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Best of luck. So what issue are you struggling with? ie if it's marketing, what have you tried so far?

There's plenty of free stuff out there, or there's lower risk paid, such as designing and printing flyers, then delivering them yourself.

But marketing/advertising is normally part of your normal overheads and becomes a fact of life, unless you have a big enough client base for repeat or word of mouth advertising. Even most free advertising carries a cost, ie time. So work out what you are worth, and then how much you are saving by not doing your primary business activities.

Be interesting to know what your advisor says, and if you found it useful

I must admit, this one passed me by, never even heard of it until now!

Looks nice, looks like an ipad but a bit thinner

"A7 Chip Desktop-class archtecture. No desktop required...."

Cobblers! They are great, but will never be a desk top replacement, regardless of their hype.

I've got an iPad2, the missus has got an iPad (the one after?) Which looks and feels exactly the same as mine. Apparently it's a better display, camera, faster etc, but tbh, I can't see any difference.

They are great for slobbing in front of the telly and casual surfing. Brilliant for showing off photos, and great at keeping the kids quiet when running cbeebies games.

But desktop replacement? In an office? Nahhhhh...... don't believe anyone genuinely has chucked their lappie in the bin or scrapped their pc and runs their business on an ipad

Am I wrong?

This is a superb post from Moz, that explains graphically how Googles Algorithm works, and gives an idea of the number of factors involved, just to get your web page to show up in the search results. It is ideal if you are trying to get a better understanding how all this perceived SEO black magic and Google actually works.

Ignore the title,Dr Pete is being modest, it is well done and worth a read, and explains the below graphic, section by section.
A [Poorly] Illustrated Guide to Google's Algorithm - Moz

Search Engine Land have done a good info-graphic explaining in pretty simple terms what is a no follow link, and how to use them.

I think the idea is to try and fool the end user into thinking it's an ebay search, and then skim affiliate revenue. But I think (personally) those days are over, Google won't reward any sites like this, and any remaining ones will start to disappear, if they haven't already.

You get what you pay for, personally, I'm a fan of Rackspace. Another UK one I've used and actually liked is Bytemark, although more aimed at techies, with a lack of pretty control panels, and good old command line

If you just want shared hosting with a

Watched this program the other day, and it was some farmer on the coast had put up one of these huge turbines on his property. Think he said it was about a Million quid to buy it and get it plumbed in the National grid, but would pay for itself within 6 years!

Forgetting the initial cost, that's not actually a bad return on investment, and he was raising the dosh to build a second. Then look at the price of some houses, and all of a sudden it's not inconceivable to raise that kind of finance.

What a legacy to leave behind, renewable energy and a very profitable business! Obviously does mean moving house is an issue, and I don't think my neighbours would approve lol.

Huzzah!!

Order one of very many more hopefully!

Did like that, first order from a total stranger Yep family and friends doesn't count, that's just for mlm/pyramid selling lol

Bask in your glory and get back out there pounding the streets. This time next year Rodney....

Hiya Mr Martin Sir

Well 2 years is a long time in this here interweb malarkey, and we have pretty much swopped over how we do things.

I stand by comments from years ago, and think it is still valid, Google looks at your at your top level domain first. But the in the last 18 - 24 months, speed has been an increasing factor in Googles algorithm, and for a large database driven site like us, every ounce of speed counts.

Although our US hosting was superb (although now been swallowed up by IBM which is prob the death of it!) I was starting to get concerned with transaction times. Location wise, and the fact it was a UK site with a US IP didn't make any difference.

So we had a little flirt with some UK hosting (my previous track record with UK hosting companies isn't good) and low an behold, after flawless service in the States, we migrated our UK site back to the UK, and had multiple outages within 30 days. Can't name them for legal reasons, but they are a big outfit.

So had to migrate again, and should have gone there in the first place, but moved over to Rackspace. Service has been superb, on a par with what we had in the US, so finally have found reliable UK hosting.

Although transaction times are now lightening fast, we didn't see any difference in traffic/conversions from when the server was in the US, and is now in the UK, which proves the point location wise, it's irrelevant.

Transaction times wise, I think we were just ahead of the curve, as it's only recently Google has made lots of noise about it, and it is is supposed to be a strong signal in the new algorithm. So location is irrelevant, but speed is important.

A couple of months ago, we decided to migrate our US site over to Rackspace. During the summer we put MLS UK behind an IDS system, and to justify the cost a bit, have migrated MLS USA over to UK Rackspace and shut down our US hosting. The US site has a much smaller database than the UK, so transaction times haven't been an issue, and in the couple of months it has been over here, there has been no difference to traffic.

Again this confirms to me location is irrelevant, regardless what any of the experts say.