Search Engine Optimisation - Online Marketing Ireland - Shenick Marketing

New Year’s Resolutions - Must Pay Bills

January 4, 2008

I see poor old pcworld.ie forgot to pay their bill, the funny thing is the site has been down for a couple of days. Maybe you should change your billing date lads so you don’t have the same problem next Christmas - Happy New Year  Read More →

Happy New Year

January 1, 2008

As 2008 begins, here’s wishing it brings good cheer and happiness in abundance for you and your family. We want to express our gratitude to all our visitors, friends and readers, because of you we move forward and try our best to make our blog exciting and worth your attention.  Read More →

Wal-Mart in the US are now offering PPC service

December 28, 2007

Yes that’s correct Wal-Mart are now offering a PPC service, yes America’s “favourite” retail chain is offering online advertising packages starting at the low, low rate of $100 per month. Now could you just imagine going into your local Tesco or Superquinns and getting the Milk, Bread and €100 worth of PPC campaign managment for my website please!! When I first read this I did think WTF?….and I really can not understand why a retail chain would want to move into the... [Read the post]

Google Webmaster Tools Adds Content Analysis

December 24, 2007

I see Google have updated their Webmaster Tools and added “Content Analysis” The Content analysis summary page within the Diagnostics section of Webmaster Tools features three main categories. * Title tag issues * Meta description issues * Non-indexable content issues If you select “Duplicate title tags” will give you a list of repeated page titles along with a count of how many pages contain that title. I had one site with a “Short meta descriptions” issue (which... [Read the post]

Welcome to the Sandbox

December 8, 2007

In the early stages of this site we have disappeared from the Google index for the search term “Search Engine Optimisation” not a big deal as it’s all part of being a new site. I can not think of any other site that I’ve had in the Sandbox before but I guess we’ll just have to wait a couple of week/Months for it to pop back out. The funny thing is I’ve done very little in terms of adding content to the site our link building just been working on other projects.  Read More →

Google is Potty

October 31, 2007

Sometime when you search for strange things your are totally surprised. Tonight I was sent on a mission to search the Internet for some information on “Potty Training” now relax this was not for me but for one of my children who’s just been a little lazy about such a pointless task. As ever our friend Google was called into action and the first result had everything that was needed. I’m now armed with Pictures to colour when sitting, Chats for Stars and Certificate’s... [Read the post]

Link Building - Part 1

October 23, 2007

The Internet was built on links way before search Engines came along and put everything into a big database that you could search and they control the results. In the beginning one site linked to another and another and so on and we used to be able to surf the Internet and bookmark everything for fear of never finding it again. Well search engines changed all that and can filter and change algorithms and work out which are the best websites to rank. So now we have all this algorithms stuff and link... [Read the post]

The Beginning

October 20, 2007

We’ll I guess we all have to start at the beginning – I’ve been thinking about starting this website for so long now and here we are finally decided to give it a go. Now the only problem is getting ranked for some hard keywords against some of the long established companies in Ireland. So here we go……  Read More →