Irish SEO, Marketing & Webmaster Discussion

Selling a .ie and where to sell

david4ie — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:10:52 GMT

Hello all,

I was wondering how I would go about selling a .ie domain name+site and where to sell it.

Cheers:)

Issue with Digiweb - or possibly not!Hey all,

sticker — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:02:12 GMT

Hey all,

I've gone for hosting with Digiweb - the basic €20 per annum lark for a friend who has a club website. He had the domain elsewhere, but after much ado, Digiweb finally got the transition over to them. They now have domain and hosting for the site.

However, every time I upload a change to the site (using Filezilla) no changes appear in my browser for a few days!! I can manually type in new urls and they appear in Firefox, but the site shows no changes after refreshing and clearing history etc...

I've done a plethora of sites for mates and clubs and such, and the change is always instantaneous with other hosting services. I contacted them and they tell me that UPC (my ISP) obviously hasn't updated their DNS servers or something like that.

Any thoughts people?

Thanks in advance!

Need some help with a html page.... :(

musicformedia — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:19:47 GMT

Hi guys,
So I have a domain with two parts to it. Theres a forum and a blog. Now, I know that its not a good SEO technique, but I want to have a landing page as my main domain (www.filmandgamecomposers.com) like this one:

title

Now I know theres a LOT of things wrong with it...
1. The amount of
2. The size of the background image is huge
3. Its not SEO friendly
4. I'm sure theres loads more lol....

I basically just want it to be able to link to a few sites I have which are all
related. I barely get much traffic as it is from search engines, so it doesnt
bother me too much to be honest.

I need some help though - that page is so badly made, that it shows up
differently in each browser. Is there a way to just get those 4 icons to
stay in the middle of the page without them moving anywhere?

500 Obama Blogs indexed

statman — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:47:36 GMT

Obama blogspot

there ya go, with backlink count, technorati blog buzz reaction count, and alexa traffic ranks as you browse!!

your welcome :D

Euro currency convertor

Alan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:38:37 GMT

Hi

Anyone recommend a way of converting amazon.co.uk astore output into Euros? I know that the best that can be done is to show an approximate Euro value beside the GBP, but struggling with finding something.

I've been looking for ages. Found one on dynamicdrive.com but it seems to be outdated.

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Google SearchWiki

caminowebmaster — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:12:54 GMT

This should be fun - it is not showing on all Irish domains yet - but you get to construct your own search results and leave comments that others can read on the search results.

The biggest social network - see my last post for full details.

Dynamic template and document creation

link8r — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:35:40 GMT

Has anyone done any template management work? With Word?-

Lets take an example: we have a contract. There are many existing paragraphs we need to insert and also some ad-hoc ones. So we have a menu with tick boxes to select the clauses, insert client name/address etc.

Using ASP.net to do HTML version has left us with some problems, namely

1. Text Format Issues (spacing, justification)
2. Cannot insert page numbers (Word Style)
3. Cannot insert page breaks.

Any better solution - PHP based, component or otherwise would be greatly appreciated

Keyword tool

blue4ever — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:20:11 GMT

Morning All,

Just posting this for those that missed it. Paste in an address and it spiders the site and comes up with keywords - its not set up for the .ie domains - but you can copy and past to see the web traffic locally.

"google" forward slash "sktool"

As I am a 'newbe' I am not allowed post a url, or anythng that even smells of one .......he says....after trying to submit this .....twice..... So to i had to truncate it - but you get the link

Cheers

C

Designing sites without a graphical bone in my body?

garycocs — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:10:01 GMT

Hi Lads,
Just wondering what the recommendations are on this one? I know most of ye are pretty on the ball with all ranges of web development but for me my coding is ok but I don't have design skills. Would people recommend buying templates? Would you have any recommended sites for this? I was happy to use template monster before but if this is the route I'm going then I'd probably need something cheaper?
Thanks
Gary

Registering a .com.au

garycocs — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:11:49 GMT

Hi Lads,
Just wondering how do I go about registering this one? I'm googling it but just wondering if anyone has any recommendations.
Thanks
Gary

What are benefits of Pay Per Click Advertising

kennedyzor — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:40:33 GMT

Pay per click advertising works because:

* By using the bidding system, similar to how an action works,everyone can compete on a level playing field.
* Pay per click is cost efficient.
* Results are measurable.
* It's extremely well targeted.
* Pay per click is the ultimate in direct response.

all the above thougth's of pay per click advertising benefits. This is the one of way of the marketing method that you should be using.

Create Contact Us form

kalcit — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:06:45 GMT

Hi,

I am new to PHP and I just need a Contact Us form for the website. Can anybody help me out? I need the sort of Contact Us form that will email the request directly to my email, not through the third party.

Thank you.

Problem Inserting 2D array into mysql database.

daveharding — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:45:00 GMT

Hi guys,

I have read a few threads on this but I'm still stuck ! I have an array which is a shopping basket, and it holds details about each item, and a number of items. For example, one users basket may be..

Topside Joint
Cotswold Edge
beef
9
1

Pork
Cotswold Edge
sausages
6.00
1

which is the output as...

$name = $_SESSION['basket'][$key]['name'];
$supplier = $_SESSION['basket'][$key]['supplier'];
$category = $_SESSION['basket'][$key]['category'];
$price = $_SESSION['basket'][$key]['price'];
$qty = $_SESSION['basket'][$key]['qty'];

echo $id . "
";
echo $name . "
";
echo $supplier . "
";
echo $category . "
";
echo $price . "
";
echo $qty . "
";

I KNOW this is a bad method (and it doesn't even work!) but this is how my code currently stands:

foreach($_SESSION['basket'] as $key => $another)
{
$name = $_SESSION['basket'][$key]['name'];
$supplier = $_SESSION['basket'][$key]['supplier'];
$category = $_SESSION['basket'][$key]['category'];
$price = $_SESSION['basket'][$key]['price'];
$qty = $_SESSION['basket'][$key]['qty'];

$sql = "INSERT INTO orders VALUES(0,'".$id."','".$oid."','".$name."','".$pric e."','".$supplier."','".$category."')"
$result = mysql_query($sql, $connection)
or die("MySQL Error: ".mysql_error());
}

How can I do this in a way thats a) better/more efficient and b) just works?

Thanks in advance

Dave

Google gave my site cool no.1 map thingy

Toiletroll — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:39:49 GMT

Hi guys,
If you search for

academy of english derry - Google Search

You can see the way Google gave one of the sites I did a map and stuff... I've never seen it before

Monetising: choose between a website or blog?

Alerner — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:17:04 GMT

Hi all

If you had the choice, which would you do; start a website or a blog, if your goal was to make money from it?

The reason is that I'm currently making money off-line (about 100 euro per month) by recommending a service to individuals (in Ireland) and I'm getting paid for referring them. With a little more effort, I could increase that revenue by turning those offline conversations into either a website or blog - and I'm wondering whether people think I should start a blog about the topic - or create a more formal website - or somewhere in between?

I have a website and blog for another affiliated business, so I think I can generate enough content for either. Bit I'm not technically gifted. I also have databases (built up in the other affiliated business) that I can use for e-mail etc and cross selling.

Any thoughts?