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This is encouraging.


What a shame none of them are no longer UK owned But at least it dispels the myth that manufacturing is finished in the UK.

Yup, and seems to be the view of the Guest Blogging community looking at SE Land today

Quality content still counts, so I guess beyond the headline, Guest Blogging still has a future, and spam will always be spam, from forums, articles, blogs etc.

Well didn't get another response on twitter, but as if by magic the emails have stopped, so the power of Twitter reigns supreme.

I think the next test maybe BT and see if their customer service works better as a public chat

There are 1000's of templates out there which can be tweaked quite easily, or if you want a bespoke one, just pay a webdesigner.

Learning it all from scratch just to do it yourself doesn't make any sense, unless its a hobby!

You're not expecting a step by step instructions are you

Google is your friend

Well until recently Guest blogging was considered a safe and fair way of gaining a back link, assuming you were on a half decent blog, and making a valued contribution.

But according to Mr Google himself, it appears no longer...

Matt Cutts: "Stick A Fork In It, Guest Blogging Is Done"

Hello Rachel, welcome aboard.

I think it depends on the type of business and where they generate their customers from, unless you are specifically talking about online businesses.

For a website, design is critical, but I think it's the technical design of a site and optimisation that's the most crucial as this is how a site is found and generates visitors. Once onboard, the visual design then kicks in turning visitors into conversions and hopefully customers.

Obviously traditional avenues and word of mouth are important, as are social media and online reputation management. But from a design point of view, technical followed by graphic.

Just my 5 pence worth and hope it helps.

How's this for some marketing copy?



As headlines go, it certainly draws you in to what turns out to be a pretty lengthy and complex article, backed up and reinforced with plenty of clear images to confirm the analysis.

The End of Britain - MoneyWeek

I think it's very clever, it takes a subject most of have an opinion about, the current state of the Country, and brings up points you would struggle to argue against. eg the Country is broke, we carry too much debt, the welfare state has crippled us. It then spins it out of control into a forecast of financial and social Armageddon drawing on lots of pretty charts, that will have many readers nodding away and stocking up their survival shelter with baked beans and spam

But in reality, it's all about getting you to subscribe, and use them as advisor's for your hard earned cash.

Whether that's a good thing or not is up to you, read the article and see what you think.

But as a marketing exercise, I like it, and plenty of people are talking about it, so it's obviously working.

What does anyone else think?

Honestly, UK PLC has gone to the dogs!!!! Right shall get my big stick out and do some more ranting!

I used to have a stock answer of don't worry about it, worry about your site. Page Rank obsession reached near hysterical levels a few years ago, and Google has publicly been playing down it's importance ever since. They now state it is just one of over 200 signals that decide on where you end up in the index.

Matt Cutts stated recently there wouldn't be a tool bar pagerank update for ages, again confirming it's decline, then out of no-where we get a Pagerank update, and everyone wakes up again and starts obsessing

I wish they would either scrap it, or stand by it. Having a visual indicator of a sites standing is useful, but is pointless and dangerous if there's no consistency or reliability behind it.

I agree Moz domain authority is a better indicator, but for those who don't want a Moz subscription, I'd still say don't worry about it.

Use free tools like WMT to track your indexing or flag any issues. Use your analytics to monitor traffic and analyze your strong and weak pages.

Our directories bounce around from PR3 to PR 4's to PR3's, but actual traffic volume and conversions remains constant. When we did dip in traffic last May after a penguin update, the PR stayed the same, and has when the traffic came back.

For vanity, I want to be a PR9 site, but financially I only care about revenue, and when that dips, thats the only indicator I need that something needs fixing