Why I was working all over Christmas and the New Year Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Now you know why I was working all over Christmas and the New Year. I was working away on my new Tourism Site Fix website which has now changed from asp to php! Hopefully the changes will not cause the loss of any of my search engine rankings especially my longstanding Google #1 position for “Tourism website design” the 301 redirects will help everything settle down smoothly.

Launched today! 20th January 2010 It has been a marathon, just transferring each page across to the new template took forever. To compound it all, like spring cleaning, it’s only when you look closely you see how everything has got dusty! Well in terms of my website it all looked dated so I need to go through all of it with a fine tooth comb to weed out the old and update with some new stuff.

Notably new is of course Social Media, a term that hadn’t been thought of when TSF mark 1 was made. I have also done a little on site offering for a number of fixed price optimisation packages specifically for small business websites, especially in the tourism accommodation sector. I do plan to use my website from now on, keep it updated and not neglected it as so many busy professional people websites are!
Thanks for your help with the changes Steve I am eternally grateful.

Bucking the Trend Shedding Clients Monday, 12 January 2009

I must be the only business in the UK presently shedding clients but with more SEO work coming in and it becoming more and more involved if good results are to be achieved for clients, then something has to give.
I often get emails from India based companies with 60 or 200 staff touting for work, but the standard is pitifully low on my experience and there is always subttle language barriers.
My office is just too small to house staff! and i really dont want an office in town so i keep small and specialised. Do what I do best, shed the rest.
Personal contact with clients and an intimate knowledge of their business is what I like in order to enthusiastically work on building their online reputation. This has disadvantages of course for clients in that it costs a bit more than the run of the mill India based SEO. But hey, whats money when one can afford to shed clients!