Sleazy SEO's Tricks 2

This story is an all-too-common one.

Making the google page rank the highest it can be is the hardest job for an SEO to do. It takes many many hours of work. And the higher the page rank is, the higher the website will rank for popular keywords.

I have seen many many SEO's that have made deals with the owners of large websites with High Page ranks, that allow the SEO can add links to their clients website, passing the high Pagerank along the SEO's client. The owners of the big sites can get paid upwards of $800 a month for these links which is pretty good money, when you think that they could have 10 or 20 different links from the same SEO.

Anyway, these same SEO's charge many thousands of dollars to their clients to first raise their Page Rank, when all they did was add the link to say 20 pages of the high ranking website, then $2000-4000 each month to upkeep the SEO for the site.

The problem comes when the website owner doesn't want to keep paying the $2000-4000 then suddenly the links are gone from the high ranking website, the page rank of the website drops, and suddenly they can't find their website in search engines.

What choice does the website owner have but to go back to the SEO, who has by then raised their prices, and ask them to take them back on as clients. I have talked to people of SEO forums that have spent 30-40 thousand dollars in the past 12 months, just getting the SEO to take them back on as clients.

When I do SEO for a client, I make sure that the work I do will last for years after I stop doing the SEO. The only time they might lose a position is when a website selling the exact same thing get's there website SEO'ed. I have two sites that sell gemstones that I do SEO for and I make sure they will both get high ranking for different keyphrases, so they don't conpete with each other.

It would be very easy to do SEO for 20 or so sites that have the exact same product, and not have them competing in search engines.

Regards Lynny
SEObyCanz
The Honest SEO

Sleazy SEO's tricks 1

I thought I would share some of the sleazy tricks I have known some SEO's to do.

The first one I got really angry when I saw it, was an add-on a hire a cheap labour website, the add said something like.

I need several people to click on links to websites, you will be give a webpage with a list of links, all you need to do, is go to the page, click on the list of links, close the page, open it again and click on the list of links, and get paid 1 cents for each click...later in the add it said you could site and click on links all day it you wanted too, and told you how much you could earn in 10 hours. which was something like $10 a day.

I was intrigued, and decided to find out about the people who wrote the advert, they were a biggish SEO company.

Even more interested I applied for the job, and found out that this page with links, had been designed so every time it opened it would desguise the IP address of the person clicking, so each time the clicks were done, they looked like they were coming from a new person, in a different country.

I complained, but they said they had over 50 people from India that were happy to earn $10 a day, and if I didn't want to that was fine..... I wished later that I had gotten that list of link and contacted the website owners, to show them how all the new visitors their website was getting weren't real, but of course hindsight is a fine thing.

regards Lynny
The Honest SEO

Rainbow Tourism is Live!!!

Last night the Rainbow Tourism website went live, after 3 months of building, testing, rechecking, what a relief to know that at last the site is build, online and having new visitors. Go check it out......

RainbowTourism.com The spirit of Gay and Lesbian Travel

Lynny The Best SEO

Rainbow Tourism is Live!!! The search engine friendly Directory

Last night the Rainbow Tourism website went live! After 3 months of building, testing, rechecking, what a relief to know that at last the site is built, online and having new visitors. Go check it out......

RainbowTourism.com
The spirit of Gay and Lesbian Travel

I've done a lot of basic SEO on this site, and while building it, sent the coder almost mad with wanting SEO features built into the site. The site is built on our on SEF CMS,(Search Engine Friendly, Content Managment System) which we have been building for a few years now and, with some time at hand, we're going to market it as it's finished and ready to sell!!! So two major milestones at pretty much the same time.

Also since we finished working on the site above last night, we are working on my own new website SEObyCanz, and should have enough done to have it online in a couple of days. So many things happening at once.

Lynny
The Best SEO

Accomodation websites, A study of who searches for what

What people search for looking for accommodation website?

I have been doing research for an SEO job I will be doing shortly for RainbowTourism.com and found some interesting results.

You would think - or I did - that hotel and motel would rank the highest for searches for accommodation. WRONG...

Although hotel outranks everything I searched for,(and I searched for 20 different types of accommodation) motel was actually the least searched for, often as little as or less than Bed and Breakfast. The general results were as below, although Resort and Inn swapped places depending on what county was being analysed.


Hotel

Resort

Inn

Motel

Check out the pictures below(click on picture for large view) for results for searches in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United Sates.

Take a look at what people search for when looking for a Bed & Breakfast to stay in on their holiday or vacation

Regards Lynny
SEO KnowAll

Building a new database SEF CMS website for Rainbow Tourism dot com

For the past 3 months we have been building a database driven SEO friendly Gay Tourism Directory. The site will go live quite soon, lin a few hours more than likely.

It's been a hard slog, with many 24, 26, 48 and 50 (and the longest ever in one block of time 52.30) hours on line. Multiply that by 2 for both Kym and I and you have a heck of a lot of work being done, but looking at the site it has been worth it. The site looks awesome, even though there's heaps more work to be done, it will never stop growing.

I'm also going to be taking care of the Accommodation, Tourist Attraction, and Hire Car listings, first adding the gay owned-and-operated, or gay friendly listings to the Seekom Secure Online Booking System, then to the Gay and Lesbian Tourism Directory itself.

We managed to make every page name the exact same as it was on the old site, so there will be no broken links when the domain name points to it.

This new site is so SEO friendly, it won't need links from anywhere else LOL... of course it will but the site which is built on our own SEF(Search Engine Friendly) CMS is really something very Special.

We were building the SEF CMS when the Rainbow Tourism job came in, so the building of the two in parallel was perfect timing. You really should take a look!

We have started a new website, my SEO stuff is taking over our Main Website, Web Solutions Canz Design so we have start to build, well made the front page of our new SEO website

Ok, I have to go. But I will be back.....
Lynny
Honestly an SEO

How directory submissions can work.

SEO in Action
Case Study Two


Optimizing a Large E-commerce Website for Google

Invest in SEO and watch the number of visitors to your site grow, and Grow and GROW

This site has been optimized for Google in particular.

The site sells gemstones; the average price for one gemstone is around $120.

When this client first came to us, they had had a website for 2 years, and
had not had a single sale.

We redesigned the website, making the buying process as simple as possible using PayPal, and made the site look very professional (trustworthy).

We also did some basic SEO work on the site as we were building it and built the site on a CMS so the client could add and change new products herself.
The client prefers to get us to design other pages on her website, as she knows she isn't a webdesigner, and wants her site to stay looking professional. Her site updates, as with any of our clients are done within 24 hours.

They had their first sale 1 month to the day after the new site was online.

Within 10 weeks they had enough sales to have paid for the site redesign and SEO.

The owner was very proactive, and went about finding link exchanges for the site, and promoting the website anyway she could.

Feb 06. 18 months later she asked me if I could do anything to increase the visitors to the site, they were getting sales, but the sales were irregular and they could easily manage to fill more orders.

At that stage they just gotten 1809 in Jan 06.

The client couldn't spend too much at that stage to pay me for my work, so we agreed to 1 hour a month SEO work.

Immediately there was an increase of traffic to the site of just over 600 visitors a month.

In November 06, I did 3 hours SEO work on the site, which resulted in an increase of 1200 new visitors that month. It could be said that Nov - Dec would attract more visitors anyway, however that wasn't the case the year before.

Since the New Year 07 I have been doing just 2 hours a month, and visitors have increased by almost 1000 that month by May 07.

Sales have increased threefold since January 06 at a steady rate.

In early March I submitted this sites details to 300 directory's since this is the type of site that people would look for in directory's.

Since the submission were all free, none with reciprocal links, the submissions were not accepted immediately, but directories always check the sites before acceptance them so the numbers increased artificially for that month.

April the submissions started being accepted, and I attribute some of May's visitors to those directory listings. April being Tax month, is historically a bad month for this and many other none essential products websites. If you look at the image to the right you will see the statistics for this site from Oct 06 to Oct 07.


But just looking at these statistics, you can see that the increase in hours and the directory submission has definitely paid off. 11220 Visitors in Oct 07

An Investment of $2500 over 19 months has meant in gradual increase to 9300 visitors a month

Get your SEO quote Now!!! Lynny@canzdesign.com

Look at the image to the right to see the key phrases that ranked #1 & #2 in Google.com.au sink. The site is owned by an Australian, and this is her preferred search engine to do well in, but she does just as well in Google.com for many of the same phrases.

Take a look at her site Gemstones and Jewellery

So you can see the search phrases are definitely the sort of products this site would sell and reasonably competitive key phrases.

I will run this test on any search engines you would like worldwide for $10 per 50 keyphrases per search engine. Just email me a list of keyphrases on a text document along with a list of the search engines you would like me to check, and paypal me the correct amount. Lynny@canzdesign.com If you would like to search more than 10 search engines, the price reduces to $5 per search engine after the 10th one.

EG: 20 search engines up to 50 keyphrases (the same ones for each search engine) $150USD

Cheers

Lynny
The Best SEO

E-commerce websites, be available to your customers

Online Availablity... Check your emails twice a day
This post might seem silly to some people, but we have come across accommodation websites that reply to enquiries about availablity of rooms up to 2 weeks after we email them, with the excuse that "we don't get a chance to check our email very often."

Get real! If you have a website, then turn your computer on, login and download your email twice a day, it will take 5 minutes each time. And check your spam bin. An email from someone new emailing you will often end up in the spam bin, so check the spam bin or folder each day and empty it.. for hints on how to combat spam look there.

Answer dumb questions. Many is the time a polite response to a dumb question has brought me work. Remember the question only seems dumb because you know the answer, remember back to the time when you didn't know, how would you have felt if you received a polite reply to a question you asked? And how you would have felt if the answer had been curt or rude? Politeness costs nothing, and leave the receiver feeling respected.

CheersLynny
NZ's Best SEO

Go to even things out, a good testimonal

Dear Lynn,

It has been a pleasure working with you and a much improved service from my previous website designer and SEO.

I found Lynn by doing a google search for website optimization I can't remeber the exact search I think SEO Price List, and Lynn was the top listing. I felt that if she had got herself to the top of the page under optimization she must know what she was doing.

I contacted her and she promptly replied with a reasonable quote and promised she could make the changes that were needed in a short period of time.

Over the next 3 days Lynn worked night and day on my site and was so enthusiastic about making the changes she ended up doing more than she had promised.

Lynn is constantly checking my site on a regular basis to see where we are sitting on the search engines, within 3 weeks of Lynn making her changes I have gone from about page 20 to page 2, with more changes in progress we may make page 1 by Christmas.

I would recommend Lynn to anybody wanting efficient, fairly priced service with a personal enthusiasm to your company.

Thank you Lynn for all your hard work, it is paying off and improved my business 100 percent.

Thanks

Nicky Whineray-Blair
Boxit Ltd - http://www.boxit.co.nz/

Well thank you, Nicky, I've enjoyed every minute of getting your site to where it is, and where it will be for months, years.......
I just checked the word boxes and it's at #6 on page 1 of google.co.nz "the Web" search and #8 on page 1 for "Search New Zealand"

That's darn good, I'm so good... hehehe.... that particular keyword wasn't anywhere in the first 1000 results when I started, and ranking so well for a single keyword is really good. And of course you know about all the keyphrases that are at at #1

I've done some more work on that word today, so it should come up a little higher yet. I will be interested to see where your site is by April next year as well.

Wow, a bad testimonal, does this mean I'm a bad SEO or a bad friend?

Bruce Clarke Aotea Web Hosting Wow a bad testimonial. I will post it as it was sent to me, with my responses in Red Hi Lynny, I've been doing SEO work for clients (paid work) since June 2000! Oh, you have one more years experience than me, WOW WEE!!!! I don't think it is a matter of how long you have been trying...how long you have been succeeding seems far more relevant. That is no doubt why you asked for an account of what work I would do for the $500 quote, that should have been $2000, so you could do the work yourself, and not bother paying me. To my thousands maybe millions of readers: This quote was asked for after, what this person is complaining about below. I'm more than capable of doing the work, but like most people doing SEO work, also take on the services of other individuals and companies to help from time to time. Yep I get people to do work for me, but not after they have done a bad job as you claim. I'm not that impressed with your SEO skills frankly. Why don't you post the following on your blog and let people know how wonderful you are at SEO, and search engine submission... Ok, doing that now, thank you for giving me permission, but I would have done it anyway, this is my blog, and I needed something to write about, so thank you. hostingservers. co. uk (unique visitor numbers) your words not mine, although I did put gaps in the url so it won't display as a link. This website has been registered since 2001 so not much SEO has been done on the site to only have this many uniques. Still to be fair our own site, which get's the least SEO work done on it at all, was only getting about that many about that many last year and until Feb 07 when I did some directory submissions 200 of them, now we will get about 5250 this month, that domain name was brought in 04, so you have 3 years head start. There's a lot of hope for your site with 1300 submissions, keep you fingers crossed. Jan 2007 604 Feb 2007 606 Actually paid me in late Feb Mar 2007 604 Started Submision in Early March Apr 2007 587 May 2007 699 Jun 2007 740 Jul 2007 601 did the final 2/3 starting on 27th, for reasons I mentioned below Aug 2007 648 Sep 2007 1022 Oct 2007 905 Back in March we paid Lynny $125 to do SEO search engine and directory submissions for this site. True, and I have to admit, I hung off doing about 2/3 of the submissions until the new site we built was up, as I didn't think anyone would accept your old site. Can you see the difference in unique visitors? (i can't, ...in fact i see a decrease but that's probably a seasonal variation cause not all months are the same). So actually it was even worst, unfortunately I must have choosen the wrong directories you did stipulate that you only wanted to be added to directories with high PR, against my advice. That still is disturbing, but looking at your stats for the year before, yes you do have a seasonal drop in those months. But I am still getting resposes to submission for your site, so the ones I did will be getting mixed up with the next ones now, though still there should have been a few more directory's visiting your site, as I explain later. Last month (Sept) we paid CheapestSubmissions.com NZD $135 ...can you see the diffrence for September & October? ...I can, 57% increase during September, and a 40% increase compared to previous month prior to the submissions for October. This is not a true indication of visitors, each directory a website is submitted to make a visit to the site before they accepting or rejecting it. So his visitors are actually down, drastically, but as I have said in other posts, directory submissions will help brings visitors to your website, so they will come maybe next month or the month after, or the month after...oh that would be Jan 08, another bad month... you will see the visitors went up 5 or 6 weeks later in May and September, from my submissions, thats how long it usally takes for directory submissions to actually start working. I will write a case study tomorrow with screenshots, when this month is finished in the stats, that shows after a submission of only 300 increased a websites vistors by over 6000 in 6 months. So you have already mentioned your website name so I don't need to, you can maybe expect about 18,000 visitors by March next year, by then the submissions I did will be all handled by them so prehaps you can get another 6000, you won't know whatto do with yourself huh. Make up your own mind... would you rather be paying $125 for a -3% decrease for one of your sites, ...or $135 for an average +49% increase (over 2 months following)? ...the stats tell the story Yes the stats does tell a story, the new website we designed and built in July is being accepted by more directory's, and it is coming up to Christmas, when traditionally your website visitors, and your stats are actually up as well. It's a little unfair to say you will get 18,000 visitors in 6 months, there are only 2 reasons people visit a webhosting website, either becuase they are starting a webhosting company themselves and want to look at your prices and undercut them, or they are looking for webhosting, so perhaps you can send me another email in April, and I will post it here, to show the increase in visitors from both my submission and the one thats just been done. ...go with a reliable SEO directory submission services provider: http://www.cheapestsubmissions.com/ Signed Bruce Clarke Aotea Web Hosting These guys seem to be very good, I'm not in anyway saying their service isn't good, I haven't used it, but in fact I might try them out myself. and I will allow the link to them to stay on this blog, and on my new website where I will also post this particular post. It is unfair for the person that wrote this bad testimonal to compare my prices with Indian prices, thats like comparing Sak's with K Mart or a 99 cent store. This website is a good example of duplicate content, and dealing with friends, or in this case a friends of a friend, and giving GOOD DEALS to someone, which I will discuss in a future post. You are still more than welcome to pay me for the idea's for SEO you gobbled up and used rather than paying for, my paypal email is lynny@canzdesign.com and I believe I said $550. For a quote that should have been $2000, but a friend asked me to give it to you cheap. You are more than welcome to come back anytime and read this blog, as I'm sure you are doing right now while I write this response, I freely give away advice here, so I won't consider it and isn't intellectual theft. You can't do that when it's posted for everyone to see. This is not the whole story with this client, but this is turning into a nasty "he said, she said" and I don't have the time I blacklisted this client in my email. God, this is childish.... I was going to go to bed, but think I will start writing more content for my new website. http://www.seobycanz.com/ Lynny The BEST SEO EVER.

Directory Link

Deleted Post. But will leave here so I can add it later if I choose. So this post doesn't go to waste, I'm going to google analtics in here so I can track you readers, I can see where you comrom, and how long you stayed. Lynny SEO by Canz

www or no www

www or no www

Have you ever noticed that some websites will work as it were when you put the www in front of the url, and yet go to an page not found, when the www isn't there.... or vise versa?

If you are unlucky enough to have this problem, just get in touch with the company thats hosts your website, and ask them to change the settings so both url's work. It's just a setting in the control panel, which would take only 5 minutes to change.

You may not think it's a problem, but at a recently internet users conference I attended, they said a large % of internet uses, don't think to do something like that, and that if a webpage doesn't show, they will just got to another website. I have to admit, I do know about this, and only now and again, I will think to do it, so it's worth getting fixed.

Unless you have a very big website (hundreds or thousands of pages) you shouldn't be paying more than $20 a month for hosting, more like $10 or less, and if you are only paying $5 or $10 a month your host may make a charge to change it but it's unlikely and as i said it only takes a couple of minutes to do.

Most of our website hosting clients only pay $10 a month, we set that particular setting when we first start hosting a website, but would change something like this for free.

Lynny
SEO Guru

How directory listings work in increasing your visitors.

To give an example of how directory listings work, to get people seeing your link, and visiting your site

I have a website I have done SEO work for for over three years. It's a relatively small e-commerce website selling gemstones and jewelery. www.gemhunters.com.au up until April this year I have only done onsite optimisation, not a lot of work, only a couple of hundred dollars a every 3 or 5 months, and her visitors where sitting around the 5000 to 5700 a month.

At the end of April 07 her website stats said she had 5009 visitors (tax month so visitors were down)

I stopped doing any onsite optimization, I started submitting her site to directory's, the owner
would only invest enough to do 100 submissions at a time, at the end of Sept 07 she had 9542
visitors. so she averaging even for her best month before I started submissions, and increase
of almost 4000 more visitors a month.

All up this client has spent just a little under $3000 on SEO and is getting as I said just over 9500 visitors last month.

The beauty of the SEO I do is if I stopped doing any SEO on her site right this minute, she would carry on getting about the same number of visitors, next month, next year, in 5 years. Sure it
would change a little on a monthly basis, but generally her monthly visitors would stay in the 7500 - 11000 per month range, as long as she keeps replacing the sold stock.

Let face it, in the general scheme of things, $3000 is peanuts,(and that was mates rates) but it really makes you wonder what would have happened if she had invested twice that amount of
money, don't you think?

I mean gemstones is a relatively small niche market, smaller than the gay market. I just did a search for a comparison of how many people searched for gay in relation to three gem related keywords, and the three gem words don't even rank.

Check out this results page of that search

Rainbow Tourism shaping up.

Almost a month ago, I wrote about the website we are building for Rainbow Tourism, it's a directory of gay friendly places to stay, well the site isn't quite live yet, but it's getting close now, only about 2 weeks to launch date.

A lot of things have happened in less than a month with this business relationship with Rainbow Tourism, besides making this site dynamic and a CMS, (means the owner of the site can make webpages, and doesn't have to know anything about webdesign) now all the listings are searchable, and the site is more manageable generally.

Though doing this project, we have met a wonderful American programmer/coder called Andrew, we started out with an Indian company doing the site, but things didn't work out, and we found Andrew, who can do any coding that we can't do, and the bonus is he's a very fast worker, he has good prices, and he speaks English, no more making pictures for every step of the process of building a very large website.

And if that isn't enough, he's a really nice guy, we have had him do four other small projects, as well as building the rainbow site right from the start.

My skills from the old days of owning the Canz Stock Photo Bank, are really helping me now, and the training of data entry staff, I did then, have proved invaluable for training staff now, to load all the listings into this new Tourism Site.

My arm is to sore to type anymore, it's been a hard month, See yah.

Boxit domain names

The owner of http://www.boxit.co.nz/ has been very impressed with the results of my SEO work,
so impressed, that she's decided to expand her business to the world market.
I advised her to buy some dot coms, and let them get into the search engines buy parking them over her orginal website.
This will get google looking though the site, and then her site will start to appear in world search engines, rather than mainly in New Zealand Search engines.
She brought these names.

http://www.boxitgiftbaskets.com/
http://www.boxitgifthampers.com/
http://www.boxitgiftboxes.com/

The results of the SEO are too numerous to mention here, but one stunning result is just for the for the word
boxes
in the google.co.nz search for New Zealand websites, her site is listed at #3 in the search results, thats a pretty impressive feat, ranking so well in a single word search.

When I do another analysis of keywords and their ranking in varies search engines, I'll write the results here so you all can read them.

ok, ok, you twisted my arm, I'll tell you three phrases she's doing #1 for in google.co.nz

buy gifts for ladies
gifts for ladies
ladies gifts

these are all #1 ranking in New Zealands google, search on New Zealand websites.
Before I started, these 3 particular searches where ranked at more than 100.
I know this, cause I don't search future than the first 10 pages,and the site didn't appear.

So thats quite remarkable, don't you think?

Lynny
NZ Best SEO

Helpful friends

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I thought I would relate a story, that I'm sure some of you could relate to.
Recently I was doing some SEO work, and a friend happen by, I said to her,if you wanted a website built what would you search for?.... she replied, I wouldn't search, I would just come and see you.
Now, I'm happy that she would come to me about a website, but god I could have strangled her, with friends like that it's any wonder I have to rely on forums to ask such questions....

Contacted by the owner of boxit.co.nz on 6th of Sept, to see what I could do for her website SEOwize. She hadn’t managed to find her site in the first 20 pages of any searches she made.

On the 8th of Sept I started working on the meta tags and title tags of the website, contrary to what people say Google does read and take notice of what meta tags say because by the 10th of September I noticed that her site was suddenly starting to show on page #at #1 and #2 for some keyphrases and on page #2 for many key phrases in google NZ.

By the next day when I finished working on the site I was noticing Nicky site showing on page 1 and 2 for all sorts of relevant key phrases. Like gift box, gift boxes , gift boxes nz, gift hampers nz
Will be interesting to see what happens within a week or two.

Exciting New Job for Gay Tourism Site

I have a new SEO job, which I really excited about. It's for a gay tourism site called Rainbow Tourism, it's a mature website, which is what I'm really excited about, I haven't worked on a mature site for a long time, except our own of course.

This site lists hotels, motels, everything from Luxury Lodges through Apartments and cottages, and then backpackers and camping grounds (which are extremely budget accomodation, 6-10 bunks per room)

The site has over 100 pages, mostly of places in NZ and Australia, and the accomodation that place has to offer. The owner has several domain names pointed at the site... when I say several, I mean about 30 or so that I have found so far, which is pretty impressive, gives me lot's of room for getting the site listed several times one after another in search engines, depending on what the page rank of that particular domain has.

Anyway, go take a look at the site for Gay and Lesbian friendly places to stay and if you do it soon, take a good look around, cause not only am I doing the SEO, but CanzDesign is redesigning the website, doing a new logo and other site graphics, building a cms, so we'll be busy campers for the next couple of months with the redesign, and a year with the SEO work.

And by the way take a look at the blog for the site, and make a comment on it, it's quite interesting. Gay Friendly Blog

Catch you later.

Lynny
NZ's Best SEO

Linda.com

I just started my paid submission to Linda.com and of course i started doing the SEO tutorials. I haven't learnt anything about SEo itself, but the tutor has some great tools he has found online for checking your SEO efforts.

I also wrote to the tutor, and advised him of one tool he didn't use which is a really good program, I think I have mentioned it before, but will again, it's the google free monitor, a neat little program that automatically searches google.com and tells you where your website is listed in google for the keywords/phrases you have optimised your website for.

The program is available at cleverstat.com they have a few other free programs that are worth having in your SEO arnsenal .

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Getting Used to Vista, and work as Ususal

having just got a new computer, with vista on, I'm after what 5 days, just now getting all my emails, favourites, found a skin for maxthon I like, revisted sites I belong to and loggin in. I've changed browser 4 times, lost my email 2 and when I found it, it didn't install about 8 times... geeze what a pain.... anyway all is well now.

Worked on EmpressGems fixing up a few things, but really thats all I have done...

oh yeah, I did some work on Hobits Hints 

I also added the Southern Gothic to websites to The Directory Submission Place I added another $20 for CanzDesign as well, I really love that place, just add your websites details, pay the money, and then in a few days the emails start arriving, that your website has been submitted to some directory or other.... and the spam from the directory starts coming.....

Ok, gotta go and rest, been online for 18 hours.....

NZ Best SEO

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It's here!!!

My new computer arrived right after I posted the last blog, so it's here it's here.

boring stuff i just want to record

My new computer which was supposed to arrive last week has been lost, they courier thinks it may be back where it started in Christchurch, but they aren't sure. So I'm hobbling along with this old one. They courier promise the computer will be here today.. huh... heard that one before.

The panda anti virus after being so good, is a royal pain in the arse, stopping email coming thorough, stopping the browser from working, general stopping all online activity, thats after working really well for 7 months.
I think this old one would be ok if it was reformatted, which Kym is going to do if and when the new baby ever turns up.

I have finished doing most of the work on the faceted gem website I'm having problems with that domain name, always calling it a .com rather than a .net better get my act together before I start doing the seo.
The owner of the site has decided to make it only faceted gems and jewelery and delete the rough gemstone. so after all that work of finding the size of each gem I had to delete them all... major groan, however the site is looking good.

OK, better be off and check all the stats for the different websites. Catch you later.

The Best SEO in NZ

Empress Gems

Empress Gems: "Experience • Class • Distinction"

I have built a website over the weekend the one above. I copied the database for another of our sites, and made a new website, with the old database,
I have since been though each and every gemstone about 10 times at least, and changed the descriptions and pricing. Changed the overall look of the site store.
The owner of the old site wanted another website to sell more expensive gems on, their original site is doing very very well, with over $1000 a week in sales, but they wanted something more classy, without losing their original website.

The front page is a whole new design, looks very cool huh.

I had been working on the site for less than 24 hours when I noticed that the google spiders were there, in 52 hours Google has visited almost 4000 times, and even msn and askjeeves has been been though a few times, there no stopping them spiders huh...

OK, time to rest for a while.

Lynn
NZ best SEO

Hobits Hints about SEO, Websites, Email Computers and the Internet

Hobits Hints about SEO, Websites, Email Computers and the Internet

I just found out I have a button on my toolbar that lets me post straight to this blog, which means i don't have to go login, and make a post, I can click do it, and it's published....

I'm a happy camper, little things amuse even the most intelligent among us huh...

As I said in the last post, we shifted hobit and his hints to their own sub domain, I have add a heap of hints hobit has written in the past couple of months, so there will be 22 hints when the web designer goes though them and polishes them up, hobit can only write, he's not so good at using Photoshop, which I suppose if expected, there a lot of keyboard shortcuts and his claws go between the keys and get stuck. You can see his claws in the picture and imaging how difficult it is for him.

Oh thats cool to, you can just drag pictures off web pages and the insert themselves into the blog... I can see this blog is going to be used a lot more.... great stuff.

Lynny NZ Best SEO

Been Busy SEO'ing

I have been very busy doing various SEO jobs for both our own site, www.canzdesign.com and a variety of websites I am SEO'ing at the moment.

One our own site, I have been writing various articles and adding them to the site, fixing up links within out site, and tweaking the meta tags of the site. I have also posting in several forums, and have written about 7 articles for Buzzle an article website. You can check out my articles on Buzzle by looking here http://www.buzzle.com/authors.asp?author=9145
I'm about to start taking screen shots of our SEO friendly CMS, there's been a lot of interest from Artists and photographers wanting an easy way of displaying their images.

The other sites I do SEO work on, have been having great results,
www.gemhunters.com.au has yet again increased it's visitors by over 2000 a month, and sales are up, the owner is thrilled. It lost a PR point on Google a couple of rounds ago, but if getting far more hits, being found for far more different search keywords and key phrases, and with sales skyrocketing everyone is happy.

I'm still working on the www.peoplecoachingpeople.co.nz site , and am teaching it's owner to do her own optimization, she seems to be picking it up quickly.

www.buykiwimade.com has had a make-over in the past month, I got rid of the CMS that was there, and created a directory for NZ owned websites.

I'm also doing the SEO work on three other websites, that are about to be opened.

www. Aotea. net is a web hosting website one of 6 we have built for the same company is about to be my next SEO job.

That site is going to be a real challenge, since there are at least 10 other sites owned by the same person, that have the same content on them. Google hasn't banned the site, but it seems to have put the site onto some kind of bad list, and is only visiting the site about 30 times a month, a site that size should be having Google visit at least 500 times a month, even if the content doesn't change. Read about the results of SEO for one of these sites here