Thursday, December 09, 2004

Search with Blingo for a Prize

Each search you do on www.blingo.com gives you a chance to win a prize. Users don't have to pay anything, register or provide personal information, and they will be immediately told if and what they won.
You can win movie tickets, Amazon.com certificates, Netflix subscriptions, digital cameras or iPods.

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Google Suggest

When you start entering characters in the search box in Google Suggest, it will guess what you are typing and offer suggestions. It is another innovation from Google and it looks like the tool might be useful for finding related keywords and for expanding search capabilities.

Friday, December 03, 2004

Scholar.google.com

Google has released a new search engine with those in academia specifically in mind www.scholar.google.com. Dubbed Google Scholar, this latest development from Google allows to search through only the portion of Google’s catalog that contains published materials from scientific journals, books, theses and technical reports.

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Examine Pfizer and Corrupt in Google

It may be rather cheap shot, but try it for fun. Type in the words "Pfizer" and "Corrupt" into Google (about 2050 hits), or do a Google search for Pfizer and overcharging (about 527 hits) or Pfizer and Fraud (about 19,900 hits). I need to add that those numbers are changing every hour. Talking about overload of information, but we got something to think over.

Friday, October 22, 2004

Australian SEO companies

Below we list companies in Australia which specialize in
Search Engine Optimization:

www.adrenalyn.com.au
Estimated 27,000 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.alphawebsmarts.com
Estimated 17,600 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.bmcoptimise.com.au
Estimated 31,700 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.cityofcairns.com
Estimated 26,900 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.cogentis.com.au
Estimated 15,500 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.decideinteractive.com.au
Estimated 22,200 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.ewebmarketing.com.au
Less than 5,000 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.surfpacific.com.au
Estimated 9,100 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.viz.co.nz
Estimated 36,400 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.websight.net.au
Estimated 52,000 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.webfirm.com.au
Estimated 40,900 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.timbarnettinteractive.com.au
Less than 5,000 visitor sessions in the last 30 days
Rank as: 3,983,060 on the Global Internet Index.

Above statistics provided by Advanet Pty Ltd.
Our web analytics tools can review the traffic to your website.

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Best of the Blogs Award

Deutsche Welle, is looking for the best digital logbooks. With "The BOBs - Best of the Blogs" awards, we plan to honor the best Weblogs in 11 different categories, including Best Weblog, Best Topic, Best Design, Best Weblog Innovation and Best Journalistic Weblog. A total of seven of the Best Journalism prizes will be awarded -- one in each of our competition languages. Weblogs from all over the world can be nominated for the awards, provided they have been written in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese or Arabic.

Friday, September 10, 2004

Get Listed in Google

Consider these design guidelines:

Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
Create a useful, information-rich site and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn't recognize text contained in images.
Make sure that your TITLE and ALT tags are descriptive and accurate.
Check for broken links and correct HTML.
If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a '?' character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them small.
Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

Saturday, August 28, 2004

BRW 100 Fast list

Web traffic to few of the companies on the BRW 100 Fast list.

EmailCash is Australia's leading provider of online direct marketing, incentive and loyalty programs and services.
EmailCash was founded in June 1999 and is based in Sydney, Australia. The company attempts to match the requirements of marketers to the profiles of Internet users, through the technology of the Internet. EmailCash brings to marketers newer, richer interaction with consumers, and brings to consumers a way to get rewarded for taking various actions.
www.emailcash.com.au
Estimated 836,300 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

SitePoint's expertise in Web Development has spawned several side-businesses including Editize (editize.com) - a software product designed to enhance the editing capabilities of Content Management Systems; and SitePoint Design, a Web Design and Consulting Division based in Melbourne Australia - sitepoint.com.au.
www.sitepoint.com
Estimated 2,827,800 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

Saturday, July 10, 2004

Is knowledge the ultimate competitive advantage?

Business Management Asia report on the difference between information and knowledge applying effective strategies. From a business strategic perspective, knowledge management is about obsolescing what you know before others do, and profiting by creating the challenges and opportunities others haven't even thought about. In the bigger picture, the focus of knowledge management is on the ever-changing environment in which societies, organisations and individuals live, work, learn, adapt and survive.

Thursday, June 17, 2004

Using Google AdWords

One of the best ways to sell products and services on the Internet is using Google AdWords. This method can be very successful as long as you follow the basic guidlines. Make sure that you have a high quality website. If the site appears to be unprofessional, any potential buyer will loose confidence and diverts his attention to the other website. Remember also that having to many sells messages on your pages can turn away your viewers. Choose your keywords carefully and delete any that do not get clicked on after two hundred impressions. The higher your click through rate, the higher position you receive in relation to your competitors.


Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Major Search Engines

Ignore the adds about submiting your site to 10,000 search engines. It's a waste of time, and you will most likely receive lots of unwanted e-mail. Instead submit your site to the most popular search engines and you will be capture more than 95% of the web traffic. Trafficology has listed search engine submission links.

Sunday, May 30, 2004

Australian Election

Here is a part of the Internet competitive intelligence report for Australian political parties websites:

Australian Labor Party www.alp.org.au
Estimated 81,600 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

Liberal Party of Australia www.liberal.org.au
Estimated 52,400 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

Australian Greens www.greens.org.au
Estimated 43,900 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

Australian Democrats www.democrats.org.au
Estimated 23,700 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

The Nationals www.nationals.org.au
Estimated 5,500 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

One Nation www.onenation.org.au
Less than 5,000 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

Monday, May 10, 2004

Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA)

Hypercompetition is a key feature of the new economy. New customers want it quicker, cheaper, and they want it their way. The fundamental quantitative and qualitative shift in competition requires organizational change on an unprecedented scale. Today, your sustainable competitive advantage should be built upon your corporate capabilities and must constantly be reinvented.

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Google AdWords and Labour Party tactics

Type in "Australian election" in Google and see creative ways of using Google AdWords by Labour internet marketing team.
You should be able to see those links:

John Howard Game
Play the extraordinary
John Howard Game
www.johnhowardgame.com

Vote Labor Abroad
Overseas? Find out where and when
you can vote for Mark Latham's ALP
www.alpabroad.org

AUS Election Simulation
Play the Australian election in
this simulation/game!
www.PrimeMinisterForever.com

Saturday, April 10, 2004

SEO Without Usability - An Exercise in Futility

Many SEO companies are now looking at the big picture and working with usability analysts. This ensures that their sites are crawler and user friendly along with being ready for sales conversions. Sites that can be found and that are usable as well will also attract links. It just makes sense. The double impact of more traffic and higher conversions makes for happy clients and powerful testimonials, as well as satisfied searchers.

Friday, February 20, 2004

Search for IP location

Hexa Software Development is providing:
Web log statistics and analysis
Geo targeting for increased sales and click-through
Below sample IP Location report:
Your IP Address is 129.78.170.5 via proxy 129.78.64.101
You're located in (AU) AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY
Your latitude/longitude is -33.883° LATITUDE and 151.217° LONGITUDE

If I am not at above location you can find me here:
Your IP Address is 129.94.6.30
You're located in (AU) AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY
Your latitude/longitude is
-33.883° LATITUDE and 151.217° LONGITUDE
You're connecting to the Internet through
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Friday, January 30, 2004

Online Encyclopedias

Brainyencyclopedia.com
Estimated 414,300 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

Encyclozine.com
Estimated 99,400 visitor sessions in the last 30 days.

Open-encyclopedia.com
Estimated 17,200 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

Mcfly.org
Estimated 23,200 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

Nationmaster.com
Estimated 878,100 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

Wordiq.com
Estimated 1,286,200 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

All-science-fair-projects.com
Estimated 307,200 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

Thursday, January 15, 2004

Miserable Failure

Here is how liberals in US managed to connect "miserable Failure" search term with President George W. Bush Biography.
Miserable Failure
Here's a nifty idea for a new web project from Blah3.
From this day forth, I will refer to George W. Bush as a Miserable Failure at least once a day. Why, you ask? Well, someone came up with this great idea to link George W. Bush and Miserable Failure in popular search engines. If you have a blog or web site, help raise the link between George W. Bush and the phrase 'miserable failure' by copying this link and placing somewhere on your site or blog.
Thank you very much for your participation.