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Interesting New Statistics on Irish Search Engine Usage

Posted in: Search Engine Optimisation,Statistics by Richard Hearne on March 25, 2009

Latest research showing how Irish users are utilising Search Engines, which search engines they favour and how they perceive and use PPC ads in search results.

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Revealed: Ireland’s Sleazy Senior Porn Kingpin

Posted in: Keywords,Statistics by Richard Hearne on January 1, 2008

In a sleepy little village in the Garden of Ireland lives a quintessential pipe smoking senior citizen.

With a dark secret :mrgreen:

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Irish Times to Write Down Value of MyHome.ie?

Posted in: Statistics by Richard Hearne on

Everyone knows that Irish property is having a (much needed) bad patch at the minute.

Will the Irish Times have to write down some of the purchase price paid for myhome.ie back in August 2006?

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European Internet Marketing Statistics

Posted in: Marketing,Mobile Internet,New Media,Online Marketing,Social Media,Statistics by Richard Hearne on December 26, 2007

Some interesting figures about Online marketing spends in Europe during 2007.

If you work Online in Europe I imagine you have a good idea of the main findings…

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Running Conversion Optimisation Tests? Save Time – Copy Google

Posted in: Online Marketing,Statistics by Richard Hearne on December 24, 2007

While 2007 might be the year that SEO went seriously mainstream, I think 2008 will be the year of the conversion optimisation.

And if you want to kick start your testing you could do a whole lot worse than follow Google’s lead. Read on to learn more…

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Microsoft Gatineau

Posted in: Statistics by Richard Hearne on August 22, 2007

I was lucky enough to use Gatineau yesterday at Microsoft’s campus in Lepardstown Dublin.

DaveN said it’s KICK ARSE AWESOME. And you know what? I think it really will be…

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Search Engine Usage in Ireland – The Facts & Figures, Statistical Analysis March 2007

Posted in: Search Engine Optimisation,SEM,Statistics by Richard Hearne on March 23, 2007

Ireland has been bereft of decent Search Engine usage statistics for a long, long time.

Thanks to Search Marketing World 2007 and Amarach Consulting we now have a glimpse into the Search Engine usage behaviour of Irish surfers.

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The Rise And Rise Of Social Media As A Marketing Channel

Posted in: Social Media,Statistics by Richard Hearne on March 2, 2007

Social Media is a fascinating strand of the marketing mix, and the number of companies that are leveraging Social Media Marketing (SMM) is increasing dramatically.

Yesterday I heard a radio ad that surprised me quite a bit, and today I’ve come across some fantastic data that shows just how impressive SMM can be when you get it right.

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Alexa Updates Traffic Stats Console – New Features Added

Posted in: Statistics by Richard Hearne on February 17, 2007

It appears that Alexa is now reporting additional statistics including country origin and country-level rank.

Now if only one of the big search engines would just give us some Alexa-style statistics…

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Is Google Analytics Updating Intra-Day?

Posted in: Google,Statistics by Richard Hearne on February 8, 2007

Not sure if I’m just imagining things, but I think both Google Analytics and Google Reader have been behaving differently recently…

More of my madness? Buddha knows.

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Overture Keyword Tool Dead, but Wordtracker Saves The Day (and now Trillain jumps on board)

Posted in: Keywords,Search Engine Optimisation,Search Engines,SEM,Statistics by Richard Hearne on January 31, 2007

What are you going to do if the Overture Keyword Tool really does dies? Well you could switch over to the new improved Wordtracker Free Keyword Tool.

But if keywords equate to revenue then maybe it’s time to try out one of the professional tools on the market. More details within :mrgreen:

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Who Said META Tag Optimization Was Dead?

Posted in: Blogs,Google,Keywords,Marketing,Search Engine Optimisation,SEO,Statistics by Richard Hearne on January 18, 2007

Did you know that the META Description tag can be one of the most important factors dictating whether searchers will actually visit your website?

But META descriptions aren’t useful for attracting search engines, they’re useful for attracting the people who use search engines. Read on to learn how your META tags can get you more traffic (and I’m pretty sure you aren’t thinking what I’m thinking).

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How Safe are Search Results?

Posted in: Search Engines,Security,Statistics by Richard Hearne on December 14, 2006

New report from McAfee SiteAdvisor on study comparing the safety risks of the sites listed in the top results for 1,500 search queries.

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Irish Property Sites Keeping an Eye on Each Other?

Posted in: Search Engines,SEO,Statistics by Richard Hearne on December 4, 2006

Sometimes the things you stumble upon are the most interesting.

Someone has set up a tracker for the main Irish property websites, and the charts are quite fascinating.

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Moviestar.ie

Posted in: General,Marketing,Statistics,Usability,WebDev by Richard Hearne on November 29, 2006

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….

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Internet Video Eating Into TV Time

Posted in: Marketing,Statistics,Technology by Richard Hearne on November 28, 2006

Should we be taking far more interest in Internet and Mobile video?

Well, according to an ICM poll for the BBC TV, time is being forfeited for these new emerging technologies.

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The Quick & Easy Guide to Better HTML

Posted in: Browsers,CSS,Standards,Statistics,Technology,WebDev by Richard Hearne on November 12, 2006

We all want them. Visitors have a better experience. Searchers find what they’re looking for. Site owners enjoy more prosperity. And the Internet community have something to pour praise on. So what’s holding Ireland’s websites back?

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Golden Spider Awards – Are These Really Ireland’s Best Websites?

Posted in: CSS,JavaScript,Marketing,Standards,Statistics,WebDev by Richard Hearne on November 6, 2006

The full results from the accessibility and standards compliance analysis of all websites short-listed for the 2006 Golden Spiders awards.

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Golden Spiders Analysis Notes

Posted in: CSS,JavaScript,Standards,Statistics,WebDev by Richard Hearne on

Notes to accompany my analysis.

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Golden Spiders Take #4

Posted in: CSS,JavaScript,Standards,Statistics,WebDev by Richard Hearne on

Here are the results for those websites short-listed in categories 13 – 16.

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Golden Spiders Take #3

Posted in: CSS,JavaScript,Standards,Statistics,WebDev by Richard Hearne on

These results cover websites short-listed in categories 9 through 12.

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Golden Spiders Take #2

Posted in: CSS,JavaScript,Standards,Statistics,WebDev by Richard Hearne on November 5, 2006

This is the second batch of results for the analysis of the Golden Spiders short-listed websites.

This sample includes the Best Web Design Agency category.

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Golden Spiders Take #1

Posted in: CSS,JavaScript,Standards,Statistics,WebDev by Richard Hearne on

The Golden Spiders are billed as Ireland’s ‘Oscars’ for the Internet industry. With over 100 websites nominated I decided to take a look at the accessibility and coding standards of each site.

Here’s the first batch of results.

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10 Steps to Getting Into Google And Staying There – The Ultimate Quick Guide to Google SEO

Posted in: Google,Link Building,Marketing,Search Engine Optimisation,Search Engines,Statistics by Richard Hearne on October 19, 2006

Unconditional Google love is something we all want. Let’s face it, Google is one of the top referrers in the world so keeping her happy has to be one of the most important jobs of any webmaster.

Here are my 10 top tips to getting and keeping that Google love.

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SEO Spam From Cork

Posted in: General,Search Engine Optimisation,Statistics by Richard Hearne on October 17, 2006

E-mail spam is a scourge. SEO e-mail spam makes me particularly nauseous.

And when it’s Irish born? Thank you but www.amitan.ie does quite nicely without your kind offer.

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Irish Media, News Websites to Readers – ‘Don’t Read Us’

Posted in: Clients,Consultancy,RSS,Statistics by Richard Hearne on October 3, 2006

RSS is a really great transport for delivering your content to the widest possible Internet audience. Unfortunately it appears that no one bothered to tell Ireland’s top media and news organisations.

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HOWTO: Combine Google Analytics Accounts in 5 Easy Steps

Posted in: Google,Statistics by Richard Hearne on September 30, 2006

Looking for a quick and easy way to combine multiple Google analytics accounts?

Well look no further – here’s a quick 5 step guide.

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SEO getting bad press?

Posted in: Google,Search Engine Optimisation,Search Engines,SEO,Statistics by Richard Hearne on September 28, 2006

Discovering Google search volumes for any given phrase is a notoriously difficult task. Google offers a number of tools to help webmasters and site owners to research the keyword phrases people are interested in.

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Ireland’s Richest Companies On-Line Presence

Posted in: Clients,Google,Search Engine Optimisation,Statistics by Richard Hearne on September 19, 2006

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.

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Need WebStats? Google Analytics goes free for all!

Posted in: Google,JavaScript,Search Engine Optimisation,Statistics by Richard Hearne on August 16, 2006

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

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SERP Click Through Rate of Google Search Results – AOL-data.tgz – Want to Know How Many Clicks The #1 Google Position Gets?

Posted in: Google,Search Engine Optimisation,Search Engines,Statistics by Richard Hearne on August 12, 2006

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 […]

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On-line Tools for Searching the AOL Data

Posted in: Google,Search Engine Optimisation,Search Engines,Statistics by Richard Hearne on August 8, 2006

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 […]

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AOL Release (and quickly remove) Search Records of 0.5m Users

Posted in: Google,Search Engine Optimisation,Search Engines,Statistics by Richard Hearne on August 7, 2006

[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 […]

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More Matt Cutts Video Blogs

Posted in: Google,Search Engine Optimisation,Search Engines,Statistics by Richard Hearne on August 2, 2006

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

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Google Analytics Expands

Posted in: Google,Search Engine Optimisation,Statistics by Richard Hearne on July 30, 2006

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 […]

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