SearchMasters

Personalised Search Results on Google

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:53:00 +1200

Are you suffering from 'Personalised Search Results on Google'???? Many clients complain about their search results, only to find that their search results have been personalised to rank their competitors higher because they are checking up on their competitors so often.

Search Results are personalised in either of two ways:

You are signed into Google - history may be ...
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Google places rankings more tied to organic

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:24:00 +1200

Google places rankings are being more tied to organic placement than previously with one of the many ongoing changes in Google's algorithm.

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What search engine do Chinese use?

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:02:00 +1200

I have a number of clients that are wanting to target Chinese in China on the search engines. I have therefore needed to know "what search engine do Chinese use"

If you go to google.cn, you get a page that when clicked on, goes to Google.com.hk.

Therefore pages geotargeted to Hong Kong would rank higher on that search engine.

But a website that I ...

Source: What search engine do Chinese use?

Should you keep a domain name?

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:12:00 +1300

I have just written an email reply to a client where they asked "whether they should keep a domain name. If a domain name is parked, or you have changed brands and have no further need for it, should you keep a domain name for ever?

If you are to have any domain name:

Keep it for domain name protection, so others won't have it
Keep it for brand name ...
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Best Google Analytics Setup Strategy

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:21:00 +1300

I often get asked what is the best Google Analytics setup Strategy. Or I see that web developers have setup Google analytics for their clients using their own web developer account.

Google analytics

The new Google asynchronous code is able to be put into the head of the html

The old analytics needed to be put in the footer, as otherwise it slowed down the rendering ...
Source: Best Google Analytics Setup Strategy

Google places address verification issues

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:01:00 +1300

There are Google places address verification issues when it comes to commercial addresses. When you first sign up directly with Google places for commercial addresses, Google sends a post card to that address to help verify that the address is valid.

However there are a number of commercial addresses that don't have NZ Post service. If you don't have a letter box and for many ...

Source: Google places address verification issues

Nameserver issues

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:02:00 +1200

One of my website hosts moved their servers, and in doing so, messed up the ns1/ns2 name servers for a number of domains.

When I tried to access the domain in New Zealand, the browser reported that the name server could not be found. But when I accessed the domain via a USA Proxy, I could see the domain.

While the whois reported the correct ns1/ns2, my isp xnet as well ...

Source: Nameserver issues

How soon can you transfer a domain

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:24:00 +1200

How soon are you able to transfer a domain after purchasing it?

I have been purchasing a few domains recently, and then wanting to transfer them to another register shortly after initial purchase. I like to have all my domains at the same registrar, and hostingdirect has good prices.

However, you are not able to transfer domains within the first 5 days of initially ...

Source: How soon can you transfer a domain

Better Google Places rankings

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:57:00 +1300

Consider the following for getting better Google Places rankings:

fill in all the details on your google places account
make sure you have a finda.co.nz listing, and have filled in all the fields (New Zealand) - or the equivalent for other countries
make a custom map, and include reference to your google places account
add the custom map to your ...
Source: Better Google Places rankings

WordCamp Wellington 2011 - Sunday

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:37:00 +1300

Sundays presentations at Wellington WordCamp 2011 Te Papa.

Jason, Miraz & Jo - Inside WP – Intro & refresher

Remember the Screen Options on edit post/page. You can select which items show on the screen.

Yoast has some great plugins - Yoast SEO WordPress
- just had a look at the SEO ...

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Speed of CafeNet - outstanding

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:01:00 +1300

Wow, CafeNET is outstandingly fast! I am at WordCamp 2011 Te Papa, Wellington and enjoying the outstandingly fast internet connection that CafeNET is providing as part of its sponsorship of the conference.

I did a speedtest, and got the following results:
- 15828 upload - I get around 5000 in Auckland with ADSL
- 12082 upload - I get around 400

My ...

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WordCamp 2011

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:18:00 +1300

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SearchMasters Pricing and Linking Strategies

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:19:47 +1300

What is our pricing structure, and what are our linking strategies? Please see two new pages that I have created in the main menu structure of the website:

In the past, I have not publicised my pricing or the details ...

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SearchMasters wins NZ Search Engine Optimisation Competition

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:34:54 +1300

SearchMasters has won New Zealand's first Search Engine Optimisation challenge. After three months hard effort getting other websites to link to the competition entry, my efforts have proven to be better than over 50 other competitors.

The competition has been all about linking. Who has access to the most links, and the most powerful links from other websites into their competition ...

Source: SearchMasters wins NZ Search Engine Optimisation Competition

My first phone call from Google

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:49:00 +1300

A phone call from Google????!!!! Wow!!! I operate Time2Dine, online restaurant booking, and Google phoned me a moment ago so they could get photos of my "restaurant". They are updating Google places and including photos of restaurants.

Congratulations Google. Well done on working hard at the restaurants part of your directory. It is certainly a group of search phrases that ...

Source: My first phone call from Google