Unfortunately the drink and debauchery has had to come to an end and we are now back at work, though not at full capacity until Monday.
First of all I will apologise for the lack of posts recently, December is a bit of a hectic month at the best of times but we have also taken on 3 new clients, and been looking for new larger offices.
I will be trying to spend a little more time blogging over the next few weeks.
Hopefully we can also have the new offices sorted by the end of this month, but we will be keeping the postal address the same in order to avoid confusion for our clients.
I hope every one had a good break over Christmas and hope we all have a profitable year!
*Ok so either Live Writer is useless or I am a moron and can’t do posts with tables very well. I have quickly done screen shots of the info and posted that, if I get some time later I will redo it all*
So my last post was a bit of a rant about my Blog not validating and that I have decided to check some other sites around the Internet to see how popular developing websites with valid markup actually is.
My first lot of checks were Blogs from around the Internet, most of them are listed in Technorti’s Popular Blogs list however I have added several other ones that either I read frequently or I perceive to be quite big.
Ok it has been a long day and I am tired so I may be chatting rubbish, however I was just checking some stats for some clients when I did a search for the term liquidation. The number of results it returned was 3,280,000, I took a screen print of it incase I am actually spelling it wrong or something equally stupid.
Now I made a post on the 10 of October with some of the SEO Results we had recently achieved for some sites. At that time the search term Liquidation returned 29,100,000 results. Er so what happened to the other 25,820,000.
I am not going to do any more screen shots because I am too lazy but some quick comparisons of numbers that are showing for me now.
| Search Term | Oct 10th | Nov 7th |
| SEO | 177,000,000 | 20,600,000 |
| SEO Company | 13,000,000 | 960,000 |
| Web Design Company | 371,000,00 | 266,000,000 |
| Property Abroad | 5,220,000 | 354,000 |
| Hair Pieces | 5,160,000 | 383,000 |
I presume this is just a glitch in Google’s information though a few my keywords have jumped from page 2 to page 1. Again I can not be bothered looking into detail if all my sites have been affected and I am sure everything will be back to normal by tomorrow!
One of the worst part the worst parts of my job is having to invoice clients and do our accounts. I am not sure why really, you would think invoicing someone should be a good job, it means that people owe me money and that is always good. I always used to use Sage Accounts, and while I am sure its a brilliant piece of software for my accountant I can’t bear it!
The past 2 months I have been trying out FreshBooks as an alternative method of invoicing. It is basically an online invoicing and time tracking service which simplifies you client and invoice management.
Some of the features it includes are:
Click here to go to the FreshBooks site.
The main aspects of FreshBooks I like are: (After the jump)
At Dolphin Promotions we pride ourselves on the results we deliver our clients. We happily provide case studies on the Web Design and SEO work we do. We also do our best to ensure we focus on keywords that provide the maximum return on investment for the client. We realise these keywords are often also the most competitive and other companies may shy away from targeting them. We typically target a combination of highly competitive and medium competitiveness terms along with giving the client an approximation of how long these terms will take to rank well. Read the rest of this entry »
Finish short messaging and microblogging service Jaiku has been acquired by Google, the company says. That Google bought this competitor of Twitter, the service founded by Blogger founder Evan Williams, instead of Twitter is notable. Jaiku may be stronger on the mobile platform than Twitter and probably came at a much lower price. Google has been buying up no end of very young mobile services in order to improve it online dominance further. With the aid of Google it is likely that Jaiku will be able to outgrow Twitter.
Dolphin Promotions frequently come across clients that have been spending money on automated solutions from other SEO providers or who have paid out good money to a company to teach them about SEO. Now the question is are these services really worthwhile and if so why would you want to hire an SEO?
