don’t get my wrong I absolutely love it, and use it all the time, but sometimes I need to just unwind away from the computer and back into the the ever missed every day things so I will pick up the home phone. One phone that has become a bit more advanced then the ordinary is called the business voip an internet phone based system.

What about products online? Do you think eventually they will be a flop? I recently have been looking online to buy a telescope, but when I was that close to buying I backed out, cause its a lot of money for something you can not test or touch before shipping and everything else.