We are please to say that Walmsley have opened a new office in Theale to compliment their current office in Caversham Reading Kent.  Here are a few words from Simon Walmsley, our oldest customer who we began working with in about 1998.

‘Opening a new office requires considerable preparation and foresight. There is always something that is behind and with us it was the company internet site. Fortunately Frank, who had just finished our newest version sprang into life and implemented the changes and new search facilities within 24 hours of instruction. Thanks to him all was uploaded on line the same day as the shop front signs. Great timing Frank and thanks’

So if you need to buy, sell or let property in Theale, now you can.

www.walmsley.co.uk

I am sorry I have not had time to write a blog for some days.  As you will see we have been busy here trying to get the new Walmsley Web Site up and running and as Google friendly as possible.  The site is number one on page one for search Phrases like “Estate agents in Caversham”, after only one week on line.  We are trying to promote the wider geographical area with phrases like Estate Agents Reading”, now that we have our foot in the door, so to speak.

I have also been doing my thrice weekly training with Richard, and starting to set up some sort of sponsorship so that we can raise as much as possible for Cancer Research UK when I do the Snowden 15 Peaks challenge in June.

I have also been doing some writing of my own which has had to take president over the blog as when it comes to you, it is best to get it down on paper as quick as possible.

I will be adding some more blogs over the next few days.  I want to do some pieces about how I feel about the whole MP claiming expenses thing that is going on right now, but to be honest I am still in shock as to how far and how many of them have become corrupt.  And also by their self fulfilling belief that they have done nothing wrong?  I wish I had their money to throw around on such ridiculous extravagance in these times of strife.  Then again, if you think about it, we all have that kind of money, it is just that they are spending it for us rather than letting us spend it our selves on our families and businesses.

Walmsley

We have launched the new web site for www.walmsley.co.uk estate agency in Caversham, Reading.  This site has taken a lot of work to create the exact bespoke look that they and their print design team envisaged.

There are many bespoke elements to the sites including all the drop shadow images and the search page elements.

We wish WALMSLEY all the best in the future and I know the site will do a lot to boost business as it looks very fresh and includes all the latest things required for good search engine optimisation.

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We have re-built the Kidderminster Market Auction KMA web site today. Using all our own artwork and pictures
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The site is full SEO and W3C optimised.

Get a great deal on carpets with 10% and the current “Match any genuine price!” deal.

www.kmauctions.co.uk
or www.kidderminstermarketauctions.co.uk

Wow, our team at WWW.FRANKPAGES.NET built the site for C and K Catering last week.  We were so pleased to see it go in at number one on Google the next day, for phrases like Party Food Brierley Hill and Catering Brierley Hill.  It was then sandboxed by Google after a couple of days and disappeared for 24 hours while they tried to push us towards Google Adwords.  What a relief to see it back on their index within 24 hours, a new record for us.

However, we are having trouble with pushing the phrases; Wedding Food Brierley Hill, Wedding Party Food Brierley Hill, Golden Wedding Buffet, Silver Wedding Buffet etc.  I hope by writing this blog we can help push these phrases as the site does deserve the hits.  C and K Catering can really help out if you need to feed a crowed of people at a wedding or similar function with high class wedding party food in Brierley Hill and the West Midlands UK.

I will keep checking back to see how they are doing.  Also thanks to Richard at www.webspaceunlimited we are using Google Analytics to monitor our progress on the Wedding based phrases.  Cheers Richard.

A special thanks to Kaye and Colin at C and K Catering Brierley Hill for their gift of a few bottles of wine as they were so pleased with the new Web Site www.brierleyhillcatering.co.uk the home of C and K Catering.

It is Sunday evening, I am about to go and watch “Lost”, but thought I should add this blog first.  Firstly, cheers to Richard for all the comments.  Yes it was good to see the BrierleyHillCatering.co.uk web site featured at number one on Google, it was like that within 24 hours of the site launch, which is fantastic for us and them.

Secondly, thanks to Roy for the Blueye gadget which turns my iPod touch into an iPhone, or more or less.  At least it means I can go on a train etc and if my phone rings, it comes in through my iPod rather than going off in my other pocket and me being unable to hear it ringing because I am listening to the iPod.  What a fantastic gadget it is, and it gives me radio, which is brill.  Thanks for the iDock as well, it fits nicely on my desk.

Thirdly, but not least, thanks to Rachel for organising the gig last night, to Nigel for being there and making me laugh, and to all the others who made it such a great night out.  And to my family who have made this week such a fun time, with the Ross Noble night and the fun weekend.  Cheers.

 

C and K Catering Brierley Hill

We have just launched a site for some good friends of ours at C and K Catering in Brierley Hill, part of the Victoria Cafe.  Kay and Colin have always been very good to us and the boys so I am more than happy to help.

Still a lot of work to do but the site is at least a float and I thought it might help if I added a quick blog so you lot can find it before Google does.

Keep checking back for more info on C and K Catering at the Victoria Cafe in Brierley Hill.  We will be adding new menus and booking / ordering pages for food and cakes.  For all your party buffet food needs, whether it be a wedding, and anniversary or Christening, call them today.

Site is www.brierleyhillcatering.co.uk

Special thanks once again to www.webspaceunlimited for their help on this project.  Very generous, Cheers.  There is definitely a sausage sandwich in it for you somewhere?  Ooh that just sounds so wrong!

Lipspeaker have re-launched as Lipspeaker UK www.lipspeaker.co.uk.  This is to reflect the fact that they are no longer an agency charging any agency fee.  Pure and simple, you now get a lipspeaker for the time you have requested and only pay for that that time.  There are no hidden fees.

Lipspeaker UK have also used this opportunity to enhance their search engine optimised phrases to include the phrases, SSE and Sign Supported English, which they are now representing a niche market in the UK for offering such services to customers from a non agency based company.

So what is Lipspeaking?
Imagine you can not hear what people are saying when you go to the doctors or attend an accident and emergency unit.  What if you have a court case or legal issues to settle and the people around you can not understand you.  You may have the ability to sign to a general interpreter, but how can you express your emotion and feeling?  Lipspeakers offer the chance for deaf people to communicate their facial expression and inner feelings by understanding the clients perspective and doing their best to emulate a situation where the deaf client is actually speaking through them.  It sounds odd but it makes a big difference compared to straight forward translation.

The new Lipspeaker site can be viewed at www.lipspeaker.co.uk

Google Earth Street View has been launched in the UK on 19th March 2009

So far 25 UK cities have been covered by the system which allows viewers to see a street represented as a 360 degree image. This sounds great, but does it help Estate Agents sell property or will it in some cases prevent an agent from even getting the applicant to take a properties details.

There are already some amusing images being found on there. A lorry driver in Wales sticking his fingers up, someone being sick out side a pub in London, and drunken revellers walking down a street in Edinburgh with traffic cones on their heads. These are very specific instances I know, but consider that you will now have to consider the image that Google Earth represents of your street or road. The image may be outdated or have been set up at a time which puts a street, quite literally in a bad light.

For instance with new homes and developments, the area may have looked like a building site or be full of waste ground when the shots were taken, and may not reflect the best view of your new shiny homes.

On a brighter note, for those of you with property that has been lucky enough to get a good street view, you will certainly benefit from the advantage of being able to show potential viewers more detail.

I have just got back from a walk (down streets and along canals), my friend was saying that she had heard about people complaining that they were not happy with the street view system. The issues being, that people don’t want others to be able to see their houses, and families and cars! My friend also pointed out that all you have to do is stand in front of someone’s house to do all this, without the hassle of having to log into your computer and open up Google Earth. And to be honest, you just can’t argue with that!

So far these areas have been indexed:

England: Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cambridge, Coventry, Derby, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Scunthorpe, Sheffield, Southampton, York

Northern Ireland: Belfast

Scotland: Aberdeen,

Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow

Wales: Cardiff, Swansea.

A quick update to say it was in the news today that Google are removing some images from the Street View system following complaints.  Some are related to property views that the owners did not want published, however, others relate to personal objections.  One from a man caught on the camera entering a sex shop and another from a group of people being arrested at the time the Google Camera passed.    The man being sick outside a pub has also been removed, it must have been a sobering moment for him.