Author Archives: BeCreative

Optimising your content for search engines

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I previously wrote about optimising your site’s code to be search engine friendly but, of course, that is only the first step in creating user-and-search friendly websites. To ensure your site gains the place it deserves in various search engine rankings it needs to contain interesting and relevant content. By publishing your site with bad [...]

SEO and Valid Code

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In the nebulous world of SEO optimising your website code is the best starting point for a good and relevant search engine ranking. But how can you ensure your website code is optimised for the search engines? In my former days as a web developer, maintaining sites to be search engine compliant the one task [...]

WebActivate aims to get Irish SMEs online

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The majority of Irish small and medium enterprises are loosing clients and customers because they do not have any web presence, Ireland’s Digital Hub centre said today. According to the Hub’s Director of Marketing and Strategy, Dr. Stephen Brennan, by not engaging with digital technologies Irish businesses Irish businesses are failing to promote themselves to [...]

Is Twitter the next big search engine?

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Social and user-generate-content sites such as Wikipedia have been the cause for dilemmas for SEO developers over the years but with the increasing and common use of social networking is it time to look again at social web SEO? It used to be said that there was SEO value in creating or maintain a Wikipedia [...]

Search Engine Popularity

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Despite a loss of some of its market share in some location, Google is still overwhelmingly the most used search engine by European citizens according to the latest search engine barometer study by the At Institute. The At Institute’s latest figures show that Google is still the most popular site for search, with an average [...]