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Industry NewsA "no refunds" line on your website is an offence under Ireland's Consumer Rights Act 2022. What your customer is actually owed, and what to write instead.
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Web60 FeaturesNew green claims rules hit Irish business websites on 27 September 2026. What eco-friendly, sustainable and carbon-neutral can still say, and what must go.
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SEO & PageSpeedA stranger offers €180 to publish an article on your website. What Google's spam policies and Irish consumer law say before you accept the money.
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Industry NewsThe EU switched off its online dispute resolution platform in July 2025. If your website terms still link to it, find out what to remove and what still applies.
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SEO & PageSpeedYour Google listing can say permanently closed without you touching it. How wrong closures happen, how to reopen the profile, and how to stop it recurring.
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InfrastructureA photograph of a customer, a child or a staff member is personal data. What Irish businesses need before publishing photos of people on a website.
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ComparisonsSelling a download or an online course from Ireland? One missing checkbox keeps every refund window open, and VAT is due where your buyer lives.
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Web60 FeaturesTaking recurring payments on your own website means expiring cards, lapsed mandates and refund windows. What has to work every month, and what breaks.
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ComparisonsBrexit did not close the UK to Irish sellers. Northern Ireland is still an EU supply for goods, and Great Britain turns on one number: £135. Here is the split.
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Web60 FeaturesA customer disputed a payment and the money left your account. What a chargeback involves, which evidence card rules accept, and what your site must record.
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ComparisonsMarketplace ticketing costs more than the percentage. What it takes to sell event tickets from your own website in Ireland, and when a marketplace still wins.
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SEO & PageSpeedYour products can appear in Google's free listings at no cost. How Irish shops get listed, the CSS step most miss, and what changes on 18 August.
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Web60 FeaturesEU product safety rules now set what every online product listing has to show, and what a recall asks of your website. What Irish shops need on the page.
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ComparisonsIrish law says undisclosed delivery charges are not payable. What your website must show before the order, where the money goes, and how to price postage.
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Web60 FeaturesSelling alcohol online in Ireland puts real rules on your website: minimum pricing, banned promotions and bilingual health warnings from September 2028.
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SEO & PageSpeedGoogle is 94% of Irish search. The rest runs on an index most business owners never submit to. How to get your website indexed on Bing in about an hour.
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InfrastructureFake testimonials, unverified five stars and cherry-picked feedback are banned under Irish law. What your website reviews page must show, and prove.
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SEO & PageSpeedAn out of stock product page can hold its Google ranking or lose it for good. How Irish shops decide whether to keep, redirect or delete the page.
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InfrastructureWebsite advertising rules in Ireland reach further than owners expect. What clinics, solicitors, brokers and builders cannot legally publish on their site.
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ComparisonsDelivery apps take 25% to 35% of every takeaway order. What that costs an Irish food business, and what taking orders direct on your own site costs.
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SEO & PageSpeedYour supplier's product descriptions sit on every other stockist's site too. Google shows one of them, rarely yours. What to write on the page instead.
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SEO & PageSpeedA rival's ad sits above your own business name in Google. What Google's rules allow, what Irish trade mark law covers, and what actually wins the click back.
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Web60 FeaturesIrish gift vouchers must run at least five years, and the VAT can fall due before anyone redeems one. What to set up when you sell them from your own site.
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ComparisonsClick and collect lets a shop sell online with no courier, no packaging and no return postage. What it costs, where it breaks, and how to set it up.
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InfrastructureA pricing error went live on your online shop. What Irish consumer law actually requires, when you can cancel the order, and how fast you must fix it.
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SEO & PageSpeedMore than half the phones in Ireland are iPhones, and Apple Maps runs on separate data to Google. How to claim, verify and fix your Apple Maps listing.
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ComparisonsRate parity ended across the EU in November 2024. You can now price lower on your own website than on Booking.com, and most owners have not moved.
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InfrastructureA customer asks you to delete their data. Your WordPress site keeps copies the delete button never touches, and the clock runs for one month.
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ComparisonsAdding a second website for a new service or brand splits your rankings, your budget and your attention. When two sites genuinely work, and when one wins.
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SEO & PageSpeedSearch your own business name on Google. If directories, old profiles and competitor ads sit above your website, here is how to take that page back.
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ComparisonsPay-per-lead platforms sell the same job to up to five trades. What buying leads really costs, and when your own website pays you back instead.
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InfrastructureA competitor copied your website word for word. What Google actually does about it, how to get the copy delisted, and the evidence to gather first.
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Web60 FeaturesAn unlinked page is not a private one. How to password protect a page on your website, what WordPress does natively, and where hiding quietly fails.
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InfrastructureAn invoice for your domain, an email about your SSL, a call about your Google listing. How to tell a real website bill from a fake one before you pay it.
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Irish SMEWhen an Irish business changes hands, the domain, hosting and Google profile have to move too. What a buyer's solicitor will ask you to prove before closing.
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ComparisonsEveryone says hiring is a job board problem. Your careers page quietly decides whether the best candidates in Ireland ever apply to you at all.
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SEO & PageSpeedBuilding a service area page for every town you cover runs straight into Google's doorway rules. What actually earns local enquiries, and what to build instead.
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SEO & PageSpeedChanging your business name? Your rankings, links and listings do not follow you automatically. The sequence that protects what your website already earned.
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SEO & PageSpeedYou changed the page and customers still see the old one. Several copies of your site hold the old version. Learn which you can clear and which you cannot.
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InfrastructureIrish law requires your website to display your company number, legal form and registered office. What must appear, where it belongs, and what it costs.
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InfrastructureWebsite photo copyright catches Irish business owners out every year. Irish law, licensing traps, AI images, and how to check what is on your site.
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ComparisonsAn AI can generate a website in an afternoon. Editing it afterwards is a different job entirely. What to ask before you let one write yours.
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InfrastructureCleaning a hacked WordPress site is the easy part. Removing Google's 'this site may be hacked' warning and rebuilding the search visibility it wrecks is the real cost.
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Irish SMEA free Gmail address on your quotes quietly tells customers you might not be a real business. Why a professional email at your own domain wins you more work.
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SEO & PageSpeedA customer who searches your website is ready to buy. When the search returns nothing, that is a sale walking out the door, and you never even see it.
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SEO & PageSpeedGoogle Search Console now shows how your Instagram, TikTok and X posts perform in Search. Useful, yes, but it still cannot hand you the audience.
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Irish SMEA photo from Google Images can trigger a copyright demand letter months later. How Irish businesses source website images they are legally allowed to use.
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SEO & PageSpeedA dead link should not cost you a customer. A custom 404 page turns a not-found error into a second chance to keep visitors on your site and off a dead end.
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SEO & PageSpeedYour website is live but nowhere on Google? Before you blame slow SEO, check the one WordPress setting that quietly tells search engines to stay out.
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SEO & PageSpeedPaste your website link into WhatsApp or Facebook and get a blank box or the wrong photo? That preview is built from your own site, and it is yours to fix.
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