An acknowledgement from Google that IFRAME content is used by spam classifiers. Well in this isolated case anyhow…

Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve always believed that people buy benefits. So as a marketer it’s important to quickly portray your product’s benefits to your target audience.

Initial thoughts on advanced segmentation within Google Analytics. Watch out Omniture and Click Tracks…

Search engines want to index as much content as possible. It’s not unheard of for Google to come knocking within minutes of launching a new site. And yet we still have “SEO’s” offering Search Engine Submission as a paid service.

Google has recently released some interesting videos via its Google Technology RoundTable series. All the videos are embedded inside the post, and if you’re into SEO then the first video is well worth a watch.

People who know me would, I hope, consider me to be straight-talking - I call it as I see it. But I can say hand-on-heart that self-interest doesn’t particularly drive me, so I hope people read my general commentaries in that light.
But back to calling at I see it. I’m not completely bereft of [...]

A short post to congratulate the winner of the IWA08 Best Online Publication Award - The Irish Times.

Interesting study into recent UK search activity around Irish banks. The report highlights the impact the Irish bank guarantee is having on grass-roots banking consumers in the UK.

Red Cardinal is sponsoring the upcoming Irish Web Awards. I’ve been missing for a while, and it’s long overdue for me to make a mention here about the awards. Hopefully I’ll return to blogging about SEO shortly (has anyone seen my mojo?).

A long post about the corporate site of VHI (vhi.ie), Ireland’s largest private health insurance company, in which I suggest 5 improvements of their front-end to improve their User eXperience 100% (well actually 4 front-end changes and one tincey-winsey server configuration change). Continue reading to find out what they are…

Deceptive Adwords marketing by VisitBritain.com - contrary to their marketing copy they do not appear to be the official trip planner website for trips to Ireland. Dirty tactics from the UK…

Another look at Irish Times, but with a alrge tangent - ireland.com. No hat-tips for SEO I’m afraid, and are they breaking Google’s TOS with hidden text?

A fresh Wordze offer - access for the month of July for just $4.95!.

I can say from a lot of experience that this tool is well worth signing up for.

A first look a the new Irish Times website at www.irishtimes.com. Shooting from the hip, but I have a few thoughts on the boilerplate, usability and some great features and touches… More inside »

The big news is that the Irish Times is pulling down the pay-wall, as well as moving the online version of the paper to www.irishtimes.com. I’m more interested in dissecting the way the news arrived…

A nice email from InterTrade Ireland shows how to approach the online community and request a link or mention.

Why oh why do you give us UK results when we’re sitting here in Ireland?

Massive SQL injection exploit in the wild - if you run IIS and MS SQL you need to know about this as it is already infecting Irish sites.

Social network apparently just sold themselves for the nice sum of $850m…

Moving away from the ‘Bullshit’ (see below), here’s a really fascinating post about searcher behaviour, and whether singular or plural search phrases matter more.