Voting commences now on the irish blog awards. Thanks to all those of you, who nominated me in the best specialist blog category. To vote me into the final shortlist, you need to go here. There are a lot of great blogs in this category, so I don’t hold any expectations, but would appreciate your vote nonetheless.Here are some of the blogs in this category which caught my eye:

• 4Basra
• An Irish Craftworker’s Good Life
• Bibliocook
• Ice Cream Ireland
• One Breast Less
• World Debate Website

To view all nominees go here

Richard Hearne, whose blog Red Cardinal was nominated in several categories, has made the very generous offer of doing a search engine optimisation analysis on all nominee blogs. So not being one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I am going to take up his offer of search engine optimisation.

To do this, Richard needs certain information, so here it is:

• nominated in best specialist blog category
• Blog topic is primarily the highlighting of unique artisan products
• Target audience = people who like unique artisan products (I’m not any more focused then that at the moment I’m afraid)
  
• I’ve been Blogging for over a year
• Domain is about 8 months old

Similar blogs in my area would be

• Design Sponge
• Karins Style Blog
• Whip Up
• Modamuse

Aspects of SEO that I would like to have a look at are.
1. Why blog is not appearing on any of the saerch engines.
2. Are there aspects of coding standards and compliance that need to be addressed?

my thanks to Richard for the generous offer:-)

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