Search Engines

DoneDeal.ie or DoneADeal.ie?

Posted by on April 16, 2010 at 7:29 pm

Driving home the other day I saw a sign at a junction for a website called www.DoneADeal.ie At a second glance I noticed at “a” admist the address, so the website wasn’t our friends in Wexford who run www.donedeal.ie but in fact a new site. Maybe they are trying to do the same task i [...]

Has Google changed?

Posted by on April 1, 2010 at 8:58 pm

Yes, is the answer. The latest changes to the number one search engine in Ireland has finally come online. These latest updates to it’s functionality are pushing the ability of local search right down to the county level. Before we were able to choose by the world or pages from Ireland. Now we can step [...]

Facebook Privacy Policy?

Posted by on December 16, 2009 at 7:25 pm

With all the bitching and moaning about the changes to the Facebook privacy policy we have to ask ourselves why are they now changing as they have always been one of the most private social medial websites for people to network and meet up. We believe that it ultimately has to do with search engines [...]

Black Hat tricks to get into Google

Posted by on September 18, 2009 at 6:37 pm

Google Webmaster Guidelines are in Black and white. I came across a website today for a company over in the west of Ireland doing surfing lessons and when I scrolled down the page i noticed that they have about 6 inches of nothing at the bottom. I click the mouse the tried to select and [...]

Bing gets 10% of market share?

Posted by on September 16, 2009 at 7:01 pm

I wonder how true this is for irish surfers. If you have moved to searching the internet and using bing, ping me back and let me know. Would be interested to see how many people out there in Ireland are using it on a daily basis? http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10354394-75.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

How to get to the top of Google?

Posted by on July 14, 2009 at 10:56 am

Google’s listing, How do they work? We have had a number of inquiries from companies this week asking us to help them get on top of Google.  It’s interesting to see how the “recession in the building trade” has pushed into many other aspects of life in Ireland. One inquiry today asked if we could [...]

Microsoft V’s Google

Posted by on June 9, 2009 at 9:23 am

Bing.com Microsoft have finally launched their new search engine to compete against the search engine giant of Google Launched in May 2009 this new search engine has a similar looks to Google simple looking one line to input your search term. It also has features similar to Googles Image Search and returns the results in a [...]

Intro Flash page with music. . . .

Posted by on April 17, 2009 at 6:10 pm

We had an inquiry today (you know you are “T”!) asking for a website with an into page with flash animation and maybe some soft music. This is available to everyone but I had to steer the conversation around to a few questions that soon answered if she really wanted a flash intro page with [...]

Google Changing in 2009

Posted by on January 6, 2009 at 3:42 pm

Google has changed. Yes, Google have changed their algorithm as we have been writing about since last year. It seems that many people came back to work this week to find their website gone from it’s usual place in the search engine. Expect more of this in 2009 as “Rich Media” plays a bigger role [...]

Web Design Gorey

Posted by on December 18, 2008 at 5:18 pm

Web Design Gorey We have been looking at how Google is changing over the past few weeks and see that Goolge has definately started its changeover to the new listing method. So I am writing this to see if it will appear in a basic listing for Web Design Gorey tomorrow. I will report back [...]

Matt Cutts from Google interviewed.

Posted by on November 20, 2008 at 7:59 pm

Matt Cutts from Google was interviewed in Las Vagas at the PubCon show recently and he pointed out a number of changes that are going to be happening in Google in the new year. He talked about the user experience gaining in priority and that a move towards personalisation is very important. Meaning that the [...]

Google Changing . .

Posted by on November 18, 2008 at 6:34 pm

We have mentioned about google changing its algorithm over 450 times last year and having over 200 criteria for their page rank but now it seems that from early 2009 they will be pushing for Geo-Targeting search results, meaning that depending on where you are it will display different results. We have carried our a [...]

Google Algorithm – Changes all the time !

Posted by on November 12, 2008 at 2:02 pm

Ever wondered how many times Google changes it “Algorithm”, Well at a recent Live Questions and Answers session it turns out that last year it changed. . . . over 450 times. Matt Cutts and Maile Ohye from Goolge faced questions from webmasters from around the world. They ran through many of the questions that [...]

Gorey Business Directory

Posted by on November 7, 2008 at 6:30 pm

GoreyLinks.com This is our own business directory for Gorey Town, It was established in 2005 to help new arrivals to the area to find the main businesses in the town. We have around 600 business listed with a more still to be listed. The chamber of commernce in Gorey also have a site thats lists [...]

How do I get to Number 1 in Google?

Posted by on October 21, 2008 at 2:09 pm

I was reminded this morning of how common this question is . Many of our inquiries always say they “want to be No 1 in Google” but don’t have an idea how to get there. I talk about search engine optimisation SEO (this goes over 99% of peoples heads) but really i am talking about [...]