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Jan312010

Australian Online Businesses

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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!

Jan252010

Doing Business in Melbourne

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Generally speaking if your wandering around Melbourne at cafes wearing a suit and have business cards handy, deals are very easy to come by.

Most people who are from Melbourne are very social people so network marketing is very easy and conversation with CEOs are not a problem, as they too also like to get out to their favourite restaurant or coffee for a business discussion over lunch or dinner.

I am originally from Australia and spent most of my life there, although I have invested 6 years overseas doing business in Bangkok, Thailand and London, UK, there is one thing about Melbourne that inspires me to continue business there. That is the fast paced lifestyle. It is naturally in me to be very hard working and around business minded people that take their work serious.

One thing about Melbourne is the cold weather which keeps you on the go. I really enjoy doing business there. I will be going back around March to set up a new office there, so should be exciting. I plan to make my SEO Melbourne business well known particularly around the Caulfield area.

When doing business in East Melbourne or the city, it’s very convenient to go from one client to the next as trams come and go every 5 mins or so. Just setting your day up for scheduled appointments is the key, as you want to meet at a specified time. I generally feel that early morning around 9-10am is good as it gives you a nice 1-2 hours if necessary before lunch if they have already something scheduled during this time.

In my field relating to SEO and Internet Marketing taking a laptop is vital for any appointment regardless if they have a projector or not, and remember that following up with a client over lunch or inviting the client to your office aswell is also a good idea.

And one big tip, if you want to get in your clients good books ask what is their favourite football team, no matter your interest, they will appreciate you asking!

Jan242010

Targeted Traffic with High Conversions

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I recently came across a site that suggests that they have very high conversions. That site is called Traffic Python. Although I am yet to see results as I just joined, the tutorials seem very promising.

The great thing about their system is that when you send referrals you get credits based on that and can use those credits for your own ads. Your ads can be targeted through the niche category you select. On top of this it definitely beats any other type of traffic exchange programs I have seen.

The way they display your ads are discreetly placed at the bottom of your sites pages and in a nice light box fade in effect which last for around 9 seconds and then fades away. It is not annoying like other ones I have seen.

You can set numerous sites of your own to display other ads on the bottom of your own sites then you refer the url’s you create. Then later once you earned credits you can use those credits to later advertise your own site at the bottom of other websites. Or you can buy credits directly to display your ads without referring at all. I will test this out and let everyone know how things pan out.

If anyone has or will use their system I would be interested to hear feedback and what you have also experienced.

Click here to get Traffic Python

Jan222010

Custom Twitter Backgrounds for Branding Awareness

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Just recently I launched TweetyBack.com a Twitter background website which allows Twitter users to download their own free background and place this in their profile twitter account. The range of free twitter backgrounds I have are much nicer then the standard backgrounds that Twitter has.

Furthermore I have also set up the chance for businesses to design and have your own custom Twitter backgrounds. I have my own design team on standby for custom designs ready to put a professional background Twitter theme together for your business needs. Including logo, and nice description and eye catching layout. You can see this is our first one we did for GSEO.net recently.

By having a professionally designed Twitter profile, you will gain a lot more followers and popularity and will also help in giving clients a better first impression and idea about your business, leading to more lead generation and sales. The price of a normal custom designed theme is $79, but for the first 10 orders to build up our portfolio of clients we are designing at a crazy $50. So please go and order your Twitter background and after doing so, post in the comment box and we will refund you $29 immediately.

Jan182010

Internet Marketing for Special Occasions

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Are you one of the very few that take advantage of upcoming events or popular occasions. For example when Michael Jackson died, every one started trying to milk it heavily and create fan sites and anything else they could make a buck from, sad but true. The same happened with Obama, as soon as he became president site owners sold Obama t-shirts and anything else they could think of.

Just a few days ago there was a devastating earthquake in Haiti. The top search term according to google trends this month was “Haiti Quake”. Will we see an increased amount of haiti sites and support groups on the internet. The answer is Yes. There are already more then 500 groups with some groups which have over 200,000 members already in each group.

Whether the cause is out of donation or charity or support or just pure love, there will be another site related to another occasion to either help or gain benefit from.

There is always good and bad in the industry. When you see something is starting to bubble you can take advantage of it big time. “Iraq” was also one of the major search terms for a very long time. When the iphone came out hundreds and thousands of site owners started getting in on developing iphone applications.

I tend to use Google trends often, it can usually tell you what the most popular search term is for the month, and you can set up a site based on that.

Even domain name investors regularly check the global news and what is new in the industry. If there is a special name ready to go wild, they will register it!

But the question is what works for you? Have you recently taken part or had any experience in this area?

There are already more then 500 groups with some groups which have over 200,000 members already in each group.
Jan132010

Getting Bored Of Link Building?

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There is actually alot we don’t like doing when it comes to SEO or in particular link building. Sending out link exchange requests or submitting to directories in the hope to be approved is all a time consuming process.

To keep positive and not get bored easily it is important to have a very broad scope. If we can monitor our success rate and if we can see that we are making sales as a result then link building becomes more motivating.

I often try and break my day up by doing some article submissions, then social bookmarking and then the rest of my day with SEO. Then the next day I will do some 3 way link exchanges, press release submissions and then content blog link exchanges. Then the next day might do some social marketing link building. In total I spend around 2 hours a day on link building then the rest on SEO and web development.

The reason why a lot of companies outsource link building or SEO is it can become very monotonous. The only problem is when you outsource even you still don’t have the final touch which you can if your confident enough to do yourself. It takes a certain skill to be able to get the right links your looking for. As your experience gets better you will get fussier and fussier with this process.

Overall link building can be tiresome. On top of all the link building we always keep a frame of mind with dofollow links, and high page rank links, this keeps us fully satisfied when not only our links have been approved but we obtain quality links.

What are your thoughts, do you get bored when doing the same link building procedures each day?

Jan62010

GSEO.net – Social Networking Community

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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?