Holiday Time

I’m off on holiday tommorow – off for a few days to Cornwall – a very beautiful and rugged part of the country and, despite the dreadful weather we’ve had, I’m determined to have a great time walking along the beautiful beaches.

I’m going to rest and recharge my batteries – ready for my return to begin work on the new Rapid Site 3 with Stuart, one of senior web developers. Exciting times at Customerstreet, as we are working on the new Rapid Site Editor.

For those of you who don’t know what a Rapid Site is – it’s a simple easy to use website editor that allows our customers to update their website, add new pages and images etc. We wrote it specifically for Customerstreet customers. And we want to make it even easier.

This new website editor will be very user friendly and will generate search engine friendly code that the search engines will be able to index easily. All the text generated will be semantic – it will read like any normal page of text if you were to remove all the programming code. As search engines are only really interested in text it makes sense to show the search engines as much text as possible.

We’re also looking at making the rapid site editor even more easy to use and we’ll create an intuitive system that will help with writing text that is suitable for the search engines. One of the problems we realise that our customers may have is that they struggle to write suitable text for their web pages.

And that’s the reason I’m here working at Customerstreet – to help our clients to get as high as possible in the search engines listings whether it’s by improving the Rapid Sites and making them more search friendly or getting our Ufindus, MoreUk and Smileocal directory listings to the top of the search engines.

Either way it’s a task that I relish – there’s nothing better than seeing top results for our clients – it’s a vindication that what we’re doing is working and it’s working for our customers.

In fact we’re very lucky our customers are in the position of being able to get found very quickly in the main search engines. It can take up to 12 months for a website to begin to get anywhere in the main search listings on Google. We’ve just had one customer who has been found at #10 on Google for “Roofing Supplies Liverpool” after only two days!

This goes to show that what we are doing is working. But that’s not enough for us – we want everyone of our customers to be even more successful in the search engine listings.