Richard has come up with a really cool offer for ALL Blog Awards nominees. (I'll have to come up with something as well now, won't I? ) Anyhow, as I always like freebies and I know Richard is a nice guy I'd be delighted to take him up on his offer. So, following the instructions on his site: your blog’s topic or niche: Varied (on this blog - I have several others that are more … [Read more...] about Search Engine Optimisation
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Snap Site Previews
I've been asked by website owners about displaying previews / screencaps on browse.ie in the past, but I couldn't find an alternative to thumbshots et al which are a bit limited in their range of site previews. A lot of smaller sites aren't available, so it isn't overly helpful to use their service. The other day, however, I came across a free service that seems to rectify the … [Read more...] about Snap Site Previews
Irish SEO – Where to Submit Your Site
If people don't know about your website they can't visit it. Simple fact. Of course there are mountains of content written on how best to optimise your website for search engines etc., but it cannot hurt to spend a couple of hours manually submitting your site to search engines and directories. Some people will whine about non-Pr passing links ie. sites using redirectors … [Read more...] about Irish SEO – Where to Submit Your Site
Search.ie – Direct Links
Although I implemented direct links on search.ie quite some time ago I completely forgot to tell anyone about it! If you navigate to any of the detailed pages there is a clean link to the site in question ie. no "nasty" redirect scripts For example, this site is listed under the blogs category and you can see the link / site details here … [Read more...] about Search.ie – Direct Links
Quality Search Results
One of the downsides to search engine dominance is the quality of search results. If you go looking for quality results (ie. useful sites) in certain topic areas you are more likely to find highly optimised crud than anything useful. So how can you get past the junk to the content you want to find? It's not easy. You can try honing your search phrases or you can ask for a … [Read more...] about Quality Search Results