This week NLYZR assesses the websites of 25 Australian Audio Visual Provider’s, a list originally published in BRW.

We have used the all new NLYZR for this list. NLYZR assesses a website’s Search Engine Optimisation using criteria such as On-page SEO, Off-page SEO and a Keyword search result. These are crucial aspects of Inbound Marketing and Internet Marketing Strategies.

Check out how they rate…

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Websites and web design has changed dramatically since the 1990′s. Well, at least for most savvy marketers it has. Unfortunately for many, their website’s look as if they were set up in the 90′s and haven’t kept up with the rapid pace of change, even though they’re much, much newer than that.

Your website sucks if....

Here are a few ways you can tell if your website sucks:

• Its really, really cool. In fact its so cool people don’t know what to do when they get there. The buttons are hidden. There’s lots of bells and whistles. Its probably built in Flash. This is not an effective marketing tool, its an indulgent waste of time and money.

• Its forces visitors to endure some autoplay music or video or pop-up. These are just annoying and unnecessary. They’re certainly not designed with the end-user in mind.

• It’s rarely found on the major search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo. If your website doesn’t turn up high in search for multiple relevant search terms, ie not just your name, then it probably not optimised correctly, if at all. You will be missing tons of valuable traffic and potential leads. This is madness in an era when most people “Google” everything they need.

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The popular social networking, micro-blogging site Twitter is getting a revamp with the founders announcing the biggest overhaul of the site since it launched, and it includes a real bonus for inbound marketing.

The new Twitter has a lot of subtle improvements but probably the single biggest major improvement is the integration of videos and images in the tweet stream. By partnering with many major players such as TwitPic, Etsy, Flickr, Kiva, Photozou, Plixi, TwitVid, USTREAM, Vimeo, yfrog, and YouTube, Twitter is enabling instant display of multimedia.

This is great news for inbound marketers and content generators and it will force many marketers to start producing content or be left behind.

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