Getting more Google love

At the risk of attracting hordes of SEO marketing types, I'm going to flaunt a little story of a small SEO success story. At this moment, Googling "european wines sydney" shows a nice titled link to our website with the postal address and phone number. Screenshot:

How's that done then?

Couldn't say for sure, could be by following sensible web development practices such as using valid, semantic XHTML, using the keywords "european" & "wine" in the page title, H1 tag, and domain name, and I guess also including the postal address on the page in easily machine readable format. Other than that, I couldn't tell you. Perhaps this blog and our accompanying Twitter account (http://twitter.com/europeanwineaus) are also contributing to our search ranking.

I'll tell you what we didn't do: pay anyone with "SEO Expert", or "Internet Marketer", or in fact anyone at all, any sums of money. We haven't worried about things like "keyword density" or "meta tags", that's all a load of bollocks. Just build a site that's focussed clearly on a niche topic, fill it with relevant content, follow sensible web development practices, and install Google Analytics from day one. Could be that by the time you read this we've since been supplanted by someone else, but it seems to be working for us so far.

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