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Want A Few SEO Tips?

By on May 11, 2012 in Seo, Tips

As some of you may know we also run a weekly podcast over on technology.ie This week our guest was Paul Savage, who also provided a guest post on this blog previously. He talked to us about search engine optimisation and about some of the things to avoid. If you’d like to learn a little [...]

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Getting A Domain Name That’s Already Registered

By on January 5, 2012 in Domains, Marketing, Seo, Tips

Choosing the right domain name for your business is, arguably, one of the most important decisions you will need to make. If your business domain name isn’t easy to remember or easy to spell, then you will lose traffic. If you lose traffic you lose sales.. no sales = no revenue etc., etc. Choosing a [...]

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SEO For Dummies

By on February 10, 2011 in business, howto, Marketing, Seo, Tips

Editor note: This is a guest post by Paul Savage of BlackDog (more info below article body). The purpose of this article is not to insult you by calling you a dummy for reading this, in fact I have no idea what your SEO acumen is, but hopefully after reading this you will have a [...]

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Awstats Now Available On Linux!

By on March 14, 2010 in Hosting, howto, Podcasting, Seo, Tips, video

Image by blacknight via Flickr We’re delighted to finally be able to offer Awstats statistics for all our shared Linux based hosting accounts (it’s also available for Windows). If your site is hosted on any of our shared Linux hosting accounts you can now setup Awstats via your control panel NB: Stats will not be [...]

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Beware of Google Scams

By on May 23, 2009 in Marketing, Seo

Several of our clients have been in touch with us recently regarding yet another scam. At least one company is targetting small businesses offering them “guaranteed first page position on Google”. To make matters worse they’re also claiming to have a special relationship with Google. Now don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of reputable [...]

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SEO Competition Winner Announced

By on December 2, 2008 in Competitions, Seo

Remember the SEO competition from a while back? We said we’d offer the winner two things: Hosting Domain (boring details on previous post) Damien announced the winner yesterday, so congratulations to Paul Savage!

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SEO Competition Fun And Games

By on October 28, 2008 in Blacknight, Competitions, Hosting, Seo

SEO (search engine optimisation) competitions, where the entrants have to get their site to rank for a random keyphrase, are a bit of fun. They also allow people to show off their SEO skills. Damien Mulley posted earlier today about an SEO competition he’s running, but as he hadn’t mentioned any prizes I thought we [...]

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Sixy – Directory of ipv6 Enabled Sites

By on July 26, 2008 in Ipv6, Seo, Tips

If your site is accessible over ipv6 or you simply want to find other ipv6 enabled sites then a new web directory called Sixy might be of interest. Unlike a lot of more traditional directories Sixy uses tags to categorise sites and as a site owner you can specify which ones you’d like associated with [...]

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Developing An Online Brand – Get the Domains!

By on November 15, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, ecommerce, irishblogs, Marketing, Seo, Tips

If you’re going to focus all your energies and money on developing your online presence then there are some really simple things that you need to get right. If you were to rent a small shop in the centre of any town or city you would have to pay “top dollar”, but if your main [...]

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Making the Most of your dotmobi site

By on September 10, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, dotmobi, Hosting, irishblogs, Marketing, monetisation, News, Press Releases, Programming, security, Seo, Tips

Over the course of the next few weeks I’ll be doing an occasional series of posts on making the most of your dotmobi domain. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas that they’d like to share please let me know! The topics I intend to cover will include things like building a site, checking it, [...]

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The Downside To Changing Domains

By on September 3, 2007 in Blacknight, irishblogs, Marketing, Seo

I mentioned not so long ago that we were going to be doing some rebranding. You’ll see this happening slowly until the new site launches, then it will be a little bit faster. The kind of things that are going to change on the outside are: Email signatures Web addresses The logo’s colour scheme Email [...]

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Search Engine Tools Now Available

By on July 9, 2006 in Hosting, News, Seo, Tips

If your site can’t be found easily, then it might as well not exist. A couple of months ago I posted a couple of tips on search engine optimisation (SEO) which you may have found useful. To supplement this we’ve now added a set of SEO tools to our linux hosting control panel: Simply click [...]

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