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 [...]

Almost a month to date since the last update of Irish results, Google has mashed the Irish results once again.  If you are checking your local rankings in Ireland for a site that targets Ireland do your best to ignore all the results this week. Last month when Google did this same update I freaked [...]

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 – [...]

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 [...]

Well the big update has happened and all the web designers and online marketing experts in the forums can stop screaming and moaning about the long awaited update. Now many can complain loudly about their drop in pagerank, quite funny really, if you like irony as I do. Google normally update pagerank every 3/4 months, [...]

Google has become the Ultimate Librarian. What am I talking about? Well at uni money was tight so I used the library more – free books. The internet is the same tonnes of free information, some good and some is utterly crap and dangerous. Enter the big Goo… Getting books out of the library was [...]