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Last summer I hired someone to do some SEO work on my website. At the time the site was designed completely in Flash. (When I built the site I didn't realize that Google didn't like Flash!) The company I hired didn't make any SEO changes to the actual site because I had done some work with...

Hi - I have a requirement to embed a video on a Wordpress page and can't seem to find a simple plugin which works. Does anyone have any experience of this in WP? Should be a simple job but I am not finding any plugins which seem to work. Thanks, Barry

How can I put strings of data into table columns? For example, say I wanted to put the following data list into 5 columns of 4 cells each, with Fahan Lower to Faithlegg in the first column, Falls Upper to Farbane in the second, etc., is there an easy way to do this? Fahan (Lower) Fahan (Upper)...

Hi I'm 16 from Dublin, and have just set up a Music Search Engine, called Backslap, I would really appreciate any kind of opinion on my site! So tell me what you think! Backslap Music Search Engine Thanks! Niall

Hi updated site to wordpress www.dlrepairpc.com/wordpress it has gone off the radar of google for some reason despite numerous SEO plug-ins new site ready to go shortly Any comments welcome Cypher

I am using Concrete5 on a site I'm working on. Below is the News List display view.php file needed in the block to display the content from news pages. The code allows images entered in the WSYIWYG to appear in the RSS list. I want to know how I can edit the code below, so it shows only the...

I am trying to implement the method described in this post: AddThis User Community • View topic - seperate news post text instead of whole block to get my Addthis button to act the way I need it to. I have posted on the site, but have gotten no response. I cannot get it to work. Can...

If you want to get your news into newspapers and magazines you need to distribute it .. so what are people doing? Are you using your own lists? Or are you using a service?

Hi, I'm pondering the questions - I have a video that will be going viral soon & I estimate that the largest viewers of this video will be in the Sates then Ireland. Should I have my webiste as a .com or .ie? It's an Irish based company but will attract lots of americans. Also, do you think...

A Cost Effective eCommerce Solution Developed in Ireland for Irish Entrepreneurs October, 2010. To: all From: Jamie Scott, Easy Business Cart Dear all, Easy Business Cart (www.easybusinesscart.ie) provides start-up and existing businesses...

Not sure if this is the right area so please feel free to move to a more appropriate place if needed. I'm looking for advice on a free PHP based mailing list for a monthly news letter where I can easily integrate into an existing PHP based site and people can subscribe/un-subscribe and if...

Just noticed another little Google quirk. Was looking to see if there's any recent news on Irish networks for the new HTC Desire models, so googled "HTC Desire", and restricted it to "Pages from Ireland" and "Last Week". Result number 4: Looked through the thread, the last post was in May...

Largely unknown in the English-speaking world, Jean-Jacques Goldman has raked up dozens of hits in Europe, and written for many other major performers. His gentle yet heartfelt style has proven popular with both performers and the audience. In addition to his own hit albums and singles, the...

Here's an odd glitch: search for driving lessons sutton (broad match) All the organic results are correctly from Sutton, Dublin - except all the Local Business results are for Sutton, Greater London, UK. Even weirder - restrict it to 'pages from Ireland' - makes no difference, still includes...

[Disclaimer: I'm not saying Facebook doesn't work for business. its about how you work and when you should work Facebook. I'm trying to balance the hype] I disagree with the "every business MUST be on facebook or be left out" argument and simultaneously with the "there are 400 million people...

Hello All. Not sure if you've heard of us, but we organise Europe's largest Performance Marketing Conference & Exhibition a4uexpo. We have the London event coming up in October. We're holding a free-to-attend a4uexpo Roadshow in Dublin next Wednesday, from 17.30 at Cafe en Seine. We've got...

Hi, we have just revamped a site and are hosting it in Ireland. The old site was hosted in the UK so we had to change the DNS on the domain. This was done Wednesday lunch time, this went fine with all networks except Vodafone which we are using for broadband and that our client is also using...

Mods: Apologies if this is the wrong forum, please move if this is the case. To begin, this is not a political, FF-bashing thread (thought I'm far from a fan of the current 'government' - but that's another days work) If it was any other political-party in power I would be asking the same...

Just read "New Rules of Marketing and PR" by David Meerman Scott. Very insightful, particularly in how you should approach online blogging and how you should write and publish news releases. Anyone read it? What are your thoughts?

BBC News - Government departments spend £6m on search engines That's a bit misleading - even with paid ads, you can't "ensure" you'll be at the top. Lols though at: