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Water Bottle, Water Bottles, they’re everywhere.

February 18th, 2010

I would like to give a bit shout out to my dear friend Sergio who gave me the motivation I needed to tighten up the SEO in my little family of websites. I couldn’t have done it without your help. I’m now on the front page of Google for the phrases water bottles and water bottle.

All our web design clients will be benefiting from the knowledge and experience I gained throughout this whole process. Think I might have to put my hourly rate up ;)

We’re certainly not on the podium yet, but I’m sure a Canadian Olympic Official will be approaching me soon with a bunch of flowers and a big yellow shiny sparkly object to hang around my neck. When that happens – massive sale on with FREE water bottles and watch the job ads on the Central Coast because we’ll be hiring more staff and shifting in to a larger warehouse soon. We’re surrounded by boxes!!

Shop Naturally is definitely, without a doubt, THE largest water bottle online retailer in the country now. I’m super excited. Watch this space.

Joanne SEO, Shop Naturally, Web Design

Nigel Kennedy vs Andre Rieu

February 11th, 2010

One is arguably the world’s greatest violin player. The other one sells millions of crappy CD’s and puts on a circus like show.

I’m sure Andre is a nice guy, but he’s giving classical music a bad name and makes my toes curl.  This video clip looks like a piss-take ‘Fabio’ commercial from a comedy show. Eeewwww…….

From everything I’ve heard, Nigel Kennedy is an eccentric ratbag, and I have had the honour of witnessing his genius and touching his hand once already in this life and I’m going to see him again at the Opera House in a couple of weeks. I can’t wait!!

Joanne Personal, Web Design, You Tube

Australian Made Modern Cloth Nappies

February 9th, 2010

In my travels researching products for the shop, I came across a great site that sells Australian Made Modern Cloth Nappies called Green Kids. Now since I have no desire to ever sell nappies (after all, I do think that if you haven’t changed hundreds of them and gagged at the smell, then you don’t know enough about them to sell them), I feel liek giving them a free plug!

Who ever knew that you could by fashionable nappies in so many bright and funky colours and patterns. Check out the funtime nappies section and be the envy of everyone at play group ;)

Joanne Web Design

Up Yours Kevin Rudd

February 7th, 2010

I just love the sensationalist headlines on news.com.au. This morning, on the front page, the headline says “Up yours Kevin Rudd” in relation to this story….

Belinda Neal defies PM’s anger course order

As you read the story, she was never forced to do anything.  I think some of the staff from news.com.au used to work for New Idea ……

Joanne Web Design

Buy Stainless Steel Drink Bottles in bulk & save

December 8th, 2009
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Looking for a fundraising idea for a school or sporting club? Looking for a healthy corporate gift instead of the typical ‘chocolate & booze’? Why not do a Stainless Steel Water Bottle drive.

Depending on the quantity, you can save up to 40% off RRP, which means you can make 40% profit for your school or club.

At Shop Naturally we can do bulk purchases on Cheeki Stainless Steel Water Bottles and ECOtanka Stainless Steel Water Bottles. Visit our site for further information.

>> Bulk Buy Stainless Steel Drink Bottles – visit the site for further information & links.

Joanne Web Design

Water Bottle

December 4th, 2009
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And here it begins, the ultimate SEO challenge for the #1 ranking in Google for the generic phrase water bottle.

With 40,000 people a month typing both water bottle and water bottles in to Google, I think I’d like a slice of that pie. I will, of course, be backing my organic search quest with a paid ad campaign like I always do, but it will be interesting to see how I go.

I do believe that Shop Naturally have THE largest range of safe BPA Free Water Bottles, both in the Stainless Steel Drink Bottle and BPA Free Plastic Water Bottle variety – and last time I searched, we’re the only Australian online retailer to hold the entire range of Thermos Water Bottles in stock.

Joanne SEO, Shop Naturally, Web Design

Here comes the Hunter Valley bride ……

November 1st, 2009

I just finished a gorgeous website for Hunter Valley Wedding Planner, Priscilla Moore, called Priscilla’s Events!!

This one was a breeze, someone else had created some some simply spectacular artwork, so we threw our marketing magic at this artwork and put together the site plus a little extra SEO for good measure. As far as Hunter Valley Wedding Planners go, Priscilla’s fantastic. Great attention to detail, knows all kinds of little secrets and tid-bits you’d never find out on your own. Well worth the look ladies :)

If you need help with a party or a corporate do, she’s multi-talented ;)

Joanne Clients, SEO, Web Design

Ooops, front page in Google for Water Bottles again

November 1st, 2009
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This one I didn’t even mean! www.stainless-steel-water-bottles.com.au made it on to the front page of Google without me doing anything. Originally just an install of Word Press to have a fiddle with a paid template I bought (that I was having trouble with). Now if you type in Stainless Steel Water Bottles or even Stainless Steel Water Bottle, up it pops. I wasn’t planning on ever using this domain name. The Google gods have spoken, guess I’ll have to develop the content now, do some research, write some articles and turn this into a useful information portal about water bottles. God knows I have spent hundreds of hours researching and testing the bloody things. Perhaps I’ll save a few people some time!!

Who needs sleep! Who needs a water bottle??

Joanne SEO, Shop Naturally, Web Design

All hail the Stainless Steel Water Bottle Queen

October 12th, 2009
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Yours truly now has the top FOUR spots in Google for Stainless Steel Water Bottles. All hail the queen! But seriously, I’ve put a huge amount of work in to SEO for my websites, and my clients will reap the rewards when I turn the same success on to their websites.

Just in case you’ve been living under a rock, I now have the largest Stainless Steel Water Bottle collection online in Australia. There’s so many, we’ve had to split them in to different categories. If you’re in the market for a safe stainless steel drink bottle, check out the different categories to help make life easier :)

If you’re after a bottle for your handbag, go the 400-600ml size. For the kids, the 350ml drink bottles are good. Sporty types, hikers etc should choose from the 600-800ml or even the 1 litre + size, and if you’re going to let your stainless steel drink bottle roll around in a hot car all day or chuck it in your beach bag, choose an insulated hydration bottle. The Thermos range of insulated water bottles are fantastic.

Joanne SEO

Water Bottles vs Drink Bottles

October 6th, 2009
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In my latest SEO experiment, I’m trying to discover whether the average person types in ‘stainless steel water bottles‘ or ‘stainless steel drink bottles‘ in to Google to find my huge collection of stainless steel water bottles for sale.

So far, stainless steel water bottles seems to be the winner, but that may have something to do with the fact that I have the top spot in Google now (and 5 spots on the front page). I have 2 of the top 10 spots for drink bottles, but, alas, they’re further down the page and getting bugger all traffic. The further you get the bottom of the front page of Google, the less amount of traffic there is.

It doesn’t cease to amaze me how the large majority of people don’t scroll down to the bottom of the front page. For anyone relying on organic SEO results to keep their busines afloat, if you’re not at the very top of the page, you’re done for. Better get the cheque book out and put some serious dollars in to a paid ad campaign or pay a decent SEO professional a couple of thousand dollars to go through your site for you.

The guys from Cheeki Stainless Steel Water Bottles not only sell great products, but have managed to get some pretty decent search engine rankings for their drink bottles at the same time.

Joanne SEO, Shop Naturally, Web Design