When you’re analysing your site and need to know what pages are the most linked to Google’s Webmaster Console can be a great tool.

But as with most tools – it’s not without its flaws.

“News To Me” – A new CNN show compiled completely from user generated content.

web2.0 meets TV2.0?

Gears is a client-based browser-extension that allows you to access online data while offline. My first use for Gears is to vanquish some of the unread posts currently clogging up my feed reader. And I wont have to be online to do so….

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.

Google is launching a crusade to undermine the practice of buying links to improve your ranking. And the SEO blogosphere isn’t too happy about it.

Why I blog. You could say it’s fairly obvious, but then I could retort by saying that this post is schizophrenic.

And then I might not retort at all. Now I’m confused.

This post was to be all about how Krishna could make her blog more Search Engine friendly. Unfortunately it became a discovery of the site being hacked.

There is also some advice for Krishna, and I hope her site has already been patched or is soon to be so.

Ever wanted to store clips and notated bookmarks while you surf? Google has introduced a Notebook facility that allows you to store clips and information as you surf.

I only noticed this over the weekend, but it seems likely to be a very interesting feature.

Last week I got my first phone call from someone looking for Google….

Not help with Google, but really looking for Google. Funny

Given the right signals search engines will reciprocate with good rankings.

But what are the signals you can control, and what should those signals be?

A look at another Irish Blog Award nominee might help answer these questions.

NSFW:

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 Rate this review at LouderVoice

Do you like being told how you can and cannot link to another site?

More importantly, do website owners have the legal right to impose conditions on how you link to them?

Via Ina’s blog

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Google Desktop now includes Plus Box previews.

Wow, what a week. First there was Search Marketing World 2007, and then there was ShareIT down in Cork. Oh, and did I mention that I might be leaving the Irish SEO industry?

If you cloak you run the risk of being banned from Google.

Apparently no one told Unison.ie (Irish Independent).

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.

The hotel space is just about as competitive an online niche as you’re likely to find. This study presents some interesting facts and figures that should be of interest to anyone in that space.

Well, not just yet. But an interesting SEO experiment.

“Cloaking outsmarts the search engines to increase your listings, and increase your web site traffic by a hit generating tool.”

This is going to be controversial.

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.

A recent report from McAfee Site Advisor ranks Ireland’s .ie ccTLD as the second safest TLD in the world.

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

You better believe it!

ShareIT is a free day-long training session happening in Cork on Saturday March 24 2007.

I’ll be running a session on SEO and Internet Marketing.

The first official acknowledgement that Google is indeed working on the much rumoured ‘Google Phone’.

Search Marketing World is coming to Dublin this month. With world renowned speakers such as Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman the event promises to be the premier search marketing conference to hit Ireland’s shores.

The free site clinics are likely to well received by attendees, but have the organisers been honest about the site clinic experts and there financial interest in the clinics?

The Mobile Internet is going to be with us sooner or later.

It’s rare that you get decent research on Mobile Internet usage, so this free report from the Online Publishers Association is well worth reading.

Optimising thin-content sites is a difficult task. Search engines, by their nature, love text. So image rich sites can be especially hard to rank.

Site architecture is such an important factor in crawling and ranking, and it becomes even more so when your dealing with a thin-content site such as an image blog or an e-commerce site.

This is the first major post for the free SEO reviews for Irish Blog Awards Nominees.

If you host on Blogspot there’s some advice for you also. Just don’t start me on 301 redirects from Blogspot hosted blogs….

If you run Adwords then Dave Davis’ post on optimising your campaign is absolutely required reading material.

Do yourself a favour, read this article and stop throwing money at Google.

This ad is (apparently) too political to be broadcast on Irish television or radio.

Could whoever is last out please turn out the lights.

I’m not sure why so many people are finding my site while searching for ‘whore’.

But I do want to say a big Thank You to the Cork Telecoms Entrepreneurs who sent me a fab little Pocket PC.

According to Hitwise Wikipedia is the #1 downstream site from Google’s search results.

Sounds nice, but would you fancy Google owning all your customers?

It’s funny how a search for one thing can lead you to something quite another.

Here’s a funny job advert I stumbled across, and an insight into the difficulties of launching a Social Media site in a small market like Ireland.

(Oh, and some future fodder for my ‘dismantling’ skills.)

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.

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.