Wedding Websites
September 18, 2003
Whilst researching sponsorship rates on Irish wedding websites, I got talking to a guy called Ken Byrne from Des Byrne Irish Jewellers. When you type in "Irish Jewellery" or "Rings" to the search engines, he comes out number 1. Business is booming for Ken and it's largely coming from the 40 million Irish American market.
We got on to talking about search engine rankings and reciprocal links. Ken very kindly linked to my site. When I add this link to his, my site will rise in the estimation of the search engines because I'm linked to such a high traffic site. Another real life example of how online advertising has failed. Take note wedding websites - some of them are still trying to flog banner ads - get this - priced by time!! As in you pay for your ad to be up there for a quarter, rather than paying per click or for the number of sets of eyes who view it. Unbelievable!
Take note too brides - some of these sites will only include paid content. As in, they are not on the look out for newswy stories for their readers. They don't care about what the story is, so long as it is paid for. They're not all like this. This one has a lot of integrity. If you are a bride to be and you'd like to know which wedding websites are the ones to bother with, contact me and I'll happily share my findings with you!