Posted by : Tom Doyle in (Online Marketing) 13th Nov, 2008
Geansai Gorm as Gaeilge
Tagged Under : Geansai Gorm, Search engine optimization, SEO
As the race for the latest “greatest SEO“ hots up, I think it’s only fair to mention the site that I would love to see win it.
Cormac Moylan has completed his new site, in which he will attempt to appear No. 1 in Google by the end of November for the phrase “Geansai Gorm”.
It’s the first site for this competition to be created fully as Gaeilge.
For this great attempt, I think it’s only fair to give him a bit of link love - Geansaí Gorm | Suíomh Éadach
Best of luck to my preferred winner! 
Go raibh maith agat a Thomás. I did my primary and secondary school education all as Gaeilge but that was back in the last century. Have forgot half my Irish and my grammar is just awful. I got a fair bit of help from my sister, an Irish / Home Economics secondary school teacher.
She’d probably have more of a carer doing translations for websites than teaching the workforce of our future!
Míle buachais as ucacht an slabhra grá (link love?, that sounds dirty in Irish!)
[...] to James, Tom and this stalker-esque post for their coverage of my entry in the competition. [...]
Tá suíomh Cormac thar barr. ‘S thar barr le cuardach “geansaí gorm” ar Google.
The unfortunate thing is that it is nowhere to be seen on the first few pages for “geansai gorm”.
I pointed out the “geansaí” versus “geansai” issue over at Mulley’s but I’m none the wiser.
Mr. Mulley’s original post isn’t clear: It says the phrase is to be “geansai gorm”, but goes on to say “keywords as gaeilge instead of english but copy can be in English”. So which is it?
Hi Mr Sneeze!
Thanks for the positive comment. The site is less than 48 hours old and because of it’s new-ness; Google will be trying to figure out how to position her in the search results in the coming days. I’m on the 2nd page at the moment
As for the geansai and geansaí thing. That’s a bit of an elephant in the room alright.
I’m going to continue working for a geansaí ranking in the hope that Google will push the proper Irish wording above the incorrect one. It is kind of possible to ‘teach’ Google proper spellings. To a certain extent anyway.
I don’t think the fadagh will be an issue in this competition. If they were running the competition as Gaeilge and it was to be picked up in the Google as Gaeilge search, it might be different.
But because the competition is being run in the English results, it won’t make a difference. Google will treat the í in the same way as i.
Duh! You’re right of course. I always use Google as Gaeilge. Hence I’m retrieving different results for i and í.
I thought I was great yesterday when I noticed Geansaí Gorm was presenting my site in #1 position but I soon frowned when I realised I hadn’t exited out of Google as Geailge to do a wider search!