Archive for the ‘Search engine optimisation’ Category

Forums – how good they can be for your business

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

My colleague was speaking with one of our clients earlier today, Organic Cotton Shop, she had just bought Sophie the Giraffe.  So what's Sophie the Giraffe I hear you ask?  In short its a Natural Latex Pacifier and Teether for babies and toddlers. Now I hear you ask, what has this ...

They are so NOT Google

Friday, November 6th, 2009

I received a call yesterday from a lady who said she was calling from Google. As I am an agent I did not think this was strange so I took the call and listened to what she had to say. It was along the lines of “how would you ...

Google business listings – great way to get a top listing quickly

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

You may have noticed when searching in Google recently, that listings with Google maps are appearing more and more, they are Google's business listings which are a great way to get yourself into Google quickly. I have been listing tourism businesses and within 24hours they are getting a page one ...

Web 2.0 – the 1,000,000 word

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

I heard this last week and could not believe it, Web 2.0, something I am always talking about has now become an official word in the english language and not just any word but the one millionth. Other words bidding for the position included coddies, chengguan, slumdog, fundoo and Jai Ho, ...

bing – Microsoft’s shiny new search engine launches

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Without a great deal of fanfare Microsoft's new search engine came on-line this week. No doubt they spent a long time dreaming up a name that would have the same quirk factor as 'Google'. In the end they came up with 'Bing' - which, although not completely awful, is frankly a little ...

Using Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

If you are interested in taking your web marketing to the next level and using social and business networking websites to help promote your brand / products / services then this is the course for you - http://www.iia.ie/events/event/217/linkedin-facebook-and-twitter-for-business-june/.   Its an excellent course and anything you need to know Krishna ...

sitestogo.biz is now a target keyword

Friday, May 8th, 2009

You know that your company profile is strong when you see Microsoft paying for an ad in Google using your url as the keyword. I could not believe my eyes when I typed www.sitestogo.biz into Google (pages from Ireland) and a Miscrosoft ad appeared.

Web marketing emails – are they scams?

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

A lot of our clients have been calling and emailing us recently after being approached by web marketing companies offering them the world at a reasonable cost.  Offers include getting you to a number one position in Google - guaranteed.  Google AdWords set up and management, again promising the earth at a ...

Holiday World Show

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

I loved working on the Holiday World Show website. I trundled around with mountains of brochures in my car boot for weeks, hunting perfect photos for the banner changes. Like Bréifne these change randomly as a much more effective substitute for Flash. The curiosity factor appears to dramatically ...

Remember Cuil?

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

I recently wanted to find out how to convert seconds into days , months and years. As usual I Googled it by typing in "seconds to years months". I got 490,000 results. I don't know why but I thought I'd try the same query with cuil. So i did and guess how many results ...