Northamptonshire: a County Full of Fine Fayre
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on June, 30th 2010
From Oakham in the north to Towcester in the south, Northamptonshire offers a multitude of fine restaurants and eateries. Whether you’re a fan of Indian food, good home grown English, or anything in between, Northamptonshire Restaurants are plentiful in range, ambiance and price.
Several restaurants in Northamptonshire run ongoing special offers, some of which can only be accessed by booking via the online restaurant listing site www.godine.co.uk. These are usually set menu or two course offers, alongside early bird discounts that are great for a pre-evening events meal. Finding the exact restaurant to fit your taste and budget involves a straightforward search of godine’s comprehensive list, where each restaurant is given a full review. These have been conducted individually by expert critics and cover every dining experience from atmosphere, sample menu, dress code, opening times, and restaurant history.
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Read moreJuno Support Global publishing brand Macmillan.
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on June, 28th 2010Juno Web Design have recently won a contaract to support and develop the online presence of Macmillan Publishers, a global and international publishing brand. Our task is to support and develop the web design and development of several sites Including Macmillan Readers, Macmillan Business and Inside out.
We have already designed and built for Macmillan the Macmillan Dictionary blog and Macmillan Global which have won Tefl.net Awards for best websites and have been acclaimed by several leading web design galleries.
Macmillan’s websites are now slightly dated and much in need of an overhaul. Here are some of the old web designs. Our new improved designs will follow.
Macmillan Business English
Read moreNobility Chair Covers – Now #2 in Google.co.uk
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on June, 23rd 2010
Nobility Chair Covers originally had their website designed by Juno but found that their search engine position was letting them down when it came to making sales. Other chair cover companies were utilising SEO to win business in the wedding sector so Nobility came back to Juno for help with SEO.
Mary who runs the website was instructed to create compelling blog posts on Nobility’s wedding chair blog whilst the SEO team worked their magic. Blogging regularly has many advantages for SEO including:
- A “fresh” website with new content appearing at regular intervals
- More pages of content on the website (each blog post counts as a new page)
- More key-phrases that could bring in traffic (more long-tail keywords that could rank in Google)
- Lots of great information about the company for people to read
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Read moreLeicestershire’s Top Eateries Revealed to the World
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on June, 21st 2010
A mention of Leicestershire to most people outside of the county conjures images of Melton Mowbray Pork Pies. That’s not a bad association, after all Melton Mowbray produce arguably the best pies in the world, with protected brand status. But there is so much more on Leicestershire’s plate to be discovered. Thanks to Nottingham’s premier SEO company www.junowebdesign.com, Leicestershire restaurants are going to have to invest in a lot more plates as their joint campaign with www.godine.co.uk point eager eaters to new Leicestershire discoveries.
A scan at godine’s Leicestershire page shows the incredible range of restaurants Leicestershire has to offer. From traditional British and all things European, to the distant and exotic tastes of the Lebanese Middle East and the Asian glories of Indian and Thai, Leicestershire has it all. These fine restaurants can be found in towns, cities ... (Read more)
Read moreNew Homepage Design for Controliss
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on June, 16th 2010Controliss are a new brand selling high quality remote control blinds at affordable prices… which is quite a new direction in the blinds industry. The beauty of remote control blinds which are identical to normal non electric blinds is that they are easy to operate from your chair, and don’t have messy chords which have been criticised recently as being a safety hazard in light of some recent freak and terrible events with loop blinds.
We have taken on the already existing web design and are redesigning the interface for conversion, here is the new design for the homepage that focuses on selling the benefits of the product range.
Remote Control Blinds by Controliss
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Read moreSunglasses SEO progress
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on June, 16th 2010We have been optimising heavily our client Sunglasses Save for the search sunglasses (one word) and have positioned them at #6… as well as achiving page one and number one positions for all of their brands eg the search Tiffany Sunglasses . We have driven a massive level of traffic to the site which has resulted in the client having to employ through weight of work… which is quite a result for Sunglasses Save and one we are very proud of.
As SEO work continues we are also refining the site in terms of functionality automating all of the manual tasks for the client so that the site is as far as possible an automated business. If we could automate the postage and packaging we would!!
Sunglasses Save have now added a whole host of new brands that mean that as well as offering ... (Read more)
Read moreDeep linking into subpages
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on June, 11th 2010
When performing SEO on your website are you just simply linking to your website’s main page?
Every backlink you create for your website adds power to whichever page it links to; backlinking just to your homepage may seem to be the best idea to many people but it isn’t the best way to traffic.
If you links to subpages on your site then these pages too have backlink power. The beauty of subpages on your site is that they can be targeted to one specific subject making them a lot more likely to rank in search engines such as Google when someone types in a related keyword.
Your homepage may mention many different areas of what your business has to offer, lets say for example you sold sports equipment, you could have many differently themed pages on ‘football’, ‘cricket’, ‘tennis’ etc.
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Google Banned in Turkey
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on June, 10th 2010
Turkish officials have accidentally banned Google’s ip addresses from their country after their on-going row with the video sharing site YouTube.
According to ‘The Register‘ YouTube hosted videos insulting the republic founder of Turkey and the courts have power to remove any site doing so.
Google owns YouTube and has been heavily critisised for letting these actions happen; YouTube allows anyone to upload a video so many incidences of offensive videos have happened over it’s lifetime. Thousands of videos are uploaded per day on YouTube so it has become impossible to monitor every single one when the factor of costs is considered.
Locals in Turkey cannot access many of Google’s services including Google Translate and Google Docs that are used by many business people to do online jobs. This ‘accident’ could have a knock on effect on Google’s presence in Turkey and will ... (Read more)
Read moreSEO Myth Debunked – NoFollow Links May Still Add Value to SEO
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on June, 8th 2010If your SEO strategy does not include NoFollow links, you might need to rethink your strategy. You see, various SEO e-books caution online marketers about “NoFollow” links being useless to SEO. This is a myth that is being perpetuated by antiquated SEO e-books that misinform their readers.
This myth did have some solid basis before. Years ago, Google introduced the NoFollow tag to prevent blog spammers from getting backlinks when they comment on blogs. WordPress followed suit by implementing the NoFollow tag on their comment links. This discourages people from spamming blogs with useless content.
The self-proclaimed SEO “gurus” then devised a way to go around this new Google rule. They advised millions of people to look for “DoFollow” blogs. According to these “gurus,” you can get precious backlinks from these blogs even if you don’t include useful content on your web sites.
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Read moreWeb Design Across Cultures
Posted by Dave Wiltshire on June, 1st 2010
Website localisation is the way of the future – 78% of all internet users aren’t native English speakers and that number is increasing all the time. This changing of the guard means it’s becoming increasingly necessary for websites to think beyond a purely English-speaking audience when it comes to their online presence.
In fact, the bar is constantly being raised – not long ago a website with ten different language options was considered to be a global website, today you need more than 20 different localised sites to be considered truly ‘global’.
Even if you have no intention of developing localised, fully translated domains for a broad range of target countries, the increasing sophistication of automated online translation tools like Google Translate means that, even if you’re only planning to use English on your site, it’s now reasonably understandable and accessible for speakers of ... (Read more)
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