Summer holidays are coming

It's that time of year again when everything goes quiet as everyone goes off on their summer holidays. This year has been the worst summer weather I can remember (global warming innit?) so I'm looking forward to some better weather in France next week.

Strangely though, this year has also been the busiest summer so far that I can remember and the phones haven't stopped ringing. We're busier than ever now when we would normally be taking advantage of a lull in business to catch up on some housekeeping tasks.

Anyway, I'm going to sign off now for a couple of weeks and start practising my holiday French: "Je suis désolé mais je ne parle pas Français..."

Update on Corporate Website Design experiment

I've been keeping an eye on the search engine positioning experiment we started on the 19th June and whilst there's no obvious result for the blog at the moment, a similar experiment I started on the www.wordsun.co.uk website has yielded excellent results.

After making my last post, I decided to try optimising the main website for the phrase 'Corporate Website Design' as well and discovered that by adding the phrase to the title of the page, adding a link to a page called 'Corporate Website Design' which also mentioned the keywords in context and a few other minor nips and tucks, we jumped quite rapidly from position 16 on Google to 8 which puts us firmly on the front page. Even better, if you search for "Corporate Website Design" (with the quotes) we appear at positions 3 and 4!

I've made a few more tweaks to the page to see whether I can get it any higher - I really want to get to number one on Google now. I'll let you know how it goes...