Comments on: Cube SEO Guide for Irish Business

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:32:53 +0000

Absolutely awesome Leslie. Been looking for a guide that’s not overly technical and tells it how it is to point Irish businesses to. This is just perfect.

Fantastic job and thanks for the mention (and over-kind words).

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:59:47 +0000

Thanks Stuart it is great to get it out there – the more that know about SEO for thier own sites the better.

By: Stuart McNamara

Stuart McNamara — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:38:21 +0000

Hi Leslie,

Your SEO Guide for Irish Business is perfectly pitched at Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises in Ireland. It’s a mine of interesting and relevant information and includes lots of free tips and tools of the trade. I have it up in lights as a must view resource for our Irish Business Forum members .

Stuart McNamara
Irish Business Forums

By: Tom Doyle

Tom Doyle — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:00:03 +0000

Would love to see those examples Leslie – having worked on hundreds of sites I’ve have never once seen it make a difference.

Agreed you didn’t need to go into detail – but then you should have covered all options available instead of saying one thing that is very debatable.

Don’t get me wrong here Leslie – i think it’s a really great document and would pass it on for sure – but would find myself saying “ignore the bit about hosting”.

Tom

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:52:42 +0000

I find a slight difference and if someone is setting up from the start may as well host within country – completely agree with IP range, but really did not want to get into that in this doc as I was keeping it as simple as possible.

By: Tom Doyle

Tom Doyle — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:45:12 +0000

As mentioned on IWF – the only issue I have with this is the Hosting.

You don’t need to host in your target country to be geo-targeted or appear in the “Sites from” search. You can do one of many things:

1. Country specific domain name – e.g. yourcompanyname.ie
2. Use Google Webmaster tools to geo-target your domain.
3. Have your server on an Irish IP range

Any of these will do – it doesn’t make a difference at all to the SERPs.

This looks like it’s going to change shortly if rumours are to be believed, but for now any of these will work.

Tom

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:56:16 +0000

Thanks Denis.

I thought it would be a good idea. None of it is new, all the information can be found searching. I just thought it would be good to have it all together, makes life easier for all.

By: Denis

Denis — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:51:24 +0000

Thanks for the free stuff, which I find very useful.

By the way, giving away stuff for free is good. I find it has the effect of attracting the right types of customers – ones that share your value set and therefore become customers forever. It also builds trust, long before you think your sales cycle has started.

The only difficulty is when “free” attracts the wrong type of prospect .. the one who has no intention of paying for anything … ever. In my experience, the telltale signs of such a prospect are an obsession with “what are you getting out of this?”, “wheres the catch?” and a refusal to meet or engage purposefully. Seems like their time is always more important than yours.

Denis

By: Merrill

Merrill — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:31:59 +0000

It’s nice to see an Irish site on the front page of Sphinn. Good work.

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