SEO Belfast

I’d like to give a big big thank you to all my clients and people that I have worked with over the course of the last year. I’d also like to thank those that have given me advice and feedback on blogs and websites. One or two of the Irish websites that I have enjoyed very much are IWF and Redfly’s blog .
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Best of luck to Leigh and Jodie in their new venture.

Roxbury and McQueen is now open for business on the Lisburn Road Belfast, so if you feel like treating your wife/partner or yourself this Christmas to some designer Lingerie then why don’t you pop in and say hello.

Look out for an online catalogue early next year.

LinksPro Ultimate is finally ready for release. Thanks to everyone that made suggestions, alot of them have been taken on board and implemented, some of the other suggestions due to time constraints and finance will have to wait for future releases.

I think it’s the best ASP directory script on the market, and we hope you do to.

Looks like another promising directory has been pulled. NIPages.com appeared to have spent quite a bit of money on marketing over the last few years and were no doubt trying to take on 4NI. Unfortunately it looks like they didn’t quite succeed.

Is there any other Northern Ireland directories out there that can compete with 4NI?

If you’re a company in the Greater Belfast area and you want to find out a little bit more about the performance of your website, the number of visitors, what people are searching your site on, referring sites, time spent, favourite pages then I’m willing to help you set up a Google Account and install Google Analytics for free.
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Codefixer desperately needs a refresh as it’s been the same for the last 7 odd years.

I’ve settled on 3 logo drafts

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Anyone want to give some feedback on which they prefer? I quite like draft 3.

Just passed the Google Adwords Professional Exam with an 85% mark so I’m very happy.

I’d hoped to do slightly better than that but in mitigation I was absolutely shattered when I took the exam, and I took the exam on the spur of the moment a couple of weeks earlier than I had planned as I wanted to get it out of the way and move onto important client work.
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I first started using Google’s Pay Per Click system way back in 2004 to promote some of the software products that I sell. I signed up and opened an account, used the usual keyword suggestion tools, set up a few campaigns with a whole host on unrelated keywords, set a budget, URL destination and left the account to run on auto-pilot while at the same time hoping that the sales and conversion statistics would jump through the roof.
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Well according to Yell’s advertising literature 90% of their customers considered their advert to be good value for money.

Unfortunately that’s not my experience. I may as well have rolled it up and smoked it!

It’s been at least 6 months since I took out advertising in the Yellow Pages and just to let you know that I got a second call last week. So 2 calls in 6 months for a £400+ relevant ad (designed by Yell) with the first being a service I didn’t even offer isn’t the best value for money by anybody’s standards. There has been a few other inquiries but they have all been for work experience.

Incidentally the second caller wanted a comparison quote, he was making his way through all the listings.

If it goes the way it’s been going and I don’t get a rush of unexpected calls then that’ll work out at £100+ per call. If only it had even been 3 or 4 genuine calls a month then I’d have settled for that.

In the last couple of weeks I’ve been running a Google Adwords campaigns and for a fraction of those costs have had plenty of leads. Time will tell whether they convert or not though it does seem a good advertising model for some types of businesses.

One of the motivating factors in taking out an ad was the credibility issue though next year I don’t think I’ll bother with the Yellow Pages and instead spend that revenue on online advertising. It’s been a lesson learnt but one I’m happy to share.

If anyone can give any reasons to advertise in the Yellow Pages for ‘Internet Web Design’ or has any success stories or opinions then I’m all ears.

That’s funny, I just stumbled across the website for www.2bscene.ie a web design and internet marketing company down south and they’ve plumped for the same header graphic that my company www.CodefixerSoftware.com uses albeit in a very different style.

I’ve been on their site in the last few months so they must have just redesigned some of it.

Anyway it’s a good choice. I like their site and the layout, its very much in a style that I would use.