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If your have a Retail Shop, Restaurants, Cafe, Pub, B&B or Hotel based in Newcastle, Tyne & Wear, Northumberland or Durham.
   Did You know that, online shoppers in the UK are expected to rise to 25 million by 2011. If you are not generating business online you need to start today. 

 Place your FREE advertisment on On My High Street and help drive customers to your business.

  • You can put images of your shop, office, products or services with a description and contact details, and link to your web site if you have one.
  • The way On My High Street.co.uk  is constructed means that all the information about your business will be regularly submitted to all the main search engines such as Google Yahoo and Bing this will help drive foot fall and traffic to your real world business and website.
  • Your entry will have a free Google direct map generated automatically to help potential customers find you.
  • If you only trade on the Internet what better way to create a valued back link to your website and also help capture local trade.

If you would like to find our more about how to trade on the Internet and develop your business on line using SEO and Pay Per click contact us or visit or main web site there-fore.com

 Or if you would like to promote your business with tarditional methods such as leaflets drops, brocures, A boards or press advertising contact us or visit or main web site there-fore.com

Need Creative Design and Artwork or if you have artwork ready and need low cost quality colour print Buisness Cards from £16.00 Colour Leafets form £35.00vist www.printingservices-online.co.uk

 

 


The battle between the SEO experts and search engines is ongoing from the time when the first search engine was introduced. All the companies want their websites to reach the top searches which can benefit their business and bring in more visitors. Search engine keywords can be assessed as one of the most relevant factors which can enhance your search engine rankings.

Search engines always crawl, read and index only the text. For the search engines, symbols, flash content or images are absolutely irrelevant. Therefore, you need to develop original, updated and grammatically correct content. If your content contains relevant search engine keywords and phrases, your rankings will dramatically increase in different search engines result pages (SERPs).

Your target customers will type on the search engine keywords to discover your website and products displayed on the internet. Therefore, before you start writing for any article or website content, it’s imperative that your search for the right search engine keywords. Finding the appropriate keywords is easy with the internet at your service and a little imagination. For instance, if you are in the business of selling business cards, the most popular searches done by the people will be “cheap business cards”, “professional business cards”, “business card printing”, “free business cards”, “premium business cards”, “business cards” and so on. You can create a list of the most relevant search engine keywords after a brainstorming session and through a little bit of research.

After choosing the right search engine keywords you can position them in the most strategic where they hold maximum chances of getting read, crawled and indexed by the search engine spiders. You can use the search engine keywords in the headings, directory’s name, files names, in the first and last paragraph and other locations.

The search engines have been cautioned by the constant high usage and even abuse of the Meta Tags by the website owners. To tackle this issue, they use technical algorithms and tools to scan the web pages. As a consequence, the result pages appear far cleaner. But this has posed great problems for the website owners. If they unnecessarily stuff their websites with keywords to enhance their rankings, this can have negative effects. Here, the importance of SEO professionals comes to play! They are well versed with the right techniques to blend off-page and on-page tactics to maximize the results. With their help you can strategically place your keywords without any problems or issues.

If you have the relevant set of search engine keywords placed in adequate density and prominence, then you have already won half of the battle!

If you would like a free search engine optimization report fill in the application form here  

http://www.there-fore.com/free-seo-report

or email eric@there-fore.com


DIY SEO Tips

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Here are a few tips on SEO you will need a basic knowlage of HTML and a HTML editor to do the below. This is the starting place for effective SEO and will help you to get more website visitors, more customers and more sales. Recent statistics show that having high search engine rankings is the key to the success of your online business, if you would like a free SEO report on your web site conatct Eric Cuthbert 0191 286 9833 or email eric@there-fore.com

Pick 2-3 keyword phrases from our recommended keywords and include them anywhere possible in your website. This way, your website will be optimized according to those keywords:
1.    Include the keywords in your META KEYWORDS and META DESCRIPTION TAGS:

<META NAME="KEYWORDS" content="YOUR KEYWORDS HERE">

<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" content="YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE"> 2.    Include the keywords in your TITLE TAG:

<TITLE>YOUR TITLE HERE</TITLE> 3.    Include the keywords as part of HEADING TAGS:

<H1>ADD YOUR KEYWORD TO HEADING TEXT HERE</H1> 4.    Include the keywords in the BODY text that is visible to your visitors. 5.    Include the keywords in the IMAGE ALT tags in your site:

<IMG SRC="IMAGE_PATH" alt="KEYWORD HERE"> 6.    Include the keywords in the HyperLinks and HyperLinks Text on your site and if possible, change the names of your inner pages to include a keyword:

<A HREF="http://www.yoursite.com/YOUR_KEYWORD_HERE.html">YOUR KEYWORD HERE(this is the HyperLink Text)</a> 7.    Insert the following META ROBOT to assure proper indexing of your homepage as well as proper crawling of your inner pages:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW"> 8.    Include the keywords in HTML COMMENT TAG:

<!-- COMMENTS TEXT HERE -->
Please note that in addition to optimizing your homepage, it is recommended that you optimize your inner pages as well. Each page of your site should have its own set of keywords, ones that are related to the page that they appear on.


Buying Data? check this out

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    GENERAL

  1. How often is the data updated? Business data can decay at up to 40% a year, leading to a decline in response rates and deterioration in the cost-effectiveness of your campaign.
  2. How is it updated? Different methods can be used for updating data which do not always equate to the best solution for direct marketing purposes. For example, relying on downloads from the latest set of Companies House data will only provide information on registered businesses and will not give details of non-limited/sole traders.
  3. Are you registered with the Data Protection Act 1998? All list owners in the UK must go through the process of notification/registration with the Information Commissioner's Office and must collect data both fairly and lawfully.
  4. Do you have deliverability guarantees? Deliverability guarantees can be a good measure of the confidence of the data supplier in the currency of their data and provides reassurance to you.
  5. EMAIL SPECIFIC

  6. Are the addresses collected in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Direct Marketing Association's DM Code of Practice? This can reduce the risk of being viewed as a spammer with potentially damaging consequences such as being blacklisted by your ISP and suspension of all your online operations.
  7. Have the recipients agreed to their details being passed to third party organizations for direct marketing purposes - essential for non-corporates?
  8. Reason as 5 above.
  9. Can the email address be linked to a qualified trading postal address? Reason as 5 above, plus the benefit of using more than one communication channel.
  10. DIRECT MAIL SPECIFIC

  11. Are the addresses at registered or trading sites? Registered addresses are very often not the same as the trading address. Send your mailing piece to the former and you could end up with a lot of wasted costs.
  12. Is the decision-maker based at the address supplied? Not all data suppliers can provide the names of decision makers at the site from which they operate. Again, make sure costs aren't lost through using the wrong data.
  13. TELEMARKETING SPECIFIC

  14. Are telephone numbers suppressed against the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) and Corporate Telephone Preference Service (TPS) and how regularly does suppression take place? Prospect a business or individual by telephone that's on the TPS or CTPS register and you could end up with a £5000 fine.

Thoughts for the day

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1.  Always  remember you're unique. Just like everyone  else.

2.  Your partner never listening until you break wind.

3.  Never  test the depth of the water with both  feet..

4.  If  you think nobody cares whether you're alive or dead, try missing a  couple of mortgage payments.

5.  Before  you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

6.  If you think you’ll not succeed, skydiving is not for you.

7.  Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

8. If you invocie someone for £20 and never see that person again, it was probably well worth it.

9. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember any lies.

10. Some days you are the dog, some days you are the tree.

11. Good  judgment comes from bad experience ... and most of that comes from  bad judgment.

12. A  closed mouth gathers no foot.

13. There  are two excellent theories for arguing with women. Neither one  works.
14.
Generally  speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are  moving.
15.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need  it.
16.
We are born naked, wet and hungry, and get slapped on our bottoms, then things just keep getting worse.

 


The First Corner House Hotel Meeting

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The First Corner House Hotel Meeting was held on Tuesday the 6th July see below some of the feedback we have received form our members.

 If your profession or trade is not already taken why not join our Corner House Hotel Group we meet every two weeks for details of the next meeting click on the Events tab

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Hello Again to All the Network2day members I met today, I thoroughly enjoyed everyone's company and the refreshments. I have attended many network meetings and I felt that this was the most positive of them all, hopefully it will also prove to be fruitful for us all. If I can ever help anyone please do not hesitate to call. Looking forward to meeting you'll in two weeks and I will be in contact with those members who were kind enough to have a chat and make suggestions for future referrals.

 

Best wishes to everyone and thanks to Eric and Linda for organising the event.

 

Tom Charlton

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On 6 Jul 2010,

Many thanks organising today’s meeting.

I think it can be a success if we all try to promote the concept to others. I’m happy to try and invite a few other individuals and see if we can grow the numbers.

Please extend my thanks to Linda for her enthusiasm and help.

Hope to see you on the 21st diary permitting.

Cheers

 

Ian M Davis
European Sales Manager -  PSI Global Ltd

Managing Director  - Airman Engineering Services Ltd
PSI Global Ltd, Bowburn, Durham DH6 5AD, UK
T: +44 (0) 191 3770550
DD: +44 (0) 191 377 4710
F: +44 (0) 191 3770769
M: +44 (0) 786 6612 014
E: iandavis@psiglobal.co.uk

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 Hi Eric,
Thoroughly enjoyed the lunchtime event today. The details of the preview event are below. I would be very grateful if you could circulate them across your member database.
I would also be very interested in speaking further with yourself or Linda about holding an event at Tiger Tiger.
Look forward to hearing from you,
Jade
  TIGER TIGER NEWCASTLE

 

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April 1st... petrol up again

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April 1st... petrol up again looks like we are the fools as I said. Someone somewhere is having a laugh at your expense!! Will this unfair tax on the UK motorist ever end I’d vote for a government that will reverse this madness. Down load your poster A5 or A4 size HERE and email it to all your contacts and tell them to  display it in the window of their car truck or lorry

Cheaper Fuel

Cost per litre of refining: 2p
Cost per litre to transport to UK: 2p
Cost per litre to transport to pumps: 5p
UK TAX per litre 70%: 80-90p!
Gut wrenching total: Average Fuel now  £1.20p per Litre - Around the highest in Europe and possibly the world!!!


I Saved The Day

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I saved the DayWe had some bad luck coming home from holiday, the pilot had became so ill  with food poisoning he couldn’t fly the plane luckily the co pilot took over, but just as we approached Newcastle airport he had a heart attack. The air hostess asked if anyone had a pilot’s license. As I had just flown solo I volunteered my services. As I walked to the cockpit the rest of the passengers cheered and clapped.  …. but they didn’t seem to be that grateful when we all went through customs!!!!

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My First Solo Flight

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First FlightI have always wanted to learn to fly, the local flying school at Newcastle Airport had a special low cost crash course, so I booked up and before long it was time for my first Solo flight. My wife was on the ground doing the video, but she wasn’t very please the way I landed.

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Coffee Time Jokes

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Woman are smart

A Woman was out golfing one day when she hit the ball into the woods.
She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap.

The frog said to her, ‘If you release me from this trap, I will grant you three wishes.’ The woman freed the frog, and the frog said, ‘Thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your wishes.

Whatever you wish for, your husband will get your wish times by ten!’ The woman said, ‘That’s okay.’

For her first wish, she wanted to be the most beautiful woman in the world. The frog warned her, ‘You do realize that this wish will also make your husband the most handsome man in the world, an Adonis whom women will flock to’.

The woman replied, ‘That’s okay, because I will be the most beautiful Woman and he will have eyes only for me.’ So, KAZAM-she’s the most beautiful Woman in the world!

For her second wish, she wanted to be the richest woman in the world.
The frog said, ‘That will make your husband the richest man in the world. And he will be ten times richer than you.’

The woman said, ‘That’s okay, because what’s mine is his and what’s his is mine.’
So, KAZAM-she’s the richest woman in the world!

The frog then inquired about her third wish, and she answered, ‘I’d like a mild
heart attack.’

Moral of the story: Women are clever. Don’t mess with them To see more click here


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