The Blog Of An Irish Web Designer

I have been creating quality websites with my web design and web development skills for many years. But having a website is only the beginning. you have to promote your website and get visitors to your website to make it work, and that's what i;m good at! I have been doing this for years so i believe that experience is now on my side!

Follow my blog, as I write about SEO, Google and other search engines. review online services which I use to build and promote websites, and other bits and bobs related to web site design and development, web site promotion and search engine optimisation.

In my blog ill also be touching on ways to monetise a website, and ways to start a website or business online.

February 19, 2012 12:58 pm September 30, 2011 4:12 pm
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This clip is from the Fix It Friday slot on the Ray D’Arcey Show on TodayFM and gives some interesting stats about Facebook in regards to photo uploads.

3:46 pm
Free Ebook: 10 Things You Need To Understand Before getting your website Designed or Developed

I have put together this little ebook for those who are considering getting a website designed or developed in the coming months.

I posted about this before but the link as not valid so I have fixed the link (the above link is valid)

September 29, 2011 10:50 pm

I thought Id share this little video with you, I found it very creative …

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This is a drawing I’ve been working on since last year (on and off)… Aiming to finish it by the end of this year… I took a few weeks off from it recently because I broke the pen I’d been using (it’s a Rotring Rapidograph Isograph, .10mm). The only replacement I was able to find was in the UK, so I picked one up when I was in London last week for the alpha-ville festival* to avoid the obscene shipping charges. I got the last one in the store, no less. In any event, I can’t tell you how happy I am to be working on this drawing again. And I actually covered more ground than normal in a 40 minute period…

Music by Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble (performing Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians). Pretty much the only other two albums I’ve listened to for this particular drawing are Beethoven’s 9th (CSO version), and Joanna Newsom’s Have One on Me

*More on alpha-ville soon, but it was awesome. And London was a blast. 

11:44 am

Planning a Successful Website

If you fail to plan you plan to fail! If you are looking to get your business online with a website, it’s important that the designer of the site knows as much as possible about your business. Giving the designer as much information will help in setting up sales funnels pushing your unique selling point and pushing the right information in the right way. I have created this list to help clients gather the right information and compile it to give to the designer of the site.

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September 28, 2011 4:56 pm 2:40 pm

The earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. Click on the example to the left to see the click thought rates on search results.
So to get a website listed in these results I will build links, adjust and insert key words on relevant pages to increase keyword densities and adjust the code of the website to see which methods work the best.
But before we do any of the above we spend a lot of time doing research first on things like key word and key phrase research and on other websites that are competing for the same results, before touching a web site.

The earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. Click on the example to the left to see the click thought rates on search results.

So to get a website listed in these results I will build links, adjust and insert key words on relevant pages to increase keyword densities and adjust the code of the website to see which methods work the best.

But before we do any of the above we spend a lot of time doing research first on things like key word and key phrase research and on other websites that are competing for the same results, before touching a web site.

1:52 pm

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digitalspark: Is there an easy way to switch with all my contacts, newsletters, etc say from yahoo to G-mail?

Yes, its very easy. . 

Basically it can be done in two steps: “Export” and “Import”

To export you mail from Yahoo! Mail  Follow These Instructions

And then import them to Gmail  Follow These Instructions

Another benefit of using Gmail is that if you use Gmail on your phone that your Gmail contacts can be synced to your phone contacts.

Hope this helps!

June 16, 2010 1:40 pm

Using Gmail For Small Businesses Online

gmail4businessGMail is one of the most powerful email application iv ever come across, and as any of my customers well tell you I always recommend it for business email… and in this post i’m going to go through just some of the features which keeps GMail in the very centre of business and of my clients.

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May 5, 2010 8:45 pm

How Good Is Google At SEO? - They Could Do Better!

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So how many people do you think are in Googles Search Engine Optimisation Department?, maybe 5, 20, even 100 employees. Well believe it or not Google does not even have a SEO department. I was shocked to here that when I was watching Matt Cutts. so I went onto the Google Official Blog and found Googles, google.com SEO report card. The SEO audit of gogle.com was carried out in 2009 but was not published until March 2010.

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