Well Cormac has gone and done it…
Tom Doyle hoped for it … other people complained about the Grammar in use on peoples sites … (Roseanne Smith on twitter) but one person has gone and created a Geansaí Gorm website completely as gaeilge
I must admit this makes me sad as my own Irish isn’t up to scratch (What with being Forbairt Media I’d have hoped to have found the time for a refresher course by now but you know how it is one thing leads to another and you end up learning French instead
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Anyways just wanted to say best of luck to Cormac Moylan on his Geansaí Gorm | Suíomh Éadach website. I must admit I’ve only been using “Stuffing” so far (but then we are approaching christmas and its what you do around christmas.
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Now what remains to be seen is how G views the websites (Years from now little children learning english may learn … f is for frog …. g is for google)



Olá Mr James. Thanks for the mention. Stressful getting the site out last night. I went about it the wrong way from the start. Hit the wall with a few charset issues and stuff but thank God for ‘find and replace’ functions
Ah … charset=iso-8859-1
These days I think I just throw everything into UTF-8 (or at least I mean to in case I don’t)
I had a heart attack a few times when I accidently merged UTF-8 stuff with some Latin and then added a dash of ISO-madness.
Version control and awareness went out the window the minute I turned on the football
Congrats Cormac.
Irish language is way over my head, but best of luck with it - you well deserve it.
I cannot say I wasn’t expected something like this, but what suprises me is the time it took to get one up and running in pure “Gaeilge”.
One piece of advice - get the english version up and running as well to bust-up your rankings… as Google might have issues….
Louie, I’m trying to find out if Google will have issues by keeping the site purely Irish. Trying to figure out how well Google supports Gaeilge. They recognisesit but how well..
Either way, it’s only the homepage that is required to rank and I doubt Google will comprehend related keywords between two different languages on the same topic. So it’s probably not worth it. The only way I can fully test that though is to put up more than one site and to alter each site’s approach.
Anyhow, going to stop commenting on James’ blog as we are inadvertently affecting his (and mine :)))keyword density !
no no the more comments the merrier
it makes it look like my blog is read
I picked the domain task drop purely cus I failed to see the point getting a domain I’d drop in a month. I also failed to see how the English and Irish words would be found similar by google or if it even mattered. Potentially in other languages (french / german and so on) but Irish .. I didn’t think so. Still remains to be seen. No one registered Pull Bleu yet I see
I’d find that an interesting one to see if it matters but it’d take a bit of time so hmm…