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This week I chat to the Internet Ninja himself Gabriel Machuret about a list of 10 things SEO companies can do in the wake of recent Google algorithm changes. Gab is an influential online marketer and SEO specialist and has been ranting about SEO companies for a long time on his blog Internet Ninja :) He also has a successful SEO business himself and has had success in many areas online. For his latest project check out 10 Awesome Hours. or Download the file or visit iTunes. SEO companies where to from here - top 10 list 1.   Go into content, re-train your clients 2.   Give up 3.   Build a private network 4.   Diversify (Adwords, social media optimization, content) 5.   Keep doing what you always did 6.   Niche down / industry specific 7.   Work on performance 8.   Provide coaching instead of services 9.   Online reputation management 10. Qualify your leads Mentions Gab's Mixergy interview with Andrew Warner - You can watch it here if you're not easily distracted by girls in bikinis (I downloaded it via iTunes). Gab's new project 10 Awesome Hours Gab's blog Internet Ninja Tech tip - The Insider SEO Site List Check out my listof over 500+ websites to submit to for SEO purposes. This list contains a bunch of do follow blogs, blogs with commentLuv installed, directories particularly Australian business directories, ping lists, blog directories and much more. Be careful with submitting to a lot of sites like this particularly given Google's recent changes. Only use this list if you know what you are doing. Full transcription D. Norris: Web Domination is brought to you My Start-up Informly. My app shows you a simple one page live report on all of your important business information, talks to your favorite services like analytics, mulch and zero and more and centralizes the important info on one page accessible by mobile or the web. The basic plan is free so feel free to check inform.ly/podcast for more info about the app or about the show. Hey guys! Welcome to the show that managed to half its iTunes subscribers in one week after having Brandon Sinclair on the show. Today, I'm going to talk through a list of ten things SCI companies can do as a result of recent changes in Google with the internet ninja himself, Gabriel Matchuret. At the end of the show, show you through my personal list here, spread sheet, which I've linked up to in the show notes, that includes over five hundred blogs, directories and web tips, when I saw it, etcetera you can submit to. If you like the show, please head over to webdomination.co and leave a comment or give us a review on iTunes and we'll read those out on the show. Okay, cool. Let's get second interview. Speaker 1: Web Domination. D. Norris: Gabriel, welcome to the show. G. Matchuret: Hey, Dan! I'm so happy to be here. Thank you so much for inviting me. D. Norris: Oh, no worries. Thank you.

This week I chat with Brendon Sinclair from Tailored Web Consulting about the 5 biggest mistakes in business. Brendon is an experienced web / marketing guru having run his own business Tailored Consulting for many years. He is also a public speaker, author and one of my mentors so I was stoked to have him on the show. Whether he comes back will depend on how many subscribers I lose as a result of his appearance ha. or Download the file or visit iTunes. Shouts / News Check out the Informly iPhone app. The 5 biggest mistakes in business 1.  Not doing what you love (or not loving being in business) 2.  Not having a business model 3.  Not marketing or doing poor  marketing 4.  Saying "Yes" to everything/everyone 5.  Letting negativity get you down 6.  Not managing expectations well (under promise, over deliver) Mentions Josh from iOnline List of people potentially offended Josh from iOnline Americans Middle age women Clients Tech tips Feedburner for counting RSS subscribers and allowing people to subscribe via email Feedsmith plugin for redirecting your inbuilt WordPress feed URL to the feedburner URL RSS footer plugin for adding an anchor text backlink to your RSS feed. List of some RSS Directories http://boingboing.net http://www.icerocket.com http://www.rssbuffet.com http://blogdigger.com http://jordomedia.com http://feedagg.com http://syndic8.com http://feedsee.com Full transcription Dan: Do you have any questions? Brendan: Why is the sky blue? Dan: Why is the sky blue? Brendan: Yeah. My kids come up with that one when I'm out. You got any question. Yeah, Dad, why is the sky blue? Dan: It's not, have a look. Brendan: [Laughing] Yeah, it's gray. Yeah you smart ass its, gray. Dan: Web Domination is brought to you by My Start Up Webcontroller. My app shows you a simple one page live report on all of your important business information. It talks to your favorite services like Analytics, Mailchimp, Xero and more and centralizes the important info on one page accessible by mobile or the web. The basic plan is free. Feel free to check out Webcontroller.com/podcast. For more info, that be the app or about the show. Dan: Hey guys, welcome to the show, on today's show I'm really excited about today's show. I've got Brandon Sinclair,

This week I chat with online marketing expert and entrepreneur Damian Thompson (@damianthompson) about the verge article Scamworld and the Internet Marketing scene in general. or Download the file or visit iTunes. Shouts Dan Andrews - The entrepreneur's guide to audio content. E Web Style - SEO Podcast Justin and Jason from - Techzing Podcast Mentioned during the discussion Follow Damian Thompson - Twitter Verge article - Scamworld Danny Sullivan's response - Internet marketing isn't a scam, fix it please, Verge Tyrone Shum on the Niche Pursuits podcast - Outsourcing and SEO services Tech tip LinkDiagnosis.com - Free high PR competitor backlink checker Full Transcription Dan: Web Domination is brought to you by my startup, Informly. My App shows you a simple, one page, live report on all of your important business information, talks to your favorite services, like Analytics, Mailchimp, Xero and more and centralizes the important info on one page, accessible by mobile or the web. The basic plan is free. Feel free to check out Inform.ly/podcast for more info about the App or about the show. Hi, guys, welcome to Web Domination, Episode two, "Are all Internet Marketers Scammers?" coming to you today from the beautiful Gull Coast. Man, you have got to see the weather here. I'm going to chuck a pic up of how the weather is looking at the moment, and it's pretty much been this way for about three weeks. It's amazing. On today's show, I'm having a chat to Damian Thompson about an Internet marketing article that came out last week called "ScamWorld" by TheVerge.com. Damian is a marketing consultant of about 20 years, entrepreneur, on-line marketing expert, these days, really, really smart dude. We're going to have a great chat to him about this article and Internet marketing in general. Thanks so much to everyone who listened to the first show. I really appreciate all the feedback, and I had some positive comments, which is always nice, and some constructive stuff, which will likely be improved on this time, mainly the audio. So I got a few tips from a few people. Actually, Dan at [inaudible 00:01:21]NBA.com wrote a really good article on podcasting. There's a few things I got out of that so thanks for that and mentioned our podcast, which is really cool. Thanks for that, Dan, and thanks to other people who have said that they enjoy the show. In general, I'm going to be trying to get these out on every Friday. I think this one might be a little bit late, because we're a little bit late on catching up on the i...

This week I chat to SEO veteran Jaime Marsden about panda's, penguins and generally what's going on in search. or Download the file or visit iTunes. Mentions http://passivepanda.com/seo-side-hustle - Great article on Jamie's background and great photo featuring said 3rd degree burns http://www.oyster.com/ http://www.quora.com/ http://answers.yahoo.com/ Tech tip Lucid Chart Thanks to AntarcticaBound for the pic. Full Transcription Speaker 1: Can I put your photo on there, as well?   Speaker 2: I did something for Passive Panda.  He put some photo up of me.  I don't know where he got it from, but it looks like I got third-degree burns, so I'm like…   Speaker 1: All right, well, I'll make sure we do some airbrushing with this one then.   Male: Web domination is brought to you by My Startup informly. My app shows you a simple one-page live report on all of your important business information.  Talks to your favorite services, like analytics, [inaudible00:00:27] and more, and centralizes the important info on one page, accessible by mobile or the web. The basic plan is free.  Feel free to check out inform.ly/podcast for more info about the app or about the show.   Speaker 1: Hey guys, on this week's show, I'm checking up with SEO veteran Jamie Marsden for a great chat about the latest Google changes and where we are at with search. If you stick around to the end of the show, I'll let you know about a great free charting tool that I use every day.  Let's get stuck in.   Male: Web domination. Speaker 1: Today, we will be talking about what's going on in search, and joining me is 14-years SEO veteran Jamie Marsden. Welcome, Jamie, and congrats on being my first guest.  Jamie : All right, then.  Thank you for having me. Speaker 1: Do you want to give us, I guess, with a lot of the changes that are going on in Google at the moment, the SEO community, and I think the business community in general are, they're sort of starting to tweet that this idea of creating really good content and earning links as opposed to building links really is the way to go. That's kind of where I want to focus on today.  Do you want to start with that and just a bit of background of what's going on in search? Jamie: Sure. I mean, basically, what's happened over the last, probably getting over for two years now is, effectively, Google have really upped the ante when it comes to search, and what they're trying to do  is remove what they call web spam, and they're trying to raise the actual quality of the results as such. One of the things that all business owners usually get wrong is that they they're Google's customer because they're the website, but really, how Google sees it is, the searcher is their customer, and everything is focused towards that searcher. So, basically… Speaker 1: When you say "web spam", can you give me a few examples of that? Jamie: Web spam would be something where, it's basically where someone's trying to manipulate the actual results.Instead of it actually just,