Posts in: 'Google'

How Not to Approach SEO

May 10th, 2012 by John Ring

We talk about SEO alot
We are also pretty upfront on what is involved in getting to the top of Google’s organic rankings – and for many, whether they are existing or potential clients, that conversation can be a shocking one.
We thought it might be useful to share our experience of the SEO client [...]

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Make Friends with Your SEO Company

April 16th, 2012 by Lynsey

Being an SEO can be a lonely place sometimes. Whether they are thought of as magicians of a “black art”, smug and scheming techies hiding behind a wall of computer monitors or a bunch of con artists waiting to milk you and your advertising budget dry

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How Not to Use DKI in your Adwords Ad

April 12th, 2012 by Lynsey

Another nice example of a DKI (Dynamic Keyword Insertion) Fail courtesy of travelinsuranceweb.com – or should that be yravelinsuranceweb.com?

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How to Rank Better in Google and Bing (SXSW)

March 21st, 2012 by Lynsey

Barry Schwarz over at SearchEngineland has posted an audio clip of the session at SXSW where Matt Cutts came together with Bing, Danny Sullivan and others to talk about current SEO ranking factors, and what we need to watch out for in 2012. The session was snappily titled “Google & Bing: Help Me Rank Better!“

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Google Flights, Whatever Next?

March 20th, 2012 by Lynsey

Google announced the expansion of this feature towards the end of last week – allowing users to check (and price) flight destinations. This was previously only available to US users, it has now been expanded to include 500 non-US cities.
Imagine my excitement! I went to check out some flights from Dublin to Las Vegas (if only) [...]

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Adwords Spelling Fail

March 1st, 2012 by Lynsey

While searching for “exchange antispam” we found this top ranking ad (in the US no less) with a pretty obvious misspelling…
D’oh all round.

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Adwords Dynamic Keyword Insertion (DKI) Fail

March 1st, 2012 by Lynsey

We found this doozy on our travels (Google.ie) – tut tut!

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Google.ie Example of Google+ Personalised Search

February 17th, 2012 by Lynsey

Have a look at this, we are noticing these types of SERP’s on logged in Google accounts.
Anyone else experiencing results like this?
Search for “Irish Times” with personal results expanded.

Search for “Irish Times” with personal results hidden.

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Adwords Ad Copy Gems So Much. . . Snow!

February 10th, 2012 by Lynsey

So, looking for inspiration for your Adwords ad copy? Look no further than this example – while searching for “Ski holidays” on Google.ie, we found this beauty.
It’s nearly poetry….

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Google Scam Email?

February 9th, 2012 by Lynsey

Anyone else get one of these recently? These types of emails are not new, but we had to laugh at the nasty streeeeeeetched Google logo on this particular example.
Beware, Google aren’t about to give you £800K. Although it looks like the got the Google London address right.

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