Posts by AussieWebmaster

There are a number of good keyword tools - Google Keyword Planner, SpyFu my preferred and has a free version to start and see if works for you - SEMRush and others

WP Rocket is a good plugin - for SEO would also look at Yoast

You can use free versions of ChatGPY or Gemini and then run through Grammarly and ask it to rewrite in your voice if you use it often

I have been using RivalFlow - new part of SpyFu - I have paid version but believe there is a free trial or free slight access

The title and description can be pulled by Google without one being there - so same is done when blocked from crawling - if there is a link on the site to the page that does not have a no index no follow wrapped around the link will be how Google gets the page and ranks it.
Google does not follow robots.txt instructions

I have found reviews for products can help ranking for the product - Google now includes 2-3 review pages (from authority sites) in search results for products. Do quality reviews from your expertise site and you will rank and can include affiliate links to buy the items

From 2014 https://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/googlebot-accepting-cookies/

Yes Google has had a tendency of using their own ideas for descriptions - they have just started doing the same with title tags. The Titkle tags seem to have an affinity with the H1 tag so can be manipulated back to a degree. Descriptions are tougher

also join Google Plus communities and engage with others posts as well as post yours - if you just throw up your own pages it really looks like a drive by and you will not get much taction but if you engage by commenting on others and plusing you will grow your followers

best way to build PR as in page rank (Larry Page rank) is more content and quality inbound links

but you should work on traffic and ppc is best investment - use local terms ie. add the area names the business is in to the furniture terms and in setting of adwords use zip codes of surrounding areas you are targeting

get a Wordpress site and use Woo Commerce plugin - walks you through how and where to put things in to you shop and then connects to your payment method - Paypal or Merchant account

Too many people live and die by the number of Facebook Likes they or their business gets - people need to realize that they are a pure waste of time with the recent changes in how FB shows your posts in the Newsfeed - right now they show about 2-5% of your followers your posts so building Likes is really a waste - especially when you read artciles about how so few people engage with a brand after they have liked it.

You need to get beyond the Like and go to actual people - engage with them make a real connection and don't spam them with comments about your products or services.

You can buy clicks in FB and make money - you can engage with people and have them follow you and talk with you and eventually they might buy something but it all is about making a real connection not getting some arbitrary Like

You need to read as much as you can about the basics and then keep up with how things are changing. Try

http://searchengineland.com/guide/what-is-seo

http://www.seobook.com/free-account/

Then read and read and read
SearchEngineWatch
SearchEngineJournal
SearchEngineLand

this is a bit confusing - are you asking or telling us what the new update is?

There has been an update noticed over the past week - but involves a lift in big brands and their links

okay where are the pics of you in the Star Trek uniform????

The ZDNet Great Debate Series explored the proposition: IT Department: Cost Center or Profit Center?. Discussing the IT industry and how it can adapt and prove to be a contributor to a company's profit as opposed to just the cost of doing business.

The debaters, Juston James of TechRepublic and Dana Gardner of ZDNet, gave some great insights in to the problems facing IT departments. James taking the cost side explained that while it could be possible, many in the IT industry are not adopting a profit prespective which could find them struggling in this era of outsourcing.

The problem, as James points out, is "most IT departments consistently fail to deliver value." The days of setting up servers, intranet and company records databases are gone and there is a need for IT employees to stay in front of new technology. If the department is to bring profit to the company it needs to be aware of what is hot and how the new tech can be incorporated in to the company's approach.

My suggestion has always been to have IT listen to what the marketing and sales teams are asking for and have them forward any new tech these people come across as they interact with others in their industry. A good example is the installation of VOIP system for the company, early adopters saved their companies hundreds of thousands of dollars. Similarly integrating CMS with SEO abilities or developing platforms to promote affiliate marketing can be …

yahoo and bing get conversions cheaper but google has the volume

I was never one for using keywords in my URL. I would rather have a catchy domain name that is brandable and conducive to word of mouth as opposed to something that strings together a bunch of search keywords.

that used to be the case and the branding thing is still true but look at Google search results... the domain name as a keyword gets a lot of play these days