I went off for lunch after showing a colleague some changes to title on his website.  One hour later, (prompt lunch), I was back in the office to hear his excitement about the changes made to the titles already appearing in Google and his website being on the second page as a result. My usual [...]

I have often wondered how I ended up in search engine optimisation.  I like instant gratification – I like to see the work done and have that feel good feeling factor viewing or watching something I have done. In SEO I can get to the end of a day and wonder what have I done [...]

Microsoft has entered the search engine optimization field.  They have launched SEO Services for Microsoft Partners – website.  Thank you Microsoft for alerting me to their new venture into SEO in Ireland, they called this morning asking if I would like to be part of their partner network… I thought this must be a joke [...]

I received a letter from Google – yes a letter.  Now it was just pushing me in the direction of Google Adwords for advertising for my business.  But it just highlights how the different, and perhaps old fashioned, snail mail is catching on again. Every day I delete somewhere between 100 – 200 emails – [...]

About two to three weeks ago there was an up date by Google, I was on holiday and really didn’t get much of a chance to see the effects.  The one and only major effect I noticed at that time was a tuning down of the exact match on domain names. Effectively this was also [...]

Launching a new website is great experience. Normally a lot of hard work has gone into the process. The design, the writing, getting the image and tone right – and then the site gets no visitors… One of the first things to do with a new site is add an analytics packages, this way you [...]