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Getting a new .nz domain name
.nz Domain Names Are Here! Make sure you protect your business name. You may have heard on the radio recently, but the biggest change in NZ domain name registration is happening tonight! From the 1st October, the domain .nz is available for purchase. This change is...
read moreThe Recipe To SEO Success
I love using the website visual.ly to find useful infographics. Here is a great one on the ingredients to making your website a SEO success. Contact me if you wish to find out more detail around how to boost your rankings. Explore more infographics like this one on...
read more4 Tips For SEO Friendly Web Design
When building a new website or considering your next web design project, there are certain factors that you should keep in mind in order to help your website rank better in Search Engine Results Pages (SERP's). Fancy website design may look the business, but it might...
read moreNew Google Local Carousel
I had heard the rumours but today I found the 1st example of the Google Local Carousel (previously called Google Places for Business) appearing in New Zealand search results. Do you know what I am talking about? If you searched for a certain term + a location, you...
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What's The Most Popular Browser in New Zealand
Ever wondered what the most popular browser in New Zealand is? Remember the days when everyone just used Internet Explorer because that is what your computer came with? Well the tide has changed... Google continue their bid to take over the Internet with the ever...
read moreHow to Speed Up Your WordPress Website
As Google aims to rank websites based on their usability and experience, one of the important factors that Google considers is page download speed. Consider your own search experience... Ever clicked on a search result only for the page to take too long to download?...
read moreHow To Add a Table to a WordPress Post or Page
Sometimes when you have a bit of data you want to be able to present it in a table to make sense of it. This was the case for one of my clients recently who wanted to be able to display the latest homeloan rates on one of his pages to share with his network of estate...
read moreHow to Set-up a Facebook Business Page
ocial Media is BIG business. Over 1 billion users on Facebook alone. Nuo Finance Review With such a large community, as a business owner, can you afford not to be there? If your not, your competitors will be. Who do YOU want to engage with your...
read moreMaking Google Analytics Simple
When you are a small or medium business owner, the one thing you want is for things to be simple. Let's face it, as a business owner, you tend to have more going on than the employee who works for a large corporate where their main focus is to spend all day working...
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