We’re hiring (finally). Just posted the following job on seek.com.au
SEO Trainee - Link Building
Flexible hours (4-10 hrs per week)
Work from home
Suit student
Passionate about the internet
$25 per hr
You.
Are currently studying (or a recent graduate of) marketing, communications, IT or design*. You have excellent writing skills and are keen to learn more about online marketing. You also have a computer with reliable internet access and a comfortable pair of slippers because you will be working from home.
You have a good understanding of the internet, are familiar with how to use Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, subscribe to a few RSS feeds of interest and either have your own blog or regularly read someone else’s. You will need to be computer literate and able to type with more than two fingers.
Your role will be to create links to our clients websites. You will be expected to attend one day training in the Northern Beaches where you will be shown how we do this and provided with some really cool tools. You do not need any previous experience, just curiosity, passion and motivation. If you have trouble uploading photos to Facebook, this isn’t for you.
Us.
We are a small agency, but also one of the Top 25 SEO companies in Australia. We’ve been in business for over three years and the market dictacts it’s time to grow. We have a stable of over 100 clients and are set to rapidly grow over the next few years. Our main focus is web development and online marketing. Our websites have won many awards and can do some very clever things. Check us out at www.blackmaxmedia.com.au
You must reside in Sydney and be a permanent Australian resident.
*Design students are encouraged to apply so we can also throw you some of our overflow of graphic and web design work.
Yesterday Google released their SEO starter guide to the public. This document was initially given to Google staff, but they’ve now released it to assist website owners.
It really is SEO 101, but it’s a great lesson to new website owners that there is no substitute for a quality website when it comes to chasing a high search engine position.
Feeling a bit of information overload? This video will confirm some scary statistics.
Did you there is more information in the New York Times in one week than a person was likely to come across their entire life in the 18th century? Somehow I don’t think that makes us smarter…
There have been 31 billion searches on Google this year, yet another reason to be on top!
The BBC has reported from Silicon Valley the next stage in online communities is exclusivity. Following on from a report by HP researcher, Bernardo Huberman, they both talk about the amount of information and groups which is freely accessible to everyone on the internet.
“Everybody has access to the same kind of information and the same array of products,” he said. “Those who manage to convince you to part with a lot of money in exchange for being exclusive, feeling different, and feeling part of an elite group are the ones that are going to make it.”
I think this is a valid point. As consumers expect a level of free stuff from the internet, they are finding out most of it is garbage, which will condition them into thinking they will have to pay for quality.
Those mischievous chaps over at SEO Black Hat have written about Google’s black hole. A very real phenomena that happens frequently. It’s not what you think either, not about being page 1 one day and no-where to be found the next, although that too happens a lot. No, this is about the power of authority sites and how they dominate 70% of the top rankings.
