Download Google’s own SEO Starter Guide

Posted by Henrik Madsen on July 16, 2009

With the vast majority of consumers and businesses using search engines as the starting point of their buying process, it’s more important than ever for your website to rank well in organic search results.
If your site isn’t performing, it probably wasn’t optimized for search by your web designer in the first place.
That’s certainly what we’re [...]

 

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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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Does it matter where your website is hosted?

Posted by Henrik Madsen on July 5, 2008

Parallel to our on-going search engine optimization work for clients, we’re conducting an experiment at the moment to see if search rankings take into account where a website is physically hosted.
Professional opinions differ. Some SEOs claim all that matters is the domain extension (ie .com.au); others say the actual location of the host also plays [...]

 

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