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Time Squared New Watch Blog

Rich — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:12:33 +0000

The new blog for all things wrist watches is ticking away nicely. The guys have been writing some interesting content and the search engines seem to be indexing the site regularly.

Check out the latest Time2 blog now.

Time for a fresh start: GPMD

Rich — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:37:29 +0000

For those of you who I haven’t spoken to for a while I have handed in my notice at Masterpiece. I am now a director for great company called GPMD.

GPMD Create awesome web sites using Open Source software: SilverStripe, Drupal and Magento. I’m really looking forward to a fresh start and growing the business over the coming years. Take a look at their current site: http://www.gpmd.co.uk. We’ll be looking at improving this as soon as I start!

Not much difference in the commute:

Tesco get website update wrong

Rich — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:11:35 +0000

Unlike most large retailers Tesco seems to have made a bit of a slip up here. I can’t understand why pushing some updates out to a site as large and as profitable as the Tesco food store can’t be done without downtime. Surely they have a development environment to test on…

They did try and promote the other Tesco websites in what appears to be as well produced as Tesco Value Baked Beans!

Interesting Search Engine Results

Rich — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:52:58 +0000

I have recently had a few phone enquiries by start up companies looking for consultation services online. At first I thought this was a little unusual as I don’t do any marketing “internet consultant” however it appears my site does quite well with the search engines. Take a look at some of the results below:

Search term: “richard johnson“

#19 on Google.co.uk – 13,800,000 results
#12 on Google.co.uk (UK pages) – 386,000 results

Search term: “internet consultant“

#26 on Google.co.uk – 26,300,000 results
#22 on Google.co.uk (UK pages) – 400,000 results

Search term: “internet consultant london“

#3 on Google.co.uk – 522,000 results
#3 on Google.co.uk (UK pages) – 364,000 results
#3 on Google.com – 364,000

Search term: “london internet consultant“

#12 on Google.co.uk – 539,000 results
#10 on Google.co.uk (UK pages) – 355,000 results

Search term: “internet consultant developer“

#14 on Google.co.uk – 12,300,000 results
#2 on Google.co.uk (UK pages) – 362,000 results

I think its now time to review the purpose of my site and target the correct search terms… Happy Sunday!

Online PR & Content Optimisation, the right way!

Rich — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:39:55 +0000

Every company has something to say and most of them come up with interesting and innovative content. However, there is more to online PR than just writing a good case study or white paper.

Content optimisation is the key to promoting your topic well with the search engines hence generating more interest in your products or services. This is where you should use a company such as Content and Motion.

A Sussex based Online PR and content optimisation agency. These guys specialise in taking your content (or writing it for you) and optimising it so that it has the best chances of reaching your target audience.

If you have a few hours there is a ton of really interesting and useful papers on content optimisation and online PR on their website. The great thing about this agency is that they don’t trade in any “dark arts” they simply understand the importance on content optimisation and what benefits it can bring to your company.

Check them out online pr agency

Rake Back Now – New Site Launched

Rich — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:54:03 +0000

My friend has just launched his new web site www.rakebacknow.com

If you are familiar with online poker you’ll already understand what rakeback is. If not here’s a little overview:

“Poker rooms charge rake which is a fee on all cash game pots and tournament entries. We can help you to reclaim some of this money as rakeback by signing up with RakebackNow.”

Have a click through and checkout the site…

SnaffleUp – Donate your stuff!

Rich — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:43:40 +0000

I have just found out a few of my mates have created a wicked website called SnaffleUp. It’s a much better implementation of Freecycle and I have to say I am going to add my first item this evening.

Check it out here: www.snaffleup.co.uk.

WordCamp UK

Rich — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:56:37 +0000

This weekend is the first ever WordCamp UK event. Jeff Van Campen and I are luck y enough to be heading up to Birmingham this afternoon, ready for a 09:30 kick off tomorrow morning. The weekend will see various Wordpress enthusiasts give talks and Q&A sessions on the open source application.

Here is the latest running order:

Saturday 19 July 2008

0930-0950: Registration/coffee

0950-1000: Introduction; Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk/

1000-1100: Essential plugins; Richard Williams http://www.rkwinternet.com/

1100-1200: SEO for wordpress; Nick Garner http://wiki.wordcampuk.tonyscott.org.uk/User:Nickg

1200-1300: WordPress Question Time; Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk/; Gurbir Singh http://astrotalkuk.org/; Rich Boakes http://boakes.org/; Sam Bauers http://unlettered.org/; Mike Little http://zed1.com/; Benjamin Ellis http://redcatco.com/

1300-1430: Lunch

1430-1530: Plugin Development; Simon Wheatly http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/

1530-1630: Blogging and journalism; Benjamin Ellis http://redcatco.com/; A N Other TBA

1630-1730: Managing blog upgrades using Subversion; Sam Bauers http://unlettered.org/

1730-1800: WordPress is not a blog; Jonnya http://wp-cms.com/

2000-2300: Saturday WordCamp UK social; The Old Royal, Church St, Birmingham.

Sunday 20 July 2008

0950-1000: Introduction; Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk/

1000-1100: Walking with WordPress; Richard Williams http://www.rkwinternet.com/

1100-1200: Large companies; Simon Dickson http://puffbox.com/

1200-1300: bbPress/WordPress integration and the future of bbPress; Sam Bauers http://unlettered.org/

1300-1430: Lunch

1430-1530

Code surgery session

Submit your questions to the surgeons: http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/code-surgery-questions/

Your Code Surgeons are:

Simon Wheatley http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/

Peter Westwood http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/

Rich Boakes http://boakes.org/hello

Mike Little http://zed1.com/

1530-1630: Living from your blog; Chris Garrett http://www.chrisg.com/

1630-1730: Getting involved with WordPress; Peter Westwood http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/

1730-1800: The Humphrey Awards 2008; Ian Covey http://tvs-worst-adverts.co.uk/; Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk/

I am hoping to hear some business cases for adopting Wordpress as a content management system. I believe it is a great solution for the average size company that needs a robust, managable solution.

New Masterpiece Website

Rich — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:33:00 +0000

We launched the new website for Masterpiece a few weeks ago.

http://www.masterpiececreate.co.uk

The whole site is built in Wordpress and can be updated by not technical editors and authors. Check out the website if you have a spare few minutes…

Safari for Windows

Rich — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:45:27 +0000

Apple Computers Inc have now released a beta version of their popular web browser Safari, but on Windows! Anyone who uses an Apple Mac will know that Safari is a fast, standards compliant browser which gives Firefox a good run for it’s money (well not money as it’s free!). Now, it’s still in beta which means we have to wait until October 2007 for the stable release. I personally am quite excited as the Windows world will now have two major browsers that are standards compliant.

I have installed Safari on my Windows machine at work and will give it a good bashing over the next few weeks. The one thing I can say with certainty is that Apple have made no atempt at making it fit with the Windows asthetic, it looks almost identical to the Mac version, apart from the window buttons being on the right obviously.

I’ll post some more details next week when I have had more time to play with it. Download it and have a look yourself below. Also I have included the Apple blog and ZD Net’s response.

Apple’s Safari page – Apple’s Blog regarding the launch – ZD Net’s Review