Please sponsor me – I’m doin a half marathon on Friday 19th March – all money raised is going to The Alzheimers Society & Sports Relief.
Pledge me a donation at tim.barber@pcdagency.com and if I don’t do it in 2 hours, I’ll put the money in!

Cheers  Tim

The push for high speed broadband across the UK received another boost recently when it was announced that businesses in Leeds could benefit from a new 100Mbit/s high speed broadband network that has been installed by telecoms firm aql.

The figure represents speeds at what the firm claims is at least 10 times faster than the national average, allowing firms to send and receive huge files in a matter of seconds, which will no doubt have gone down well.

The managing director of aql, one Adam Beaumont, underlined that the rollout would give many businesses “a head start” on competitors by offering the advantages of high-speed-working, long before the delivery of the Digital Britain promise, which was a nice dig.

“Smart businesses already realise the advantages of not waiting for their mail to download or for a file to transfer,” he added.

One firm touted by aql as benefitting was VTR North, a specialist post production and editing suite firm that regularly sends large files to London. The company was one of the first to trial the network and said it had been “sending and receiving files at jaw dropping speeds”.

Both Labour and the Conservatives have made various pronouncements on their desire to push high speed broadband in the UK, seeing it as a vital step in helping the country’s economy meet the challenges of the future.

The Leeds network will mean that the city can boast the same speeds as its near neighbour Manchester, after it was announced earlier this year that firms there could hook up to a network installed by Geo that also offered speeds of 100Mbit/s.

Geo’s chief exec said at the time that he believed the model of funding high speed rollouts for businesses was somewhat revolutionary for the industry but in time could become the norm, as means of complementing the government’s proposed rollouts.

While it’s undoubtedly good news for the north that these high speed networks are coming to fruition it remains to be seen how the rest of the country will ever get such speeds, with little firm agreement on the best way to push further deployments.

Cast your mind back a couple of years to when Liverpool football fans had a moment of criminal genius.   Sat around watching the telly in Liverpool a group of fans viewing a live Liverpool match decided that if the players weren’t at home…..They should rob them!

Skip forward to 2010 and I have (Finally) bought myself an iphone.   Many of the applications I’ve added are location aware (twitter anyone?).  So 2/3 times a day I let the whole world know where I am – the trouble is that I live on my own so if I’m not in…………….. Let’s hope the crooks take a while to catch on

See this site for more http://pleaserobme.com/

A recent BBC news article about the British Library highlights the problems they are facing trying to archive the internet due to an absurd legal situation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8535384.stm

This bring up the old adage that everything you put on the web COULD be there forever, so always be careful of what you say. They are looking to store everything from personal websites to blogs, but is it right that everything should be automatically archived, or should they have to asked your permission first? leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

 Visit the UK Web Archive and see if anything you have done is in there for future generations: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/

Not in the traditional sense.   We won’t make you promises to get you high up in the search engine rankings.   We just do it.  SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is something that we have been doing for years – we just don’t make a song and dance about it.  We know that good well structured code, optimised copy and relevant inbound links have a massive impact on search engine rankings.

As part of our 3D approach we will consider your current positioning, perform a competitor analysis, identify gaps in the market and optimise your site to perform as well as it possibly can…. But really – would you expect anything less from an agency?

Through a series of micro-sites we have increased online turn over for TV retailer “High Street TV” (Sky channel 648) 10 fold over the past 6 months. The last 5 sites we have released have gone straight to page one of Google.

Of course it doesn’t stop at SEO, we also use social media, targeted e-shots, offline promotions, affiliate marketing and Pay per click campaigns.  We consider every possible advertising opportunity and measure our results right down to the level of exactly how much it costs us to make a sale.

But everyone does that don’t they?

If you ever wanted to be a merry man – then this is a great book for you.  Its billed as being like the godfather but set in sherwood forest….and it doesnt disappoint!!!  It’s a well written fast paced yard that will leave you wanting more (according to martin anyway)

Take it with you on you next holiday

Martins latest SEO project quick cash now – launches later this week.   The plan is pretty simple to take the website to the top of google within a matter of weeks…. check back soon to see how he gets on!

The plan was simple -  Get drunk – make bets – earn money for charity.

Mine was that i would walk down a frozen canal on or in the water between two points.

I did it and have now raised £200 for charity

Pcd’s site to sell ab circle pro’s for highstreettv continues to go from success to success