Joshua Hay

Joshua Hay is a Search Engine Marketing expert who helps clients maximise their online exposure on search engines through natural rankings and paid campaigns. Along with a degree in Information Technology majoring in Web Development, he has extensive experience in Online Marketing and is currently our Operations Manager here at E-Web Marketing. He also runs a collection of successful web-based side projects in what little spare time he manages to find!

A few days ago we posted news that Yahoo! was going to be axing 10% of their global workforce. In an update to that news we read this afternoon that Yahoo!7, the joint venture of Yahoo! and channel 7 will be laying off 10% of their own staff effective immediately. The move will see up [...]

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TechCrunch today has got their hands on a letter that Jerry Yang has shot out to all “yahoos” briefing them on the plan of action, including layoffs, after the announcement that 3rd Quarter earnings were pretty much flat, having only grown 1% to US$1.79 billion. The email, written in all lower case (perhaps strategically), makes [...]

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Apple has come out with a couple of clever retorts in response to the now abandoned Bill Gates / Jerry Seinfeld series of ads run by Microsoft, previously posted about here and here. The first one takes a hit at Microsoft for throwing money at advertising instead of fixing Vista’s problems; The second pokes fun [...]

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Search Engine Land has recieved confirmation from a Google spokesperson that an extended feature for Google Alerts will soon be launched that includes RSS feeds for search results and Google Alerts. In an email today, a Google spokesperson told us: “While I can’t be more specific about an ETA, I can confirm the launch.” Currently [...]

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In another of the recent efforts at increasing revenue from the site, Google’s YouTube has announced on both the official Google blog and the official YouTube blog the debut of click-to-buy options on videos. When you view a YouTube video with a great soundtrack, you often see comments from YouTube users asking about the name [...]

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YouTube has begun experimenting with a different angle on post-roll adverts. As we posted a while back, videos that have adverts enabled currently have optional overlay videos that would pause the clip you are watching and play an advert video before taking you back to the place where you left off – a feature that [...]

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Gary will be speaking at Search Engine Room on Tuesday the 7th of October 2008. The theme for this year’s Search Engine Room is “Search and Beyond”. Gary will be speaking about the need for quality content over inbound link building. Content Is King (aka Links are Over-Rated). Sure, many in the search game are [...]

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ChannelNews reported yesterday that retail giant Harvey Norman is set to slash marketing budgets by up to $60 million due to a downturn in profitability. Internationally, the current marketing budget is said to be in excess of $300 million. Reporting an 18% downturn in profitability due mostly by the poor performance of their Irish operation [...]

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We are excited to announce that E-Web Marketing, Australia’s leading SEO specialists, are finalists in this years My Business Awards. E-Web Marketing are one of the three nominated companies for the Fastest Growing Small Business category of the My Business Awards. The Fastest Growing Small Business award recognises businesses that have grown rapidly in recent years [...]

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We previously posted on Google’s plans to distribute original content using their content network, starting with a deal struck with Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, to distribute a serious of short cartoon clips titles “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy”. ReadWriteWeb reports that the first series of these cartoons has now launched and can [...]

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