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Absolute Legend Luke Holt from the Morning Wake-Up on Melbourne radio station Light FM has been challenged by his collegues to rank for the phrase "absolute legend".  He has been working to improve the rankings for lightfm.com.au and has been implementing quite a bit of SEO work to make this happen.

I am happy to say that after implimenting SEO to his Joomla site he is starting to rank for alot of additional content on the site.  Previous to his campaign he only ranked for phrases related to the company name and not for internal content.  He is also getting all the shows to write content with more descriptive titles creating more phrases to rank for.

So lets hope he can meet the challenge and rank for absolute legend. He has made one error that I have told him about and by the time you read this it may have been changed.  He used the anchor text "Absolute Legend Google search challenge" in the footer of the whole site and as such ranks 4 & 5 in google au search for this phrase.  It shows the importance of choosing your anchor text, and for the matter <h1> phrases, correctly and loading them with the phrases you want to rank for.

This is a deviation from the normal stuff I write about but I am genuinely passionate about this and was inspired by a blog post by Steve Ollis.  I made a comment there but thought I would expand on that a bit more here.

My wife and I sponsor a couple of kids through an aid organisation called International Needs, we beleive its the least we can do each month to help those less fortunate than us.  In fact I would go further and challenge anyone in Australia that earns a wage to sponsor a child through any of the wonderful organisations that offer this form of aid.  From first hand account I can assure you that it works, I have found that those that criticise by saying that "too much goes to administration" etc rarely sponsor anything or financially support via other means such as kiva.org or similar.  They just use this as another excuse for not giving at all, but I digress.

I repeat my challenge, every person earning a wage in Australia should be sponsoring a child, embarrassingly most people who do sponsor don't even notice the money missing at the end of the month it is so little comparative to all the other financial commitments we have in the first world.

Its been a while since I last wrote a blog entry. I have been really busy working at my new job at Stewart Media, I have also been working as a teacher at NMIT on the new Diploma of Screen course, running after hours on Monday and Tuesday nights.  I have also been working with my wife Linda on her projects, dailydevotions.com.au and NCCC South Morang.  Needless to say I have been a busy boy.  On top of that Linda and I have finalised a builder for our new home, and sign contracts really soon to start building in May.

 I have really enjoyed all the challenges of working with Stewart Media, working with clients on SEO strategy, managing a great team of SEO consultants.  I have also enjoyed explaining what SEO means, basically its all about getting clients sites to appear on the first page of google.  I have also quite enjoyed learning from Jim and having a great time doing that.

While not active here I have been really active on twitter, follow me I am @camthecameraman, its a really interesting tool and I have enjoyed all the stuff I have learnt and discovered some really inspirational and knowledgable people.  Thats the great thing about it, the personal learning and also sharing my ideas and discoveries with others. Will try and not keep the gap between blog posts quite so long in the future.