Better Late Than Never Links
For the past number of months (I’ve lost count) I have taken a back seat with anything related to publishing websites. Although I have been following hundreds of RSS feeds and reading my daily forums I haven’t been doing much with my own sites, including this blog. I can’t say that I have lost interest in the web industry or its community but I have been concentrating efforts with my ‘offline career’ in IT simply because I still have a passion for it. Nothing like troubleshooting things on the fly.
As part of my web catch up I’ve decided to link out to posts that have caught my eye, similar to Damien Mulley’s fluffy links series. I had to give mine a different name though and thought up, better late than never links.
First I need to say thanks to Blacknight for sponsoring the last Irish Webmaster meet up. It was great meeting some of the crazy webmasters out there such as Michael Wall (self proclaimed painter & decorator), Jason Roe who actually believed Michael was a painter & decorator and caffeine addict James of I accept cookies and Forbairt Media. It was also great to see James Farrell get some 1-1 advice from Loiue of Eire Web design about a Google ranking issue. Did you ever solve that issue James?
I also had a quick chat with Richard Hearne (Red Cardinal) about his interests in user Experience and testing. As always Richard provides brilliant advice which you can read in his post providing 5 simple user experience steps for VHI.ie I have to admit that I’ve learned a lot from that post.
Cormac Moylan’s announcement that Omniserve has a competitor for their Google Rapid Inclusion Tool caught my eye. I’ve been following Omniserve’s claims on how they get their clients into Google with particular interest so I wasn’t surprised to see someone launch FluffyLinkulator. If I can get the time I’ll probably do a full post on Omniserve’s Google Rapid Inclusion Tool and better ways on how to get a new site into search engines.
Hopefully I can rustle up another better late than never links post sometime this week. Pointless me promising a weekly occurrence at this stage.
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Failte back to the blogosphere Mr Gavin.
Cheers Cormac
welcome back to the blogging world. I’ve found that consistently blogging isn’t as easy as seems, but it’s a great way to get your thoughts on paper.
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Thanks Paul and I agree it isn’t as easy as it seems but it is a great way to get thoughts onto paper. If only we all had more time.
Welcome back Gavin,
Haven’t ruled out the painter and decorator job, might be a good career move with a lot less stress
Welcome back and thanks for the share, very handy informations over those links.
Hopefully you will make more time for your blogs, try to concentrate more, and don’t let others disturb you :).
Oh crap - I’ll have to keep up with the Jones’ now and write a blog post…
Are you gonna come to Cork if something happens down there around barcamp?
@Michael painting & decorating pays well and those guys are always needed. Believe it or not I get stress doing the old decorating.
@Kacy Many thanks and welcome to the blog.
@Richard Yeah ping Mr Redfly too as I am needing more reading material from you both. Still unsure about Cork until I know if I’d be in Dublin or Derry before it. You see the latest positions for niceone.ie?
And why do I have to fill in my details to post a comment on my own blog? Gnah!
More info on niceone.ie pls? What you mean?
They have top spot for SEO Ireland and Ireland SEO, probably a few others too. I’ve been watching it steadily climb the 1st page for the past few weeks and just noticed top spot today.
About time you start blogging again…
Seariously, it ain’t an eay job coming up with new material all the time…
Hey hey Louie! All good things come to those who wait
Hey Gavin, good to hear fron you…
Yea, I’m back where I should be, it looks like it was google burping…
You should stop reading so much, you were saying you’re reading 100s of blogs?
Here, thought this might help
Blogging Inspiration
Glad to hear you got it back again and it seems you were not the only one.
I do read a lot but not as much as I used to, its that dam thing called time. I don’t actually sit and read 100’s of blogs but I do follow hundreds of RSS feeds of all sorts skimming until something catches me eye - hence the importance of post titles
I wonder how long it would take me to complete each of those 50 ideas. Sounds like a challenge.
Gavin, regarding niceone.ie, currently their 3rd and your 1st! Why don’t you monetize this site??
Keith, it’s near impossible to monetize a SEO focused blog via affiliate stuff unless the blog or the blog owner is associated very closely with a product.
There are far easier ways to make money anyway
Hi Keith yeah I see those now. Its been interesting to see the changes in the past few weeks in saying that, its been months since I’ve look at those keywords.
I’ve never really thought about monetizing this site to be honest. Think I tried a few things way past but never really took it off the ground. Guess I wouldn’t want to chase you lads away.
@cormac, who is saying anything about affiliate offers?
@gavin, obviously some people are coming to your site are looking for S.E.O services, why not get some leads and try and sell them on or use them yourself
Keith unfortunately I am so pressed for time lately that it would be too much of a bother. Any leads I do get I usually pass them onto someone who would be more than capable for the job.