November 2009

WiMax Say “Google Me” – Arse!

I nearly crashed the car when I saw the billboard ad for WiMax saying Google the term to find about the Imagine Telecom service.  This is like a red flag to a bull for people who want to game the results and push Imagine down the rankings for this new service that promises improved and faster broadband coverage.

However their website infuriates me as I hate talking heads on websites and there is someone blathering on about he benefits.  What if I have slow broadband and have to wait for him to load up.  Plus he says “It Rocks”.  Who do they think we are teenagers?

There have been some similar blog posts  out on the blogosphere about this in recent weeks.

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Homeopathy Cork

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I have developed the Cork Homeopathy site now and hopefully over the coming days as we add useful information to the site it will start to rank for the search terms Cork Homeopathy. Best of luck to Pauline Meade with her business she is a really nice person to work with and I wish her the best of luck with the site.

I have been doing some keyword research for a potential Cork customer who is a homoeopath (watch out for the site I have some great ideas for it).  What was interesting about the whole area of homoeopathy is that there are actually two different spellings for it and that the majority of the search traffic was for the homeopath word and not fro the homoeopath word which is understandable as one is how most people pronounce it.

I learned the following interesting facts about homeopathy and the associated remedies which I will impress my Cork client when I meet her later today.

  • The actual alternative medicine is  actually a heavily diluted preparation which is meant to create symptoms similar to the complaint.
  • The effectiveness of homeopathy has been in dispute but there are many camps and types of opinion on the subject which I cannot debate.
  • Meta-analyses, in which large groups of studies are analysed and conclusions drawn based on the results have shown the benefits of using homeopathy but again questions have appeared about it’s usefulness

I personally do not have a strong opinion abut it but believe that there can be spirited debate  about the subject amongst people.  The whole area of healing and the pros and cons is nearly a book in itself.  I recall a pretty heated debate on the Late Late show a year or so back where different practitioners of alternative and classical medicine (amongst them homoeopaths) all I recall learning from it was that they both had valid points of view but both groups were too close to the subject to have a good debate.

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Banana Picking Ireland Forum

Ok I have developed a fascination with Banana Picking as my primary SEO example so I have put it into this blog as well as my Grange Web Design blog.  The only reason is to show how people every day in forums and in chats on the phone to me are being fooled to think that they are ranking for their keywords and that this is good.

Hence the banana references here.  What you need to be aware of is the traffic.  Google Analytics can help you there and show the actual numbers of people that are hitting your site.

As a fruit Bananas are a good source of fiber, potassium and vitamin C.

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