Owner: PoLR web design and SEO URL:http://www.polr.co.uk/online-marketing/ Join Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:32:45 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Company blog for PoLR, a Glasgow based web design, seo and online marketing company Site statistics:Click here
Organising a team building event. 2008-06-30 11:25:38 So, you’ve volunteered (or been volunteered) to organise your company’s team building event
.
Team building events are a great way to bond your team and get them working more efficiently. They can help integrate new team members and identify strengths and weaknesses that you might never have noticed otherwise. They are also an excellent way to [...] Read more:Organising
Displaying php in a Wordpress page 2008-06-25 10:11:02 I spent a few hours this morning updating and upgrading a clients blog. Thinking it would be nice to add in a pull of their images from Flickr I dutifully downloaded a plugin from lukeh.com. After installing the plugin I decided to add it to a page within the page of the website design rather [...] Read more:Wordpress
Team building not time wasting! 2008-06-12 12:51:39 Looking for something to give that office of yours an injection of adrenaline and enthusiasm? Tired of the old ‘Paintballing, Go-Karting and Pub’ scenario? Thinking that these events usually end up a futile exercise with no tangeable results? Read on……and we’ll tell you what the benefits of any team building day are and why it [...] Read more:wasting
You can run but you can’t hide with Spymasters! 2008-06-11 12:01:07 Spymasters is an exciting and unusual team building event company based in Glasgow. They are the only company to offer real life espionage surveillance scenarios to put your team to the test.
Without a doubt, Spymasters is the most useful and innovative service in the ‘corporate experiences‘ industry.
Set up in 2005, Spymasters was set up by [...]
Promises, Promises, Promises – Get to no.1 in Google in 5 minutes for ANY keyword! 2008-07-18 06:18:05 Wow! Wouldn’t that be a fantastic headline to read? Just imagine, your site goes live one minute and the next you up there in the top spot raking in the sales and counting the cash. Fantastic.
If only it were that easy!
Recently we have been inundated with spam SEO emails offering us SEO services. Now, two [...] Read more:Promises
, Google
, minutes
Eco-office - going the extra mile 2008-07-15 10:38:48 Being involved in ethical and organic SEO techniques made me think today. If we actively promote the ‘good & wholesome’ side of SEO should we not be reflecting our beliefs as a company through our day to day operating?
Recycling paper, cans etc is the most obvious course of action and our office
currently has boxes [...]
Calls to Action - What and how? 2008-07-11 05:41:07 It’s great to have a nice looking/ aesthetically pleasing website. Most people (or businesses) crave this because they want to convey a professional, clean-cut image that evokes intrigue and thought about their industry or products & services. Immense deliberation and debate will go into this:
“Does the first image the visitor sees capture the message [...] Read more:Action
Bounce rate – What it means and why it’s not a disaster if it increases. 2008-07-31 05:09:44 Analysing your website’s traffic can quite quickly become an obsession. The most obvious aspect people look at would be the number visitors coming onto the site, but there is far more information than that available to the budding website analyst.
Being able to identify whom your average customer is would be a good start. There are [...] Read more:Bounce
SEO and what you should know. 2008-08-18 05:55:49 I wrote an article a year ago on what you should be asking your web developer. It became quite a popular post so I have decided to follow it up with another guide on what you should be looking for in a Search Engine Optimisation (SEO
) company.
With so many companies out there how do you [...]
Knockhill, Nonsense and Narcolepsy! 2008-08-18 04:21:39 The Date : Sunday the 16th August
The Location : Knockhill
The Event : The British Touring Car Championships (BTCC)
The Group : A selection of PoLR’s web design and Search Engine Optimisation clients and team members all geared up (if you’ll excuse the pun) to make the most of an action packed, non-stop day of racing and [...] Read more:Nonsense
, Narcolepsy
Fringe and Food Fun. 2008-08-07 08:38:50 With festival season upon us once again I decided to get a list together of my favourite restaurants in Edinburgh to remind myself which are worth a visit (and to make sure I don’t miss out this August!) Now, i’m no food critic but I know what I like and the restaurants below all offer [...]
Fit’s a’ the stramash aboot? : myScottishStuff 2008-09-05 10:01:11 A new social networking site has appeared recently called myScottishStuff - a networking site allowing stories to be submitted of a, you guessed it, Scottish nature! Already you can see the Scottish shining through with posts such as Groanin’ Jock: Backwards B and Drive ban for ’steaming’ motorist.
Easy to use and looks pretty good to-boot. [...]
Walk Monkey Boy, Walk! 2008-09-05 08:15:54 Ryan is off this weekend to do a sponsored walk for Cancer Research UK. Starting in Bridge of Orchy he will walk along the West Highland Way to The Kings Lodge Hotel a total of 14 miles.
Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading independent organisation dedicated to cancer research. They support research into all aspects [...]
Hair Care Products from HairCareShop 2008-09-02 11:01:22 We are delighted to announce a new client in the Hair and Beauty products sector to add to our ever growing and eclectic portfolio. HairCareShop will be going for a full redesign and e-commerce upgrade (to our search engine friendly shopping cart) and a full blown SEO campaign just in time to target the Christmas [...] Read more:Products
Thai Orchid Restaurant Edinburgh 2008-08-27 11:48:56 A little about Thai Orchid:
The Thai Orchid restaurant in Edinburgh
is an atmospheric and friendly family run restaurant just below the castle and at the top of the Royal Mile. It is in prime position for a stroll round the Edinburgh Old Town to walk up an appetite.
The menu is packed full of authentic Thai [...]
Christmas’ify my e-commerce website! 2008-10-16 11:05:31 With Winter almost upon us it’s time to think towards the Xmas market and get your website
or e-commerce
site ‘blinged up’ for the festive season ahead.
Christmas
offers one of the most lucrative times for e-commerce shops and what better way to make it appealing to the Christmas shoppers than to embrace the festive spirit [...]
Has compassion fatigue set in? 2008-10-15 06:37:13 Today is Blog Action Day 2008. It is a day for all bloggers to write about poverty (this years topic) and in doing so, aim to get everyone talking and acting on poverty in whichever way they can – however large or small the contribution.
We at PoLR have a huge interest in photography and include [...]
Avoid the business hearse, go ecommerce! 2008-08-27 04:25:54 A report was published today by the Office for National Statistics showing that internet access in the home is on the increase. It states that so far in 2008, 16 million UK households have internet access which is an increase of just over 1 million form 2007. Also, up from 51% to 56% is the [...] Read more:Avoid
, ecommerce
Piano Hire Edinburgh 2008-08-21 07:21:40 We are pleased to have put a new website live for the Edinburgh
Organ Studio. This site is to promote the hire side of the business and they offer everything from short to long term hire of digital, accoustic and classical pianos.
Thiesite is fully a content managed website so will be updated on a regular [...]
SEO and what you should know. 2008-08-18 05:55:49 I wrote an article a year ago on what you should be asking your web developer. It became quite a popular post so I have decided to follow it up with another guide on what you should be looking for in a Search Engine Optimisation (SEO
) company.
With so many companies out there how do you [...]
Knockhill, Nonsense and Narcolepsy! 2008-08-18 04:21:39 The Date : Sunday the 16th August
The Location : Knockhill
The Event : The British Touring Car Championships (BTCC)
The Group : A selection of PoLR’s web design and Search Engine Optimisation clients and team members all geared up (if you’ll excuse the pun) to make the most of an action packed, non-stop day of racing and [...] Read more:Nonsense
, Narcolepsy
What’s this podcasting malarky? 2008-11-28 04:31:27 It’s funny but over the last few weeks I had been having to really think about what to write on this blog but lately ideas really have been coming from unlikely sources. Much like my post the other day on photograph sharpening, this post also comes from questions I have been asked by my family [...]
Emoni Handmade Fabric Bags 2008-11-28 03:56:03 A little about Emoni
We’re please to say that our favourite handbag designers have just put their wesite live. Emoni use vintage fabrics and materials to create their uniquely designed fabric bags. As the materials are vintage they often have very short runs of bags which means the chances of you seeing someone else with the [...] Read more:Fabric
But how much is SEO going to cost me? 2008-11-26 07:00:35 So, you’re deciding to go for an SEO
campaign to drive traffic to your website and business to your company. The inevitable question in your mind is going to be “”How much will this cost me?”. Well much as we can’t give you a definitave answer without knowing your market, what we have below is [...]
Easy photo sharpening 2008-11-25 08:41:28 Being the only designer geek in a family full of programmers I get called on for anything IT that involves images or Photoshop. Recently I have been asked several times how to sharpen a photo well and so that the end result isn’t blocky nor hazy.
To demonstrate I’ll show you an original image (Photography in [...]
So you think you’re cuil? 2008-11-21 08:43:10 It’s now been around four months since Cuil launched and rather than jumping to any instant opinions when it was just the newbie we decided to wait a few months to see how it took off. The other reason we’ve waited so long is that…well…we simply just forgot about it! After our initial visit or [...] Read more:think
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