Well done to John Handelaar for his Kildare Street project, winner of the Best New Web Application/Service category at the 2009 Realex Irish Web Awards.

A very, very off-topic post, but this is so important to my home country that it’s worth even having just one more person read this. Your kids’ futures may be determined by what happens with all this NAMA crap.

Quick apology to any email subscribers – you may have received a large number of email alerts, and this was due to migrating the site to a new server.

Just wanted to wish everyone a very happy holiday season, and very best wishes for a healthy and prosperous New Year

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

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

At least I wasn’t the only one having problems with my website. But I’m surprised that the big names had issues also…

I reckon this post will take minimum 3 days to get indexed…

Just how much does architecture play a role in SEO? In my experience good internal architecture can be the difference between lots of traffic and none at all.

And what should you do if your messaging is built for conversions? Why test of course…

No excerpt needed really…

We made the journey to Vegas and here’s a short snapshot of what happened.

Certainly left with more ideas than I arrived with – and as per most SEO conferences the really juicy ideas generally emanate from the bar

One of the better ads I’ve seen recently. Saw it in Belfast yesterday.

Brilliant…

Soliciting ideas for creating a framework to evaluate this years episode of everyone’s favourite Web Awards.

All thoughts and ideas welcome.

I brief info-mercial. iQ Content are on the hunt for a project manager.

Interested parties should head over and check out the job spec.

Some surveys, a bunch of Paddys hits Silicon Valley, some really slick new websites, and a general round-up of news and links that might be of interest.

What better to kick start your Monday morning?

Finally blogging once again. Some information for those awaiting their SEO review, details on what I’ve been up to, not one but two apologies, and some big thank yous.

Just testing LouderVoice

Review of website: My blog – test review
Rated as 5/5 on Apr 03 2007 by Richard Hearne

Ignore this post.

LouderVoice Tags: cardinal, red
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Via Ina’s blog

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

A number of Blogspot bloggers asked for a free SEO review of their sites. If I’ve learnt anything from this experience it’s that SEO for Blogspot isn’t a simple task.

I hope that you will all take something useful from this extended post.

Did I just see the official Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog call Irish politicians SNAKES?

You better believe it!

This being the last day of February I thought I’d end the month with a quick post about the great laugh we got today from some of the calendars on people’s desks.

Absolute class. The ‘So what’s happening’ comment has me in bits.

The animation is fantastic, and I think this is a great example of how new media can draw attention to your website. In fact, it’s so good here it is:

There’s this Cork fella who goes around annoying all the corporate folk.

God doesn’t he sound likeable already

I’ll be going along to SES London on February 13.

I’m not sure if there is a big contingent of Irish who travel over, but if anyone is planning on attending the conference and would like to meet up drop me a mail.

Picking up and hosting on aged domains with history and, more importantly, trust can have a hugely beneficial impact for a new website. It is very common for new sites to host on second-hand domains so that you can jump straight into the competitive SERPs.

A .IE domain came onto my radar recently that is a good example of how using an aged domain can really help boost your Search Engine rankings quickly. Could your next site launch benefit from this domain strategy?

After taking down GreyWolf’s blog, a hacker threatens some of the biggest webmaster-related sites on the Internet. Digg.com included on the threat list.

Irish Blog Awards – do I deserve a nomination?

Season’s greetings to one and all

How low will they go?

Spammers target Moscow Children’s Hospital with slick charity website and copious amounts of spam asking to ‘HELP SAVE THE CHILDREN!’.

NASTY

the Golden Spider was awarded to Moviestar.ie for its performance, as a functioning site in addition to design, innovation, content, navigation, technology, interactivity and ease of use.

Hmmm….

How does ‘house price inflation’ become ‘hous price inflat’? Or ‘minister cowen’ become ‘minist cowen’?

Simple, just type them into the new Ireland.com search engine.

It’s something I thought I wouldn’t do until next year some time. It wasn’t that I’ve been planning it or anything, but some things just happen out of the blue.

But I know that the sooner I come out the quicker I can get on with things. OK, let me take a deep breath…

Yahoo! have launched a new updated version of their mapping technology and Ireland has ‘comprehensive’ coverage.

Pretty good so far

Ever wondered who actually does send you all that spam every day?

Meet the culprits.

What you do with your private website is entirely up to you.

But what happens when it’s a public website we’re talking about?

I just moved servers to a nice dual failover clustered set-up. Should be nice and quick (I hope).
So if anything breaks or just seems a bit weird that’s probably the cause

It appears that there may be a critical bug in the latest version 1.5.0.8 of Mozilla Thunderbird.

This bug could result in the permanent lose of data.

Beware the Euro Business Directory spam and scam emails.