I recently bought an air fryer. I am amazed at how good they are. It’s one of those devices you don’t know you need until you have one. We rarely use our oven nowadays. As far as I can tell, air fryers are more like mini ovens. They don’t really…
Advertorial sort of. What is Bux Zero? Bux Zero is an app that allows you to buy shares and ETFs. It’s a heavily backed newcomer to the market, trying to disrupt existing brokers who usually high fees for stock trading and for just having an open account. Traditional brokers are…
This is an interesting question that was asked of John Mueller The basic answer is yes but it’s going to be very hard. It’s not really about large vs small, it’s about how competitive the SERP is. Here is the transcript [Question]Within some industries, would it be unfair for Google…
This is a follow on from my last post about problems getting indexed in Google which ironically, didn’t get indexed! Out of sheer desperation, I decided to try the instant index feature in Google again. It’s meant for jobs but does work for all post types. I successfully got a…
I have recently got back in to doing some affiliate sites. One of the main problems I had was actually getting content indexed. I’d post stuff and Googlebot would not even come to visit. I actually have the problem with this site and maybe this post will never get indexed…
I managed to make it into the Sunday times this weekend. I had 3 paragraphs about my thoughts on stock trading apps. Rookie Irish Investors ride the share trading revolution Ben Luong, a freelance Google Analytics consultant based in Limerick, has accounts with Degiro, Interactive Brokers and Bux Zero. He…
I have recently been thinking about why SEO is so hard and the best way to explain it. It’s because it’s mostly a zero-sum game. A zero-sum game in game theory is where all the payouts in the game equate to a fixed amount. One person’s gain is another person’s…
I’ve been out of the game for a while and learning a few tips since I was last in to SEO. Penguin 1 and Hummingbird pretty much killed a lot of old school SEO. These new SEOs live in a completely different world to what I was doing a decade…
I’ve been a sportsbook/ casino affiliate since 2005 and went full time in 2009. Over the years casinos have come and gone, schemes have changed terms, closed and re-opened. There are two main types of commission models for the casino affiliate. Revenue share and CPA (cost per acquisition). CPA is…
Most people who are serious about website measurement use a web analytics package with Google Analytics Universal (UA) version being the most popular. The easiest way to implement UA is to use Google Tag Manager (GTM). GTM holds your tags, variables and triggers. You can view the contents of a…
Google analytics 4 has been out over a year now. Adoption has been really slow. I have seen very few installs compared to Universal Analytics. I was on Twitter the other day and someone asked the question about adoption of GA4. I sent the guy to the Builtwith site that…
Since June 2021 Google have stopped offering free unlimited photo storage. This was one of the killer features of Google Photos. A lot of people are going to be paying for storage. For small amounts, its not too bad. 100gb is about €20 a year. It will add up over…