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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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Have You Updated Your Business Facebook Page For The Timeline?

By on April 2, 2012 in General, Marketing, Tips

Facebook introduced the new timeline for users a few months ago. For the last month or so they’ve let business pages switch on the new timeline and let people know that on the 30th of March all pages would be switched over. The time is now so if you haven’t updated or checked in on [...]

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Acquiring an Unavailable Domain Name On Your Own.

By on March 30, 2012 in aftermarket, Domains, Tips

Previously, Michele wrote about acquiring domain names through third party domain acquisitions specialists and gave tips on how to smartly and effectively work with them to get a domain. However, there is more than one way to skin a domain name, and if you decide to acquire a name on your own there are several [...]

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Use Zemanta To Improve Your Blogging

By on January 22, 2012 in Blogging, Tips

Personally I love blogging. I write for the company blog on a regular basis, but I also write on several other blogs. However I’d be the first to admit that I am not afraid of taking advantage of whatever tools I can find to help speed up the process and improve it. Zemanta, in my [...]

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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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Blacknight Warn Users to Mind Their Content Management Systems

By on August 4, 2011 in Press Releases, Programming, security, Tips

Cases of compromised website Content Management Systems (CMS) are on the rise and Blacknight would like to remind users to update their CMS and plugins regularly. There is nothing more Internet-embarrassing than losing control of your website and recent Content Management System breaches are a reminder of the importance of operating your online business in [...]

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WordPress 3.2 is here

By on July 5, 2011 in Blogging, Hosting, Tips

NOTE: This post applies to Shared Hosting Customers with self installs of WordPress NOT to Application Vault WordPress installs. So a lot of people will be waking up today and seeing that WordPress 3.2 is out.. I can hear you groaning “another upgrade?” Well as always when doing upgrades of software the first thing I’m [...]

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Blacknight Solutions Warn of Domain Renewal Scams

By on April 26, 2011 in Domains, Press Releases, security, Tips

Carlow, April 26th Domain space innovators Blacknight Solutions are striving to make the public aware of Domain Renewal Scams. When the time comes to renew a domain name, registrants receive renewal notices via email from their registrar. However, an overwhelming number of domain registrants are receiving renewal requests via postal mail and email from entities [...]

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PCI Compliance – What’s That?

By on April 18, 2011 in business, ecommerce, Tips

This is a guest blog post from Gary Conroy in Realex Payments. We continue to get a lot of queries about PCI.  Below are our answers to some of the questions we have been asked… What is PCI-DSS? The Data Security Standard is a minimum set of requirements put in place in order to protect [...]

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The Blacknight Link Roundup Week 1

By on April 18, 2011 in Tips

Every week I go through 10 .. 20 .. 100 links that I’d love to keep track of … a long time ago I stopped using bookmarks because … I’ve just got too many of them. I’ve used various tools like http://www.delicious.com/ and http://www.stumbleupon.com/ but you know what? … I keep on leaving tabs open [...]

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Cork Lifelong Learning Festival – Learn To Use Twitter

By on March 28, 2011 in Events, Tips

We are delighted to announce that we are sponsoring this year’s Lifelong Learning Festival in my native Cork. The Cork Lifelong Learning Festival is now in its eighth year and has been getting bigger and bigger every year. The event is also twinned with Belfast’s Feile An Phobail So what’s our involvement? Well we’re officially [...]

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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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