01/06/09
Paul Savage

Adding nofollow attribute to your blogroll


Sometimes you want to add the nofollow attribute to your blog roll links, but it’s actually not possible in the default install of WordPress (up to 2.7.1 anyway). Read my post on how you can add the XFN relationship for nofollow and external link attributes. This is also a help for affiliate links, where passing pagerank isn’t always

12/02/08
Paul Savage

That SEO contest


Yesterday Damien’s SEO contest came to an end and google has been very nice to my entry  mybluejumper.com . The basic rules of  the competition were to: rank highest for the term [geansai gorm] on google.ie domain name had to be new .IE domains were not allowed no keywords allowed in the domain name And [...]

11/20/08
Paul Savage

Am I doing something right?


Today I got a new type of spam. So why not share with the audience ? Hi, I noticed that you do great things in SEO field and thought that both of our companies might have an interesting opportunity. I represent an offshore outsourcing company which is based in Belarus (Eastern Europe) and we achieved [...]

11/19/08
Paul Savage

Monitoring Search Trends


Knowing more about your competition and your market than your competitors is of course advantageous for your business. Sometimes we can come too focused on our own data, looking at our own traffic, stats. and conversions. But what about the competition ? Maybe they are also improving, but at a great rate. Getting your hands [...]

11/03/08
Paul Savage

BarCampCork a Quick Review


I must say I had an absolutely fantastic time at BarCampCork (barcampcork.com). Kudos goes to all the people (Conor and the rest of the gang) who helped to organise this and to all those who presented and shared what they knew.  Thinking back on it, I was really surprised how open and friendly people were. [...]

11/01/08
Paul Savage

Barcamp kicks off


This mornig I’m at barcamp.  Donncha http://ocaoimh.ie/ is talking about wordpress and ajax. lovely 800×600 screen resolution. Presented in Vi