I can’t thank Andrew enough for his continued work on my new website. He took my original ideas and previous website stat data to build a user friendly and ‘findable’ website in the search engines.

Andrew has got me top of the search results, and I’m so busy as a result of new work and leads through the website, Andrew is slowing down his pace with the Google optimisation!

Highly recommended.

David Parnell
Pest Control Hertfordshire

David has seen a huge rise in website visits as a result of the new keyword researched website – and he now ranks top of Yahoo, top of Bing and is on the 1st page (at the time of writing 3rd on Google.com) of Google!

With access to auction sites, every man and his dog can start selling online. So how do you stand out? How do you grab a readers attention? You need Killer Sales Copy!

Enter Mike Whittaker. He was looking to sell his clapped out old washing machine, and listed it with no reserve and a starting bid of $1. Here’s how he described it:

Scary washing machine. No really, its terrifying!

It’s the loudest most violent sounding washing machine I have ever encountered. It makes guests scared and children cry. I’ve lived with it like that for almost a year and it still scares me…

…If your in a fix and need a cheap washing machine and are either completely deaf or hate your neighbours this baby is for you.

So what happened as a result of this?

• The washing machine sold for $5160.
• TV and international press coverage
• 800,000 views on the auction
• 800 comments on the auction
• The video went viral on YouTube
• A new website and online business was born for Mike.

Pretty amazing. He grabbed the viewers attention, gave them some plain talking, informal, amusing copy to read through and the result took his scary washing machine global…

Hi all,

This Blog post updating my web design hertfordshire Google challenge has been a long time coming, so apologies to all those who have been tracking my progress!

So to recap – we had a less than perfect ranking of 180 on page 18. Good progress considering the scale of this experiment, but room for improvement. So, here’s the latest: Page 4, rank 33. Now we are getting some results! Here’s the screenshot:

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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. Twitter on the other hand is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers.

Here’s a neat graphic which displays the pros and cons of each, click the image for the larger version:

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post to dispel a few myths around Google, and what needs to happen when you have a brand new website built.

Q. Do I need to submit my website to Google?

No. Google is smart. Very smart. So smart in fact, you do not need to ’submit’ your website to them, chances are they already know about it…

Google is a fully automated search engine that uses software known as “spiders” to crawl the web on a regular basis and find sites to add to our index. In fact, the vast majority of sites listed in our results aren’t manually submitted for inclusion, but found and added automatically when our spiders crawl the web.

- Taken from Google Webmaster Central

Q. What about the other search engines?

Yahoo and Bing however, do require a manual submission to get included in the index. The process is extremely simple and takes no longer than a few minutes, here are the links:

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ (You will need a Yahoo account)

http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx

Q. How long does it take to get included in Google’s index?

Done correctly, you should see your website in the search engine index in about a week, although the past dozen sites we have built have been noticed in about 3days.

Remember – this differs from ‘keyword ranking’ which takes considerably longer, depending on the keyword.

Q. How do I know if my website IS in the Google index?

A quick and easy way is to put: ‘site:http://www.tbomedia.co.uk‘ into the search box and hit enter. No results? No indexed site for you…yet. This also works for Yahoo and Bing.

There is a lot to talk about with Social Media and using it for business. With all the up-sprung ‘guru’s’ and industry experts crowding the market place, it can be difficult to work out how you can really use this technology. To be honest, Social Media is extremely simple for business – you don’t need a guru to tell you that!

Here’s a neat little infographic which explains what application to use, and when. I would add Twitter to the PR list, its great for engaging with customers:

Hey guys,

Check it out, TBO Media are now on the first page and the number 10 spot in Bing.com for the ‘web design hertfordshire‘ keywords on our search engine challenge.

Click here to visit bing to see the results!

TBO Media hail from the historic town of Bishops Stortford. Bishops Stortford has a long and interesting history, dating back to the ice age nearly 250,000 years ago! If you’d like to read more about our town’s history, head over to stortfordhistory.co.uk

Things have moved on a lot since then of course, and today the thriving market town is host to a huge range of business sectors (including many web design agencies!) to meet demands. You could walk down the high street today and be able to find (pretty much!) everything you would ever need. The town is well connected transport wise, with the M11 gateway, stansted airport, and regular trains into London. This is what makes Bishops Stortford such an attractive option for many businesses, including ours.

For us web design companies, being based in Bishops Stortford means we are strategically well placed to serve our clients all over Hertfordshire, and for TBO Media, Europe. Being outside of the London catchment area means we are able to take advantage of lower overheads and costs to our business. This enables us to offer a lot more affordable rates on our web design services compared to many central London based companies. You would be typically paying much higher rates per hour for the same level of service, and the same end products.

To arrange a free quotation (or maybe even a free website) then give us a call on 01279 310692 and we’d be happy to help. We offer 100% non geeky explanations of our services, and promise not to confuse you…we’ll try anyway. Alternatively, click here to email us of fill out the form below for a call/email back: