IrishWonder’s SEO Consulting Blog

OK not really fighting – rather poking fun at it, though in quite a masochistic manner. Well Valleywag is an online / tech equivalent of tabloids so it’s not so surprising that their stories are a bit off at times – how he dissects it is quite entyertaining though.

My latest addiction – sorta – is Facebook. We all depend on social connections to some extent, and there are places where you just have to be at certain times if you want to be connected to others in the community. For SEOs, they used to be forums first – but that was long ago…

About a year and a half since this blog went down, I have decided to revive it. It is done for several purposes: I finally have some spare time for consulting, and I am interested in looking at some sites other than mine, and I’m interested in doing some SEO consulting for clients again. People…

Recently I have read StuntDubl’s post about MySpace SEO (highly recommended, he provides a good sum up on all pros and cons there). Seems like this topic doesn’t fade away like some expected but only gets people more interested in it. Even those who at first grumbled about MySpace’s ugly design and screwed up usability…

So Digg that has been everybody’s favourite place for spamming promoting interesting stories had this on their homepage this morning when I went to check how my spam is doing there if there were any interesting stories promoted recently: And indeed, some time later what do we see but an updated, all web 2.0-looking Digg!…

Like I posted before, as of May 17, 2006 this site is unbanned by Google. I see the picture changing in the SERPs consequently: if before my other blog used to rank #1 for my own name (ok not that big a term to rank for but still) now this one is #1 and the…

I am happy to announce the end of my little experiment on getting a site unbanned without usign the reinclusion request in Google. As you might remember, at the time I got this domain it’s been banned by Google. It took me exactly 4 months to get it unbanned. I am not going to list…

I haven’t seen it on ym computer yet but another person searching Yahoo from the same IP as me has noticed Yahoo adding a Buzz block under the right hand ads with the data on the top searches for today. The data displayed doesn’t seem to depends on what’s been searched for. When clicked on…

Seth Godin posted a very comprehensive explanation of landing pages today. Accomplishing what Seth talks about is pretty straightforward for static sites that rely on Google Adwords for traffic/customers. in this case, everything is more or less predictable and controllable. It is even more or less easy for sites getting traffi from both search and…

The discussion about the sandbox is one of those SEO “theological” discussions that have been going one for a long time without an answer that everybody would agree upon, along the lines of “do outgoing links bleed PR” or “is Google evil“. The opinions range from treating the sandbox as a thing to blame for…