There is nothing more rewarding in SEO than taking a company that is not listed on Google apart from an “Untitled Page” result when specifically searching the company name and moving to the front of Google. The feeling is great to see them rise above competition. What gives you an even better kick is when after 8 months they go from nowhere to #1 for their main key term “Storage Glasgow”. The Glasgow storage company is now top beating local competition as well as multinational. Now onwards with Spectrum Properties.

Had a fantastic meeting last week with a local company who appear to have some great freelance opportunities for me on multiple projects and sites which is brilliant. The first job they’ve thrown my way is Flubble. Flubble? It’s currently a small one man band whose been selling his unique children’s swim aid to consumers and swimming pool places for a good while now. Sales have been steady but it’s time to see if they can be boosted via the almighty net. So it’s a site redesign and SEO for Flubble. I’ve got pretty much free roam to how the final site will look as long as it keeps the original logo. Currently the site in all its retro FrontPage glory can be seen at http://www.flubble.org.uk/. The direction of the new site (which hopefully you will think is an improvement) can be seen at http://beakable.com/flubble/. Planning to have the site ironed out and live within the next week, as long as one of the balls from my university and work juggling act doesn’t go off course and cause my inevitable doom.

Similar to the new Projects blog category as I finish sites and so on I will post and record them here.

A few days ago I finished and went Live with the Spectrum Properties website. It uses the cakePHP framework (which I’m really starting to love) as the sites backend, which made it a doddle to generate the large database driven content. Also uses a touch of jQuery with a relatively good use of the Google Maps API to produce the office, workshops and other property locations. The sites content is still in need of some touching up and perhaps a few site tweaks as well as finishing touches to the custom CMS I made (incorporates TinyMCE and jQuery). The site can be seen at http://www.spectrumproperties.co.uk. I went for a spacious clean and professional look and as usual its XHTML & CSS valid. As always feel free to leave any feedback – positive or negative.