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More Changes in the Australia SERP landscape, change of rank for the term “SEO”.
Mar 11th
I have been doing some quick checks today and I notice more shifts in long term search queries, for example “SEO” one landmark term seems to have a shift once more with DEJAN SEO in first spot over the long held eweb marketing.
I have tested this rank on 3 x IP addresses with no personal search on and the rank is showing, yet for low long.
- Red marks Paid, Green marks Organic.
SEO Page One Australia
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SEO-Australia
I have noted this change in the past – http://jamesnorquay.com/a-new-number-one-rank-for-seo-in-google-australia/
The question is: Is this Google testing results will we see a more fixed listing for the term “SEO” who knows but interesting times ahead.
Have reached “SEO Guru” Status on SEOmoz – James Norquay
Mar 5th
So after working very hard on the SEOmoz website for the last few years, writing detailed blog posts such as my post on Advanced Keyword Research for example, helping out with 100′s of questions in the PRO Q&A section, providing free SEO help for the many thousand users on the website and also commenting and contributing on 100′s of different SEO posts to show my insight I have reached the level of SEO GURU (picture below)
SEO GURU Australia
Along with the rank I am now positioned 12th in the community ranks on SEOmoz http://www.seomoz.org/users, this is out of over 11,783+ global based SEO’s.
About SEOmoz:
SEOmoz is one of the worlds most well known SEO brands online with daily SEO news and information, SEOmoz is an authority in the space. Founded by Rand Fiskin a household name to many in the business.
Bundaberg – An Australian company doing Social Media the right way!
Feb 24th
A few days ago I tweeted Bundaberg to let them know about the cap on the bottles as I had cut my finger (view tweet below) I didn’t expect any thing was just letting them know about the tops on the bottles been like this.
Bundaberg Tweet
I received a reply early the next day asking for my contact email address, after providing my address a few days passed and I received a knock at the door early one morning it was a courier with a large white box, not suspecting any thing I opened the package and it was a selection of drinks from Bundaberg and also some merchandise accompanied with a nice letter saying sorry for the inconvience (see image below)
bundaberg-gift
Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Years, Also a re cap on Charity & Donations work!
Dec 23rd
So it is that time of year again where every one is in party mode, yet at the same time I want to make a note that at Christmas time its is a time of treating yourself yet it is also a good time to give. Recently I have had people very close to me come down with cancer so it is a cause which is very close to me. At the same time I want to wish every one a Merry Christmas I also want to let people know about two great charities 1. Camp Quality – Kids with cancer www.campquality.org.au/ 2. McGrath Foundation – Breast Cancer research. http://www.mcgrathfoundation.com.au/
A few days ago I sold off two charity items and we collected close to $71 for McGrath Foundation -
Christmas cancer appeal
Earlier this year we ran an auction of a 1000th Tweet an raised $60 http://jamesnorquay.com/seo-charity-auction-comes-to-an-end-with-60-au-donated-to-charity/
So please try and dig deep this Christmas for charity if you can, but overall have a great Christmas all and have a fantastic 2012, I have taken off some time from the 23rd December to the 9th of January, so I will be taking it easy for a few days.
Merry Christmas:
Merry-Christmas
From JamesNorquay.com
As Christmas time is here watch out for the scammers – JB Hi Fi Gift Cards Scam!
Dec 12th
So recently on Facebook and Twitter I have been seeing a lot of people re-sharing this Jb Hi Fi free $200 gift cards. The creators have even been setting up Facebook Groups for this event.
Now the thing is their is no free gift cards it is all a scam to get people onto these fake websites, I mean come on if Jb Hi Fi was running a campaign would they use a .info domain and would it be registered in the Bahamas?
Example of the event for the “Free giftcards” below:
jbhifi giftcards
So please every one over christmas watch out for these scams and fake websites some tips to know if something is usually a scam:
- It is running on a .info domain.
- the website is very poor in design something like just a white background.
- The prize is too good to be true, I mean no one is going to pay $200 to every one who shares something!
8 Quick Keyword Research Tips for SEO!
Oct 24th
keyword research
So last week I made a post on the SEOmoz blog about SEO keyword research Now I want to make a post on my personal blog with 8 keyword research tips:
Tip 1 – (Common Mistake) Make sure you are signed into a Google Account!
Don’t let me stress how many times I have seen people pull keyword data from Google Keyword Tool when they are not logged into their account, what it does when you pull keyword data non logged in you are left with limited data. An example below when using the Google keyword tool (signed in to your Google account) and when (not signed in)
Keyword tool: https://adwords.google.com.au/o/Targeting/Explorer?__u=1000000000&__c=1000000000&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS#search.none
Tip 2 – Benchmark your data with Insights for Search.
Once you have the data from Google, then take the keywords and place them in Google insights for search. Compare the data in Google insights for search with something you know is popular to see a comparison.
For example I know a specific keyword is getting 30,000 unique visitors a month, I will then compare the specific keyword in google Insights for something you 100% know it is getting traffic for!
Insights for search: www.google.com/insights/search/
Tip 3 – Utalize some paid search data for keyword research.
I work in a company where we deal with mostly paid search, we have several clients which are both SEO and PPC based so we can colaborate data and share various insights.
If you have various verticals you work with then it is easy to pull data from numerous sources.
Tip 4 – Utalize social media monitoring for keyword research.
Try to utalize some social media monitoring and social media research into your keyword research, you can find out what people are actually talking about via social channels and then utalize this powerful data for keyword research.
Every one is using social monitoring software these days if it is free or paid pull some data into your SOE keyword research!
Free: Social Mention, Topsy.
Paid: Radian 6, Buzz Metrics.
Tip 5 – Use search scraper to pull related results –
Search scrapers can be a great way to pull extra data from your keywords research. Example: http://www.searchenginegenie.com/google-suggest-scrapper-tool/index.php
Tip 6 – Use KEI/ KOB for keyword research –
KEI and KOB are keyword difficulty socres, they can be great to pull difficulty metrics for your keywords. Great post on this over here: http://www.stuntdubl.com/2011/01/26/kob-competitive-analysis/
Tip 7 – Use the keyword difficulty metric -
SEO moz has a great keyword difficulty score which you can easily grab data from in a txt file. If the score is below 40% then you know it is probably advisable to target.
Here is the link to the tool: pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty/
Tip 8 – Use internal search data -
Using internal search data is another great way to pull ideas for your keyword research, I mean what better place to look for keyword data then your own website.
New Google Maps Changes see larger images and maps!
Oct 15th
Today I noticed some more interesting changes with Google maps which I had not previously in the past. We see that the maps listings are far larger then in the past. This new change is evident on several variations of the Google places product.
1. Single location listing, larger location and images from places.
Google Maps Changes
2. GEO store location listing where we see 3 locations.
For a more GEO based term.
3. Numerous locations with larger image and ads below the map.
Local Term
Does Google give prefrence to its own products in organic ranks?
Jul 26th
So last week I was doing some analysis on search terms as I do on a daily basis, and I searched the term “Places”, What I found was interesting it seemed that Facebook was ranking in position 1 for the keyword “places” with personalization off.
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Places Rank
Now I tried the same search term today, and the results are very different, Google is now in the search position 1 and position 2 and they even have site links, bit funny don’t you think?
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Google-Places-Rank1
I know this could be testing done by Google, but some analysis on this term shows Facebook Places is the stronger URL.
Interesting, please post your thoughts below:
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