You dont have to be a bastard..

Simon Goodrich, Melbourne based online entrepreneur says:

"I dont realy believe you have to be a bastard to get ahead in business. Noone likes nasty people, but it can be nasty out there in the business world. I believe more in integrity - this helps you through the hard times. It's easy to be a bastard, but how can you sleep at night?"

Its nice to know that one of the top Australian Entrepreneurs under 30 is leading the way in ethical business as he looks like one young man who is only going to rise.


(quote taken from Royal Auto, June 2009)

Seven Million websites deleted!

In case you missed the big event, on October 26th, Yahoo! has officially shutdown all GeoCities.com websites. IYou will notice the major search engines have also removed all links to these pages if you search for site:geocities.com in either Google, Bing or Yahoo.

The SEO impact of this shutdown is potentially huge. Let’s take a look at the numbers:

• There were 7,450,000 GeoCities URLs indexed in Google
• GeoCities.com had around 10 million visitors in September
• GeoCities URLs ranked in the top 20 of Google for around 680,000 different keywords.

What are your thoughts?

Fast tracking blog traffic

When building your blogging database, offer genuinely interesting posts. Dont bombard with metatags and advertising. People will soon turn off. Talk about things that are either relevant, controversial, real "news"

Beware of software that will help you build large databases and get people to follow you.

Be ethical.

Be consistent.

Time and effort in offering posts to your readers is often the best way to keep the traffic that you've gained.

Happy blogging!