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Google Analytics Not Reporting 2/11/2010

November 3, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Google has been having a problem with analytics for the last week. They have stated that they are aware of some accounts taking more than 24 hours to update with the latest information from analytics, see below. However this morning I see no statics for any website I have access to. For my own sites [...]

Is This Google Preview–New Google Search Results

October 28, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

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 [...]

Finding Your Backlinks – Not a Problem Any More

October 22, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

One of the things I love about the SEO business is how it is becoming more transparent. Google is slowly doing its part in making some data more easy to view. For a long time Google, for whatever reason, kept most of the information that could help webmaster hidden. Now however through Google Webmaster Tools [...]

Using Google Analytics to Find Ideas for Blog Posts

May 4, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Sometimes it can be hard to come up with ideas for blog posts. However there are a couple of ways that Google can help with this. I covered some of this information regarding Google Webmaster Tools in this post. It has become essential that you have Google Webmaster Tools installed on your site. Google Analytics [...]

Business Blogging for SEO

May 2, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

This post will cover using your blog to increase the rankings of your website and the number of visitors to your blog posts. I am going to make the assumption that you know what keywords are within SEO and that you have already optimised on site – that is your website has been fully optimised. [...]

How to Install SEO for Firefox

April 24, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

SEO for Firefox is one of the many free SEO software tools available to download. I have been using this one for the last couple of years as it is easy to use and I can get a very quick over view of the competition for a search query. This post is written specifically for [...]

New Google Webmaster Tools Feature is Great

April 20, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

It is not often that Google blows me away. When they release new products to webmaster I often feel that have given me the potato and veg and held back the meat. But this time it is all meat and the best of beef at that. Google collects a lot of information about my website, [...]

How to Choose Keywords for Title Tags

March 30, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

I want to differentiate between title tags and page heading. Page heading are the heading that you see on the page of a web site. You cannot see title tags on the page, you can see title tags in the background code of the website, in the top left of the browser window – and [...]

How Important are Title Tags?

March 23, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

I was asked the question recently on one of the SEO courses – How important are page titles – now they were not asking about the page heading on the page, but the text that you see in Google’s search results, which is the same text you see on the top left hand side of [...]

Wordcamp Kilkenny Review

March 9, 2010 By admin 6 Comments

I would have written this yesterday but I was giving an SEO course all day, so here it is better late than never… Firstly thanks to Sabrina and Katherine for all the work they put in organising a great weekend with great speakers. Although the two of them are based in or near Cork, Wordcamp [...]