No ’shortage’ of purged domain names

Posted by Henrik Madsen on January 20, 2009

An interesting indicator of the current economic climate seems to be the rising number of long-held domain names that entrepreneurs and businesses are letting go. Lack of short-term confidence, a shorter order book and a shortage of cashflow may all have played a part in one such multiple domain holder’s decision not to renew 24 domains that seemed primed to corner the Australian market for all things shorts!

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Why your website may be a year or more out-of-date

Posted by Henrik Madsen on January 9, 2009

There’s a really easy way to make sure your visitors get the impression that your content is relevant and up-to-date. That you’re a professional organisation that cares about the details. But it’s amazing how many sites simply miss the point.

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Web designers - Join the IE6 Supporters’ Club Today!

Posted by Henrik Madsen on December 30, 2008

Love Internet Explorer 6? Love the way it handles your standards-compliant coding? Love how easy it is to get your CSS to work in IE6? Well, show your love and share the love with other web designers just like you. Join the IE6 Supporter’s Club today … and have another Happy New Year!

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The problems with big web design agencies

Posted by Henrik Madsen on November 16, 2008

I was chatting to a new business prospect the other day, about designing a new website, and we came to the subject of agency size and internal resources. And I was pleased to tell her we’re small. One of the smallest web design / marketing agencies in Perth, in fact.

Why was I pleased? Because small makes us agile, responsive and attentive.

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Is your website in the cesspool of the internet?

Posted by Henrik Madsen on October 10, 2008

Having somewhat accidentally gained top ranking in Google for ‘black-hat SEO’, we’re now tickled to top the results for ‘white-hat SEO’ as well! This redresses the balance but it doesn’t make us ‘grey-hat!’

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Ten cheeky t-shirt designs for SEO guys and girls

Posted by Henrik Madsen on October 3, 2008

Let’s hear your thoughts on these and suggestions for others…

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Dear Google, we only do white-hat SEO. OK?

Posted by Henrik Madsen on October 2, 2008

We’ve been achieving some really good SEO results lately: a mining supplies client top of page one at Google, Yahoo and Live. Similarly impressive results for a private equity firm. Even the work on our own site is beginning to pay off with page one rankings for several of our targeted keyphrases. However, search for [...]

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Should black-hat SEO be reported to Google, Yahoo!..?

Posted by Henrik Madsen on September 9, 2008

Following my recent post about leading web design firms using black-hat SEO to elevate their search rankings, the question is: Should black-hatters be reported to Google and Yahoo!?

The three agencies involved (all of which offer search engine optimization services) are essentially hiding keyword-stuffed elements on their homepages - headlines, semantic links and blocks of text [...]

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Top 10 web design firms use black-hat SEO

Posted by Henrik Madsen on August 25, 2008

Notwithstanding websites that still employ old-hat tables and in-line styles, it seems several of our contemporaries are wearing black hats when it comes to search engine optimization. SEO is of course the ‘art and science’ of gaining better placement in search results and there’s certainly no lack of artistry when it comes to leading WA [...]

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PDF netiquette - Please Don’t Forget

Posted by Henrik Madsen on August 5, 2008

The Portable Document Format (.pdf) is unquestionably one of the most useful communications tools around. Accessible to just about everyone, the format maintains page layout, graphics, fonts etc so it’s ideal for distributing documents such as forms, catalogues, brochures, questionnaires, artwork, logos and more. But Please Don’t Force (PDF) them on your website visitors. Please [...]

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