Joel Krigsman and I have been talking about anchor text for a while.  Yes he has no girlfriend and I have no life. But seriously we have been talking about how Google registers anchor text in sites.  We know that Google crawls the web via links and rewards sites with lots of good links and can penalise a site with too many bad links.

 The test comprises of the following:

• This page on this blog aaatestaaa
• Links off this page to
  •  a page on a partner site dddtestddd
  • a pdf hosted on this site eeetesteee
    • the pdf also links to the page on the partner site

We are using and stuffing keywords in all these pages phrases that currently don't rank in Google Australia Search (pages from Australia).  We will report further on this test in the coming weeks.

Christian iPhone App

I recently made a christian iPhone app for my wife's site, Daily Devotions.  I used a app making service online from appmakr.com.  I added Google Ads so I could better track impressions and use, and hopefully make a dollar or two to support the site.

Appmakr don't provide any reporting stats but the reports from both Feedburner and Google Adsense indicate between 700-1000 impressions a day and a reach (Feedburners term) of approximately 300-500 users per day.  Also we have seen a massive jump in listeners to the podcast.  The most recent sermon in the podcast section of the app has had over 500 downloads according to Feedburner.  This is a massive jump from the 10-25 downloads the files used to receive.

Later blogs I will provide statistics as I have today begun a SEO campaign to try and rank for the phrase Christian iPhone App, I will keep you posted.

Server Hosting

I have been thinking lately of changing my server arrangements.  I would be very interested in anyone opinions on the following suppliers: Web24 and WebCity

Its not that I am unhappy with my current arrangements in fact the prices are fantastic, but I think I need to experiment a little more with CPanel and the like so I can become more proficient in its use.

Maybe a reseller account where I can have multiple sites on the same account, any thoughts??

Intro Video as a Brand Video or Brand Statement

This week we discuss the benefits of an intro video.  Should we add one to our YouTube videos. We look at some samples from oztablepc (http://tabletpc.com.au/) and Ben (http://mechanicalmashup.tv/)

Converting Video for YouTube

Converting Video for YouTube is this weeks blog topic. Specifically a real world example from a client this week, we encode a wmv file on the MAC to the H264 CODEC for YouTube.

MSN Video becomes Bing Video, Should we care?

MSN Video is being replaced by Bing Video.  Bing Video has been re-launched and as online video producers should we be concerned? Should we pay attention to Bing Video at all?

White Balance and Correct Framing

White Balance and Correct Framing are the topics of this weeks online video production vlog.  Thanks to Barry Schwartz,  @rustybrick on twitter, for letting me use his video as an example.

Recording Sound For Video

Recording great quality sound for your video production or webcam is very important.  This week we look at some of the techniques involved

Online Video Production

Ranking for Online Video production is proving more difficult than I thought it would. I am not getting any traction at all.  In the Mill Park Beautician challenge the Digg that I submitted ranked very early and continues to rank quite well. The two Diggs I did for this challenge are not ranking in the top 200 for the phrase online video production.

Interestingly though the site and the optimised pages have now been indexed by Google they still dont rank at all.  It funny really because if this blog has any themes at all they would be "video" and "online".  Clearly Google though doesn't see this site as an authority on these matters at all.

One possible explanation of not ranking could be the confused linking structure I embarked on when I started this particular campaign and the "back-dating" of content as I wrote four articles all on the same day.  I will expand on this confused linking structure in a later post but hopefully the linking of this article will help boost this flagging experiment, trying to rank for Online Video Production.

Beautician Mill Park

Just a quick update on the ranking success of Mill Park Beautician, the dig link I submitted ranks 4 in google.com.au (pages from the web) and the root directory of this blog ranks 6 for Mill Park Beautician. In (pages from Australia) search the root directory of this blog ranks 5.

I expect that once the internal pages get indexed that this site will capture two positions and eventually the target page will rank well for Mill Park Beautician.