Category Archives: general news

Six things I learned at the Internet Show at Darling Harbour today

It’s worthwhile making the effort to go to conferences particularly if the speakers are giving you the latest, greatest information and not just selling their wares. The Internet Show today had some very good speakers willing to part with their knowledge. We’re all learning just some are at different stages of the learning curve –

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SEO – be seen on the Internet

It’s all about SEO – search engine optimization for your website. And it’s not rocket science. It does however require knowledge about how SEO works, how to maximize keywords on webpages, metatagging of pages and so forth. It also helps if small to medium businesses set up their websites so that they can manage their

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How easy is it to move a website from one CMS to another?

The latest website built by the Bold Type team was in fact taking an existing website from one content management system (CMS) to another. We moved Linda Magson Counselling from Joomla to WordPress. In effect, it was a rebuild. Moving files across was not an option as Linda wanted to improve her search engine optimization,

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Glitterbox Hair Salon wins top award

Great news for the Glitterbox team who won the best hairdresser in Sydney’s inner west at the 2011 Inner West Local Business Awards. The entire Glitterbox team attended the awards held at Burwood RSL on 8 June this year. Sharon, owner of Glitterbox, was ecstatic and thanked her hard working team and her clients for

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SEO Tips for Web Content Writers

Writing great content for a website starts with what you write on each webpage. Before you start writing for the web Go to Google Keyword Tool and search different keywords that relate to the information on the webpage you are writing. For this article, I searched: keyword content SEO relevant SEO web content From this

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5 worst mistakes for search engine optimization

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) – that is getting your website showing on page one of Google for keywords that are specific to your industry – is not easy even when you really work at it and have all your webpages set up to improve SEO. If you don’t have your website functioning to improve SEO,

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What’s great about the iPad 2 for my business?

What I love most about the iPad 2 is that it ‘connects’ to my G4 iPhone when I am not in a Wi-Fi zone. My iPhone effectively becomes the modem for my iPad 2. This means when I’m away on a business trip, all the motels and hotels that want to charge me for a

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Why is a successful website like a shark?

A website is a bit like a shark, it has to keep moving to stay alive! Businesses that are serious about their website working for them to increase business realize that they need their website to be dynamic rather than static. By dynamic, we mean that you have to keep working on your website, posting

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Queensland floods

Our hearts go out to the people of Queensland who are enduring awful circumstances with the floods in that state. Bold Type has donated $1000 to the Premiers Flood Appeal – the least we can do. On the upside, it’s great to see the spirit of Queenslanders. Many who have escaped the worst of the

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EchoStars website

We at Bold Type are proud to announce that the EchoStars website is now up and running and accepting donations for their worthy cause. We’re delighted with the results of our first pro bono website build. During 2010, Sue Stevens, Managing Director, decided that it was timely to donate a website each year to a

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