Advanced SEO

Emerald and I spent yesterday morning at a seminar entitled 'Advanced SEO'.

I got the reassurance that I'm doing the right things along with some more suggestions on how to improve further. Emerald got a good basic knowledge of what it's all about.

The bare bones of it were that firstly it's very important to do your keyword research. Finding the right keywords for each page of your website is vital - get it wrong and it could cost you your business - get it right and quality traffic will come flooding in!.

When you consider that there are now in excess of 2.1 trillion web pages out there you don't want to get lost. A well optimised web page will help you be seen in the natural rankings 'above the fold'! That is to be seen in the first 5 results on Google. And a good Adwords campaign doesn't do any harm either.

We hope to be bringing you some more tips over the next few weeks when we get a quiet spot!

Meantime if anybody has any questions about SEO or Networking then we'd love to hear them!

Summer Sunshine?

Well, a really great meeting. Plenty of new faces and a few old ones too.

And help was at hand when one member needed a particular vehicle for a special event - ask and you'll receive! Actually not quite the car but solid advice on where to look for the specialist vehicle they require.

A presentation by ClarityClarity's Keith Ayres broke the evening up. After discussion with other members it has been proposed that we hold the occasional presentation geared towards helping business.

The first of these will be on 'Better Networking Skills' and will be delivered by Agnes Fitzgerald of Linkage Point. This will be strictly 'no sell' but aimed at providing good solid advice to aid your networking efforts and make them more profitable.

Anybody interested in being there for this should contact WBa to register your interest. When we have finalised a date we'll let you know.

It is sure to be a great evening knowing Agnes and her rather quirky sense of humour. Learning should be fun and Agnes has always made it so for me.

We look forward to seeing you all next month - 10th October!

Summer Garden party

The Chimneys, Hooton Green (South Wirral) will be holding a Summer Garden Party to raise money for the National Trust.

You are all invited to go and enjoy the summer in the pub garden while raising money for a good cause.

Tickets are priced at £10 and include 2 drinks vouchers, an informal food tasting plus a donation to the National Trust.

For more information and to purchase your tickets please call in to The Chimneys, Hooton Green, South Wirral (Just off Junction 5 of the M53 on the way to Chester and North Wales.)

We look forward to meeting you there!

What a summer ..... if you're a duck!

Well the weather this summer has been appalling. I drove to Barnsley and back yesterday in the pouring rain. Good job the competition we were attending was indoors!

We will be organising a local competition to be held towards the end of September this year. It will be held in Liverpool and we are hoping to attract several hundred visitors. There will be a limited amount of advertising space and we will be looking for sponsors for the event. Anybody interested in some local advertising please let me know.

More details will be made available when we have finalised the date/venue.


By the way, the club came home with 1 bronze, 1 silver and 2 gold medals - not a bad haul for only 4 competitors.

Long Time .......

OK, so it's been a few weeks since I last updated the blog - been Sooooo busy.

For those of you who don't remember, the August meeting is Tonight, 8th August. We are hoping to see a few new faces along with some old ones who couldn't make Tuesday nights.

Paul is running his little competition, prize is a meal for 2, for the person who brings the most guests between now and the end 0f November. Remember to let one of us know that a guest is yours so we can keep track!

For the coming months we are going to try to include a weekly networking tip both here and in the newsletter. Anybody not receiving the newsletter should let me know ASAP so we can rectify that.

For those of you interested in contributing to this blog with tips and ideas for better networking then please drop me a line via the WBa website. I'll be happy to share the workload!

Pass the word around to your friends and associates to checkout the blog on a regular basis and we hope to see you all tonight. Remember to bring a guest!

Mad March Hairs?

Another great night! A full room and plenty of great feedback.

I've been requested to open the blog to more people. Some invites have gone out today so look out for other people's posts here in the near future!

Remember you can always comment on any of our posts and add info about any of our events by selecting the 'comments' option at the bottom of a post.

If you'd like to be more of a contributor then please let me know and we'll invite you to join.

Have a great month and we'll see you all again in April!

February is fab!

Well last night went really well. We had plenty of new people turn up and great feedback. Looks like we could be growing quicker than expected.

There were some missing faces due to illness - we hope they all get better soon.

We've been asked if we are going to do any presentations - there are no plans at present but if we get enough requests we'll consider it (they would be kept very short though).

Thanks again to Paul for giving his support (and the venue) and for the bowls of hot chips that appeared on the tables half way through the evening. We do appreciate all the help he and Justine give for free. Without their support we couldn't run these evening on a free basis. So everybody should get down to The Chimneys on other occasions too.

All ready for the next meeting? Good, why not bring a friend!