08/10/08
Paul Savage

The Anti-Affililate – Ryanair


Just trawling through some of the papers this evening I see an interesting story about Ryanair. Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has decided to block all bookings on it’s airline that were make through partner websites. O;Leary is quoted as saying
“We want to cause as much chaos for the [websites] as possible”
Websites like lastminute.com, v-tours, tui [...]

08/04/08
Paul Savage

Free Affiliate Marketing ebook / handbook via TradeDoubler


Bouncing around TradeDoubler.com today I noticed they had an offer for a free affiliate marketing hand book. It’s right down there where you log into your account on the RHS. It’s quite comprehensive and is well worth a read , click here to download the PDF. It’s from the IAB (Internet Advertising Bureau) or [...]

07/29/08
Paul Savage

Effects of some search phrases


Popping by SEMScholar.com this morning, I read an interesting post by David Temple where he cites the fact that he has a slight reputation management issue when the top to SERP results for his name return details about an murderer called David Temple ! It actually struck a chord with me, because a few years [...]

07/18/08
Paul Savage

IrishInternetMarketing.com doesn’t have a clue


Today I was checking up on a bit of the competition, looking at this keyword [seo dublin]. I would guess the term SEO Dublin would be mildly competitive, and that companies in the top 5 would be on top of their game . But I was surprised to see again that there was one listing [...]

07/17/08
Paul Savage

Social Version of Google


Techcrunch has posted a series of videos on Google’s new Social Interface. Basically it is a way for google to get feedback and comments on their search results. See below for the results for Google.
A quote from Techcrunch says “Google Continues To Test A Search Interface That Looks More Like Digg Every Day“. [...]

07/16/08
Paul Savage

Getting off Akismet’s blacklist


It seems that all my comments on blogs in the past few days are getting labelled as SPAM. I started to wonder after a few days when my comments weren’t showing on blogs that normally welcome my comments. I checked with a few friends and checked on some of my other blogs, just to confirm [...]