How to Pick an SEO Company

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 [...]

Is this a Spanking by Google or a Change in the Algorithm?

January 10, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

I noticed only yesterday that my page for SEO Training had been filtered out of Google for the search term “SEO Training” but was still there for “SEO Training Course”. It is never a good thing in my opinion when I start tipping something in the Google algorithm. Investigating this was not as easy as [...]

What Does SEO Stand For?

January 2, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Search Engine Optimisation can be broken out into separate definable elements – however the main aim is to get more visitors to your website, be higher in the organic results, and gain more clients and customers. Keyword Research It is preferable that keyword research informs the theme of the site and the content, therefore it [...]

SEO in 2010

December 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

This will be my last post of 2009 on SEO. I am currently finishing off the training material for my new SEO training course which starts on the 5th of Jan – this one is full, but there are still some places for the next training day on the 20th Jan. These are a few [...]

SEO Services for Microsoft Partners

October 7, 2009 By admin 4 Comments

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 [...]

New Irish Business Forum

September 23, 2009 By admin 2 Comments

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 [...]

How is your customer service?

August 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

This is going to be a short post because I know my customer service is brilliant – nothing like banging your own drum. Reading a post today on Macs Walking Holidays website and found this interesting goodbye letter to BT. I like a bit of humour when it all goes wrong, however I was speaking [...]

What is SEO?

April 23, 2009 By admin 3 Comments

I met with a web designer yesterday and he was saying that my service does not jump off the page at him. I agreed with him. I don’t know if it is possible for me to distil search engine optimisation into one sentence. I have seen it written in one sentence – but it does [...]

How to Pick an SEO Company

April 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

I ran into this problem recently. I needed a graphic designer, I mentioned it to a few people and I searched, of course, online. I looked at all the companies and thought “where do I start?” I don’t want to be hassled with sales calls from companies that I approach. I looked at some of [...]