Over the last week I have been doing an SEO experiment. I have been Piggy backing on the funda Dublin coastal development exposure. This all started last Saturday when I made a post about the video that was produced by funda. Around the same time I had swapped over to my new template. When you [...]
It seems that the Funda PR stunt and viral campaign has started to stir up some controversy at a local Irish Motorboat Club. It looks like many did not catch the end of the film directing users to Funda launch page. I have seen a large volume of searches today after my last post about [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I was having a look at my Apache log files today when I stumbled upon this snippet from Msnbot. It seems like the Msn bot was looking for something Google related. The site in question runs both Adsense, Analytics and has a Google sitemaps. GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0 GET /misc/google/planting.gif HTTP/1.0 GET /misc/google/rakegirl.gif HTTP/1.0 GET /misc/xml.png [...]
Keep It Local The one major problem that I have seen with a lot of Irish companies and websites is that they are hosting their website outside of Ireland. Why would this be a problem? Most of the modern search engines over the last few years have implemented geo targeted results. Geo targeted means that [...]
It seems “Someone” is now sending in the lawyers on a “pending” trademark for the term “Web 2.0â€? see: O’Reilly trademarks “Web 2.0″ and sets lawyers on IT@Cork! IT@Cork is a not-for-profit networking organisation for IT professionals. IT@Cork organises regular information and networking events which are free for its members. One of these events – [...]
The search giant Microsoft has opened its doors for its msn advertising program adCenter. I signed up today to check out what all the talk was about and was pleasantly surprised. Some of the highlights for advertisers include Location specific adverts, specific day of the week and specific time of the day advertising. The interface [...]
It now seems that media bot is indexing content for the main Google index. Previously Google stated that this bot was designed to only pick up what ads where relevant to you website. The implications of this is that anyone that has been “optimising� content for adsense by removing non critical information will be affecting [...]
Jason is a strong advocate of blogging and coworking. He quite active in the Irish tech / social / startup community and is involved in organising social meetups and events.
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Andrew: Nice writeup Jason.
As for the entertainment, i...
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Leslie: How about a map for us non-Dubs and south siders t...