IrishWonder’s SEO Consulting Blog

Recently, I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how responsive Plimus (@PlimusInc) people are on Twitter. I noticed something funny about their interface (which, btw, they have been tweaking and improving a lot lately – so this was obviously the result of some bug that hadn’t been fixed – nothing really serious affecting functionality). I tweeted about…

Facebook marketing, Facebook networking, Facebook fan page optimization – these all seem to be all the rage lately so here goes a quick collection of links that those of you obsessed with Facebook will find useful (in no particular order): How to set up a Facebook fan page that works 5 Things That Don’t Work…

I am happy to finally announce it: I have just released the new update for my Directory Marketing ebook! Yea, I know, it’s been a few weeks since the PR update already – so what took me so long? Several things. First of all, I did a thorough review of the directory list. All the…

My friend Paul a.k.a. SEOIdiot has drawn my attention to the fact that Technorati places Google Ads on their home page and what’s weird is they are all seem linked to Technorati itself! However, having looked deeper into it (as deep as the source code), I noticed they are fake Google ads – the source…

As some of you who were not too busy celebrating already know, Google has surprised us with a toolbar PageRank update just before the New Year. As a result, I have just updated my Directory Marketing Reborn ebook – 4,700 directories listed in it now have the most recent PageRank. How did this PR update…

Webmasters and site owners, beware! Lately I’ve been getting spam emails posing as correspondence from Google Adwords. They go like this: We detected irregular activity on your Google AdWords Account. Please use the link below to verify your account immediately: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=adwords But the actual link leads to the phisher’s domain instead of Google. Of course…

Look at the source code of Google’s SERP page and you’ll see the following: <h2 class=”hd“>Search Results</h2> However, on the page you don’t see this bit displayed anywhere. Sure enough, you won’t see it because the stylesheet makes this bit invisible: .hd { height:1px; overflow:hidden; position:absolute; top:-1000em; width:1px; } And mind you, this is not…

UPDATE November 9, 2009: I have already released the 4th version of the Directory Marketing Reborn ebook following the end of October PageRank update – over 200 new directories have been added to the list, PRs of all directories in the list rechecked and updated, email notification sent to all current subscribers with the info…

Whether or not Yahoo is going to be bought by anyone still remains a question – but at least Yahoo is doing something in terms of its development. I use Yahoo as much as any SEO out there – mostly for checking sites’ backlinks – but even so, I noticed a change that, it seems,…

Ubiquity, a Firefox plugin enabling custom javascript commands usage, has updated to version 0.5 which features, among other changes, a new parser for the commands (a.k.a. Parser 2). This parser requires its own command syntax and due to that a lot of custom commands, including my SEO commands, got disabled. I tried digging into the…