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Feb182010

GSEO Website Review

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First of all I would like to thank Alan Josef Caceres who recently did a review about the GSEO website.  He gave some good opinion and insight as to what the website has to offer. I am very grateful to have good friends like Alan who support the fast growing community that took me 2 years to build.

Although Alan covered everything very well, I thought I could use this as an opportunity to also elaborate on the membership benefits for GSEO.net as follows:

As a free member you are already getting the following:

FREE MEMBERSHIP (SEO Consultant or SEO Consultant)

# Upload profile image

# Discuss inside Forum

# Blog Commenting

# 2 Forum Signature Links Allowed (Non Hyper)

# Add Profile Website & Links (Viewable by Paid Members)

When you upgrade you will get all of this:

GOLD MEMBERSHIP (SEO Consultant)

# All of FREE account benefits +

# Appear as Featured SEO Consultant

# Personal Messaging to Clients

# 2 Forum Signature Links Allowed (Hyper Links)

# Blog Submission for Self Promotion

# Live Chat System

# Article / News Submission for Self Promotion

# Video Submission for Self Promotion

# Add Profile Website & Links (Viewable by Free & Paid Members)

GOLD MEMBERSHIP (Client)

# All of FREE account benefits +

# Live Chat System

# Appear as Featured Client

# Personal Messaging to SEO Consultants

# Add Profile Website & Links (Viewable by Free & Paid Members)

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!

Jan232010

Satellite Maps of Haiti Quake from Bing and Google

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As mentioned in my earlier post suggesting Haiti Quake as being one of the most searched keyphrase this month according to Google Trends, I figured it would be an idea to provide something a little more useful and worth looking at.

The devastating earthquake in Haiti recently that killed and injured many thousands was astonishing to see the ruins of before and after shots provided by the Satellite Maps.

Here I have come across a recent video tutorial that shows you how to use the Satellite maps and how to zoom right in on the damage caused by the recent Haiti Earthquake that made thousands homeless and countless people suffering recently.

The Bing mapping system options are very impressive. Although Google Maps still have much better quality, Bing has some nice features in their mapping system, worth playing with. You will also notice in the video CNN have a 360 degree viewing option which is also very impressive.

Here is a donation link provided by Google to support the victims of the earthquake

Jan12010

Happy SEO in 2010

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Happy New Year everyone, and even happier for those who have been involved with SEO for some time. Obviously change is one of the hardest things to work with particularly when one is very set in their ways, but change is good and only for the strong minded. Now has come the time, for many years since 2003 Google had set a patent based on link popularity.

This algorithm structure is based on back links and calculates links, the good from the bad, the popular from the less popular, the authority links from the less authority and weighs up the links from high page rank vs low page rank sites and pages.

For 2010 all this is changing

It has been told recently Google have based their new algorithm on a social platform. For me personally change is good, I get bored easily and concentrating on back linking becomes tiresome and monotonous. Although this will not be totally eradicated there will still be some chance to progress and spend time on other areas. The other areas include:

  • Personalized Search Changes
  • Real Time Search
  • Growth of Android and Personalized Mobile Search
  • Social Search
  • Bing Growing into legitimate option 2

The recent patent is an interesting one as recently summarized. It shows that alot of attention will be focused towards Google Phone, or mobile in general and bookmarking and personalization along with user data information.

This actually tells us that social media is going to play a big role and that Twitter and other Social platform will also be contributing in the data that is shared and will carry weight accordingly.

Those SEO people who are already against social platforms have no option but to turn to this game. It is really a do or die situation. I believe SEO is already changing towards an overall internet marketing platform. To do and adapt in all the ways of marketing on the internet enables you to receive the highest search engine results.

To be successful particularly in 2010 you will need to stay ahead of the game. Working off old SEO ways will be half of the work and sooner or later fade out alltogether. So start getting social, mobile, in the media and above all user friendly becuase this is the way of the future folks!

Best of luck and success for 2010!

Dec252009

Broad Vs Niche Sites

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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.

Dec112009

Bing’s Evil Plan On Making Google Fail

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Have you heard about the latest on the internet relationship between Bing and Google? It is getting much more tense than ever. There are certain rumors that Bing has an evil plan for big websites that are indexed in Google. Bing is sick and tired of just being a second or third placer behind Google, who is the current leader in search engines. Their evil plan is to convince huge websites that already drive huge traffic, sales and leads that will make them a living, to de-index themselves to Google, and will purely focus to index and optimize with Bing on the internet. However, in return, they will give site owners a compensation like money for de-indexing with Google. But the question is, is this ethical practice and can site owners make a huge living with Bing? Probably not! There are huge certain reasons on why it’s not advisable to de-index with Google:

1. Your SEO career will be useless

From the time that you spent months to build your backlinks and performing SEO on Google, will you just throw it away? Definitely not advisable. Try to think of your precious hard work you have done for your website to be optimized in Google.

2. You lose more visitors and customers

If you de-index yourself this will mean you will have less visible pages for users to find you on the internet when searching for certain keywords, customers and visitors you have will drop as a result of this. All the backlinks you may of gained also to your site may slowly drop off.

3. Less motivation and focus

If you de-index with Google and shift to Bing alone, your motivation and focus will also be lost. Why? Because you will have to start all over again, it’s no good and will only let your precious time be wasted to get more customers on Bing. It’s not good to de-index with Google right now because they hold 85%  plus of the total search market and your main traffic source is from there.

Personally I can say that Bing’s plan to dethrone Google will not be successful. They will totally fail because of unfairness when it comes to SEO.

Nov172009

Ad.ly Offering A Whopping 12% On Referral Commissions

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That’s right I think you read the title of the post correctly. Earlier in my other thread I mentioned the potential of high earnings using twitter.

Ad.ly happens to be one of the top advertising networks apart from Be-A-Magpie and they are now offering a whopping 12%. It’s pretty easier all you have to do is click this link and sign up and you can then also set up a referral system too!

The beauty about the Ad.ly program is when you refer friends you earn 12% of whatever they make. So when they keep earning so will you!

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The twitter game is getting better and better and alot of huge potential. The ones that are still pondering and not taking action are the ones losing out right now. So I would suggest anyone who uses twitter to get it on the action quickly.

One thing for sure is when you start earning in these twitter advertising networks you start to understand the real potential of money making. This is what has brought me to believe so much in it and anyone else who is a serious affiliate marketer should too!

Let me know once you sign up how it all goes, I would be interested to hear about your earnings and success with it all!