Cormac Moylan

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

Entries Tagged as 'SEO'

Check variants between geographical Google results with Google Globe plugin for Firefox

July 15th, 2007 · 5 Comments

It’s a long post title but it pretty much describes what Dave Davis’ Google Globe plugin does.
Dave introduces his plugin as being an
unobtrusive Firefox extension that allows you to see what the Google search results that you are viewing look like from different geographical locations
Google throws up different results based upon your IP address and [...]

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Tags: Firefox · SEO · Software

Irish Blogs which do follow comments

April 20th, 2007 · 65 Comments

Hi guys, following on from my last post about blogs which do follow, I’m going to compile my own list of Irish blogs which are providing link love via their comments. If your blog has dropped rel=nofollow then post a comment and I’ll add you to the list.
I’m a bit weary of adding people [...]

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Tags: SEO

Blogs that do follow.

April 20th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Marios Alexandrou from SearchGrit.com has arranged a list of blogs he frequents which use the dofollow function instead of the default nofollow in their comments field.

I figure that others might be encouraged to get on the DoFollow or YesFollow bandwagon if they were shown a list of other sites that have made the switch.
Marios [...]

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Tags: SEO

Gavin’s Link Juice experiment

April 17th, 2007 · 8 Comments

Gavin of Ireland SEO & Marketing fame is conducting a bit of a link juice experiment with one of his old posts regarding theFootball Association of Ireland.
At the time of writing this post, his post sits in 17th position for the search term - Football Association of Ireland - I wonder will it climb in [...]

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Tags: SEO

Bush in PR ‘faillure’

April 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Seems that W has played into G’s #1 spot for failure once more…

Thanks to a great number of Google Bombs sent to the Whitehouse homepage with the anchor ‘miserable failure’ the site ranked #1 for that term approx a year or so ago. Google subsequently tinkered with their algorithm a bit to reduce the embarrassment [...]

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Irish webdevelopers Matrix Internet indulge in hidden keyword text - Blackhat SEO

March 29th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Search engines like text but they love links, however they adore keyword anchored links. Keyword anchored links is when you wrap a link with words which describe the link. By linking in this way you increase the chances of that site ranking for the anchored text in the link. If website x receives a hundred [...]

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Tags: SEO · Web Development