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		<title>Storage Wars now in Australia with uShip</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for John to send me the link to this unique site. uShip. To be honest, I saw the show Storage wars so I was aware about the idea behind uShip but last week we spend a good time checking the site and looking a bit more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for John to send me the link to this unique site. uShip. To be honest, I saw the show Storage wars so I was aware about the idea behind uShip but last week we spend a good time checking the site and looking a bit more careful, so we decided to write a &#8220;proper&#8221; article about it to explain how uShip works and why the idea is simply brilliant (and now is in Australia! so that&#8217;s awesome news)</p>
<p id="internal-source-marker_0.008518825545360209" dir="ltr">With thousands of products shipped every day on eBay, uShip has made it easy for buyers and sellers to make sure that their goods are transported as easily as possible. eBay users can integrate their accounts with a uShip account through the eBay Shipping Center on uShip’s website. This allows for easy access to a variety of shipping tools. It also makes it easier to track auctions. For sellers, their customers can have access to shipping estimates by adding uShip widgets to their eBay listings. On the other hand, buyers looking for services like <a href="http://www.uship.com/au/">interstate transport</a> can make a well informed purchase and gather quotes before they purchase any item by linking the eBay listing to uShip.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">There are several benefits for sellers who add uShip tools to their listings. It is a great way to attract buyers who can avail of as much as 60% discounts on shipping. What’s more is that sellers can get paid as much as $20 for every shipment transacted through uShip. The Shipping Price Estimator is a great tool for sellers to make buyers aware shipping information and the potential to save as much as 60% where thousands of transportation companies vie for their business. Then again, lower shipping costs are a great way to attract more bids.</p>
<p dir="ltr">uShip offers a fast and easy way to list eBay auction items on their website. When listing on uShip all you need to do is enter the eBay item number and the user name of the buyer. This will transfer all the shipping information such as title, descriptions, pictures, and other relevant details to uShip. Sellers can request buyers to list their eBay item on uShip so that they can receive discounted shipping quotes prior to winning your auction. In the event of losing the bid, their uShip listing will be removed.</p>
<p dir="ltr">No matter what, you will always look for the best shipping company to transport your goods at a reasonable price. Most importantly, you need to find a credible service provider, which is why you ought to let reputation influence your choice rather than a low price. Make sure to read the transporter’s terms and conditions before you sign on the dotted line. A contractual agreement is essential. This will help you not only save time and money but avoid any risks of losing even more money in case of any dispute. With uShip, you can always look forward to saving a significant amount of time and money when you make the right approach.</p>
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		<title>Beautiful? Try Eyebrown Threading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We usually don&#8217;t put here sites in Joomla, yes, we have to be honest, we are WordPress guys, but this case we got an email to recommend one site of the day and we love the site. The topic is 100% unique for sure, eyebrow threading, that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We usually don&#8217;t put here sites in Joomla, yes, we have to be honest, we are WordPress guys, but this case we got an email to recommend one site of the day and we love the site. The topic is 100% unique for sure, <a href="http://www.zubiasthreading.com.au/site/">eyebrow threading</a>, that it seems is ultra-popular in WA.</p>
<p>But hey! this site is not about beauty is about sites and this site really combines a beautiful theme where the colors make the site extremely elegant and it shows u can really have a proper elegant slideshow (yes, even in Joomla) so enjoy the site of the day!</p>
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		<title>Site of the day: Amazing wedding Photographer in Sydney</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We really like templates that related to photography and it seems that many sites out there do a lovely job regarding displaying wedding photos in elegant portfolios, (all thanks to the magic of CMS and WordPress) today we decided to feature one of that sites that is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We really like templates that related to photography and it seems that many sites out there do a lovely job regarding displaying wedding photos in elegant portfolios, (all thanks to the magic of CMS and WordPress) today we decided to feature one of that sites that is simple, elegant and inspires mmm love <img src='http://www.australianwebmaster.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  Our <a href="http://www.creekstreet.com.au/">wedding photography Sydney</a> expert of the day. Creek Street. We like how sometimes less is more and in this site clearly the wedding photos are powerful, clear, (load fast) and reflect the whole spirit of the site</p>
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		<title>Site of the Day: Real Estate in Merimbula</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have to be a non-objective here, we love Merimbula, in the past we have booked some Merimbula Accommodation and today is kind of cool to review a site about Merimbula Real Estate. Not only we really like the pages, but how easy is to find info [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have to be a non-objective here, we love Merimbula, in the past we have booked some <a href="http://www.gottagetaway.com.au">Merimbula Accommodation</a> and today is kind of cool to review a site about <a href="http://www.fisknagle.com.au/">Merimbula Real Estate</a>. Not only we really like the pages, but how easy is to find info across the site. They have done an impressive job to display the properties in a personal and approachable way.</p>
<p>Thanks to John to recommended us starting reviewing real estate sites.</p>
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		<title>Adventure Friends: Let&#8217;s go exploring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love this ecommerce site. The photos make me wish I was camping&#8230; and hey! I&#8217;m not a camping person, but the products are great. They are the distributors of  Ferrino, that they produce some amazing options when looking for an ultralight tent. &#160;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Love this ecommerce site. The photos make me wish I was camping&#8230; and hey! I&#8217;m not a camping person, but the products are great. They are the distributors of  <a href="http://adventurefriends.com.au">Ferrino</a>, that they produce some amazing options when looking for an <a href="http://adventurefriends.com.au/ultralight">ultralight tent</a>.</p>
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		<title>Site of the Day: Outdoor Heaters? You Bet!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 04:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a bit ironic we are featuring this website just when the winter is almost finishing&#8230; mainly because they offer amazing outdoor heaters. But hey! We believe any business should have one of these and we really like the way they build their site&#8230; so this is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a bit ironic we are featuring this website just when the winter is almost finishing&#8230; mainly because they offer amazing <a href="http://alfrescospaces.com.au/heating/">outdoor heaters</a>. But hey! We believe any business should have one of these and we really like the way they build their site&#8230; so this is our site of the day. Nothing very fancy but very practical and we digg the colors!</p>
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		<title>Site of the Day: Hammocks Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Really cool site we found today. Hammocks Australia. We all love hammocks, such a cool product and these guys have produce an easy to navigate website that give us tons of options for Hammocks and even for mexican wrestling masks. lol How cool is that??]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Really cool site we found today. <a href="http://www.hammocksaustralia.com.au/">Hammocks</a> Australia. We all love hammocks, such a cool product and these guys have produce an easy to navigate website that give us tons of options for Hammocks and even for <a href="http://www.hammocksaustralia.com.au/mexican-clothing/wrestlingmasks.html">mexican wrestling masks</a>. lol How cool is that?? <img src='http://www.australianwebmaster.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Improving WordPress Site Structure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An often-overlooked part of on-page SEO is the wordpress site structure. A simple and easy to navigate structure with obvious navigational links on blogs is fundamental to keep users on the site enabling them to easily browse around the site. When developing a wordpress site, this should [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An often-overlooked part of on-page SEO is the wordpress site structure. A simple and easy to navigate structure with obvious navigational links on blogs is fundamental to keep users on the site enabling them to easily browse around the site. When developing a wordpress site, this should actually be one of the first things you make sure that you get right. Make sure to use important keywords when building the category structure so that you can easily archive posts in relevant categories. Having a good site structure ensures that the flow of link juice obtained from backlinks goes to your most important money pages on your site.</p>
<p>That’s why undertaking SEO keyword research is so important in the early phase of a project. Once you have a list of 10-20 core keywords you want to rank for, you can structure your site around those keywords. Make sure to target the top 1-3 keywords on the homepage, since it is considered the most important page of your site as it generally always attracts the most number of backlinks. You also want to think of a good way to categorize the information on your blog.</p>
<p>When targeting other important keywords, which are less competitive then the home page keywords, the inner pages should be as close to the homepage as possible. For example, your secondary keywords could be linked directly from the homepage so that the link juice will flow to those pages. Generally the further the page is from the home page the less authority it has. This is only not true when the page has many backlinks to the specific page.</p>
<p>As your site grows, the key is to continually monitor which pages produce the most money and best interaction with blog visitors so that you can link to the most popular pages in the top navigation to ensure link juice flows to the most important pages of your site.</p>
<p>This can easily be done with the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/">Popular Posts</a> wordpress plugin, which displays the most popular posts in the sidebar of your blog.</p>
<p>Great navigation and site structure that supports the searcher also helps visitors stay on your site for longer. The more time visitors spend on your site, the more likely they are to become loyal readers that will go on to buy whatever you’re selling. Installing the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/similar-posts/">Similar Posts</a> or <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/">Related Posts</a> plugin in WordPress allows you to display a highly configurable list of related posts at the end of your posts. If the searcher likes the post they just read, the chances are they will like other articles on the same subject.</p>
<p>So with all of these great wordpress plugins it allows you to quickly optimize the site structure of any wordpress blogs, so there is no reason not to do it.</p>
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		<title>How To Be Relevant in Search Engines!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relevance is the key to high quality backlinks. It makes sense for google to give more weight to links from a relevant domain/page because it’s a much more natural link in the eyes of google. If you were doing link building for your site and google wasn’t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Relevance is the key to high quality backlinks. It makes sense for google to give more weight to links from a relevant domain/page because it’s a much more natural link in the eyes of google. If you were doing link building for your site and google wasn’t in the picture, would you be trying to obtain links from sites that weren’t related to your site? I doubt it.</p>
<p>Having a large number of relevant high page rank pages pointing to your page is the best way to impress google to get some google love. But when obtaining links to your pages, don’t just consider the PR of a page, think about the relevance of the site/page.</p>
<p>The Page Rank system does not consider the relevance of links, and Google looks at various non-PR factors to judge relevance. They use anchor text (the text which is used to link to a webpage) and I suspect that they are also using other types of semantic analysis to determine the link relevance, such as the surrounding text on the page. This is why lower PR pages can outrank higher PR pages.</p>
<p>So when analyzing the competitiveness of a particular keyword, not only do you want to look at the number and quality of links pointing to a page, but also look the anchor text of the links to consider how many relevant links you will need to outrank your competitors.</p>
<p>Even if the #1 page you want to outrank has a lot of links pointing directly to the page, if a lot of the links are not targeting the keyword you are trying to rank for, then its going to be a lot easier ranking for that keyword with fewer quality keyword rich backlinks.</p>
<p>Authority websites like about.com have thousands of links pointing to their site, and hence have many high PR pages, but considering relevance is an important part of the algorithm for ordering websites, if google feels that your page is more relevant for the search query you will outrank the authority site to claim the number one position on google, sending you huge quantities of targeted visitors at the same time.</p>
<p>So don’t get discouraged when a keyword you want to target seems fairly competitive. Obviously it helps when your competitors have weak backlinks, but if there are authority websites in your niche market, a lot of the time these pages are ranking based on domain authority alone but can be beaten.</p>
<p>On further analysis, quite often there isn’t many links pointing to the specific page so there is an opportunity to outrank them if you can get more relevant links to your website.</p>
<p>You will make life easier for yourself if you target the toughest keyword(s) – multiple keywords if they are related &#8211; on the home page, which is considered the most important page of a site.</p>
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		<title>Guest Blogging To Build Quality Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without a doubt guest blogging would have to be the best way to get powerful contextual links. Not only is it good for SEO and link building, but when done on high traffic blogs in your niche it means you gain maximum exposure in front of a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Without a doubt guest blogging would have to be the best way to get powerful contextual links. Not only is it good for SEO and link building, but when done on high traffic blogs in your niche it means you gain maximum exposure in front of a highly targeted audience. You would be surprised just how many blogs accept guest posts from bloggers.</p>
<p><strong>How To Find Blogs</strong></p>
<p>In searching for guest blogging opportunities the first thing you want to do is to find blogs that are closely related to your niche. If you are in a narrow niche then you can always broaden the scope of your search and look for blogs that talk about similar subjects.</p>
<p>There are various ways to find niche bloggers in your industry but the best way to do it is by getting creative with advanced google searches, using google blog search, searching blog directories as well as using guest blogging communities like <a href="http://myblogguest.com/">MyBlogGuest</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Search Engines</strong></p>
<p>Search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing are one of the best ways to find related blogs in your niche. All you have to do is to use some advanced search engine operators to find targeted blogs that accept guest posts.</p>
<p>If a blog accepts content from guest authors, typically they will use common guest blogging key phrases. Below are some examples of what you could search for:</p>
<p>Your niche “Write for us”</p>
<p>Your niche “Submit article”</p>
<p>Your niche “Submit post”</p>
<p>Your niche “Guest posts”</p>
<p>Your niche “Guest blogging”</p>
<p>Your niche “Guest posting”</p>
<p>You should know that there are a lot of other effective searches to find targeted blogs. For example, when doing a search on google.com type: inurl:blog &#8220;write for us&#8221; &#8220;keyword&#8221;. Use broader keywords so that you can find a large number of sites in your niche.</p>
<p><strong>Google Blog Search</strong></p>
<p>Google can be a great way to find niche blogs. If you have exhausted your options when performing advanced search queries, check out <a href="http://www.google.com/blogsearch">Google Blog Search</a>, which is essentially a blog directory to help you locate related blogs. Time and time again I have found hidden gems that I wasn’t aware of doing normal searches on Google.</p>
<p><strong>Considerations When Guest Blogging</strong></p>
<p>Even if a blog doesn’t directly state on their website that they accept guest posts doesn’t mean they won’t want good content! Search for blogs in your niche and related niches and contact them to see if they would be interested in content. You’d be surprised just how many blog owners don’t have the time to update their blogs and would jump at the opportunity at publishing a guest post that was unique and informative. In return, you get contextual links for your site that help with rankings and also give you more exposure. I would write better articles especially for blogs that would send the most link juice, it makes sense to dedicate more time to obtain more powerful content links. You should also be prepared to write a decent article to ensure that it gets published with your links.</p>
<p>Another thing to consider with guest blogging is the frequency of updates from the blog owner. If the blog is not updated frequently, quite often your blog post with the embedded text link can remain on the homepage for a long period of time, even months at a time, which is sending you a lot more link juice then if the blog post was to drop off the blog home page and end up archived in a deeper category page.</p>
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