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.

Bit of a sad post… but what the heck

If you see issues with my RSS feed I’d really appreciate if you could ping me.

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

Sorry to any feed subscribers that had to put up with complete gibberish.

Text book example of a Wordpress upgrade gone terribly wrong…

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

I’ve been meaning to blog about a few inside tidbits I picked up at PubCon last December.

This one is particularly important for virtually all webmasters as it concerns the new Geo Targeting Tool within Goolge Webmaster Console, and something that Google hasn’t even told you about the tool yet. Learn more by reading on…

Wordze.com is my keyword tool of choice. If you haven’t checked it out, and you’re serious about keywording, then head over to Wordze.com before this Sunday and grab a free 30 day trial.

Some of the juiciest .ie domains were registered over the years by individuals who really had no relationship with those domains. eubrowser.com had previously registered over 500 .ie domains including branded terms such as nike.ie and reebok.ie. Well those domains have now been deleted by IEDR along with a number of others previously owned by eubrowser. More details within…

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

With a dark secret

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?

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…

I use Google News most days as the ‘entry point’ to my online news consumption.

Google News Ireland served up some odd results the other day however. Is there a secret message in here for the HSE?

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…

No excerpt needed really…

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…

Irish Web Awards have been beaten black and blue of late. But when the organisers of Ireland’s most prestigious web awards get caught spamming people…

I never realised all the major domainers hung out in Phuket for Christmas.

Sure ya learn a new thing every day….

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

Just who is doing all the searching on [Internet Marketing Ireland] and [Online Marketing Ireland]?

It might not be the people you hoped it was. Especially if you are a Search Marketer yourself…

Google Local Business listings have been available for quite some time in many of the Google country properties.

It appears that Ireland is set to also enjoy Google Local – Ireland is now covered within Google Local Business Center. We might be about to get some quite cool OneBox listings on Google.ie…

Online Edge is a fantastic free half day seminar sponsored by Digiweb. Site owners and business managers can attend for free and access some of Ireland’s leading web experts.

Last week Eoghan McCabe, Larence Veale and myself were the speakers in the Digital Hub, Dublin. Here are my slides from the event…

If you fancy working for a world-class Internet firm and being part of a serious web team then details of such a position are within.

What exactly is an indigenous website? But I could swear I’ve seen that site somewhere else…

Good God… more Golden Spiders…

If you worry about Pagerank Google has just given you one less reason to do so – the latest export is either a dud or a lie.

I bet if I asked Joe Public if they had used Yahoo! recently I wouldn’t get too many positive responses.

Well Yahoo! seems to have decided that we’re worthy of our own little place in the Y! network and we no longer have to visit Yahoo! UK & Ireland to use their services.

And there are a few other really neat features that have been rolled out to Yahoo! Ireland – more inside…

Do you notice a lot more people using their mobile phones these days to go online? Checking email, finding cinema times, looking at porn (the number #1 use of mobile Internet didn’t you know )…

Website redesigns are a great way to improve the user experience. Everyone likes to use a site which engages their senses and delivers a great experience.

And if you manage the migration well you should find that Search Engines quickly pick up that you have a new site, and continue to send you the traffic you enjoyed previously. If…

I’m looking for a new office. Something nice, well fitted, good location.

Oh yeah, and preferably with a website that actually lets me in to preview what they’re offering…