IrishWonder’s SEO Consulting Blog

So you’ve spent some time building links to your site, only to find out it didn’t really help you much in the SERPs after the link update happened? It is surely frustrating, but there are ways to avoid wasting your time and efforts building links that don’t work by recognizing them even before the update…

SEOs are exploring new opportunities and conquer new spaces on the web – but it appears that they’re not the first ones to see the opportunity in many of those places. Here are a few examples where we made to recently: – Google Base – but porn marketers got there before SEOs – MySpace (also…

View my profile on LinkedIn I have noticed LinkedIn a while ago but after Rand’s post I decided it’s time to finally create me a profile on there. Feel free to connect to me! A few tips to make the most of your LinkedIn profile: do take some time to fill in your profile, make…

OK, probably it’s not supposed to. But the question is, what are the benefits your blog brings you? To me, my blog is: a marketing tool – I started writing this blog before I launched the main site a traffic driver – bloging, when done right, gets nice traffic, and certain sucessful posts can bring…

Well, I have posted a few days ago about my little Google Base experiment inspired by Graywolf’s similar experiment. My results for some reason appeared not that spectacular as his – infact my item is not showing up anywhere except Gogole base itself. But while messing with all this stuff, I thought I’d take a…

As we have seen in the first part of our series, not all links are created equal because of the quality of sites they sit on. Now, let’s look closer at the links themselves to discover other things that make them differ in quality. (When looking at links, we need to look at the source…

When running a link building campaign, you want to make sure the sites you get the links from (be it through directory submission, or link exchange, or buying links, or even links obtained through linkbait / viral marketing efforts) are good quality sites. Links evaluation will be covered in part 2 of this mini-series, now…

Graywolf has posted about creating his entry in Google Base to experiment with it and see what it does for him. I thought I’d do the same. IrishWonder What I’m interested in is: 1. How soon this will get indexed 2. How soon it’ll get picked as a backlink to this site. 3. How much…

Linkbait is a big buzz word nowadays and pretty much a prerequisite to any link building campaign. Tabloids have learned the science of what we’d label as linkbaiting long ago, so probably it’s time to bring it online and adapt it to our relality. So what do you need to create linkbait? 1. Throw together…

Today I did a class on blogging for getting links/ targeted traffic / building authority. As I was preparing for that class, I thought it would be more effective to just give people a few links to stuff they can read instead of just talking about it when others have already said it better than…