Why does SEO take so long? Technically it doesn’t but the weight passed by link building, article submission doesn’t get passed when it published. One prime example would be one of our current clients plastic cards after 3 months of article writing and link building SERPS are starting to move but links achieved in the first month have still not been accounted for.

When SEO is carried out correctly it always gets better with age, the reason for this is that all links should be permanent obviously some website do get deleted and changed but the majority will stay these over the period of months and years will pass more weight again this is down to doing SEO correctly.

We took a picture of what was inside! (Very Geeky)

The company offer various things on the website from quotes, accessories to being able to request free sample packs. This type of industry is huge at the moment, look in your purse or wallet and see the amount of plastic cards you carry around daily. Looking in our wallets you will find Sainsbury Nectar, Tesco’s Club Card, AA Membership, IKEA Family Card just to mention a few. All these types of company’s use plastic cards to promote business and brand.

We know that Company Cards will see substantial growth in the coming months with our online marketing methods.

It’s ideal when you have quite a few accounts in webmasters tools. It’s quite surprising how faster it makes locating the account you need. The most important thing is when Google implements something it’s usually for a reason.  Could we soon see favicons displayed in search engine results?

If favicons do make it into the search engine results this could have a serious negative affect with brand hijacking. If people start to trust the small logos rather than the domain then this will become a serious problem.

Many tools are available to help locate duplicate content one of the best ways is Google itself.  Copy a string of text from a web page or word document and past it into the search bar. You will see any websites using the same copy.

Other tools are available to help with duplicate content

http://www.copyscape.com/

http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/

http://www.plagiarismdetect.com/

http://www.plagium.com/

You can’t stop all duplicate content because usually it’s beyond us, submitting a press release will often see your article being published on many websites. This doesn’t mean you will get punished just some of it will be filtered from the search engines. When writing content for a website it’s always better to start from scratch this way you can be sure to avoid all duplicate content.

First of all do your market research, ask to see some examples of a web design companies work, generally speaking they will have a portfolio of what they have done. Next thing is get at least 3 quotes in and to make sure you get the best price. You need to be looking to get good quality for a good price. Remember just because it is the most expensive doesn’t mean that it is the best quality – they might just be over charging. In the same breathe don’t just go for the cheapest option either.

The next point is to be aware of what you are looking  for your website to do. Do you want to buy online? Or are you looking for a simple brochure website? If you are looking to sell online you will also need to consider SEO or Search Engine Optimisation for your website and  this really needs to be done each month. SEO is when somebody searches for a search term, for example web design lancashire and Google will then rank thousands of websites based on their SEO authority and content. What SEO will do is get your business ideally to the first page of Google as this is where the majority of potential customers will click and give their business too.

The top ten things any company needs to ask themselves when they set out on a web design project are the following:

1. What do you want to achieve from this web site. Do you want to sell online?

2. What is your budget to build the web site? How many pages do you want?

3. Do you want to have SEO included in your budget? What can you afford to spend each month promoting your website?

4. What is your competition doing? Can you get any ideas from them?

5. Do you have any other marketing material such as brochures already done as you will want them to match the design of your website.

6. Do you want to generate business? Do you want to just have a presence?

7. Do you want to run a Pay Per Click Campaign?

8. What search terms are popular within my market?

9. How competitive is the online market for your product or service?

10. What time scales do you want to see a return on your investment?

If you can get the answers to these questions then it will help you significantly to pick out the best web site designer and SEO engineer out there. One of the main things you need to understand is that when starting a new web project, there are so many different avenues to go down, you need to know what you want to your website to achieve before you set out.

Number10.gov.uk – http://www.number10.gov.uk

Now Playing Nokia – http://nowplaying.nokia.com

Stephen Fry – http://www.stephenfry.com/blog

Livestrong – http://www.livestrongblog.org

Spotify – http://www.spotify.com/en/

Ben & Jerry’s – http://www.benjerry.fr/blog

MTV Newsroom – http://newsroom.mtv.com

Leeds City College – http://www.leedscitycollege.ac.uk

Smashing Magazine – http://www.smashingmagazine.com

Designed2Perform – http://www.designed2perform.co.uk

WordPress is great for businesses as its simple interface allows clients to update their own website in terms of SEO wordpress is the ideal platform.

Currently no other service offers such a competitive link intelligence which could possibly hinder SEO for the foreseeable future. Hopefully the functionality offered by Bing Webmasters Tools will be a solution to this problem.

The new design features plenty of web 2.0 influences and gradients which is often associated with today’s modern web design.

The website itself contains no validation errors; which I think is amazing every page I have checked validates 100%.

Check it out… http://www.w3.org/

By far visits to consumer electronics increased by 16.5% between October 2009 and November 2009. Searches for toys and hobbies reached their peak during the week ending December 5^th when they accounted for 13.6% of all online searches for the UK.

This year visits to consumer electronics retail websites increased in the run-up, but this year peaked a week later compared to the last couple of years.

Below is the most searched for products week ending December 5^th.

Below are the most searched for product type’s week ending December 5^th