Xivos has over 10 years of online marketing, design and development experience. We're based in Melbourne, Victoria, but we've worked for clients all around Australia and even across the globe. Unlike a lot of other SEO and SEM firms, we only charge for hours completed. The majority of our clients come from Melbourne, and we tend to service small to medium sized businesses. We can do anything from small sized consultation projects to much larger, long-term, … read on »

Despite what all the search engine companies like to say, the technology behind image searching is very much in its infancy and it will be a long while yet before any algorithims – or computers for that matter – will be able to sucessfully recognise and image based on its content. Quite simply, our human minds are hard-wired – from a very early age – to recognise and evaluate visual … read on »

The rise of the internet has paved the way to millions of ways to reach out to other people. In the new millennium, the hottest craze that most people are going gaga about is the rise of social networking. Sites such as MySpace, Friendster and Facebook are gaining a wide variety of audience everyday, and most of us do not think that its fame will be out soon. Social … read on »

You may notice we're currently undergoing a site re-design. The old look was a bit cliched, a bit web 2.0 wannabe, so instead we're trying to implement a format which is both modern and at the same time, more usable. Our core goal is to improve usability for the many visitors we're now attracting. Inspired partly by water-colours, we're trying to move the new design to a much more open, free-flowing design which has a lot … read on »

Here is a basic introduction to some of the more common terms, acronyms and lingo in regards to SEO. This is by no means a complete list and will be updated with new entries as time goes on. Alt Tag An alt tag is a form of meta data, basically a written description of an image. It has several purposes. People who are vision imparied – or those surfing with images … read on »