Search Engine Optimization

I have finally got aroung to updating a few websites, as part of my cruising network I have redesgined P&O Cruises website which is now run by wordpress. This site is linked to a cruise forum I have set up on a sister site for cruise holidays.

It looks like Google is currently performing a page rank update, what this often means is that a few newer websites will drop over the next few weeks and then return as things settle. Why do I say this? Google Page Rank Updates over the last 8 months or so have had this effect often. They have also got it wrong on a number of occasions as well.

Lets hope this Google Page Rank Update (PR) goes to plan, so that we can relax for another 3 months or so.

AS a growing search engine optimization and search engine marketing company, Drabdesign may soon be able to offer a few SEO Jobs Hampshire. Yes I know I left the word “in” out! After all this page will need to compete against all those massive Jobs websites.

So if you know a little about SEO and live in Hampshire, Surrey or West Sussex and would potentially like to be considered for one of our future SEO Jobs Hampshire, then email me at admin@drabdesign.

We have some new staff at Drabdesign and I set them a task to create content for a series of websites for our Sun Holidays network. This network includes sites like Cheap Flights to Australia and other flight related websites. Their work needs to be touched up a little, however I have put it out there and am leaving it up to them to sort out be adding content, removing and changing it until they think they are optimized enough.

The Cheap Flights network they have created also include Cheap Flights to Canada, Cheap Flights to Florida, Cheap Flights to Ibiza, Cheap Flights to London, Cheap Flights to Malaga, Cheap Flights to Miami, Cheap Flights to Orlando, Cheap Flights to Paris and Cheap Flights to Tenerife.

It is early days in their careers with me, so I am happy to let a few little mistakes run for a while. However I feel they all offer Drabdesign some great attributes, hence employing them. As to the Sun Holidays and Cheap Flights network, I’ll keep you posted.

On a personal note, I wonder how many have played any of the Virtual Horse Racing Games that proliferate the web? Well the only one I play now is called Horseracingpark, it is a replica of real life horse racing in the states only the prize money etc is based to one thousandth, so a $1,000 race on Horseracingpark is the same as a $1,000,000 race in real life.

Well I have run a stable there for a few years and now thanks to breeding I have a few great 2 year olds that will hopefully get to this years Breeders Cup in October.

I anyone wants to join click this Virtual Horse Racing Games link and enjoy. If you need help, drop me an email or post a comment on here.

What is new this week? Well we are now in negotiation with a Mobility Scooters company who specialise in Mobility Scooter Repairs and Mobility Scooter Hire. They are based in Waterlooville in Hampshire so are well placed for hiring a Scooter if you are going on a Cruise from Southampton.

Recently Renta Scoota have set up a national repair service and include both labour and parts (which is unique in the industry) as part and parcel to their sales.

If you would like more details about their service of Mobility Scooters, Mobility Scooter Hire or Mobility Scooter Repairs, call “FREE” on 0800 328 1699 or use their contact page.

Amit Singhal a Google Fellow in charge of the ranking team at Google has written a post on the official Google blog entitled Introduction to Google Ranking.

After a brief introduction about the the world of Information Retrieval (the posh term for the field of search) he rather interestingly says that “We make about ten ranking changes every week and simplicity is a big consideration in launching every change”. Ten changes a week, that in itself should show why there is a need to employ a search engine ranking team to get and keep you higher within Google’s SERP’s.

However I disagree with another statement of his, talking about does Google manually edit it’s results, he says “Let me just answer that with our third philosophy: no manual intervention”.

So why do I disagree, well it happened to this website. I actually got to the top of Google for search engine optimization (UK world wide search) and then had a 7 minute visit from Google.inc, followed by a rapid drop to 18th.

I posted in here previously about a missed cache causing my site to drop, well that missed cache happened a day or so later, but my drop in rankings actually happened hours after a Google.inc visit.

Since this visit by Google.inc I often climb in the search engine ranking to about 8th and then overnight fall back to about 14th or 15th. No reason for it at all, just up and down like a Yo-yo.

There will be a follow up soon on the Google blog, I can’t wait to see what he will add. Until then I will endevour to increase my search engine ranking.

At Drabdesign we are in negotiation with a Hampshire Land Surveyor and are hoping to sign a contract with them soon. Simon Adams has been a building surveyor for a number of years and offers a comprehensive service from offices in Petersfield where he runs his Hampshire Land Surveyor service.

If you require his services contact him on 07775 835531 for a free quote.

I have just added a page attacking the term Search Engine, why? Well 227,000,000 web pages suggest that any success will look good for our company.

The page offers a full Google search using their search engine, with the results opening up in a new web page. So searching is made easier, after all Google are the kings of Search Engines.