Recently the Printing Industries Association of Australia in conjunction with the Graphic Arts Association of Australia asked for us to hold a webinar for their members on SEO.

The aim of the webinar was to give a general overview of what seo is, what are some of the key elements involved in an effective online solution and greater considerations for further discussion.

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Answering SEO questions with focus on bloggers and blogging:

- Technical optimisation
- Content
- Authorship
- Guest posts
- Safe link practices
- Latest algorithms
- Blogging platforms

You’ll be able to watch the event live on this page:

How to join?…

Content rejuvenation describes the process of further development of existing content on your website, specifically targeting pages which are already popular in search engines. The idea is to maximise the benefits to your authorship and the website you write for.

 

Today I had a look at my author stats in Google Webmaster Tools and found some ordinary pages doing surprising well in search.

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Results of a recent survey showed that only 50% of webmasters consider Google Webmaster Tools search query data accurate enough to be actionable. Personally, I am a believer in Google Webmaster Tools and and have been quite active building systems around the search query data.

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Author Rank is a popular concept in the SEO industry and one of the hottest topics in 2012. What I find strange about the whole thing is that nobody has any shred of proof that Author Rank plays any role in Google’s search algorithm today.

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Challenge #2

 

Past SEO challenge hangouts:

Challenge #1

Watch Dan Petrovic & Martin Reed in Dejan SEO Challenge Hangout. We’ll be testing SEO knowledge of webmasters from around the world with more than 30 questions in three difficulty levels. Audience votes for their favourite participant in the comments below.

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Search result hijacking is a surprisingly straightforward process. This post will go over theory, test cases done by Dejan SEO team and offer ways for webmasters to defend against search result theft.

I wish to thank Jim Munro, Rob Maas and Rand Fishkin for allowing me to run my experiment on their pages.

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We’re seeing signs of thin-repetitive content finding its way back into Google’s index in the last couple of days. Is this a sign of a gentler, more forgiving search quality algorithm?

There are a few search queries which I perform regularly, one of them scans for recent references of our website online and this typically this returns fresh and unique references.

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Your ranking data could be skewed since the introduction of authorship suggestions. In this article we investigate how this could happen.

Major SEO portals have recently covered the “hidden benefit of authorship” where users who return back to results after reading your article are presented with additional three articles written by you.

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I want to begin this post with its high-sounding title by bucking the trend regarding what the worldwide SEO community says and regarding what I generally claim. In a certain sense I am going against what I myself believe, but that is precisely the point: “What we believe in and our general convictions cannot be applied to SEO or to data analysis”.

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