Well the buzz about Dublin Property Company is certainly taking off. Well done to Funda Ireland and their marketing folk for putting together a great campaign.

If you were to ask 100 people in the street ‘Which Irish companies have benefited the most form the economic boom over the past decade?‘ I’m quite sure what the majority of the responses would be.

It’s unusual to think that probably the richest and most powerful indigenous sector of the Irish economy is so poorly represented on-line.

I have to admit that the whole blogging thing has quite a steep learning curve for me. I had never blogged or posted my views before launching Red Cardinal’s blog around the end of July.

Sometimes you need to know what websites are linking to yours (or, cleverer still, what websites link to your competitors). Sometimes you need to know what websites are linking to the websites linking to yours (bit of a tongue-twister that one). Site Explorer from Yahoo is a great tool that can help you out.

It’s funny how arch rivals sometimes sweet up to each other. Well OK, it seems a lot more likely that there is a problem with Google’s index, but the current #1 position on Google for ‘seo ireland’ is Yahoo!

Previously invite-only, Google Analytics has now opened to the masses for business.

Well after some gentle persuasion of MySQL the AOL-data.tgz files have surrendered some interesting, if not wholly unexpected, information about the relative strengths and click through rates of SERP positions. The dataset contained 36,389,567 search queries with 19,434,540 clickthroughs. While we all knew the importance of the top 3 positions in the Google SERPs, this […]

I frequent many webmaster and SE forums which are great places to keep in touch with and learn about the ever changing SEO world. While the largest and best known forums provide exceptional information, the biggest problem I have is getting information specific to the Irish web market. The work I do (which, yes I […]

A number of tools are appearing allowing the interrogation of the released AOL material: AOL Search Database (currently under heavy load) and (IMO) a more superior site: DontDelete (new domain so you may have to access via 63.212.167.185) I am currently indexing the entire dataset myself (2.1GB of search goodness) and hope to bring you […]

[EDIT] You can find some mined gems from this data over at the plentyoffish blog (and while your there, learn about a guy who makes >$10k PER DAY from Adsense on his free dating site). According to this post AOL released, and very, very promptly removed, the entire search records of 500,000 users collected over […]

Google has updated its Sitemaps application and added a number of new features under the umbrella ‘Google Webmaster Central‘: The Sitemaps UI seems to have been cleaned up quite a bit and my first impressions are that it is somewhat easier to navigate and problems/errors are far better highlighted now. So far I have only […]

Via SeoMoz: A very interesting article in MSN Careers gives a straight-forward description of what SEO is and refers to SEO as one of four ‘Cutting Edge Jobs’. Search engine optimizers (SEOs) increase a firm’s Web site traffic by improving its search-engine page rankings. This is an especially important task in today’s Internet-driven world, where […]

Matt Cutts has posted two more videos: 1. Session 9: All about datacenters has some info about variations across datacenters; 2. Session 10: Lightning Round! some other bits ‘n pieces regarding how Google scores HTML tags, in particular bold tag verses strong and i tag versus em.

More Matt Cutts Video Blogs about updates, dupe content and PageRank amongst others.

You can find a very good synopsis of a recent study by Hamburg University into Internet usage habits over at WebSiteOptimization.com. You should check out the clickthrough heatmap for Google (Figure 5: The Golden Triangle – Eye Tracking on Google Results (Hotchkiss 2005)) which shows the importance of the top 3 positions in Google SERPs. […]

Matt Cutts video blogs about Google and SEO.

From the IXQuick press release: As personal privacy concerns create growing alarm about the freedom of the Internet, the Ixquick metasearch engine (www.ixquick.com) has taken a pioneering step: starting today, Ixquick will permanently delete all personal search details gleaned from its users from the log files. This may be a welcome development for searchers but […]

Just noticed that my Google Analytics accounts now have 10 profiles per account. I use Analytics for all my projects and having more profiles per account means less logging in and logging out Now all I have to do is figure out a way to consolidate these accounts without losing historic data Great news all […]

From SiliconRepublic: PraxisNow, an Internet marketing consultancy, surveyed more than 300 business websites located in the greater Dublin area and found a lack of awareness of how to use the sites to bring more revenue to the companies that maintain them. A massive 95pc of the sites surveyed were estimated to have 10 visitors per […]

From Hitwise.co.uk: As of June 2006 Google now commands 77% of all search executions in the UK. Both MSN and Yahoo each account for just 7% of that market. I am not aware of similar statistics for the Irish market but would imagine that the UK market could be quite a good proxy for Ireland. […]

I often see questions related to getting your website into country specific SERPs. There have been some urban myths regarding where your IP address resolves to, where you server is located and the TLD used.