The site will provide a searchable database using names, craft type and areas of the UK. While yet to be officially launched full listings and ads will be free.  You can register using the form in the site to get a listing.

News about crafts and design are also planned. We’re also looking for craft articles. These will be published on the site and allow links and full author accreditation, so please get those coming in.

If you have a craft based website and you want to improve it’s visibility and your search engine ranking then get your application in now.

Initially we looked at the search results and have made a significant difference to the ranking for their key terms.  Over the past couple of weeks we have been adding the new seasons fashions from the leading designers, giving a page to each to show the newest wedding outfits.  There are many stunning images like my favourite one shown here from Condici.

The new pages are doing well, achieving page one listings and climbing.

Personalised search has arrived whether you are logged into the big G or not.

Up until now all you’ve had to do is log out of and run your search.  Those a little more savvy have the excellent firefox plug-in from yoast that still give you a non-personalised search, meaning you should be able to see the listings for a search that everyone else will get.

Not any more!

Take a look at this screenshot -

That all looks ok, I’m at No. 1, but wait, what’s this -

So now we are seeing customised searches based on your previous search and you’ll see this whether ot not you are logged in.  All is not lost though, if you click the view customizations link and then “without these improvements” link you should actually see proper search listings.  Quite what this is about, or what google is up too only time will tell.  But now I can tell everyone I can get their site to position 1, all you have to do is find your site in the search, click it and then do the search again, and as if by magic, your site is no. 1.

The site aims to showcase the hard work John and Carole have put in during the last 5 years or so and has information about them, their alpacas and the alpacas for sale.

Once again, it’s been our pleasure to work with this client and we wish them the greatest success with the site, and our continuing partnership to improve it still more.

Checking  Google I saw that it was listed for the combinations of the terms for searching such a download, and getting hits for all kinds of variations including someone searching for list of counties of united kingdom web developers.

Glad to be of service.

Coming upon a well written and concise post from Tad Chef at SEOptimise that addresses my concerns,  I thought it’s a post well worth investing some time in and sharing here.  It does mean that my way of thinking needs changing and methods need updating.

Enjoy

• The images are straight from their camera so are too big to fit the desired format and/or eat away at their bandwidth.
• The image needs cropping.
• The image needs some other changes.

What is needed is a quick and easy way of making the desired changes without having to go to the extent of buying some software to do the job just for their website.  If it’s just a few images I don’t mind making the changes, but often the owner wants to do it themselves straight away.

So what do I do, recommend they use an online free editor.

I came across a post from http://woork.blogspot.com/ where 5 online photo editors are compared. Of these there are two of my favourites that do most jobs.

1 – Pixlr

Has a very Photoshop like interface, easy to use, most changes are catered for and you can upload and save from and to your computer.

2 – Picnik

Different layout but very easy to use and you don’t have to register! Also allows you to save to your computer or share your photos on Flickr  and  Picasa and most other popular photo sharing web services.

Good luck with them both.

How wrong can you be? Lots of lists, but none of them complete and most out of date. Spent far too long looking and eventually had to make my own. I think it’s pretty complete, though, as ever, you probably know better.

I’ve added a text file with just each County name that you can use as you like.

Please let me know what you think or if there are any missing by adding a comment. I promise I’ll be grateful and will add any missing counties.

Finally if you make use of the list, feel free to link back to this page http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/list-of-uk-counties/

For such a major upgrade, giving a totally new look admin, it was much easier that previous releases (2.6) and gave no problems at all.