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I have changed my template and started from scratch! I need to work out some small bugs, Let me know what you think.

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I set up a website a few months back called RateMyGoat.com as a bit of a piss-take. The site was set up after the guys over at webmasterradio.fm told a story on air about the last Search Bash Jamaica. Let’s just say it involved a goat! I will say no more.

The site got multiple mentions on air from a couple of the shows and was a running joke for a few weeks. During this time I dropped a bit of adsense on the site to recoup the cost of the domain. Today I went over to the site to have a look at around and to my surprise one of the adsense ads have gone smutty!

It seems Expert-Expert.com used the old tactic of “lets just use the whole keywords list as is�. I’m guessing they just targeted the term “RATEMY� and hoped for the best. Just to quote the ad “Quality Pre-Reviewed Resources For Rate My Clit�. I can picture the guy who has to pre-review this quality content, What a job that would be!

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Pete sent me over a link for a website. At the time it seemed to be like any other WTF! link that I would receive on a daily basis. It seems “WASAKI Corp” is putting together a “proposal to build” a series of 3 islands in Dublin bay that form the shape of a shamrock!

Now this extravagant film goes into detail about how the islands will be lit with a series of green lights at night and how they will contain Dublin’s first giraffe only zoo! My guess is that the choice of only giraffe’s was for space saving efficiency! I’m not aware of any giraffe related mauling incidences so maybe they are being safety conscious.

Update: They even have kitchen designs on the site!

Another interesting “development” from “WASAKI Corp” an exact replica of Howth on the south side! Ok, its a PR stunt for a new property website but its worth a look. At least they used their heads and went viral!

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I got a nice surprise this morning in my inbox. It seems that I won a nice weekend break to the Trim Castle Hotel after entering a competition on the The Persuaders marketing podcast.

Many thanks to Alex Gibson and the Trim Castle Hotel for their generous prize.

I would advise everyone to pop over and subscribe (RSS) (iTunes) to Alex’s marketing podcast, The Persuaders. The show is packed full of juicy marketing information, interviews and more.

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Ok this is something I wouldn’t normally post on my blog however it was fairly weird. On Sunday I was in my bedroom watching TV when I noticed a bright light on my bedroom ceiling.. the light had formed a shape that had an uncanny resemblance to a human hand. I didn’t have a digital camera handy, however I did have my camera phone. Here are some pics of the “hand”. Maybe its just a ray of light or maybe more.

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Following up from Michele’s post “Irish SEO – Where to Submit Your Siteâ€? I decided to have a look for a few more Irish directory sites. Here are the results of 10 minutes work. Some of the sites are free, some are paid and some I have absolutely no idea how you get a link into them! Enjoy!

http://www.irishsites.com/

http://www.kilcooledirectory.ie/

http://www.purplepages.ie/site/content/default.asp
http://www.itdirectory.ie/
http://www.irishabroad.com/Directory/
http://www.tipperarydirectory.ie/htmlsite/directory.asp
http://www.fashion.ie/directory/
http://www.gaire.com/dir/
http://www.queer.ie/directory/

http://www.gaycork.com/directory/

http://www.irishbuildingindustry.ie/
http://kildare.ie/business/
http://www.mayodirectory.com/
http://www.letterkennyonline.com/

http://musicdirectory.dfloor.net/directory/

http://www.galwayec.ie/schoolsdirectory.html
http://www.sustainable.ie/directory/index.php
http://www.hotspots.ie/

http://www.progressivetrance.net/directory/

http://www.isearch.ie/

http://www.longford.ie/business/directory.asp
http://www.furniture.ie/directory/
http://www.adlib.ie/directory.asp
http://www.ballyfermot.ie/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=43
http://www.youth.ie/arts/directory/
http://www.dun-laoghaire.com/directory.html
http://www.longford.ie/community/directory.asp http://www.carrickonshannon.ie/carrick_local_business_directory/index.php
http://www.braydirectory.ie/

http://www.weddingsireland.com/directory/

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Bean2bed is a faily cool product its a big bean bag that can turn into a bed, a bean bag bed! .. its like superman only more comfortable

Bean2Bed Beanbag / Bed Double, Faux Suede, Coffee

Technical Details

• Sofa to 2 Beds in 30 seconds. Revolutionary foam filling providing cloud-like comfort.
• Machine washable outer covers (Cord and Denim). Most Mattresses standard UK bed sizes.
• As featured on C4 and in Good Housekeeping, The Times, The FT, The Mail on Sunday & Furniture News.
• Buy with confidence from Bean2Bed. All products are covered by a 1 year manufacturer’s guarantee.
• We will courier your Bean2Bed direct to your door. Just 4-11 days lead time.

Bean2Bed Twin, Cord, Red

Reviews

Welcome to the furniture revolution that will transform your life. Our funky furniture is totally unique. It’s a chair, recliner which contains two single mattresses. And the best part is – it doesn’t actually contain any beans, providing cloud-like comfort that moulds to the contours of your body… day or night. The inspiration came from a lack of a simple, versatile sleeping solution for guests. The idea was to provide a space-saving, comfortable beanbag that transformed into a bed in seconds. Bean2Bed has hit the furniture World by storm and have been featured on Channel 4 and numerous publications. These dual-purpose products have many uses, including: Nurseries, Playrooms, TV/Games rooms, Student Accommodation, City Centre Apartments, Holiday Homes, Care Homes, Doctors Surgeries, Cinema Rooms and Luxury Yachts. Compare our prices with saggy beanbags, bulky futons or fly-by-night air beds.

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I’m glad to see that Irish users have started to latch onto the idea of text link ads. To be honest they are fairly cool. I have made about $54 so far from them. It’s like money for nothing. Payments have been made every month on time via Paypal.

So what’s a link on my site worth? Text link ads produced a cool ill calculator. The tool works out how much you could get depending on what kind of site you have. To be honest if my site was gambling related my links would be worth $69, that’s over twice the price of my current links. So go over to text link ads sign up and start making money!

Also a big hello to iWorld one of our text link advertisers, it seems that you can Buy iPod and iPod Accessories at their site. Some of them look fairly cool too. Please note the nofollow link.. Have to keep them keen after all.

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Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I have picked a hotel that was recommended by one of the readers. It was a hard decision to make. I was torn between the Silversprings Hotel suggested by Donncha and the Oriel Hotel Cork suggested by frankp. In the end the Oriel won me over. The hotel is slightly more expensive than the Silversprings Hotel Cork however they included breakfast and seemed to be what I was looking for.

The winners are:

€10 euro to Frankp – Oriel
€5 euro to Donncha – Silversprings

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Build your empire to last

At the moment search engines seem to be ranking sites fairly well that have pages with relevant inbound links. This is not the only factor involved to rank well, however it seem to have a lot of weight behind it. The search engines have also got smatter about identifying people who are playing the system to their advantage.

Link exchanges are no longer as effective as the where in the past and many people have got banned or caught up in a bad neighbourhood by using them. In an ideal world, if everyone followed the rules link exchanges would work perfectly, but this is the real world! Quality is more important than anything else. I found a chart that approximately shows how many links are needed to achieve a certain PR from pages with a particular PR.

“…the meaning of a link has been transformed from a reference to a vote.�
Bill Slawski, from his interview with Aaron.

Link building takes time. I would compare link building to building the foundations of a home. The foundations have to be strong and must withstand the test of time. Everyone has there own theories about the best ways to build links, you need to take time and work out your own linking strategies. I found a great article over on search engine watch regarding linking strategies. “101 (Legitimate) Link Building Strategies�

How long does it take? I found an interesting post over at Link Building Blog that mentioned a “time line� of sorts:

Established Domains (domains that are over 1+ year old or are already ranking for many terms)
*build links -> 10-12 weeks later see results.

New Domains (domains under 1 year old and are showing no strong ranking results) *build links -> 12 weeks to 16 months later see results.

Feed the monster

Start adding news content to your site and make sure to set up an RSS feed immediately. This can be done via a blog, content management systems or custom script. The advantage of a feed over a standard news section is that feed will be picked up and aggregated by many sites. A standard news section will only be read and indexed by major search engines. News is produced to be read, not just to fill up a page on your website.

Bloggers have realised for a long time that Feeds are they way to go. Your news will be out and all over the web in less than 24 – 48 hours. RSS is being picked up and read and indexed by most of the search engines. Most aggregators will also give you link backs thus boosting your rankings.

Make sure that you ping every aggregator site that you can. Many blog tools already have pinging tools build in as standard, make sure to add in all the aggregators that you can find to your list.

Don’t get lost!

Black hats have many ways to help you get removed from search engine indexes. Be careful to watch out for malicious server side includes, comments sections or reviews with direct links without nofollows and link spammers (with irrelevant keywords). There are many more ways to get removed, banned and penalised they just break the rules!
Most of the time there isn’t much you can do regarding external attacks. Try contact the major search engines, describe what is happening and plead that they won’t remove you from the index.

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