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An Introduction To Responsive Webdesign

An Introduction to Responsive Web Design

By on August 27, 2012 in Design, Seo, Tips

One code to rule them all, and on the web bind them… Web Design used to be simple. Well, simpler. Designers would design to the most popular desktop screen-size, create a single layout that works for pretty much everyone. This was typically a 960px wide Photoshop document which allowed you to easily divide your design [...]

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Tweaking And Enhancing Your Google Places Page

By on May 23, 2012 in business, Marketing, Seo, Tips

Getting found online these days is a “must” for any business – large or small. One of the relatively simple things you can do is make sure that your business is listed on Google places. If you’re not already listed you can start the signup process online here. You will need to validate your business [...]

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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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