I’ve just received an email saying that I am invited to go to the Google Developer day 2008 in Munich, on September 23rd. Thanks goes to SEOFM.com for posting the news (I still need to get a little bit in sync with the Munich SEOs). If anyone else is going do let me know !
I think I will need to give the Android SDK a whirl before I go. There are quite a few interesting talks on, one being on Google’s Open Social which I am definitely going to.
As for other events I have lined up on the calander, include Affiliate NetworkxX on October 7th. This is clearly more affiliate marketing based, but it should be a good opportunity to meet some like minded locals. There is still spaces , 31 to be exact, if you are interested in coming along.
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 where google was saying that “This site may harm your computer” when you click on a link to IrishInterMarketing’s website. 
My first reaction was that of surprise and intrigue that this could happen to an IT services company. So being being the good Samaritan, I decided to have a look at the site (disabling javascript first) to inform them of the potential problem. Just remember that if Google flags your site like this, you won’t get any direct traffic. Google will tell you to copy and past the URL at your own risk. Visiting their site I see that there is a n embedded javacript file inserted “optimised” META keywords tag from the domain adwnetw.com.
Now having an idea what the problem was, I was tried to use their contact form, but alas it was completely unusable, it appeared more to be for a sign-up form for an email list, rather than a contact form. Even if this was the form I needed, I couldn’t use it because there wasn’t a submit button anywhere to be seen !
Next I checked their lovely About Us page.
Besides the fact that there seems to be major bugs in their HTML code, and resulting in a poor rendering of their web page , I was able to find the contact number. Then I gave the Dublin number a call (from Munich where I current am), hoping to tell someone that their website has been compromised . Sadly all I got was the lovely screech of a FAX machine.
Not wanting to try any other methods to contact this uncontactable souls, I gave up, and decided to pen another blog post instead. 