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Self Googling – essential or egotism?

I have a guilty secret; a bad habit. I’ve tried to give it up, really I have. Sometimes I’ve gone days, even weeks without indulging. But then I’m back. I’m an addict. A creature of my shameful obsession. My therapist tells me sharing is the first step on the road to recovery so here goes…
My [...]

How to deliver a wonderful website

I am now only a few weeks away from squeezing a new mini-Toon into the world and people are telling me to waddle away from the laptop and start relaxing.
So this will be the last of my ‘How to’ blogs for sometime, and what subject matter is more fitting than delivery?
The comparisons between the birth [...]

How to Optimise your website for Search Engines (SEO)

How to Optimise your website for Search Engines (SEO)

Review 1 – www.yoga-camerino.it
This is the first of my SEO site reviews for willing victims. The aim of these reviews is to help out the owners of the websites, but also to give everyone else an idea of common SEO problems and a few tips on how to fix them.
These reviews are carried out free [...]

Toon’s Top Five Webby Bits This Week

A collection of things I’ve found interesting in the last few days of being a web beast.
1)    Photoshop Tutorials
I’ve been meaning to do some proper Photoshop tutorials for a long time and these ones look pretty good:http://dzineblog.com/article/tutorials
2)    Top five tips for writing well
A well-written article which uses Ernest Hemingway’s advice to guide you in copywriting [...]

Free SEO review of your site

For a short time only (before I give birth to a mini Toon) I’m offering willing victims the chance to have your website SEO reviewed for FREE! (Yes, that’s free, IN CAPITALS!)
No. This is not some nifty sales tactic. No I’m not trying to sneak business out of you with some fake offer.  The SEO [...]

How to build a brilliant blog

Although I only started blogging recently I’ve been amazed at the amount of traffic and interest it’s generated for me and my business.   I’ve quickly realised that Blogs are a great alternative to a standard website, allowing you the flexibility to update frequently at little or no cost.
If you’re new to the world of blogging, [...]

Technorati sign up

Technorati sign up

Struggling to make my Technorati Profile work.
It’s supposed to be here:
http://technorati.com/blogs/www.katetoon.com
But doesn’t work despite me entering the bleeding code:
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Don’t you just hate technology?

How to write a copy deck in five easy steps

Today I’m up to my armpits in copy (SEO friendly of course), writing a full deck for a well-known Sydney Health care advertising agency.
Draft two is nearly complete. Phew!
Obviously this job is more straight forward that usual due to the fact that I also wrote the scope, planned the site map, decided the site architecture [...]

How to write great SEO copy

People are arguing right now about just how important keyword saturation or keyword density is to improving your search ranking. While it may not be the number one factor in winning the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) battle, it’s definitely worth giving keywords a try.
The truth is that writing SEO-friendly copy often creates more compelling and [...]

My top five QUICK SEO FIXES

There are, of course, a million things you should be doing to keep on top of your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) strategy. However, sometimes it all feels a bit overwhelming, doesn’t it?
Let’s keep it simple. Here are (in my humble opinion) the five most important fixes you can do in minutes to improve your sites.
1)    [...]

Top 500 sites

A list of the top 500 registered domains (∗.example.com) ranked by the number of linking root domains. This data is sourced from 46+ million domains and 36+ billion pages.
My site comes in at 278 (wishful thinking).
http://www.seomoz.org/top500

How to develop the perfect wireframe

In my humble opinion, after a decent sitemap, the most important document when building a website is a wireframe (even more important I’d argue than the budget or the time line).
Why build wireframes?
Wireframes help you work out all those niggly bits that you’re just not sure about. They help you decide just how much content [...]

To proof or not to proof

Few companies understand the value of a good copywriter and even fewer the value of a good proofreader
Today as I work through some client written copy for an SEO revamp I am faced with the usual cluster of misplaced semicolons, instances of ‘which’ when ‘that’ would be much more pleasant and sentences that look like [...]