Creative Development – Digital Agency Sydney
Creative Development Sydney digital marketing agency. Connecting Digital Strategy to Analytics to Online Advertising. Adwords partners, SEO and Content Marketing.
We thought we would run through a quick list of what lessons we have learned from the latest Panda update based on the traffic of and from Article directories. Niche is king. By far the least affected article directories are the ones that occupy a strong niche. A look across the largest general article directories …
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We just thought we would share with you an amusing problem we just had with one of our client’s Google Places listing. Apparently the term “joints” was not allowed, even though it was for a physiotherapy listing.
We have been sitting back and waiting to see what the fallout has been from the Google “Panda” update. At first almost everyone talked about content farms and scrapers being the ones that were going to get hit, but now it seems there have been a lot of other innocent bystanders that have been caught in the …
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We have to gloat when we get the chance, because lets face it, no one else will say out loud when we are right. SEO Book have come out and highlighted a video from Matt Cutts where he explains the reduction in value for keyword focussed domains. BTW We told you about this almost …
Google announced this week that it was targeting specific “low quality” sites, such as eHow. What is also interesting is that they are taking the top several dozen or so most-blocked domains from their Chrome extension and this algorithmic change addresses 84% of them, which Google claim is strong independent confirmation of the user benefits. …
Over the weekend Google came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service giving anyone with a voice connection the ability to tweet. Google acquired Say Now last week, and claim to have worked over the weekend to make this idea a reality. Google say; It’s already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail …
There have been some reports over at Search Engine Land that Bing may be Copying Google’s results. What seems to be actually happening, and what Bing have admitted to, is that they use information from Explorer’s users to generate results in Bing. Harry Shum, Corporate VP at Bing said they use; clickstream data we get …
As part of our monthly review of advertising costs across the internet, we look at the cost of advertising using Google Adwords. Every month we take a basket of keywords, such as plumbing, SEO, mobile phones, cleaning etc, and look at the published average CPC from Google. We also take into account changes in competition …
We thought we would get in early and predict the coming trends for SEO in 2011. 1. Increased Focus on Local Search (Google Places) Google has already shown its intention to increase the importance of local search. Some keywords have already started showing a combined local and normal search, as you can see in the …
In our monthly survey into the cost of Google Adwords, we have found that the average cost of advertising on Google has fallen by about 10% from an average cost of $3.73, which when normalised for competition becomes $1.50, to $3.36 ($1.31). A slight fall in competition by 0.001 was matched by the fall in …
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