Google Announces "innovations in the areas of real-time, mobile and social search" Tuesday night I watched the webcast of Google's "search event" which they hold whenever they announce any significant changes in the services and products they are offering. This time the big, and I mean BIG, announcement was the launch of Google's "Real Time Search". Google has … [Read more...] about Google’s Real Time Search & More News from O’Mahony Donnelly
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Think Before You Pay for an Online Directory Listing
Before you read this post, you may want to know my opinion on how to build a good business model. For a full account see my guest post on the Irish Internet Association blog Can an Ethical Online Business be a Successful Online Business? Here I pretty much say that developing solid long term relationships, providing value to your customers, is the best business model -- and … [Read more...] about Think Before You Pay for an Online Directory Listing
Link Building: more than just Link Exchanges
For years people have known that the number of links into your sites effects your rankings on search engines, such as Google (see their page on Google Friendly Sites). Thus started the mad dash to get as many links into a site as possible; through all sorts of tactics, but mainly looking for sites that had an "add a link" button. That brought the masses of spam emails of people … [Read more...] about Link Building: more than just Link Exchanges
Google Won’t Ring You About Advertising on Their Website
Now it seems obvious to those of us experienced in online marketing and dealing with Google, but it has to be said clearly GOOGLE WILL NOT RING YOU ABOUT ADVERTISING ON THEIR WEBSITE.A few years back, just after Google set up their European operations in Dublin, a prospective client told me that Google had contacted her and were going to help her manage a Google AdWords … [Read more...] about Google Won’t Ring You About Advertising on Their Website
Google becomes more local – not so much in Ireland, though
Official Google Blog: Google becomes more local but they don't talk about the fact that this is really only shown for certain geographic regions - definitely US and UK. Local results also came up when I searched for 'restaurants munich', 'restaurants paris' and 'restaurants prague'; but not for 'restaurants dublin' (or 'restaurants lisbon')At Search Enging Strategies London I … [Read more...] about Google becomes more local – not so much in Ireland, though
