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Why You Should Use Blog Networks

November 16, 2009

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 [...]

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Blogging For Business in Ireland – LINK Meeting Oct 2009

October 30, 2009

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 [...]

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New Irish Business Forum

September 23, 2009

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 [...]

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SEO Spammers

April 8, 2009

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 [...]

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List of Irish Web Directories

February 25, 2009

Post first published 14/12/2007 – last up dated 08/11/09 – 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 [...]

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Who Do You Link To

February 4, 2009

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.  It is worth while reading up on link building – here.
There’s [...]

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More Than 100,000 .ie Domain Names

July 12, 2008

It was announced that Kilmainham hospital was 100,000th .ie domain name. I find figures like this put link building, online marketing, and designing websites in perspective.
I was having a discussion with a colleague during the week about a long term site that we are working on which will need about 7,000 links. We [...]

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The Cost of Links

May 21, 2008

Links cost.
It is that simple, there is no such thing as a free link. It is going to cost you time or money, and time is money. So what is best for you – spending your time or money?
I do both. For myself and clients most

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What is a No-Follow Link?

February 23, 2008

Following on from the last post – What is a Link? – no-follows need to be explained.
I stated previously that search engines see links and follow them to the page they are pointing at, and take note of the anchor text – well here is the caveat.
Google will not follow or take note of anchor [...]

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Link Building

February 12, 2008

Building links to your web site is vital. Without links you will not be indexed, and without enough relevant links you will never show in the search engine results pages. So where to start?
One of the easy ways is go to aboutus.org and add you site. If you follow this link [...]

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