Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Alert: Hacked WordPress site - PayPal, Your account has been limited.

I regularly receive phishing emails, as I'm sure most people do. This time however I thought I'd point out that often I find the link in a phishing email has an address to a WordPress site.

Now my usual advice of course is you should treat all emails like this as suspicious and not click on a link. Opening your browser and going to the site is much safer. I also regularly recommend that you should simply delete these emails.

However this time I wanted to share something else which is very common. If you check the address I've shown, you'll see it is a WordPress site. I read a while ago there's over 30 million hacked WordPress sites and this is an example of one of those hacked sites and how the scammers are using the site.

Make sure you keep your WordPress site, add-ins and the theme all updated, to reduce the chances of being hacked. Of course there's other ways a site can get hacked but at least you know you've done the best you can. Also make sure you regularly backup your site and test that you can recover using the backup. Many hosting services leave the responsibility of performing backups on the site owner so don't just assumed everything will be right.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Call 0415 910 703 for IT support.

Alert: Can't connect to some websites. Telstra users.

A number of people have reported that they can connect to some websites but not others websites. The feedback is this appears to be a Telstra DNS issue.

One person said Telstra tried to upsell them to the technical support package. Watch out for the upsell.

To see if the problem is a DNS server issue you can set your DNS server to use Google's public DNS service. First make a note of the current settings before applying the Google settings. If that fixes the issue then it is easier to contact Telstra and let them know what the problem is and then have them walk you through the required changes to use their service.

A good way to see that the problem isn't with your computer, is to connect your computer to your mobile phone and use the mobile phone to access the internet. Make sure the mobile phone isn't using your broadband connection via Wi-Fi. So if your mobile phone and your desktop/notebook can access the sites via the mobile, then it's an indication the problem isn't with your computer.

There's a range of reason why a computer may not connect, but where possible I suggest that people try their free support options first. They are after all paying for them through their bill. However if you're not getting satisfaction, more than happy to assist. After all it is how I make a living.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Call 0415 910 703 for IT support.

Free online privacy policy generator.

For those interested in a privacy policy for their website I recently read about this work developed by researchers at RMIT.

I ran through the policy generator, and whilst there are some things I need to change before I can use the resulting document, it does appear to help generate an appropriate privacy policy. If you have questions you may feel it wise to seek the advice from a suitable professional adviser.

https://www.simpleprivacy.net.au

Kelvin Eldridge
www.JustLocal.com.au
Helping small business owners.

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Facebook group image vanishes, person vanishes from group and others see "This message has been temporarily removed...".

I saw the message "This message has been temporarily removed until we can verify the sender's account" when I went to write to the administrator of a Facebook group. It was not possible to message the person or to view any previous messages because they all had the same message.


Also what then happened was the image for the Facebook group disappeared which started to perplex many people.

As it turns out the explanation appears to be quite simple. A few days prior the person had posted a photo in Facebook and Facebook had asked them to log in via the desktop or provide a phone number to verify the account. It looks like this may not have been done. Facebook a few days later then decide to temporarily "suspend" the account. This meant that a lot of things associated with the account and seen by many others also vanished. I suspect when the person verified their account everything returned to normal.

So next time Facebook ask you to verify your account, you should take them seriously.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Call 0415 910 703 for IT support.

TPG ADSL2+ broadband can't access Facebook and yet their mobile service can?

I thought I'd share this rather unusual observation. This morning I went to connect to Facebook using the TPG ADSL2+ service and all I get is the following.


If I use the mobile phone an connect via Wi-Fi to the ADSL2+ service I'm also not able to connect to Facebook. However if I switch to connecting using the 3G mobile service I can connect to Facebook.

I'm having no problems connecting to any other service that I've so far tried, just Facebook.

Since I'd not seen this before and it appears to only be related to TPG's ADSL2+ service I thought I'd mention it. This isn't something I'd seen before.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Call 0415 910 703 for IT support.

Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Tesla Powerwall is one huge battery, but one has to wonder if it's worth it.

I must admit when I see technology like the Tesla Powerwall it grabbed my attention as I'm sure it did others. A battery that could power a home, I'd like to see that.

However as I start checking the information I start to think perhaps this isn't the big advancement in battery technology I was hoping for. But before I explain, check out the size of the batter compared to the car. It's huge measuring 130 cm x 86 cm x 18 cm.


First let's look at price. The 10 kWh battery is $3,500 USD so if we factor in exchange rate, plus GST plus we generally pay more in Australia, I suspect it isn't going to be far short of $6,000, if it does reach Australia.

The Powerwall is guaranteed for 10 years but that does make me think, it's a lithium battery and lithium batteries have a certain number of recharge cycles. We all have notebooks with lithium batteries that reached end of life. This article may be useful in helping to estimate the expected life of the battery based on the depth of discharge.

To make use of the battery you'll also need an inverter and the services of an electrician, both of which will add to the cost.

The bottom line however is make sure you work out if the payback is there for your particular application. It may be, perhaps don't assume it will be.

For me the best approach has been to reduce our energy usage. We now use around 5 kWh per day which is around $500 per year of electricity usage charges. We can't avoid the additional cost of the daily service to the home and I'd be fairly sure the Powerwall wouldn't remove this need for most people. I'd have to save this amount and more for the Powerwall to pay for itself, so for me it's most likely not a good buy. However, as I said, each person needs to work out the payback for their particular situation.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.JustLocal.com.au

Monday, May 04, 2015

50/50 is iTunes movie of the week for 99 cents.

When I received the email from Apple iTunes letting me know I've spent 99 cents for a movie, there's one thing I always notice. It is the link to do a review.

I often wonder why people spend so much time creating content and simply giving it away for companies like Apple to make money from their efforts. They really do have enough money already. Why not write a review and post it on your own site or your own blog. Use it to build your presence. You never know, one day that presence might end up making your money.

For those interested in a review, we picked 50/50 because we had a choice of two movies and 50/50 looked like it might be funny. Now of course we knew the underlying storyline as we'd watched the review. It never really struck us it was also about the young man's journey with cancer.

I actually found the subject matter was handled very well. The movie was quite humorous in parts and quite moving at times.

Overall I found the movie enjoyable to watch and well worth the 99 cents. I however doubt if I would have selected the movie at full price.

So next time you do a review, use your energy to help yourself. You may be actually quite surprised at who else ends up enjoying what you write.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.JustLocal.com.au
Helping local business.

Sunday, May 03, 2015

Dropbox notifying Australian users their services will now be provided from Ireland.

I received an email from Dropbox today. I don't use Dropbox, but have set it up for testing purposes in case clients use Dropbox. Here's a copy of the email.


When I first read this I thought perhaps Dropbox may be moving services out of America and into an area such as a the European community, where the United States don't have as easy access to the data. The European community sometimes appears to have better privacy regulations in place.

However if you read this from the Dropbox site you can only feel this move is more to reduce taxes than for other reasons.

Tax minimisation for business is a legitimate strategy. Good business requires keeping costs contained and reducing costs improves the bottom line. However we all have an obligation to pay taxes. Eventually governments will find a way to remove this very cost effective method by which companies transfer tax obligations from one country to another. Some companies prefer to move the taxes back to their own countries and pay tax there rather than the country where the income is earned and that's been going on for years.

Really if a service is purchased in a country, is delivered in the country and resourced from the country, it makes sense the tax that would normally occur should occur. In the end if it doesn't, the only one at fault is the government for having rules in place which enables the tax minimisation to occur.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.JustLocal.com.au
Helping local business.


Thursday, April 30, 2015

Google's Adsense responsive ad appears to be getting better.

I have to admit the first time I put one of Google's Adsense responsive ads on one of my sites it looked terrible. Far too big and in your face. However I've just been doing some testing and I think the responsive ad is now usable. It isn't perfect, but it is usable which is a lot better than it was.

The problem with the Adsense responsive ad is it doesn't resize property as the screen size changes. What makes it usable is if you reach a page, the ad is shown correctly and that's way beyond what it was before.

If you'd like to test and see how the ad changes and adjusts to the screen you're welcome to check it on my site www.SEO-Company-Melbourne.com.au. First test the page on the desktop. As you narrow the page you'll notice the responsive ad from Google doesn't adjust property whereas the rest of the page does. If you press Refresh then the page will now display the ad in the correct size. I suspect most people simply browse and when they reach the page they'll see it correctly for the current size of their browser window. To me that's usable.

On a mobile device such as the iPhone if you flip from portrait to landscape you'll see the small size ad is kept. If you start in landscape and flip to portrait you'll see the ad is too wide. Press Refresh or reload and you'll see the ad is the correct size. Not perfect but again usable.

At last I feel we can probably use the Adsense responsive ad. The hope is Google continues to improve their code in the background so that later without us doing anything, and even unknown to us, the responsive ad starts to behaviour exactly as it should.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Call 0415 910 703 for IT support.

An SEO story I thought I'd share.

Around nine years ago I organised an SEO consultant to give a talk at a local networking group consisting largely of small home based businesses. The SEO business had a good presence on the internet, so I asked how much time each day do they work on their presence. The answer was hours each day.

Therein lies the problem. Do you have hours to spend on your internet presence?

As soon as the next person or few people put in more time than you do, your presence will most likely go down. Retain the services of an SEO consultant and will they put the same number of hours into your business as they have to get a presence for their business, most likely not as it simply isn't practical. Even if they do put in the same number of hours of effort for your business can you afford the cost and if you stop paying, then what happens?

As part of my testing I've created the site www.SEO-Company-Melbourne.com.au for the keywords SEO Company Melbourne plus a few others. After a month the site is ranking quite well being on the second page of Google's search results, which is very good considering the highly competitive nature and strength of the SEO industry.

But when I check out the businesses listed first you can see they've amassed links back to their sites in the hundreds of thousands. Not tens, or hundreds, but hundreds of thousands. They've also got the advantage that if they do work for a large company they get their branding and links back to their site. Who's giving you links.

JustLocal is a breath of fresh air. Designed to help local businesses to be found by locals and other local businesses. My desire is to get local businesses to help each other and use each others services. That's a very difficult task in a world where we're so focused on our own business survival and local business simply do not use each other. Heck it's probably been over 20 years now since any of the local shopfront businesses used my services in my suburb. It's simply easier to find someone from the other side of town with deep pockets for advertising that gets seen. The same type of business that will eventually put the shopfronts out of business because they don't have deep pockets for advertising, so some other business from the other side of town will also put them out of business. The vicious cycle continues.

JustLocal stops this type of cannibalisation of local business by outsiders with deep pockets for advertising. Only local businesses can advertise on JustLocal. It doesn't matter how big you are, if you're not local, you simply can't advertise on the postcode page.

At last there's a cost-effective advertising service for local businesses where outsiders can't gazump locals. No other form of advertising provides that protection for local business and the local community.

If you're a business and would like to help strengthen the local business community and thus the entire local community, please feel free to contact me and let's get together and make a real difference in the community.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.JustLocal.com.au
Passionate about local. Are you?

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Facebook New Features for Selling message appears at top of Facebook group.

The following graphic appeared at the top of the JustLocal Facebook I've created for JustLocal advertisers.


I decided to do a little research. The Learn More button will take you to following page.

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/02/introducing-new-features-in-facebook-groups-to-improve-the-way-people-buy-and-sell/

Facebook over time will integrate more features so Facebook users don't need to go out and use other services. The most likely competitor in Australia would be Gumtree and I also noticed Craigslist mentioned in overseas posts.

It's always interesting to watch Facebook. On the one hand they don't want businesses to use Facebook to advertise, except of course they don't mind if businesses pay for advertising, yet on the other hand, they introduce a feature for selling which could be used by many businesses to sell. One wonders what Facebook might do down the track if they're successful in pulling traffic away from others sites.

Now the decision, to add the feature or not. I'll leave that up to the group to decide.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.JustLocal.com.au
Helping local business.

Checking the punctuation for Vendor's Statement (Section 32) I noticed this important advice.

I've been doing some SEO for the terms Property Lawyers Melbourne and Conveyancing Melbourne and often when doing work for others, I see things which interest me that I later check for myself. In this case it was the apostrophe in Vendor's Statement. Should the apostrophe be there or not? It really is a tougher call than you may think.

There's three variations: Vendors Statement, Vendor's Statement, Vendors' Statement. When possession is considered tenuous as it may be in this case, the apostrophe may not be required. What if there's more than one person selling the home?

Using Search Australia, which is a search I created that limits results from .au sites, we get 1,330, 5,440 for the first two variations respectively, but unfortunately I was not able to obtain a result for the third variation. That's OK because the third variation appears to have less use. Searching did reveal an additional variation which is Vendor Statement. Searching also revealed that even the government sites are not consistent.

At this stage I'll have to reserve judgement. However if in doubt, perhaps it's best to simply use the term Section 32.

As for the advice, here's a snapshot of the screen. For those doing their own conveyancing if something goes wrong, the conveyancers have professional indemnity insurance, whereas generally people doing it themselves wouldn't. I do wonder if that makes any real difference. It is important to consider the risk in this situation. Sometimes it's simply easier to leave it to the professionals.



Kelvin Eldridge
www.Australian-Dictionary.com.au
Preferred Australian English spelling add-ins for Microsoft Office,
Internet Explorer and Mac OSX.


Tuesday, April 28, 2015

SEO review of test site shows it is performing better than expected.

If you think about it, it's a pretty crazy thing to create a website guiding people about SEO when you know you need to compete with a whole industry that's been in place for years making money from SEO. I don't think you could get a tougher area to try to get a site to rank well.

Much to my surprise however the site www.SEO-Company-Melbourne.com.au that I created as a test site and to share my unique approach is ranking very well. When creating the site I checked the keywords people use. The obvious is to start with SEO which has 355 million results returned in Google. Not going to get traffic just starting so not a good idea at the start to go for such a short term. Next you get SEO Company (37 million results) and we're at the second level. Then at the third level we get the keywords such as SEO company Melbourne where there's 782K results returned in Google. Still a considerable amount of sites appear, but I thought let's see how this goes.

The site was created and that night the site appear in Google in after the 10th page of results. The next day it moved up and now around a month later the site is on the second page of Google for a variety of keywords.

The aim of the SEO Company Melbourne site is to test one aspect of SEO, but also to provide useful content for those who find the page. I share an approach which should help people ensure they receive value from an SEO consultant. So many people report spending large amounts of money for little to no return ,so hopefully the site helps to inform people.

The site is a good example as it shows what can be done using SEO techniques. Within a month the site is now positioned so it could in theory start earning money over the next year. That however wasn't my purpose. I use my SEO skills for my own business, my clients and to assist advertisers on JustLocal. The page wasn't designed to produce income.

If you're looking for an SEO consultant or agency, check where the business appears for the various keywords relating to SEO. Surely it's their business to rank well for the services they're selling others. If they don't, and I can rank well in around a month, it really should be a red flag.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Call 0415 910 703 for IT support.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Alert: TMA Accountants in Robina Queensland blog spamming to promote their practice.

Yet another business blog spamming my blogs to promote their business. TMA Accountants in Robina Queensland is the culprit in this case. When will these business learn it is not wise to pass on their SEO work to others without asking what they'll be doing. If an accountant takes no care with their suppliers, are they really an accountant that you'd want to use. I certainly wouldn't.



Blog spamming is where one business writes a generic comment on the blog of another business for the sole purpose of self promotion. There's no interest in the actual content, just self interest.

What was unusual in this case was the blog spammer (or some automated software) wrote comments on two blogs 44 seconds apart. I've not seen that before. Here you can see a the same IP address was used to visit both blogs.


You can also see another person isn't too happy with the blog spamming.


However Ken in this case is wasting his time. This blogger profile is unlikely to be legitimate and the IP address in the log above shows the comment was left by someone (or a process) based in the Philippines. A total waste of time leaving a comment on their profile. They wouldn't care at all. Totally agree however that blog spamming isn't an honourable practice and as such I wouldn't consider it ethical either.

What companies like TMA Accountants don't realise is just how much they damage their reputation. Don't blog spam. If you do outsource your SEO activities (Search Engine Optimisation) make sure you ask the questions and even ask for a list of sites you business will be listed on. This conduct is totally unprofessional.

If you're getting blog spammed I'd suggest writing a post on your blog to let others know the companies involved. In this case the accounting firm and their supplier, or even perhaps a chain of suppliers are all at fault. Exposing this activity may help stamp out blog spamming. Australian companies should not be participating in blog spam.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.JustLocal.com.au
Ethical, honourable, local advertising.



A new SEO Consultant Melbourne page added to the SEO site.

The aim of the SEO site www.SEO-Company-Melbourne.com.au is to provide information to help people select good SEO consultants and avoid the unscrupulous ones. I've now added the page www.seo-company-melbourne.com.au/seoconsultantmelbourne/, which is where I share some insights about SEO consultants.

The SEO Consultant Melbourne page is meant to assist by providing common situations where businesses may be tricked, or led to believe they're getting value for SEO services when they're not.

Whilst most people will blame others for ripping them off, really we all have responsibility for our own actions and performing due diligence on suppliers. Yes there are many companies that will rip us off if we let them, but with an appropriate level of research you should be able to find an SEO consultant that brings value to your business.

If you feel you've been tricked by an SEO consultant and have a lesson you'd like to share with others, please feel free to let me know. I can only share what I've seen, but I'm sure there's many lessons others have learnt the hard way.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Call 0415 910 703 for IT support.

Google's mobile-friendly test returns "The requested URL is disallowed by robots.txt."

If you perform Google's mobile-friendly test and you get the message "The requested URL is disallowed by robots.txt." then you should check the robots.txt file on your site.

To see your robots.txt file type in your website address into your browser followed by /robots.txt. The robots.txt file will be displayed. If you see the following this is telling bots not to crawl your site and thus your site will not appear in search results in sites such as Google.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

If you'd like Google to index your site you should review your site and determine what you'd like the robots to crawl. In my case I know all the content in my sites and generally I'm happy for robots to crawl all the content on my sites. If there's content I don't want robots to crawl then I'd put that content in a password protected folder. However if you use one of the content management systems there may be a reason the robots.txt file has been set up to stop robots from crawling your site. In this case you should contact your support person and ask for their advice.

If you're in business and want people to find you in search sites such as Google, you definitely don't want your robots file set up to stop them crawling the pages you'd like people to find.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Call 0415 910 703 for IT support.


Monday, April 20, 2015

Google search results all over the place on different computers at Westfield Doncaster.

The other day I decided to do some testing for the site Fun Date Ideas. For the testing I wanted to use computers other than mine so off I trundled to Westfield Doncaster. There's a number of shops with computers so I popped into the Apple store. That was where I got a bit of a surprise.

The site www.fundateideas.com.au for me appears on the first page of Google usually around position six (pat on the back for my SEO assistance) but I got a bit of a surprise. The site didn't come up as expected. I tried another computer and still no site. This was so weird. Off to JB Hi-Fi. OK. This time they've got their own filtering software loaded but at least the site was in position 10. Not around the middle as expected. So off to Myer. At last the Fun Date Ideas site appeared where I'd normally expect to see it.

I trundled back to the Apple store as something was definitely not quite right, but I couldn't put my finger on it. After quite a bit of testing I found the Apple store computers were set as though they were based in Sydney. At last I'd found the reason. Google's search can be set for a location and if for some reason it gets it wrong, or location for the device has been set to something unexpected, the results for two people in the same location could be vastly different.

Whilst basing the results on the location can be quite useful, I've found whilst travelling this can give totally unexpected results. In Greece my first challenge when I visited the Google site was to change the language from Greek. That was unexpected. Sometimes for me what Google is doing makes sense, but at other times makes no sense at all. I suspect it took around an hour of testing to work out what was going on as this is an option I'd never seen before. Such a waste of time, although I can always do with the exercise.

I thought I'd share this story so that others know that under Tools section in Google there is now the ability to change the location. Of course this offers a great opportunity for practical jokes on fellow offices workers, but seriously, if the results you aren't seeing aren't what you expect, check the location. Often unexpected results are a sign of malware and the browser being hijacked, but in this case it is what software developers would call a feature.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Helping local business to be found, consistently in the same way every time.

Alert: Margaret McDonald Clinical Psychologist using blog spam to promote their businesses.

I really do wish businesses would take responsibility for who they get to promote their businesses. It really isn't good enough they simply get a web developer or someone else to promote their business and not ask how it will be done. Using blog spam to promote their services is just downright rude. Don't use companies like these.


Blog spam is not a way to promote your business. They have no interest in the blog and are just writing rubbish to promote their business. Avoid blog spam at all costs as it can damage your business and your reputation. If a web developer or digital marketer uses blog spam dump them. They're using tactics that can damage your business.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.JustLocal.com.au
Helping local businesses to advertise ethically.

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Alert: Mobilegeddon is being pushed to scare people so others can make money.

Be careful of those promoting mobilegeddon as it is only a marketing exercise to scare people to sell services. Don't get tricked.

There's two schools of thought with Google's coming update on the 21/4/15. Google has stated mobile friendly will be a ranking factor.

Now of course as per usual with Google there's a lack of information and people are using this as an opportunity to scare people into spending money, perhaps unnecessarily. There are two schools of thought.

1. The first theory is Google is simply making mobile friendly a ranking signal. This means sites that are mobile friendly will rank better and thus sites that aren't mobile friendly will rank lower. Sites in this case will not disappear.

Logic here is Google are unlikely to simply discard highly ranked sites because they're not mobile friendly. A good test is to check the Bureau of Meteorology. The Bureau of Meteorology site is not currently mobile friendly.

2. The second school of thought is that sites that are not mobile friendly will simply vanish from Google search results when people search using their mobile phone. This is where people are being scared.

How likely really is it that Google will simply drop every major site because they're not mobile friendly. Not very likely, in fact very unlikely, but it is possible.

We've left some of our sites so they're not mobile friendly. One site gets around 15,000 visitors a month. We've also recorded a list of sites. So let's see what actually happens.

Make a note of those businesses who promote using mobilegeddon. Then you'll know who is prepared to use scare tactics if scenario 1 happens, but if scenario 2 happens, well you know they got it right.

Honestly at this point I don't know. I believe scenario 1 is most likely, but I've seen the major players do things which affect millions to hundreds of millions for their own interests, so really with scenario 2, I'd never say never, just not likely. Happy to be proved wrong, but my approach is to test so I will be testing. The knowledge gained through testing to me is the best way to support and assist clients. Not scare tactics.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Call 0415 910 703 for IT support.

Update 22/04/15: Google Australia confirms my suspicion about with the mobile-friendly ranking signal update. This is unusual to see such a comment so it looks like their update may have been causing a lot of angst and misinformation in the marketplace. This wouldn't be good for Google when that happens.

http://google-au.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/mobilegeddon-were-going-for-mobiletopia.html

The mains points are:

1. This is a ranking signal. Being mobile friendly is just one of 200 such ranking signals. Interesting the number is stated as one of 200. Is there really exactly 200 ranking signals?

2. Sites won't just disappear and they may still rank highly. I look at it this way. Being mobile friendly is one of 200, so it still represents a small percentage even if it was given a higher influence, it would still only be part of the signal which enables a site to rank.

3. This update is just for mobile devices. Not tablets, not notebooks. This has been stated before. Although there is no reason for this not to change. I say this because this is also about Google moving the focus onto their ecosystem which means Android and the Play store. Android tablets could easily be the next target, although given the quite small market share, that may be some time off.

4. The guide for taking a day or so to fully redesign a 10-20 page website to be mobile friendly, is certainly underestimating the work and cost this change is placing on businesses. That type of misinformation doesn't help anyone.

Friday, April 17, 2015

Mobile version of Mapz now easier to access.

To make it easier for those with a mobile phone using Mapz, I decided to create a landing page which will enable people to more easily select only the mobile versions of the maps. The following is the address of the mobile landing page.

UPDATE: link removed. Use https://www.mapz.com.au/mobile/ instead. Pages are now responsive and work on both desktop and mobile.

At the bottom of the mobile and desktop pages for Mapz you'll find a link to take you to the alternate page for Mapz. The desktop maps for Mapz are great when you have plenty of screen space and would like to see a larger map showing the locations. The mobile version is great when you want to see the five closest locations for the sites marked on the map. The nearest five locations can also be very useful for desktop users. Whether you select the desktop or mobile version, it is now easier to get to the other version.

For those who have just found Mapz site or looking for the site, you can find it at www.Mapz.com.au. The site is designed to be mobile friendly, but the desktop maps are more suitable for desktop users.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.JustLocal.com.au
Making it easier to find local.