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Understanding your website users is an important part of managing any website. You don’t have to be selling online either to benefit from web analytics as I will show in the following article. Understanding goals and funnels and why they are important should be a top priority for anyone who has invested money into a website. Even if its just a hobby site. (more…)
Recently on the Irish web master forums there was a question regarding web browser usage in Ireland. After having looked for data and not being able to find much, (except for this article, which is a few years old) I decided to share some data provided by some major Irish websites. You could assume that other markets will provide this information, however as we will see different markets can vary greatly. (more…)
You have worked hard to establish your business, you know that hiring the right people is important but at the same time you sometimes need to outsource certain elements of your business because everyone else is just too busy to handle more work! You have heard a lot of hype about online marketing , but its all a bit murky. How do I avoid the snake oil salesmen of the industry and how do I know what’s best for my business? (more…)
For those returning to the site, first of all I thank you :). Secondly you will probably have noticed a new design. If you can’t see it maybe you need to try a hard refresh in your browser. Just use shift+F5 and you should be ok. Anyway to give a run down on the redesign I put together a quick post.
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This introduction is meant to give you a quick and dirty understanding of Google Adwords. For those who have heard the hype but maybe lack a bit of fundamental understanding this should get you started.
Not too long ago, I used to use phpbb a open source bulletin board software system. At that stage it was in the 2.XX version stages and to modify it required manually inserting lines of code at the right point in the right .php file. It was painful when updates would happen because that meant reviewing the code changes you made and making sure it didn’t conflict with updates.
Considering I started the thread on the Irish Webmaster Forums, I guess it’s only appropriate that I mention it here.
Although mind you my blog is only new to the world and there’s not a whole lot of traffic here, but who knows it might spark someone’s interest or at least let one person know about the event. If that’s all it achieves I guess it was worthwhile.
I’ll definately be attending unless I’m suddenly stuck down by a mysterious tropical disease. Cross my fingers and hope not.
If you decide to come, please feel free to come up to me and say hi. Not sure if I’ll have any business cards yet but it would be great to meet some locals in the industry.
Details of venue and time are listed below:
Date: Saturday February 9
Time: 7.30PM till whenever
Venue: Harbour Master, IFSC
Its a difficult position for anyone running a website, you have the costs of web hosting, domain names and development time. So how do you fill the gap and make some money off all your expenses? Many developers choose to compensate by running advertising on their website. Fair enough really, but is there such a thing as too much advertising and how do you know if you have over stepped the boundary?
Clare always keeps her eye on cheap flights from Ireland to other countries, so when she said you should visit Croatia because it’s cheap we jumped on the opportunity. For €80 Euro return we booked a flight to Pula which is a small town / city at the top of Croatia.
After the crazy adventures and extreme heat of Dubai, I was hoping to relax a little in Dublin. The good news was it was colder but not too cold according to the pilot as he told me we were flying over Wales. I’d like to stop in Wales at some stage, mainly because one of my favorite bands is from there (Lost Prophets). Dean managed to sleep over 4 seats because the plane was pretty empty and I slept over 3 so we didn’t get so jet lagged this time and the time adjustment was slightly less than Melbourne - Dubai was.
Gavin Doolan is an Adwords Qualified Individual, Search Engine Marketing Guru, Web Designer, Analytics Expert and all round nice guy! :).
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