SME Web Marketing Blog by Verdict Solutions

To Rent: Smart 3 Bed House in Plungington, Preston

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:21:26 +0100

A fantastic 3 bed house in Preston to rent.

A mid terraced property situated close to the local schools, amenities and Preston city centre.

The property comprises of a recently installed solid oak kitchen with high end appliances.

· Living Room with Leather Sofas

· Kitchen with Breakfast Bar

· 5 Hob Burner with Double Oven

· Gas Central Heating

· Double Glazing

· Parking on street

· 10 Mins Walk from University Buildings

· 20 Mins walk from Train Station

£450 PCM + £450 Deposit
Email: rent@verdictsolutions.co.uk

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Hulme 2 bed Apartment in Manchester

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:34:03 +0000

A fantastic two double-bed apartment in Manchester student Area it is ideally located for students and proffessionals.

The bathrooms are impressive and spacious.

Fully FURNISHED and dedicated PARKING space + ample visitor parking

· Kitchen/Living Room

· 2 Large Bedrooms

· Bathroom

· Bath/PowerShower

· Security Intercom

· Central Heating

· Private Parking

· High spec kitchen

· High Quality Washing Machine Dryer, Dishwasher

· 5 Mins Walk from University Buildings

· 5 Mins Walk from busy Oxford Road for City Centre Living.

· 10 Mins walk from Train Station

Rent: £550 PCM for whole apartment

Contact : hiren 07980744126 for more details
Email: rent@verdictsolutions.co.uk

More Properties to offer call: 07980744126 for details

Available Now!!

Saltra 2 bed apartment for let, Total Chic Style in Salford Quays.

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:42:32 +0100

This stunning two double-bed apartment at Salford Quays is sure to impress with a combination of style, space, and secure parking in a modern contemporary apartment building named Saltra. The bathrooms are impressive and spacious. FURNISHED/PARKING

The Saltra on Elmira Way is Situated on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal, near one of the city`s most vibrant urban centres.

With great transport links both via car (to the M6, M60 and M62) and by tram from Salford and Exchange Quays, coupled with secure parking, this apartment is ideal for the commuter. The property comes with an urban chic style kitchen, complete with SMEG appliances and a bathroom suite.

· Kitchen/Living Room

· Dining Room

· Bathroom

· En Suite Bathroom

· Seperate W.C

· Central Heating

· Private Parking

· High spec kitchen

· High Quality Smeg Appliances

· Washing Machine/ Dryer

· Microwave

5 mins from City Centre by Metrolink

· 5 Mins walk from Exchange Quays and Salford Quays Offices
Close to Restaurants, Lowry and Red Cinemas.

· 1 min to Tesco express

Rent: £648

Deposit: £648

Available: Aug/Sept

Contact : Hiren 07980744126 for viewings.
Email: saltra@verdictsolutions.co.uk

More Properties to offer call: 07980744126 for details

Fantastic 2 Bed Apt - Bamber Bridge

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:57:03 +0100

A brand new, two bedroomed apartment in the desirable 'Chestnut Gardens' development in Bamber Bridge.

The property has a entrance hall, reception room with contemporary electric fire, fitted kitchen with integrated stainless steel oven and hob, ensuite shower room to master bedroom and bathroom.

Designed for high modern living the property is gas central heated and has uPVC double glazing throughout.

Bamber Bridge lies within easy reach of Preston City Centre and has excellent motorway access as well as the convenience of local schools, shops and restaurants.

Rent: £595

Deposit: £595

Available: Now

Contact ...

Brand New "City One" 2 bed Apartment in Preston City Center

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:42:44 +0000

An  excellent two bed apartment in Preston City Centre designes for students and proffessionals. With the library and local bars minuites away.

The bathrooms are impressive and spacious.

Fully High Quality FURNISHED and dedicated PARKING space + ample visitor parking

·          Kitchen/Living Room

·          Bathroom

·          Bath/PowerShower

·          Security Intercom

·          Central Heating

·          Private Parking

·          High spec kitchen

·          High Quality           Washing Machine/ Dryer

·          Microwave

City Center Living

·          2 Mins Walk from Uni Library

·          2 Close to Train Station and Mortoway Junctions

Rent: £575 PCM for both rooms

Contact : Hiren 07980744126 for more details
Email: rent@verdictsolutions.co.uk

More Properties to offer call: 07980744126 for details

K Treatments Eye Treatments and Eyebrow Shaping

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:58:08 +0100
If you are seeking beauty treatments look no further:

K - Treatments is now offering:

Eyelash/Eyebrow Tinting
Eyelash Perming
Eyebrow Shaping using the threading technique
Make-up for all occasions
Facials

Free Eyebrow Shaping for 1st time customers

Contact Kam for all your beauty treatments.

Evening and Weekend appointments available.

Contact: Kam on 07773815770
Email: kamg@verdictsolutions.co.uk

Fantastic Newsagents For Sale - Preston

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:31:13 +0000
A Newsagents / Off Licence for Sale situated just outside of Preston City Centre in Penwortham The business caters for a popular estate with loyal customer base with potential to grow further and expand. It brings an enjoyable turnover The freehold semi-detached property, with detached garage is in excellent condition and boasts a 3 bedroom accommodation currently been rented at 450 PCM.

The Saffron House: New Corporate Catering Launching

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:42:46 +0100
Verdict Solutions is proud to not only launch The Saffron House new creative website, but introduce a a faboulous culinary experience to the world. We should know they been catering for our yearly bash for the last two years consequectively. Here is some info about this great coporate caterer The Saffron House is a catering and event management company specialising in handcrafted authentic Kosher Indian food. We cater for dinner parties, weddings, and corporate events at a number of top London Hotels and Venues including Claridges and Grosvenor House. Innovation, attention to detail, with copious amounts of glamour, makes us very discerning. Food is our Passion! At The Saffron House we create exquisite hand crafted food that looks sensational and tastes divine! It is gourmet food that is personally prepared to provide the very essence of truly ‘Indian cuisine’ but under kosher regulations. As a Kosher event caterer we work in a number of specialist areas for specific client requirements ranging from kosher catering to strict vegetarian or diary free and wheat free dietary requirements. Challenge us to design a menu especially for you.

Sales Presence for Saltra Development

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:29:50 +0100
We’ve had such a great success with Saltra, during the off-plan sales phase,” comments Richard Tuke, Sales Director, “that we decided to start selling the development at full pace, even though we do not yet have a sales suite onsite.

Google AdSense Optimization Tips

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:00:00 +0100
When you login to Google through the AdSense login you can get to a
page that contains a series of optimization tips. Although this is a
useful page, it can take awhile to read through. So let me present you
with a no nonsense quick overview of these tips.

The first thing that Google recommends is that you keep track of all
changes and test the performance of your ads using channels. You can
set up a number of channels using the Google statistics. This enables
you to track the performance of, for example, different ad formats,
different ad colors, ...

The SEO Techniques Everyone Should Know

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:00:00 +0100
Since the beginning of the understanding of Search Engine
Optimization – SEO – there have been tons of different
theories developed about how to do it “right”. The truth
is, however, that there is no one single method that is one
hundred percent known to be better than the rest. Since
the large search engines such as Google and Yahoo! don’t
release the details of their ranking elements – in addition
to the fact that they are constantly changing what these
elements are, and how they are weighted in the grand scheme
of things – we can only apply the ...

Cooking On The Internet

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:00:00 +0100
Have you ever found that time seems to stand still
sometimes, especially when you're waiting for a result or
outcome, or someone to get back to you? You look at your
watch and the hands haven't moved!

Then, on other occasions you've become so involved in
something that hours have flown by without you realising?

Well, many times I've written a sales letter or email,
posted it and then just sat by the computer waiting for
results. Now, some of the big gurus sometimes say that they
do this and within 30 seconds, 'ping' an order appears,
then another and ...

New Spam Threat Hits 90,000 Sites - Is Yours Next?

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:00:00 +0100
On Tuesday I received 423 emails from an unknown spammer
attacking my site.

On Wednesday I received 789 emails from the same spammer.

Action had to be taken.

The emails were copies of posts to my discussion forum -
the typical spammers posts - keyword stuffing, numerous
hyperlinks to junk sites crammed with even more keywords.

It was clear I was being hit by one spammer, with an
automated script, for a number of telltale reasons:

1) Nobody could post 789 posts to a forum in 24 hours
manually

2) All posts were from random .co.za email addresses (South
African ...

5 Tips to Ranking Well at Search Engines

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:34:43 +0100
5 Tips to Ranking Well at Search Engines
Copyright 2006 strength-training-woman.com

Do you have a product or service that you want to sell on
the Internet? If so, there are a few fundamental
components that you must know. Putting your product or
service up for sale is easy. You can find a cheap hosting
plan and get a 1-5 page site up within a few hours. But
what happens next?

Unfortunately, most businesses will never sell their
product successfully on the Internet. Their sites may be
flashy, but they are not receiving visitors. To receive an
endless supply of free, ...

Is Pay Per Click Advertising For You?

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:20:00 +0100
Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising, which is also known as pay per
performance or paid search, remains one of the quickest and direct
ways of promoting your business, and driving targeted traffic to
your website.

While it would be nice to achieve high natural (free) search engine
rankings; organic rankings do take some time to take effect. And,
with tens of thousands of website owners all competing for the same
keyword search term, it's a challenging prospect (and quite a rare
one) to achieve high rankings for a popular search term, based
solely on organic SEO.

How Does Pay-Per-Click Advertising ...

Google unveils blog search site

Lee 'blogging, blogs, u need a blog' — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:00:44 +0100
Google has unveiled a website that lets people search web journals or blogs. The database behind the search site will index all weblogs not just the ones published on the Google-owned blog writing site Blogger. Currently the index only holds blog postings from June 2005 but Google said it was working on ways to add older posts. Via the site searchers can look up particular journals, authors or track down specific posts.

blogging is hot

Lee 'blogging, blogs, u need a blog' — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:39:43 +0100
Blogging is hot, and seems to be becoming hotter each month. Although blogging originally was dismissed by many successful publishers and other online "gurus", the truth is that today, a few years after the "blogging trend" began, there are actually more blogs and more bloggers online than ever before. Blogging, obviously, is "here to stay"! Actually first documented in 1997, Web logs initially used the abbreviated version: wee-blog, with a Web log editor referred to as a blogger. Since then, all types of Web logs (blogs) and blogging software have emerged, giving rise to this lucrative and dynamic market.

Reflections on the blog exchange industry

Lee 'blogging, blogs, u need a blog' — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:36:42 +0100
Reflections on the blog exchange industry I've been surfing away a lot lately at a bunch of blog-specific traffic exchanges. I've come to the perhaps somewhat obvious conclusion after seeing hundreds of sites that if a particular blog doesn't have compelling content and isn't updated fairly frequently, few blog exchange users are going to take a break from clicking and take time to peruse the blog and perhaps leave comments as well. It doesn't matter how much "traffic" or how many "hits" a blog gets unless the content is worth looking at.

Visitor Traffic Statistics 101

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:13:22 +0100
As we all know, visitor traffic is crucial to the success of every Website. If you do not know how many views your pages get, how can you know if anyone is seeing your site, product or service? With a...

Yahoo Search Subscriptions Provides Glimpses Into Hidden Web

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:09:21 +0100
While search engines may have mapped a large portion of the content found on the hidden web (content is considered hidden because users normally have to pay to see it), bringing this information to us...

How Do I Get My Business On The Internet?

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:28:19 +0100
This is one of the most frequently asked questions by small business owners. They are feeling the pressure from their customers and competitors, yet for many business people it is a daunting task, as...

What is Web Hosting?

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:16:32 +0100
Web hosting is the act of renting space and bandwidth through a company so that you may publish your web site online. You can either opt for free hosting that is usually supported with banners and pop...

What is Virtual Hosting?

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:15:27 +0100
Also known as shared hosting, this form of web hosting should suffice for most everyone. Virtual hosting simple refers to the fact that your site is on one server, and that this server hosts mulitple...

Website Promotion: 10 Search Engine Optimization Blunders To Avoid

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 12 May 2005 13:16:13 +0100
If you want to develop a successful search engine optimization (SEO) strategy, go out of your way to avoid blunders that limit search engine rankings. Here are 10 to keep in mind: 1. Don't use frames....

Google AdWords: Are Changes In The Format Afoot?

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:11:50 +0100
Recently, there have been rumblings about upcoming changes in the AdWords presentation format. There are reports and examples of structural alterations in AdWords placements, as well as upcoming chang...

Spam Messages Increase, Lose Effectiveness

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:58:35 +0100
As spam mailings continue to permeate email inboxes around the Internet, the majority of those who receive spam accept the unsolicited emails in stride, almost as if it's an expected occurrence when u...

It's All About Content

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:38:20 +0100
Public relations, PR, communications, marketing communications. No matter what term you use, it always comes down to one thing: content.
You can have the perfect story, but if the pitch does not wo...

Adobe And Macromedia To Give Microsoft A Run For Its Money

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:52:31 +0100
As you have probably heard by now, Adobe is buying Macromedia in $3.4 billion all-stock transaction. The companies are set to take the industry by storm with the combination of the two software giants...

Beware of Spyware

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:49:41 +0100
One day, you suddenly realize that your computer started to work noticeably slower than it used to. You decide to run de-fragmentation of your hard drive and add more virtual memory to the system. No...

So You're Hiring a Web Designer—You Have the Right to

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:28:41 +0100
Whether you're hiring a designer who has created 10 sites or
1000 sites for other businesses, there are 7 things every
website designer should do for you.

Yahoo Has Its Mojo Back

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:21:55 +0100

I've seen numerous folks commenting on Om Malik's recent posting about Yahoo: How Yahoo Got Its Mojo Back. In it he credits several things...

Yahoo's Working On Their Mojo

And what it also has a couple of guys, I like to call them blog evangelists, who knowingly or not, have brought the right kind of attention to the company. Russell Beattie who recently joined Yahoo has been blogging furiously (much to my annoyance) about Yahoo and its wireless efforts. In normal course of events, Yahoo would have issued a press release, and many of us would have paid little or no attention. Jeremy Zawodny is the other and has helped the company focus on some of the newer social media trends. I have never met him, but if his blog is anything to go by, then perhaps he is spreading the open media religion at Yahoo. The blog-evangelists unlike press relations folks, only write when there is something important to say. That is if they want to maintain their credibility.

How To Convert Visitors Into Customers – The Easy Way

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:51:31 +0100
When was the last time you took a look at your website stats? What does your website stats say? How many visitors does your website receive per day? Per week? Per month? How many visitors are you conv...

Is RSS Here to Stay or Gone Tomorrow?

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:49:00 +0100
RSS is hot. We have seen it everywhere, from John-Doe blogsites to major news websites. If you haven't heard of RSS before, that's okay, because I hadn't either until a couple of months ago! RSS stand...

Bam Bam Online - Intrested in entering the Mainstream and Asian media?

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:19:58 +0100
Bambam Online success stories - how have we helped some of our candidates? Click here to find out. bambam Online is an online platform for the use of anyone who is interested in entering the Mainstream and Asian media and entertainment industry. Bambam Online Ltd is not an agency or a management company. We connect individuals looking for work and opportunities in the media industry with those who provide the opportunities and show you how to be the best candidate. Through bambam Online, you will be able to apply to the latest jobs and assignments, be provided with a full ...

Providers of hand drawn portraits and personalised art

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:01:13 +0000
Found a really good company here providing some really fantastic hand painted drawings. Placed an order myself, check out the quality below:

Would you allow others to scan your hard drive in the name of personalization?"

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:27:10 +0000
Microsoft is kicking an idea around about developing a personalized search function on MSN Search using personal content stored on an individual's computers.

Microsoft Attempts To Make Search Truly Personal

Apparently, the idea revolves around using MSN Desktop Search to acquire said personal data. This would then be fed to MSN Search and personalized search based on the contents of your computer would be delivered.

What are your thoughts concerning MSN's approach to personalized search? It seems kind of "Orwellian" to me.

ieSpell - A Spell Checker for Internet Explorer

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:52:49 +0000
ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application.

Introduction to Search Engines and Pay-Per-Click

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:22:30 +0000
Search engines are still proving to be mythical monsters for many e-commerce website owners, and they don't have to be. Of course, any major search engine marketing campaign is best dealt with by thos...

Rank And Page Position Still Rule

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:47:15 +0000
How Does Search Behavior Affect You?

I love looking at the various surveys and studies that float around in the search space. So you can imagine the drool running down my chin,...

What's Up With Google Calendar?

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:03:35 +0000
There are rumors circulating that Google is contemplating the release of web-based calendar, which would perform much like a personal date book or organizer. The source for these rumors seems to be increased Googlebot activity to a site featuring a web calendar.

Is Google Preparing To Release A Calendar?

Jeremy Zawodny and seventeen others are now cheering for Google to release a calendar function. (You read vague speculation on that topic here way back last May.)

A couple of things I noticed:

Google AdWords Advertisers Impacted By Impression Spam

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:00:56 +0000
ClickZ is tracking a developing trend that is starting to worry advertisers on Google ... impression spam. ClickZ : The search engine giant defines impression spam as "ad impressions generated outside...

free under construction website templates

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:26:00 +0000

Verdict Solutions are offering free website template, on the theme off under construction templates.

We provide many services from web ...

Dairy Free - Website Design

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:55:40 +0000
British Chocolate Manufacturer Humzinger Foods Dairy Free Dairy Free is a range of chocolates made using Soya and a delicious alternative to dairy based products. Dairy free is the healthy approach to...

bcp parking manchester

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:28:08 +0000
>BCP BCP is one of the largest independent airport car parking companies in the UK.

The company was established in airport car parking in 1978 with the acquisition of a car park at Gatwick situated on the airport boundary at the end of the runway, less than 10 minutes from the terminals. Capacity has steadily been increased to its current level of almost 5,000 cars and it remains the busiest off airport car park in the country.

In October 1991 they extended the scope of their car parking operations by setting up a multi airport car parking booking system using a network of high quality professional airport car parks around the country.

Writing marketing copy that sells

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:44:40 +0000
When your prospects see your marketing materials, your
brochure, your web site or your ads you want them to
read ...

How To Create A Promotional Blog

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:41:56 +0000
You may have heard of the current internet rage, blogging. Whether you are a novice or an experienced webmaster/marketer, publishing a blog can create another stream of targeted website traffic. Today...

The Robot Matters

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:06:15 +0000
The Robot Matters
If you're into search marketing you'll have heard about the search engine robots, also known as crawlers or spiders. These automated software bots are the primary way that search...

Increasing Your Link Luck

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:24:59 +0000
Link development can be an absolute nightmare. It takes up most of a marketer's time and the yield isn't always what we originally hoped.

Has Google lost the plot

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:39:15 +0000
When you could take a good quality site, add a few keywords, get a few incoming links and bada-bing, bada-boom, it'd be #1 on Google? Remember the old days, pre-Florida, pre-sandbox? The days when we,...

Preston Web Design

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:39:21 +0000

Verdict Solutions provide powerful web design in Preston, Chorley, Bolton etc.. and surrounding areas. Our web design skills have created powerful marketing and web design statements.

The web is no longer about animated graphics and detracting colours. It needs well designed, eye-catching, easy to navigate site but client shouldn’t need to negotiate a maze of technical jargon or find the time to learn the technical and design skills needed to 'do it yourself'? Or maybe you already have a web site but it's not meeting your expectations. We Verdict Solutions can provide an outstanding websites and increase your sales leads from Preston, nationally and maybe even internationally.

We Verdict Solutions are a leading Preston web design company who have supported many Preston businesses in achieving their web design goals.

We supply the whole package, taking you easily from an idea to a fully working, well-designed web site that will enhance your business. We Verdict Solutions can also design company logos and artwork to make a complete design solution.

Web hosting launched at www.verdictsolutions.co.uk/hosting.htm

We are currently offering a free .co.uk with all hosting packages, so now is an excellent chance to create your web presence.

Determining Keywords

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:18:38 +0000
Determining keywords is a critical step in web design. If your website and meta tags do not contain related keywords, web surfers will be unable to find your website when they conduct searches. The fo...

Why Are You Getting Traffic But No Sales With Your Online Business?

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:48:04 +0000
You've also developed a cool looking profit grabbing website, ready to receive any form of electronic payment. You've also spent a fortune on advertising online and you're getting a lot of clicks but...

Plans for a multi-million pound library in Preston

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:14:50 +0000
Plans for a multi-million pound library and knowledge centre in the heart of the area earmarked for Preston's new cultural quarter have been unveiled.

The exciting...

WorldPay - Shocking News

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:23:20 +0000
Shocking news from WorldPay has been announced today they in all their wisdom has decided to more than double their monthly charges from £160 to £360.
But they will let let you pay monthly, how nic...

Microsoft Officially Launches MSN Search

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:47:06 +0000
It's time to welcome another search engine into the family. This morning at 12:00 am, Microsoft removed the beta designation from MSN Search and officially launched, complete with an improved index an...

Blogs and the Niche

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:30:01 +0000
This article is excellent and dicusses really what all bloggers should know when using their blogs as a business marketing tool. It discusses some of the tools that be used to find your niche.
How...

Control Multiple Blogs at once

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:51:26 +0000
Having found just how valuable blogs are, you may have a few set-up and find it becomes quite cumbersome to manage them all. Using this great tool I have found you can install a desktop application...

Google Becomes Domain Registrar

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:44:28 +0000

Further fueling the flames of speculation that surround Google's future plans, the search giant has recently become an ICANN-accredited ...

One-Click Web Searching and Much More

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:42:29 +0000

Whether you rely on Google, Yahoo!, MSN, or another search engine, most major search sites now offer toolbars that can be added to your browser, allowing you to quickly search for keywords from any Web page that you happen to be visiting. And beyond keywords, the toolbars offer specific search options for stock quotes, movies, news, products, and more; provide one-click access to e-mail; highlight search terms on pages so keywords are easy to find; and block pop-up ads.

Cool Downloads - AceFTP

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:01:39 +0000
check out some really cool downloads, FTP, Games the works!!

The Benefits of having a country Top Level Domain

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:55:10 +0000
Most new websites tend to look for a domain name with a .com or .net tld (Top Level Domain). They ...

What is web hosting?

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:53:20 +0000
The best way to explain this is by comparing it to a real-life (brick & mortar) situation. Picture a web hosting company as the owner of a shopping mall. The shopping mall owner invested a lot of money on hiring architects, constructors, engineers, etc. to build it. Now all the stores on it are empty and the owner is going to rent them to smaller businesses that can't afford (or who simply don't want) their own building.

Preston Hindu Temple : The Gujarat Hindu Society

Peter — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:47:12 +0000
Preston Hindu Temple - The Gujarat Hindu Society was established in 1965 to cater for and service the needs of the local community in Preston. Today Gujarat Hindu Society (hindu temple) is engaging the community by providing Sport & Recreational facilities, Education, Social Services and a cultural base for the community in Preston, Lancashire. The Centre runs over thirty different activities with the help of volunteers and a core staff of five members. Putting down Roots In the early 60's the first Hindu families, mainly from the state of Gujarat in India came to Preston, Lancashire. They came to work in the cotton mills and to improve the standards of living for their families. Almost all communities who are migrants globally have the desire to maintain their cultural heritage Gujarat Hindu Society (hindu preston temple) was no exception. The birth of Gujarat Hindu Society took place at 4 Glover Street in a small terraced house, situated in the Avenham Ward of Preston around 1965.

An Overview Of Pay Per Click Search Engine Fundamentals

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:37:04 +0000
Pay per click advertising works through a bidding process, and the ads appear prominently on the results pages of search engines such as Google and Yahoo. The highest bidder for a particular word or phrase receives top placement, and depending on the engine, the top three to five bidders also generally also receive placement on the first page of unpaid search results.

Web Design Directory

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:07:02 +0000
Web Design Companies:
Services offered such as
Flash intros
Start up packages
Brochure Sites
Custom Sites
HTML
Hosting
Domain Registration ...

Why It Took Me So Long To Blog

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:38:33 +0000
When I saw my first blog, I wasn't impressed. The first blogs I ever read were embarrassing tales of teenage angst better left private, political diatribes from both the rabid right and the rabid left, and jargon-filled tech rags that made my eyes glaze over And yet everyone was talking about blogs and that I would soon be left behind if I didn't have one. But they never gave me a simple explanation of how it would benefit me. They talked about RSS - you know, the obligatory "real simple syndication" - followed by a long, boring, techie article filled with jargon that wasn't simple at all. They talked about syndicating my site, but not how that would benefit my business.

Blogging Can Save You Money

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:13:06 +0000

Even though I've had several personal blogs for years, I've only been officially business blogging since 2003. So in going back over expenses for the last quarter, you can imagine my shock when I realized that my overall business costs were down about 19%. What saved me so much money? Surprisingly, blogging.

How can you save money with your blog? It's pretty simple, so I'll be brief.

How to Create a Favicon for Your Web Site

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:41:58 +0000

Ever see those little custom icons next to a web site listing in your favorites folder or on your browser address bar? Have you ever wondered how to create one for your own site? Well I'm going to teach you in this article.

The icons are called "Favicons", a contraction of the phrase "favorite icons". To see an example, go to SearchEngineCollege.com and bookmark the site (or add to your "favorites" list). Now close your browser window and open a new one. Click on your bookmarked sites or favorites list and find the site you just bookmarked. See the tiny mortarboard graphic next to the listing? That's a Favicon. It makes the site stand out from all the others in your favorites list. If you click on that site, the Favicon will even load next to the URL in your browser address bar from now on.

Why Blogs Rank High In Search Engines

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:51:14 +0000

Why Blogs Rank High In Search Engines

The links are important, though. Especially to Google. Yahoo and the MSN Beta seems to give content related factors more weight in my experience. But even with Google the key to your success doesn't lie in links alone. If you want traffic through search engines you must get the basics right too.

So, here's my take on why blogs rank high in search engines.

Keywords, key phrases
Straight to the point
Each post's page structure
Coding
One subject per post
The blog site's information structure
Links then...?

Keywords, key phrases
If I wanted to pick one single reason I would actually choose this one: In a blog you talk. You engage in conversations. You think out loud, in a way. The things you say are (hopefully) everything but the standard corporate bullxxxx. This means you are filling the engines' databases with relevant keywords - relevant because most of us search for the words or phrases we use daily. The same words you use in the blog because you talk instead of sending messages to the target audience.

Straight to the point
How many blog posts have you seen with this kind of headline: "Our software system solution for world-wide data quality"? How many corporate sites have you seen...? This point is related to the first one but it adds one extra dimension. Not only do we in blogs speak like real, living people in the words we use - we say it directly. Straight to the point. There are certainly exceptions to this, I admit that. But generally speaking I have found it to be true in many business blogs. To say what you want to say as fast as possible is important, which leads me to my next reason.

Each post's page structure
It's more or less standard in blog design to use the post's title/headline as the page's title (together with the blog name). With my two previous reasons in mind you now see how the html title is filled with tasty keywords. And that's the most important place to have them. That's where search engines expect to find the best clue to what your page is about, and they rank the words there high in comparison to other positions in the code. Speaking about code...

Coding
If you use blog templates they will probably be an example of good coding. Most I've seen has been at least. It's often a table-less design, an extensive use of style sheets, correct coding where headlines not only are larger and bold but actual H1's, H2's and so on. It's a clean code - good for browser compability, good for visitors with disabilities. Good for search engine spiders. Here you have a potential risk. If you just use the old CMS templates for your regular site, you may loose this advantage. The solution is of course to redesign all of it in line with this "modern" web design.

3 Mistakes to Avoid While Choosing a Web Host

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:03:34 +0000
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Choosing a web host is the first vital step you'll take toward having your own website. Your web host will provide space on the Internet for your site so that the whole world can view it. But, choosing a web host is not as easy as it may seem.

There are a few mistakes to avoid while choosing your host. I'd like to share these with you below, and explain why it's important to avoid these mistakes at all costs - especially if you wish to start an online business.

3 Mistakes to Avoid

1. Free Web Space - Remember seeing all those ads that mention "free web space"? Please avoid participating in these services. In most cases, the reason it's free is because the company will place advertisements for other websites all over your web page. This defeats the entire purpose of having "your own" web business.

A Simple Guide to Web Hosting

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:08:07 +0000

Personal Computers, Servers Or ISP?

You need a server to host your site so that it can be viewed over the internet. This server can either be an Internet Service Provider or of your own. Most websites are hosted by an Internet Service Provider because they can provide powerful server hardware, high speed connections and reliable server support.

Most providers have very fast connections to the Internet such as a full T3 fiber-optic (45 Megabytes per second) connections which is about 1000 high speed (56 Kilobytes per second) modems combined.

For those who are looking to set up their own servers and host their own websites, a personal computer is often not powerful enough to do the job. As the name suggests, a personal computer can hardly handle multiple visitors to your website- servers are needed to handle these visitors simultaneously.

Getting Your Web Hosting

Finding a Home for Your Internet Enterprise

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:03:04 +0000

After much Net surfing and looking at all the offers you've decided to take the plunge! You've investigated a good name for your idea. You've decided it's time to start searching for a home for your Internet vision. By golly, it's time to start your own enterprise! You're tired of all the reading and research! You're ready to go mano-a-mano!

But, there are a million and one providers available! How do you choose? What should a first time entrepreneur get? Thankfully, there is a way to come upon a good choice! Read on and I'll explain what you should examine when making your selection.

Technical Treason and Eight or Nine reasons why an infra-red mouse is a MUST!

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:29:29 +0000
Technical Treason and Eight or Nine reasons why an infra-red mouse is a MUST!

Infra-red mouses do not have tails!

Allergies to mice can be traced back to a mouse!

You can afford to be careless with crumbs, and stuff.

Cats are less likely to call around.

Consequently, dogs are less likely to call around. Incidentally, I was on the Internet last night and discovered that dogs actually like cats, and only eat them by accident. Technically, dogs have over-affectionate teeth!

The 6 Top Reasons Marketers Should Blog

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:24:37 +0000
If there is a downside to blogging, I have yet to find it. The
more you learn about blogging, the more there is to like.

In fact, here are 6 mouth-watering reasons why every marketer should be blogging:

1- Fast Search Engine Spidering and Indexing of Your Site:

Did you know that Google owns the most popular blogging platform on the planet? Blogger at http://www.blogger.com is used to
produce thousands of blogs. Even a complete internet newbie can set up a blog in about 5 minutes at Blogger. And guess who can be counted on to come by and quickly spider all those new blog posts as they are written?

Yahoo is also embracing blogs and feeds in a big way. Savvy
marketers know that adding their blogs and feeds to their
MyYahoo page can bring the Yahoo spider to their site almost immediately.

Submission scams

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:09:14 +0000
Submit your site to 1,000,000 search engines and directories for $19.99. Sounds too good to be true. Well it is! 90% of submissions sites are a waste of money. It’s a common fallacy that you need to submit your site to search engines on a regular basis. Once your site is part of an index such as Google there is no need to re-submit.

Alert marketing - Get Google search results by e-mail

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:56:00 +0000
Sometimes our jobs as marketers means we need to look beyond the obvious. Google, for example, offers their Google Alerts service. At first glance, this may seem most useful to companies who want to track certain searches within their industry, or to hobbyists who want to stay on top of changes in their topics of interest. But Internet marketers can also use Google Alerts to help keeptrack of what's going on around the net, and even to keep tabs on their direct competition for that matter. Google Alerts, which are email notifications, can be created based on the top 10 Google news stories, but more helpful to marketers is thepossibility of creating alerts for the top 20 Google web search results.

Gettign a Blog on the Internet

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:51:24 +0000
The fearful, ignorant guy has got a blog on the Internet. It must be easy! Of all people in the world I was easily one of the most pessimistic about computers, the Internet and now that I even know they exist-blogs. I think blogs are pretty cool but I never thought I could have one. I thought the processes of getting a site; domain name and the actual building of the blog would just be out of my league. I’m a complete novice when it comes to technology, but I do like writing a journal, and I thought having a journal on-line would be both fun and make life simpler for me. No more writing with pens, other people can read mystuff and comment on it, and I could add pictures to illustrate my points and make things look more interesting. Well, now I’ve got one! It’s awesome. I won’t lie and say it was easy, but I think if you hook up with a good web hosting company it’s not such a daunting experience as you might expect. I got a few work mates to help me. I went through a couple administrative hitches when filling in my personal information forms for the registration-just because I’m a bit silly in the head. We had a little trouble with the blog program we used, but these challenges were eventually overcome. My boss says he’s going to make a simple program that people can hook up easily.

christmas humbug

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:34:30 +0000

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the
world. However, since Santa does not visit children ...

Voice over IP (VOIP)

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:37:29 +0000

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) What is it ?

A category of hardware and software that enables people to make ...

What are they gonna outsource next

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:41:17 +0000
Its only a matter of time?

Ganesh: The Elephant-God

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:19:46 +0000
Ganesha the elephant-deity riding a mouse has become one of the commonest mnemonics for anything associated with Hinduism. This not only suggests the importance of Ganesha, but also shows how popular and pervasive this deity is in the minds of the masses. The Lord of Success The son of Shiva and Parvati, Ganesha has an elephantine countenance with a curved trunk and big ears, and a huge pot-bellied body of a human being. He is the Lord of success and destroyer of evils and obstacles. He is also worshipped as the god of education, knowledge, wisdom and wealth. In fact, Ganesha is one of the five prime Hindu deities (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and Durga being the other four) whose idolatry is glorified as the panchayatana puja. Ganesh Chaturthi The devotees of Ganesha are known as 'Ganapatyas', and the festival to celebrate and glorify him is called Ganesh Chaturthi.

How To Design Your Website Right The First Time

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:41:54 +0000
How To Design Your Website Right The First Time Corporate Website Design and Image: The image your website design projects on the internet is one of the most important aspects you need to keep in mind at all times when choosing a website design firm or designing the website yourself. It is very important to remember that most of your visitors haven't spoken to you yet and your site will be the first impression they have of your company. If your website design lacks professionalism and/or does not reflect that of a well established company, your new prospect can easily loose confidence. Although probably very well intentioned, most website design firms lack the experience and artistic skill to give their clients the website design that truly represents them. You'll probably quickly realize that programmers are not the best designers. That is why a website design company should have their production teams split in 2. Hire a website designer or designers who create layouts and website programmers who, when the website design is approved, codes the layout so it becomes a website. Somewhere around 60% of the work on an average website (10 pages) should be on its design (choosing the right pictures, text layouts, menus and disposition for the overall website). Website design compatibilities:

Harry Potter - Name Disputes

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:09:49 +0000
J K Rowling, author of the world famous Harry Potter books, films and merchandising, has conjured up domain name success in a UDRP dispute. In a World Intellectual Property Organization decision released today, ( J K Rowling has won an order for transfer of the domain names and registered by an individual from Uruguay. According to the author's complaint to WIPO, visitors to the registrar parking pages associated with the two domains were 'bombarded with unsolicited pop-up advertisements for a variety of goods and services totally unrelated to the registrar's business.'

Password Clues - Beckham is a good start

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:37:38 +0000
Millions of office workers turn on their computers every morning - and promptly reveal their innermost secrets. Many Britons regard their password as a "personality test" - and give everything away in a few letters, according to a new survey. The poll reveals four distinct categories of people when it comes to passwords. Most users (47 per cent) fall into the 'Family' group - choosing their own name or nickname or the names of their partners, children or pets for their login.

How To Avoid The Legal Pitfalls

Peter — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:29:06 +0000
No matter who you are you will make mistakes at some point in your business life and unfortunately the law is not very forgiving - ignorance is not a defence. Here are some of the common pitfalls to watch out for when setting up your own business.

Good Google - Writing For The Most Powerful Robot In The World

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:25:20 +0000
Google "...is big. Really Big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is." (excerpt from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

SpamAssassin -- Free with all hosting packages

Peter — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:26:33 +0000
Keeping our customers email inbox free of spam is one of our top priorities; that is why all of Her Web Hosting's Hosting Plans include SpamAssassin absolutely free. SpamAssassin is a mail filter that identifies spam. Using its rule base, SpamAssassin uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email.

CNN - Breaking News - Bush Dead!!

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:38:06 +0000
ohh my god

Site Studio - The ultimate web builder

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 12:07:32 +0000
With SiteStudio the website builder tool, you dont need to know anything about FTP, HTML, Telnet, HTTP, or image editing applications. If you can surf the Internet, they can build their own professionally looking website using Site Studio. You will appreciate the ease and speed with which you can build your website, and the ease with which you can change just about any aspect of it. With different layouts and color schemes, dozens of designs are available in SiteStudio, and because of its flexible nature, many more can be added later.

Optimizing For MSN Search

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:38:06 +0000

Inevitably, with the launch of a new search engine, especially one the size of MSN Search, there is an outcry ...

What to do when you get caught surfing by the Boss!

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:11:28 +0000

It has been a long morning and you need a mental break. You

start thinking of your weekend plans and ...

Some Technical Treason and six ways to speed up your P.C..

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:05:24 +0000
1.Place it on Jet, as close as possible to the front.

Choosing Domain Names for Professional Sites

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:05:17 +0000

A professional or business site is one where the primary purpose of the site is to facilitate business transactions. You ...

The PayPal Story

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:17:58 +0000
Fifty-six million people use PayPal to send and receive money through the Internet, but few of them know how close the popular payments service once came to destruction.

Targeting Usage Demographics To Increase Paid Search Conversions

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:06:12 +0000
A May 2004 study by Hitwise showed that "55% of women prefer MSN Search while a majority of men favor Google Search". Yahoo! Search was split even on gender with a greater focus on people 18-34 in age.

The Four Essentials of Modern Web Design

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:40:30 +0000
The Web is a young medium: it's really only about 10 years old. Consider television at age 10, or cinema. Back then, these media were primitive, still finding their way.

Preston to become the Paris of the North? - Access your websites & email on the move

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:28:28 +0000
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Get a fresh new perspective on your website

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:56:10 +0100
What I like to do now again is post my link to a community and find out what people really think about the site, design marketing etc.

Where's that darn SPAM coming from

Rupen of Preston Web Design — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:49:59 +0100

Here is a great map showing you where the spam culprits are sending their SPAM from.

At a guess I would have said Africa so this is a turn up for the books.