There are times it is so important to resize your images before you use them, most of all when you upload them to your own site, most hosting even the ‘unlimited kind’ has some limits including bandwidth, which is a limit on the amount of memory you are allowed to use up per month. Page load times also affect your SEO and images are slow loading when they are too large, so for your website [...]

The entire internet is about content whether it is a Tweet, Facebook post, a video or Blog Article content is KING! We all know it, yet many of us don’t act that way when posting. Here’s one extra clue for you – I have been on the internet for about as long as it has been available here in Australia and one thing I tell all my trainees and listeners over and over is to [...]

There are literally 1000′s of Wordpress Plugins, some incredibly useful, some so outdated they’re dangerous and some I would not think of building a site without (as long as they are being updated regularly and then I would be looking for an alternative). Plugins add to the functionality of your site in all sorts of ways, you can add plugins to showcase images, plugins to add shopping carts, plugins that make your dashboard easier to [...]

Authority: (meaning) A person (or group) may be considered an “authority” on a subject matter if their expertise is well established. In the world of online marketing the word authority has more meanings than it has in the offline world, for example Authority Sites could be defined as as word: used by search engine optimization people and search engines themselves to give gravity to very large and popular sites. and measured by respect from thousands of [...]
Have You Forgotten About Google Webmasters Tools?

Once upon a time in the land of internet marketing all the marketers knew that if you had a site one of the first things you did was to add it to your Google webmasters account! As time passed this once high priority task began to fall by the wayside until only those site owners who remembered the old rules also remember how many tools the freely given toolbox of goodies from Google could [...]

SEO – What colour is your SEO Light Sabre It’s really important to realise that Google is closing all the SEO loopholes that Black Hatters love to use via their Panda changes, semantic, social graph and Your World search algorithms – as a undeniable Star Wars fan I just had to share this infographic that shows this so well Note: Magnetic content RULES!!! Source: searchenginewatch.com via Annie on Pinterest

WooHoo! yes my blog is on AllTop! I am just a tad excited! What’s AllTop? AllTop itself describes itself as; “All the top headlines from popular topics around the web.” Crunchbase which lists, describes and tracks loads of sites on the web have this description in place: Alltop categorizes all the top sites on the web based on several categories. Purpose The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, “What’s happening?” in “all [...]

Guest blogging is one of the most vital ways to bring energy to your blog and site, on the one hand when you guest blog on another site, you garner the interest of a whole new group of readers, on the other hand when you allow others to guest on your site you bring a fresh voice and content to your content – a win/win all the way. Guest blogging however can be a risky [...]