Dave October 22nd, 2008
Disclosure: I’m not affiliated in any way with Google, I just wish I was.
I tend to evangelise about Gmail to other computer users for two main reason:
1. It is a web mail system.
2. It has brilliant junk/spam filtering
Third bonus fairly obvious reason: It’s free.
First the first: Why is any web based mail system good?
It means you can log in easily from any Internet connected computer and all your emails are right there. So are all your contacts. This means also that you can dump MS Outlook or Outlook express (or any other software you have been using for getting hold of your emails.
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Tags: gmail, Google, Twitter
Calvin September 24th, 2008
If you were in any doubt at all about the power of blogs to help your search engine rankings here’s a fairly compelling piece of evidence to convince you that they really can make a difference.
This domain was registered, and the blog was created and launched in August of this year. That’s just last month… and very little time to see any real results in terms of organic search engine rankings.
When we launched, the search results on Google.ie for the term “Small business West Cork” were dominated, unsurprisingly, by the West Cork Enterprise Board – the regional Irish Government agency charged with fostering local enterprise.
Just a month-and-a-half or so later, from a standing start, our embryonic SOHO Solo West Cork blog has surged into the top two slots on Google.ie for that same keyword phrase, and five of the 10 page 1 results relate to this site.
I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a fairly impressive and unequivocal affirmation, if one were needed, of the power blogs have to hit the right “buttons” with the search engines.
Tags: Blogging, Google, Networking, Search, SEO, West Cork
