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Australian innovation ? Aussies change the world
2008-04-24 23:10:00
Further to our post yesterday about Australian inventions, we have also posted a PDF with more detailed information about Australian Inventions. Click the following link to download the PDF Australian Inventions
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clickfind innovations video
2008-04-24 05:51:00
The readers of our blog will get a sneak preview of our latest video before the official launch. ————— Aussie ideas and innovations have changed the world, and continue to do so. Here’s a quick review of some Aussie innovations and the impact they have had. You might not know that Australians invented ordinary things like the car ...
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Australian Search and Directories Market
2008-04-17 12:45:00
Vishal Sharma has written a very nice report about the Australian Search and Directories Market Thanks Vishal for bringing some deserved attention to the market!

Alexa ranking still going up!
2008-04-17 10:48:00
Had a check of our Alexa ranking today and we’re at 381,959, last time I checked we were at 468,625. We’ve also got some good stuff coming up this month, which is why we’ve not been able to update the blog much. We’re all working hard on getting a video ready for ANZAC day… more about ...
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Speak Up Sydney
2008-03-30 09:51:00
A bit of news from our business review partner www.rayv.com.au Anyone living in Sydney may be interested in knowing about Speak Up Sydney, a community initiative aimed at strengthening the tie between Sydney residents and its businesses. Speak Up Sydney gives people an opportunity to Speak Up and: 1. Share their experiences 2. Provide valuable feedback to businesses 3. Uncover the ...

Taco Fleur Bio
2008-03-21 09:36:00
Bio | Taco Fleur   Taco Fleur has been working with the Internet since its early days. After growing up in The Netherlands and spending a year in the Dutch Royal Air Force, Taco moved to Spain at the age of 19 where he worked for an ISP based in Marbella. There, he could do what he loved ...

Carolyn King Bio
2008-03-21 06:45:00
Bio | Carolyn King   Carolyn has 25 years’ experience in graphic design, interface design, information architecture, branding and communication for online and print media. Carolyn came to Australia from England at the tender age of 4, growing up in the beautiful Blue Mountains near Sydney. After completing a degree in Visual Communication (Sydney College of the ...

Search Engine Strategy
2008-03-21 06:37:00
We've recently answered some questions for the "Startups Carnival" (http://startups.sharmavishal.com/) which we thought would be quite interesting to post here.
More About: Strategy , Search , Search Engine , Engine

Free article submission
2008-03-20 04:52:00
Clickfind will soon be rolling out something new that has not been done before in the local search industry. We?re going to allow anyone to write articles related to listings on clickfind. Sort of like a wiki, but different?
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Australian Associated Press
2008-03-19 23:24:00
We’ve recently started to use AAP to distribute our Press Releases, and we’re pleased to see that the PR has been taken up by some websites. http://www.thestandard.com/… http://www.computerworld.com.au/…
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clickfind shoots up the results chart in Google
2008-03-15 09:00:00
For several relevant key phrases we can now see clickfind on page one of Google (Australia). This is great news, not only for the clickfind team, but for businesses who have listings in the business directory. After a (relative) short time, clickfind has achieved the following: australian business directory - 04/02/08: not found | 14/03/08: #6 australian search ...
More About: Results , Chart , Shoots

Brisbane Biz draws Yellow Blood and Google Gold Rush
2008-03-14 05:06:00
Brisbane based Clickfind.com.au has launched a direct attack on the already established business directories Yellow Pages Online & Microsoft?s Mylocal business models offering advertising free directory listings that help secure top Google rankings for Australian business owners.
More About: Gold , Blood , Rush

Google Ranking
2008-03-13 06:35:00
We were in panic mode for the last two weeks, as we basically dropped completely from Google s search results. This was after doing some tweaking of the site for SEO.
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Alexa ranking up again
2008-03-09 02:48:00
Since February 7 our Alexa ranking has gone up from 501,584 to 468,625. We’re very happy to gradually see it growing. Our own search reports show a decline in number of searches and business views, however, there is a valid explanation for this; we’ve completely stopped our paid marketing campaign efforts with Google, after which our ...
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ColdFusion Memory Leak, you think?
2008-02-29 06:56:00
Got lots of memory consumption and have no idea where it?s going? Thinking it might be a memory leak in Cold Fusion ?
More About: Memory , Coldfusion , Leak

Australian Business Directory Review
2008-02-29 05:36:00
We've reviewed 4 leading Australian Business Directories: www.yellowpages.com.au, www.truelocal.com.au, www.clickfind.com.au and mylocal.ninemsn.com.au following is the result of the review.
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Local Aussie search directory takes on the big guys
2008-02-28 04:09:00
Two IT professionals have gone up against Microsoft?s Mylocal and other giants. They?ve created a high quality Web2.0 Business Directory for Australia. www.clickfind.com.au was launched less than 3 months ago and is rapidly gaining momentum.
More About: Search , Local , Guys , Aussie

Partnership with RAYV, the online business review directory
2008-02-26 09:52:00
clickfind is entering early stages of a very interesting partnership with RAYV, the online business review directory.
More About: Business , Online Business , Review , Directory , Online

Number of businesses in Australia 2007
2008-02-26 03:04:00
The Australia n Bureau of Statistics published an interesting report on the number of businesses in Australia. "There were 2,011,770 actively trading businesses in Australia as at June 2007. While growth in the number of businesses slowed slightly between 2003-04 and 2005-06, there was a significant increase in the growth rate of businesses in 2006-07. Overall, growth rates for the past four financial years were 2.2% during 2003-04; 1.5% during 2004-05; 1.3% during 2005-06; and 2.4% in 2006-07."
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Attacked by sunosspeed.com
2008-02-25 22:56:00
We’ve been attacked by some hackers today from http://www.sunosspeed.com/ We’ll be investigating this further, and contact the appropriate authorities. The details of the attack are:  IP Address: 74.86.244.130 Reverse DNS: sunosspeed.com They tried to see if the server is vulnerable to SQL injection /browse-product-sub-category.cfm Query: categoryIdentity=’%20+%20myValue%20 +%20′ http://www.clickfind.com.au:80/’ + elementAPageName + ‘.cfm?categoryIdentity=’%20+% 20myValue%20+%20′ It wasn’t! As a final attempt they started flooding the server with countless of ...
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Australian Local Search and Business Directory resource
2008-02-24 08:32:00
Mark from Rave About It pointed out this website that provides the latest news on local search and online business directory developments across Oceania, including Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
More About: Business , Other , Search , Directory , Local

Why pay, when Google is free?
2008-02-22 23:53:00
Why would anyone want to pay to be in a Business Directory when Google is free? This is a question we get asked often. Our response is simple: there is no control on what is indexed in Google, your page might not be indexed there is no control over what information from the page is shown in the ...
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Business Directory Review and Comparison
2008-02-21 06:26:00
I have compiled a Business Directory Review and Comparison document. This is the first draft of the document. Please review, submit your own opinion and report any discrepancies you notice.

Raveaboutit mentions our PR
2008-02-19 23:40:00
Raveaboutit mentions our PR and probably has a valid point in regards to Sensis. Keeping in mind though, that the mention of Sensis was more to give an idea of what type of company could be interested in stake. My actual comments in regards to Sensis were probably a little more colourful than portrayed ...

clickfind is on www.ITWire.com
2008-02-19 07:48:00
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16737/ 545/ http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=co m_content&task=view&id=16739 And http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=co m_content&task=view&id=16738

List of top australian keywords
2008-02-19 05:21:00
We've been analyzing the keywords used by people searching on www.clickfind.com.au and following is a quick summary of the top 15 keywords and location from which the search originated.
More About: Marketing , Keywords , List , Australian

Banning IP from spammers
2008-02-18 00:26:00
We’ve started to get tough on spammers and the likes, anyone who requests something from our server they should not, will be banned by IP address. We’ll also be recording the IP and RDNS in this post to hopefully gather some useful information that can be of help in the future. Request: http://www.clickfind.com.au:80/main.php?o ther=http://www.fgwarez.com/bbs/skin/ting _music/…/usa?? Date Time: Feb 16, 2008 ...
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Online Marketing Is The Wave Of Now
2008-02-18 00:05:00
A recent report in Information Week points to a massive revenue rise in online advertising by 21 per cent as print advertising continues to decline. Figures from the Newspaper Association of America show that online advertising in the third quarter of 2007 reached a total of $773 million. This represents the 14th quarter in a row where online revenues for newspapers increased in double digits, while offline advertising fell.
More About: Marketing , Online Marketing , Online , Wave

Jobs in Search Engine Marketing SEM
2008-02-17 23:49:00
Kalena Jordan wrote a great article why to consider a Job in Search Engine Marketing “The first dot-com bubble may have burst 6 years ago, but the current bubble is getting bigger and stronger every day. One of the main reasons for the current dot-com boom is the skyrocketing growth of the search engine industry. No ...
More About: Jobs , Search Engine Marketing , Search Engine

Get directions in Australia
2008-02-17 12:50:00
We've just launched some new functionality that will allow anyone to get driving directions within Australia .
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