Posts made in July, 2012

All is fixed – seemed to be a delete-this-url record outstanding on webmaster tool for the www. version of the website. Not me! Left over by someone previously. All pages indexed and SEO’d. And relax….

I have recently been updating some SEO on an existing site – rowanguesthousegroup.com. Lots of new content, tweaks behind the scene and WordPress updates to get the site properly set up. Trouble is that Google isn’t listing it yet! First time I have ever come across this so I’m working through all the possibilities… Google Webmaster tools verifies it all okay and site is getting crawled by the google bots. (sounds awful but it is a good thing honest!) No errors from the crawling Appears fine on yahoo, bing, etc. Resubmitted sitemap (pending which might take several days!) Checked robots.txt No horrible duplicate site URL stuff going on. Will see what happens over the next day or two and update this post accordingly! Never seen the same issue on any other WordPress sites or otherwise...

Yes, bcg webdesign is 6 months old and what a 6 months it has been. Work has been a real mix of things Websites created from start to finish SEO on existing/new sites Working with a variety of ‘back-ends’ – WordPress, Joomla, various other CMSs Email template/signature set-up Logo design Shifting servers Dreamweaver lessons dog walking… The other side of work is not always so exciting, but obviously needs attention so I’ve been doing my own booking keeping, filling in lots of HMRC forms, networking with Business Masterminds and 4N, quoting for potential clients, more dog walking, etc. Because I had been doing some of the creative stuff on the side for quite a few years meant it wasn’t a shock to the system starting on January the first (well probably 2nd or 3rd) this year. The business side of it was since I had to do that rather than just fill in a few boxes on the self assessment form. It’s been interesting though and makes you appreciate what all these SMEs do to keep things straight. Keeping me sane throughout it all with sage words of wisdom has been my wife Lorraine who has been running her own businesses for the last 9 years or so. (feel good therapies, calm kids. therapies united). She was the one when I came home with the letter announcing our office closure that cheered! What a great opportunity! It is certainly working out like that 🙂 Jess our 1 year old black lab also deservers some credit for making me/us go out walking several times a day. I do miss the banter with my old work colleagues but we still catch up once in a while and they have all gone on to bigger and better things for sure. Also miss my cycling – even if it was just a brief jaunt to work and the occasional Arthur’s Seat loop. The dog is helping keep me fit of course! Looking forward to the next 6 months and beyond!...