Luke Moulton

A place for all my stuff

Most of us have a few social media profiles on the go these days so it's nice to give them all a home; a place to hang out together. This is where mine reside. Within these pages you'll find personal day to day musings mixed with some online marketing insights.

23 July 2010 11 Comments

Why I decided to leave Flippa.com

View Larger Map Two weeks ago I tended my resignation as the Marketing Manager at Flippa.com. The above map will explain the the main reason for my departure, the other being the 9lb one I leave at home when I make the journey. Almost 3 hours commuting everyday with a new borne bouncing baby girl [...]

22 July 2010 0 Comments

Focusing on the right keywords for SEO

Q: What's keywords should you focus on optimising your e-commerce website for? Keywords that delivering 1000 visits per month and convert at 1% or keywords with 100 visits per month converting at 10%? A: Start by focusing on the 100 visits per month keywords, they're much less competitive. Posted via email from lukemoulton’s posterous

8 July 2010 0 Comments

How To Post to WordPress Via Posterous

Here's a great little tutorial on how to use Posterous to update your WordPress blog. This one's for you Timbo. http://esdev.net/post-images-videos-and-more-to-wordpress-by-email/ Posted via email from lukemoulton’s posterous

1 July 2010 4 Comments

My greatest fear about the iPad, confirmed.

It’s getting late on a Friday evening, but instead of switching off after a long week, I’m reading emails, checking forums about work related stuff and drafting blog posts. The family’s asleep, and the cat’s curled up in front of the fire, but instead of switching off and enjoying a glass of red in front [...]

12 June 2010 4 Comments

I caved in

Yep, @Ed_Dal and @PpcMom got the better of me. Not to mention my podcast co-host’s gloating. The iPad is indeed a beautiful thing. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location:Mornington-Flinders Rd,Red Hill,Australia

2 June 2010 0 Comments

Coffee with Timbo Reid

Getting out from the pile of nappies for a coffee with Timbo. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

25 May 2010 0 Comments

CTG Monitor

Just had the CTG monitor on checking baby’s heart rate. Now if we can just encourage the little tacker out of hibernation. He/ She is 12 days overdue. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

14 May 2010 5 Comments

WordPress Installation & Optimization Check List

Every time I install a new WordPress blog I go through the following motions of tweaking it to suit my needs. Here’s a list of WordPress optimization tasks I performing before I even install a theme. Remove “Hello World” post. Nothing screams “spam my Wordperss blog” more than having this still sitting in you posts [...]

9 April 2010 6 Comments

Site Speed Now a Ranking Factor for Google. Encouraging Elitism?

Google announced today that they are now taking into account website speed as part of their search algorithm. On the whole, this is a good move as it encourages people to speed up their websites, however, it concerns me that this could encourage elitism. This website, along with a couple of others I run, sit [...]

19 March 2010 2 Comments

Guerrilla Marketing Techniques for Social Media Marketers

The other evening I attended my first Social Media Club Melbourne meetup to listen to 3 local entrepreneurs chat about how they’re using social media effectively to build their businesses and their brands. The three blokes in the spotlight were: Scott Kilmartin from Haul Steve Sammartino from Rentoid.com and Sahil Merchant from MagNation If had [...]