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People say it is important to have a blog in order to gain a good search-ranking. This isn’t necessarily true; what is important is updating your website frequently… having a blog is simply a good way of doing that.

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Camperscape Blog and Website

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"Digital Acorn have helped me develop my Wordpress based website and blog. They've always provided simple straightforward advice for non 'techy' types like myself and have responded to requests and questions promptly and effectively. We work together to develop the website's SEO and I look forward to working with them in the future." Mark - Camperscape - Camper Van Hire The Camperscape brand … [Read more...]

Blogger Customisation

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Google's Blogger platform is a great starting point to get into blogging It's easy to see with the following list of positives that it is a popular choice. No hosting worries - hosted with Google. A good range of templates to choose from A nice and easy wysiwyg editor Easy to add widgets Blogger is used as a blogging platform by individuals and business bloggers. Unfortunately each … [Read more...]

professional colleagues

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Here are a few testimonials I have received for our website-repair service and our other services from professional colleagues on linked-in. “The services on offer by Digital Acorn include frontend, backend, e-commerce, SEO, Blogs, Social Media and many more. They are extremely professional and get the work done on budget and on time. Looking forward to working with them again”. Ian @ … [Read more...]

New Office in Central Hexham

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My workload has been steadily increasing over the last few months and I have had to take action to alleviate this. In the short-term this has added, and will continue to add, even more work; however, I expect it will prove to be beneficial in the long term. It is no small step going from (essentially) a sole-trader to a 2 or 3 person business. I am pleased to announce that the first milestone has … [Read more...]

Beta – A Tale of the afterlife

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I mainly read non-fiction, however I've been reading the following book: Sum: Tales from the Afterlives. The book describes 40 possible afterlives as a series of short essays. I decided to have a pop at writing an afterlife of my own in the style of the book. Here is my effort.. Beta The afterlife shouldn't have needed to exist. It exists as a solution to the issues remaining when the … [Read more...]

SEO Seminar at RMT by Silverbean

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I attended the SEO seminar by Silverbean this afternoon... It was at the RMT (the accountants) offices. It was pretty good, and did go into some detail about keyword densities and anchor text. But of course it wasn't as technical as it might have been (they do have a service to sell). Learn't some useful stuff about the layout and copy needed for good landing pages. I'm also going to sign up for … [Read more...]

Cobbles visible on Eilansgate – Hexham

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Nice to see. And they don't look half as rough on the tyres compared to the old patch-ridden surface. It'll be a shame to cover them up with tarmac again. It looks like the council hasn't taken the opportunity to widen the woefully narrow footpath though.... And the primary school tries to promote walking to school  (this is our route). It's barely wide enough for a pram and is a popular lorry … [Read more...]

Magento and WordPress

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'Embedded' was probably too strong a term for the merging of a blogger blog into the Pro Hair Biosystems magento store site. Aligning the styling is probably a better way of describing it. The export/import process was pretty easy and fixing up the categories/tags switch up just required a simple plugin. It's probably better for SEO that the blog and store site sit in separate url silo's. There … [Read more...]

WordPress loopy

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I've gone completely WordPress (3.0) loopy. I am currently also working on embedding a WordPress blog into a Magento e-commerce site. Getting a dab hand at it, and will post the link when its complete. I've decided to keep the database and file hierarchy separate for security reasons. Doing this sacrifices the sophisticated caching mechanism available in Magento. I will therefore need to look at … [Read more...]

Posterous post

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So I'm posting this image via posterous. It is going (in theory)  to my blog, to linked-in and to flickr. It is an image of Ella soon after collecting her pink Barbie bike from freecycle. … [Read more...]

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