IrishWonder’s SEO Consulting Blog

  • Blogging for Links and Traffic

    Today I did a class on blogging for getting links/ targeted traffic / building authority. As I was preparing for that class, I thought it would be more effective to just give people a few links to stuff they can read instead of just talking about it when others have already said it better than…

  • Press Releases Go Social

    Well, people were waiting for it, Steve Rubel was writing about it, now we got it. PR Web has officially announced the new trackback functionality for the press releases published on its site. We’ve yet to see all the good points and weaknesses of this new technology, but it is certainly an innovation worth mentioning…

  • The Power of Linkbait

    Well, it all started with USA Today publishing an article on SEO which was so poorly written that it didn’t stand any criticism – and of course people in the SEO community picked on it and posted about it and certainly linked to it – Aaron Wall posted about it on Threadwatch, Lee Odden posted…

  • Technorati Becoming the New Google?

    So the recent news discussed by everyone is Technorati adding the Filter By Authority slider (OK I don’t see it as really big news as there was a clear tendency towards that move – Technorati has been offering sorting the results by authority for ages now, the only difference is the interface and that now…

  • Social Bookmarking and Tagging for SEO

    Social bookmarking and tagging come to play an increasingly large part in today’s Internet. It is not only an online community thing any more as it concerns a much larger audience than any particular community alone. To understand why, let’s look closer at the concepts involved: Social Bookmarking Services – online services that let you…

  • Weekend Lite: How Readable Is Your Site?

    I’ve been playing with some social bookmarking stuff over the weekend and came across something interesting. I believe I have seen somebody mention it before but can’t remember now where I first saw it mentioned. It’s a tool included in Kinja’s Language tools called Readability test. the way it works is pretty straightforward: you enter…

  • Blogs I Read Added and Thanks

    So as some of you might have noticed I added me a nice little blogroll on this blog. All these blogs ended up in my blogroll for a reason so I’d like to take some space in this post to actually thank these great people: Aaron Wall of SEOBook whose blog I check first thing…

  • Yahoo Goes Negative

    I’ve been doing some searches today and as I came across this i felt obliged to make a screenshot and post it (click it to see a bigger image): I do realize this is a glitch of some sort, but it still looks impressive

  • Matt Cutts on SEO Rockstars

    As I type this the show on webmasterradio.fm is running – the topics discussed ranging from sandbox and 301 to subdomains, Bloglines and Viagra. The chatroom Webmasterradio is packed!

  • Writing for SEO: Where to Get Ideas

    Recently, I did a class for a group of copywriters on how to find ideas for site content, press releases and other SEO-related types of writing. As I thought this might be interesting for the rest of SEO community I am posting here my keynotes for the class, slightly edited and expanded. Whatever it is…