Comments on: Bord Failte Web Check Thread on Enterprise Ireland Lyris Mailing List

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Can Internet Marketing adoption save the tourism sector? — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:22:55 +0000

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Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:03:57 +0000

[...] or email. Thanks for visiting – Damien.Very interesting post from Richard Hearne about the Enterprise Ireland eBusiness mailing list and the enforced censorship on it after he gave his opinon on the Board Fáilte webcheck programme. [...]

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Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:47:06 +0000

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By: John Coburn

John Coburn — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:40:05 +0000

Hi Richard,
I’ve dropped you as email on this.
Best regards / John

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:35:08 +0000

Hi John

Thanks for dropping be the blog, and clarifying the above. I’m really surprised by the number of sites you’ve worked on, which is cool. I really hadn’t realised you had expanded your SEO offering – do you mind me asking how many people you have working on SEO, and are they in-house? It would probably take me about 4 years with my processes to work on that many sites, but maybe we’re comparing apples with oranges?

I’m afraid I wont be about for the EI event, so I’ll have to wait to hear about the hot topic from coverage of the event. I know one hot topic is the recent change to algorithmic anchor text weighting? Let me know after the event – I’m now wondering what this could be!

Rgds
Richard

By: John Coburn

John Coburn — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:51:41 +0000

Hi Richard & Guys,
No insult is taken whatsoever and thank you for the thought Richard! The discussion is healthy and objective and correctly identifies SEO as a core issue. PraxisNow does in fact engage SEO projects (we’ve SEO’ed about 124 websites to date – mostly in the UK, a few in USA (even 2 in Japan!) and a few in Ireland. However, Richard is correct in saying that SEO is not the primary focus of PraxisNow’s business. We do not “push” SEO in our website nor, with the exception perhaps of “SEO courses” do we optimise on SEO-related key-phrases. We do take on SEO projects selectively due to limited resource. We are principally a training company. However, to stay abreast of effective SEO methods, we travel quite a bit, attend certain conferences and seminars regularily and invest as heavily as we can afford to on subscriptions, reports, memberships and somtimes mentorships. Interestingly, our EI presentation on 23rd October will cover a very hot SEO topic in the USA at present. You’ll have to attend to find out though! Best wishes / John