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Having spent so much time perfecting a range of SEO techniques over the past few years I thought it time to share the knowledge around a little. So - if you are one of those people who fancies having a go at optimising your own website rather than paying me to do it (bah!) you may like to consider paying a comparitively small amount of money for my new SEO DIY guide. The guide will be available via this website some time over the next week or two, price yet to be decided but it will certainly be cheap compared to the normal charges.

I will place a link on the home page when the (downloadable) guide is ready. There are of course plenty of free guides on the Internet, but I would like to think that mine will be one of the best, and worth the money. The main reason I say this is because my techniques are fairly simple, they are ethical and they always work..

Watch this space...

I want to (need to) buy a new PC.

You probably are thinking - 'that will be straightforward for you then - with it being your area and all that!'. Not true...  Whilst searching this past few days, in my local stores and on the web, I have been amazed by the contradiction I have now decided my search was doomed to end with: There is too much choice out there, but at the same time absolutely no choice!

What I mean to say is, there are dozens, if not hundreds of deals to choose from, but when you examine the offerings in detail they are all depressingly similar. My major grumble is: why oh why can I not simply walk into a high street store and at least have a look at a couple of 'off the shelf' packages which include MS Windows Professional ™ as standard?  I mean, I have nothing against the general population of gamers being given a wide range of state-of-the-art graphics to play with, but surely a couple of business machines could be set out for 'people like me' to check out? 

I have no choice but to order online, and although it may sound strange to hear someone like me make such a complaint, I do actually like to feel the product in my hands before making a purchase. Maybe it's my age - Grumpy old ...   

 Unless of course ... you know different?

Andy

It seems to make sense to talk about my recent move to Cornwall in this, my first blog post.

This was quite a stressful undertaking, and one of my main concerns was of course to ensure as little disruption to service as possible. I will leave it to you, my customers, to tell me if the standard is being kept up, but just to say that I am probably now slightly busier than I was in Gloucester! All this and a new full time job too, which incidentally is proving a great challenge (read into that what you will...), but which will eventually give me a range of new skills I can put into practice here, so I like to think my customers will feel the benefit too.

A little more on the new full-time job: I am working as a web developer for H Tempest (Photography) Ltd., in Hayle/St Ives - actually a small village called Lelant. You may know of Tempest already if you have school-age children, or a son or daughter who has recently graduated from University, as they are the UK number one provider of school and graduation portrait photography in the UK. I am part of a small team which will be maintaining the internal systems there - as I say a great challenge, and one worth putting in the effort for. 

So, it's certainly a busy time of transition at the moment, but rest assured - a normal service will be maintained.