IrishWonder’s SEO Consulting Blog

Just a quick update for all those wondering where I have been lately. Among the usual stuff (consulting, experimenting, working on my projects, etc.), I’ve also launched a couple new services (more on this later) and been busy preparing the new updated release of the Directory Marketing Reborn ebook. One interesting thing about it I’d…

As I have announced in this post, my ebook, Directory Marketing Reborn, has just been updated. However, there was a little issue with the existing customers. Well I am happy to inform everyone that this issue has now been resolved and I have just emailed you all the update download link! Please check your email…

After the Alexa update post, I was wondering just how Alexa top sites data compares to its main competitors – Compete and Quantcast. What is the most reliable source of data about sites’ traffic? Should we just check all the 3 if we want an adequate picture? I checked and here’s what I have found…

Alexa, for all it’s worth, has just had a major update of their site.  I guess they decided to cater more to those advertisers and media buyers who use Alexa data of sites as a measure for buying or selling online ad space and kinda try to catch up with Compete, Quantcast and other similar…

I am happy to announce that the updated version of my Directory Marketing ebook is out! It now contains close to 5,000 directories in the bonus list, with a few hundred new ones added and all the pageranks updated. Based on the customer feedback we have received, I have also added a special worksheet to…

Patrick Altoft has voiced his guess about a change in Google referrer strings. It appears that Google now adds the ranking data to the referrer string (for those less technical, the Google SERPs page a visitor has arrived from to a site): http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=7&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fmypage.htm&ei=0SjdSa-1N5O8M_qW8dQN&rct=j&q=flowers&usg=AFQjCNHJXSUh7Vw7oubPaO3tZOzz-F-u_w&sig2=X8uCFh6IoPtnwmvGMULQfw Perhaps the cd=7 (click detail = 7th?) is the ranking and ct=res…

It’s been one month since the release of my Directory Marketing Reborn ebook. It’s been a great success, with over 4,000 visits from almost 100 countries and 600 cities. Over 200 copies sold in the very first month and a number of plausible reviews from the industry authorities. Out of all these copies sold, we’ve…

Yahoo’s linkdomain: command is the one all SEOs use a lot. I use it daily. To save some typing, I actually like to automate my backlink checking queries by using shortcuts – like the one that is built into SearchStatus. Only problem is, a while ago Yahoo! started directing all the linkdomain: queries to its…

If you’re still wondering whether any company can be too big to fail here’s yet another example how big companies fail. This is the email newsletter people got from MySpace called MySpace Buzz: Just how much effort does it take to test an email template before sending it off to millions of your users? But…

One of the things I have always hated about Twitter has been its lack of usability for keeping the conversations within their context. Even if you follow all the people whose conversation you are trying to read, doing this has been a royal pain in the ass. If you follow a bunch of people like…