Cormac Moylan

Hi, my name is Cormac and this is my blog. On the web circa July 2006.

Entries Tagged as 'SEO'

Congrats to Paul

December 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Yesterday I provisionally muttered that Paul would win the SEO competition, and low and behold; he has.
Congratulations Paul. Hopefully there will be some posts on blackdog in the coming days providing some finer details of the win.
Paul has an interesting few graphs on his winning site illustrating the movement in the search engines [...]

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Paul to win?

November 30th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Tomorrow at 15.00 the winner of Mulley’s SEO competition will be announced by Google! Whichever site is ranked by Google.ie for the term geansai gorm at that time will win the competition.
I’m currently in 9th position with my own entry and I doubt I will be able to do anything to get to the [...]

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Google.ie as Gaeilge Search Results Suck

November 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Every proper search engine provides regionalised search options. One of the ways Google facilitates regional searches is by putting an emphasis on ‘local’ sites via ccTLD Google homepages. For example Google.ie leans more towards Irish results and Google.co.uk presents British results in a more favourable manner. Simple and logical stuff.
You can put even more [...]

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SEO Comp Day 1

November 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Twenty four hours has passed since the launch of my Suíomh Éadach website and she is currently sitting in 55th position on Google.ie for the keywords ‘Geansai Gorm’. The rules state that you have to rank in position number 1 on Google.ie or to be the highest ranked competing site for the search phrase Geansai Gorm in [...]

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THAT SEO competition. No, not that one. Yeah..

November 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments

…the one that Damien Mulley is running. I finally got around to putting my own entry live. I couldn’t make my mind up whether or not to enter as I was conflicted about the benefits of such a competition but I decided to throw my hat in the ring this evening..
.. Actually that’s a lie. [...]

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.net magazine on the hottest SEO trends

March 25th, 2008 · 22 Comments

“We reveal the latest tools and techniques in the world of SEO and give you valuable insights from some of the major players - The hottest SEO trends“
I generally pick up .net magazine each month. This month the lead article was titled ‘The hottest SEO trends’ which featured Google’s Matt Cutts, Danny Sullivan from Search [...]

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