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Blog Networks are another great way to get you message out in the internet. With blog network you write a very good post and submit it to a blog that has essentially more than one author. These blogs are often on stronger domains than your own blog and therefore your post, if accepted, has more chance [...]

As usual I enjoyed the DCEB LINK meeting on Tuesday evening. I was fortunate to give a short talk on using SEO to gain more business from the internet. One of the main issues that I wanted to address during this presentation was the matter of members linking to each other in blog post or using [...]

I like a laugh as much as the next man. I was having a look at the Dublin Web Summit list of speakers to see if there was going to be anyone speaking there that I would consider parting with €195 to hear. No, I kept thinking as I went down the list. And there I saw [...]

This is a recording of the presentation I will be doing at the LINK meeting tonight. Resources from this video: Google External Keyword Tool List of Directories - This is a list of Irish Web Directories with comments. It is a good place to start with your link building. Video on keyword research for Irish Business - a previous [...]

Microsoft has entered the search engine optimization field. They have launched SEO Services for Microsoft Partners - website. Thank you Microsoft for alerting me to their new venture into SEO in Ireland, they called this morning asking if I would like to be part of their partner network…

I thought this must be a joke so I called them back. No joke. Essentially Microsoft are creating a network ...

I received a letter from Google - yes a letter. Now it was just pushing me in the direction of Google Adwords for advertising for my business. But it just highlights how the different, and perhaps old fashioned, snail mail is catching on again.

Every day I delete somewhere between 100 - 200 emails - and that is after the spam filters have been at work. Google send me email fairly regularly, I g...

I write a fair amount on this blog and others, but I have decided to try a video for a change. This is the first one on this site and if the feedback is good I will make some more.

Keyword or key phrase research is one of the corner stones of your website. If you don’t get this part right anything you build on it is targeted in the wrong direction.

The next video I have in mind is using these ke...

Do you bother trying to get your company in the Press? I do from time to time - however I do find it quite a difficult process as the interest in search engine optimisation is limited and often seen as some sort of black art that cannot be easily explained.

Last night the main presentation of the evening was given by Rob Hartnett of Hartnett McClure PR. This was one of those talks where I was no...

About two to three weeks ago there was an up date by Google, I was on holiday and really didn’t get much of a chance to see the effects. The one and only major effect I noticed at that time was a tuning down of the exact match on domain names.

Effectively this was also a tuning down on brands, something Google had placed more importance on during the last year. It didn’t affect rankings much but...

Building inbound links to your website is one of the hardest processes when trying to promote your business on the internet.

There is no one easy simple place to go and find where all these possible links are, this is one of the reason why this part of search engine optimisation is expensive. Your SEO consultant should be able to be out there on the net finding good links for you all day - and it...

This is going to be a short post because I know my customer service is brilliant - nothing like banging your own drum.

Reading a post today on Macs Walking Holidays website and found this interesting goodbye letter to BT. I like a bit of humour when it all goes wrong, however I was speaking to Neil of Macs Adventures during that week of no broadband and I am sure if someone from BT had been in fr...

I met with a web designer yesterday and he was saying that my service does not jump off the page at him.  I agreed with him.  I don’t know if it is possible for me to distil search engine optimisation into one sentence.

I have seen it written in one sentence - but it does not grab and shake me -

SEO is the active practice of optimizing a web site by improving internal and external aspects in order...

I ran into this problem recently.  I needed a graphic designer, I mentioned it to a few people and I searched, of course, online.  I looked at all the companies and thought “where do I start?”  I don’t want to be hassled with sales calls from companies that I approach.  I looked at some of the site designs and knew they were not for me.

Eventually I went with a referral from a friend and much to m...

You give too much away for free!

I have been told this a few times this year, every one of them runs an online business; all bar one were web developers or designers.

So Here is More for Free - down load the free SEO Guide for Irish Business - (pdf) or read on.

Internet Marketing For Irish Businesses

This guide is targeted at SME’s in Ireland who are interested in carrying out SEO on their own web...

I so often give Google more credit than they are due, however finding spam like this in the Irish results brings my thoughts on Google crashing to the ground.

While running a rank checker this morning I came across a blog page from Coastal Carolina University at number 4 in the search results for Internet Marketing Company Dublin.  Interesting I though and went and had a look.

As you will see from...

We have just launched our new Internet Marketing Training Course.  The course is aim at small and medium sized businesses in Ireland.

Due to the current downturn in trading conditions we have become aware that many businesses are taking this task in-house, where they can.  I think this is a great idea as the basics of search engine optimisation are not difficult to learn.

To that end we have setup...

I joined the Dublin City Enterprise Board LINK Network and went along to my fisrt meeting in March.

Now I don’t know about you but this is one area that I really don’t like very much - walking into a room of 50 or 80 people and introducing myself to strangers and starting to chat about business or whatever.  (Dublin Chambers has figured this one out and run a course for people like me who hate net...

I don’t normally phone other SEO companies - but this week I have - to ask them to stop spamming my blogs.  Since the beginning of this year and the recession has kicked in I am seeing much more spam comments from other Irish web sites than last year.

“Love your blog.  I have added it to my RSS feed.” That is the most used comments - my response as always with this type of comment is to delete it ...

Your web designer has built a new great looking website, it is signed off and it goes live.  Great. The next day your analytics package is showing a load of hits to 404 error pages.  The day after your traffic has halved.   Latter that day I get a phone call - I am losing touch with [...]

I first came across the Ideas Campaign while watching Prime Time one evening and I immediately thought “this is a great idea” I logged onto their website to see exactly what they had in mind. I have in some ways despaired during the last couple of years at the lack of internet marketing knowledge in Ireland.  [...]

Post first published 14/12/2007 - last up dated 25/02/09 - page rank changes quite often so can be diferent from I have listed below. Here is a list of Irish web directories I use a few of them quite often. There are bound to be more web directories in Ireland, so if you know of any [...]

Most of the websites I come across at present are SME websites, some are a few years old and some have been built as recent as last summer.  Two in particular that are causing problems have little text on the home page - one has flash, it looks great, but please you do want someone [...]

Year on year our ad revenue continues to grow - albeit the growth in January was the slowest to date.  The ad revenue per site is still up, but the earnings per thousand page views is down and on some sites quite a bit down. During last year I decided that we should move away from [...]

While working on a few small business sites recently I have come across link pages that have hundreds of links to other websites.  These sites have more links out to sites than they have coming into their site - not good to start with. There’s no problem linking out to other websites, this is a natural [...]

The next Open Coffee Club Dublin will be on Thursday, 5 February 2009 from 10:00am. OpenCoffee Club is an informal event for web / business people to get together and chat about anything and everything. Usually, people talk about their work or what’s going on at the moment on the web. OpenCoffee meetups have started many business relationships, personal friendships [...]