June 2010
3 posts
IPhone4
Just seeing if I can snag an iPhone upgrade at the apple store in Brighton. About a 30 minute wait. Glad I waited til lunch time to come down. There were queues right out of the store and down to Debenhams.
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How to create a Microformat hcard
Simply go to http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator and fill out the form. Simple!
Site Rebuild for a client - How NOT to get kicked...
I had a call recently from the father of a client who’d had his website “re-designed” by his current web designer as a bit of a favour. The company is known as “Dave the fence” and he’s been doing nationwide electric fence contracts for years and doing quite well out of his website for enquiries and so on.
Dave the fence, called me and asked if I could do...
May 2010
10 posts
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Inbound Marketing - what is it?
As with all things there is always something more one can learn. Well, today I am reading and listening to articles about “Inbound Marketing”. So what is inbound marketing?
In simple terms its a way to get your customers to seek you out rather than you seeking them out. It’s about internet marketing really and how to use the internet to effectively market your business.
At...
Be an expert? Build back links
So part of my SEO tips is to advise you to become an expert in your field and to write web content on your subject that’ll get picked up by those good ol’ googlebots and seen by many thousands of interested people across the world. They’ll most likely link to it and hey presto you’ve suddenly got loads of back links.
The big question is, I guess, how do you become an...
Early Starts
Good morning all.
It’s an early start for me today ad as I type this quick note it’s 5:30am.
Seagulls are already squawking and the sun is up. Looks cold outside.
Anyway, the early start is due to a BNI visitor day. BNI is my Thursday networking and business referral group and I’m the “chapter director” so I have to be on form and there early so I can great the...
SEO Today
I had a chance to hear Helen Charnock speak on Social Media yesterday and found what she had to say quite interesting but a little too high level. I’ve have liked more detail on the effects of social media on business.
Still Helen talk has inspired my creative juices in social networking so I’ve been doing some of that today.
The biggest thing I took from Helens talk was that you...
Whats this blog about?
While listening to Seth Godin on Youtube talking about his blog and his book “the Dip” I just thought I’d say what this blog is about.
Well it started out as a weekly SEO tips blog a place where you could come and get some solid advice on how to do some on page SEO for your own web site and try to improve your google rankings. It sort of still is that place but I’ve added...
Shopping Cart website...
I’m currently working on a shopping cart website for a local company and using Zen Cart. this seems much easier than magento which is where we were going with the site.
Having to write some XML processing routines too so we can get a product datafeed from suppliers and post the products and stock levels etc into the shop system on Zencart.
Interesting stuff and a little bit of fun.
rockpaperimage asked: Do you eat Cheese?
Profitnet meeting
Great profitnet meeting today. Just finished the best meet this year.
Meeting with clients
Emma Gatsby to discuss websites and stuff
April 2010
3 posts
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Web Site building software
Had lunch with a client and another web designer last week. Client wanted us both to work on their website as the company logo had been designed by the other designer and I and taking care of some other technical aspects of email and IT for them.
Found that the other designer uses RapidWeaver for Realmac Software to build sites. The software is really great and easy to use and help you build...
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iPad
I got my hands on an iPad yesterday. I really didn’t think I’d be that impressed but WOW! it is really great. It’s one of those Apple Moments when you don;t really have a use for the new tech but you just “know” you have to have it!
It’s sort of like a bit iPhone when you first see it for the first time but I quickly realised that it is so much more. The whole interface has something special...
March 2010
2 posts
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Website structure and SEO
well I thought I’d just a couple of things that aught to be in your website to make sure it starts off being search engine friendly.
THE TITLE
Make sure that you have a good title for each page on your site. This should link into your page content and have some of the keywords for your product or service.
THE DESCRIPTION
The description meta tag is important because it’s something...
Youtube fun
There’s a whole load of stuff on the internet about how to get a presence on the internet and how to market yourself. This you tube video is quite funny but the guy is saying stuff that is bang on the money.
“you gosta gets your sef a web site…”
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCashAtHand#p/a/u/2/4sVDV3-qPgc
Watch it and have some fun.
February 2010
3 posts
Just started to write my new web site copy targeted at SEO which is now a very big part of the Rock Paper Image business. I’m building a brand new site and setting up lots af free tips and how to’s fir improving your Google position.
Following these tips on seo could seriously improve your web sites position on Google and even get you to a top of page 1 position.
I’ll be...
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SEO Tips - Backlinks
Check out your competitors back links for ideas on who you could ask to link to you.
A good resource for this is Yahoo Site Explorer
You can use that lonk to checkout any sites internal and external links.
Google’s original algorithm used links to a site as a vote for that site. It still uses that along with some other fancy algorithms to give you really relevant search results.
This...
SEO How to
Welcome back to my SEO tips section.
As you know, we’re a new SEO consultant in Brighton offering a great service to help you get onto page 1 of google. We use some great techniques to get the improvement to your SEO so you should see some improvement right away.
In this series of SEO How To blogs I’m giving away some of the fastest ways to improve your on page SEO techniques.
Make...
January 2010
10 posts
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SEO Tips
SEO in a nutshell:
Make sure you plan your SEO BEFORE you build your site
Ensure that EVERY page includes TEXT, LINKS and IMAGES with meta information embedded
Use other means to market your site. Things like links from other popular sites in your area of business
Use longer words AND plurals and create key phrase rich content for your hame page remembering to write your content in natural...
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Improve your site visibility
Hey, if you need to get more visitors to your site, you need to Optimise your site for the Search Engines especially Google.
If you’re not sure how that works Rock Paper Image can provide you with a free report on some of the improvements that could be made to your site to help you get to page 1.
Get more visible, Get more Vists, Get more customers.
More Profitable Web Sites from
Rock...
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SEO Tips
Heres a tip on how do you start with your SEO.
First you should make sure that you have a properly constructed site. What does that mean? Well you need to separate your design and style from the code by implementing a Cascading Style Sheet or CSS as it’s known (Sorry for the jagon there…)
A .css file simply contains a list of instructions that ththe end user browser can understand...
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Google Page 1 - Position 1
Well, after quite a bit of research on some great techniques around SEO I acheived a top position for a targeted phrase in just 12 hours.
Check out the search string
I’m really happy with the result and am happy to share with you if you want to know how I did it.
Want to know more about the Rock paper Image SEO Service Just drop me a line…
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Watch
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Can Video improve your SEO rankings?
I’ve been reading a whole load of info about video and how it coud enhance your online and SEO ranking.
Seems that some guys in the USA are getting some great results by producing simple video blogs and even simpler video slide shows and publishing them through a distribution service. I’m new to this so I only know about 2 services so far. Traffic Geyser (costs loads) and Tube Mogul...
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Rock and Chips
Well I’ve just watched “Rock and Chips” the prequel to “Only Fools and Horses”. It was all that it promised to be and more.
Nicholas Lyndhurst was in fact excellent. Just a trace of Rodney Trotter in his style but only to be expected as he plays Rodney natural farther.
I’m already looking forward to seeing next weeks episode. I get the feeling that tis could...
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Video, does it work for social presence?
I’ve been doing a whole load of reading and looking and listening about video so far as it relates to SEO. No I’m not a top expert in either SEO or BVideo but it seems to me that Video could be much more engaging if your get it right.
By get it right, I don’t _really_ know what that means but I think some good content that’s interesting about your subject and I think...
I'm on Tumblr
This is my first blog on Tumblr to test. I’m creating this account and first blog while Nigel is on the phone.