Which one would you recommend for promotions? Any stats, numbers like there are in the section of the Europaen SEs for other countries?
[I thought UK & Ireland are in Europe but I didnīt pay attention in school during the geography lessons....;-)]
You're right about UK & Ireland being in Europe, so you must have been awake at that time. ;)
The engines/directories in Ireland (not all in Ireland, some are US-based):
In alphabetical order:
AltaVista Ireland
Doras
Google (Gaelic)
ieSearch
Ireland By Net
MavicaNet
NiceOne
Swift
As far as traffic is concerned, I'm not in a strong position to advise as none of my site logs show referals from anywhere apart from AV and Google.
UK & Ireland forum was started for some important reasons: The countries are both predominantly English speaking within Europe. Many of the search engines and directories move from USA to UK as a first stage to getting into Europe. Additionally, the UK, as a region, is quite active in this sector, although, many other countries are achieving better growth than the UK. It seemed logical to segregate the compatible areas and, it's proved very popular.
/Ove
Dont bother with an irish engine / directory. None of them are up to snuff and a lot (eg doras and local.ie have dodgy futures)
most of the Irish portals such as eircom.net use google as their prefered engine so focus on that and fast....
