It shouldn’t be a question, it should be a must! Ranking high on search engines is the next step to success after creating the perfect website for your business. While you can temporarily achieve this using PPC, organic SEO is a much better long term investment. Organically ranking high on search engines can be achieved using many methods, Blogging being one of the most effective.

By having a blog, a business is able to continuously provide recent updates, which in turn allows them to rank higher on search engines. Sites that are not providing new content will not be recognised by search engines as well as those that do, as the information will be deemed as outdated.

It is essential to have relevant and interesting content combined with essential keywords to invite specific audiences to your blog and to encourage return visitors to your site and for those visitors to spread the word.  FB and Twitter can be used to direct visitors to your blog, encouraging more even traffic and making your brand known.

….I suppose we should be taking our own advice! But as we have very little time for ourselves and heaps of time or you, contact us to find out how we can help you with blogging, SEO and many more services.

Taking a leak will never have to be boring again!

Thank you to everyone who came to to the event a couple of weeks ago- Kids, adults and dogs! It was good to see some old and new faces.

Although we didn’t manage to reach our target of £500, we managed to beat lasts years total and collected £380 which is much appreciated

I would also like to send a BIG thankyou to Fari Peyman and Carolyn Peyman for hosting the event and to all those who baked cakes.

Join Notting Hill Internet Services on Friday 30th September for the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, where we will be raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Last year we raised £300 and hope to beat that by raising £500 this year! We would like to invite everyone to join us on Friday 30th September for coffee, tea, juices and cakes at our office in Ladbroke Grove between 9am and 12pm.

Come down to socialise and snack. No one really works on a Friday anyway!

Hope to see you all there

On Wednesday, Microsoft fans where informed on the building windows 8 blog that “the tablet” will no longer be supporting Adobe’s Flash, but will be using HTML5 instead.

Microsoft 8 will make flash available on it’s traditional PCs but not for it’s touch specific type products i.e. the tablet, therefore there will be two versions of Internet Explorer 10.

Dean Hachamovitch, head of Microsoft’s IE team, stated that ultimately, replacing flash with HTML5 on the tablet will prolong battery life, security and reliability and that flash isn’t needed for streaming videos or surfing the web. These reasons given by Hachamovitch are nearly identical to the thoughts of Steve Jobs, the former Apple CEO.

With Apple, Microsoft and web experts like ourselves dismissing the use of the plug-in, can this be the beginning of the end for flash?

On Friday 24th September we held a coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer, as part of their World’s Biggest Coffee Morning fund raising campaign.  We would like to say a BIG thank you to everyone who helped us raise the wonderful total of £300 for the cause.

Special thanks go to:

* Nespresso for providing cups and sugar sachets

* Olga Lacigova and Susie Ruston for baking cakes

* The local Macmillan Fundraising team in Hammersmith

and of course everyone who took the time to join us and raise money for such a worthy cause.

We are getting closer to our coffee morning in support of Macmillan Cancer’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.  Taking place on Friday 24th September, you can now see full details here:  Notting Hill Internet Services Coffee Morning.

Please try and pop-in, even for a few minutes.  It is such a worthy cause plus we will have lots of tempting refreshments on offer.

See you there!

Another week, another Twitter PR disaster. By now, no doubt you’ll have heard about the whole Gillian McKeith debacle: if not, you can find a useful summary on the Guardian website.

There is nothing the usually benign (though swift to become a baying horde) citizens of Twitter like less than duplicity. McKeith’s big mistake was not in trying to defend an unpopular view: Twitter is populated with many millions of users doing just that every day, both for comedic and more sinister purposes.

Her mistake was in subsequently trying to cover up her comments. That she did so ineffectually barely matters: even if all trace had been eradicated from her own website; even if her dissenters hadn’t been carefully taking screenshots and retweeting for future evidence, McKeith is clearly unaware that these days, almost all web presence is aggregated, mirrored, and pushed out in countless places across the Internet.

Forget the Wayback machine: these days Twitter has its own archive. Furthermore, many folks link up their Facebook and Twitter profiles, and perhaps throw LinkedIn to the mix, too, meaning that your words are spread far beyond a single website. Then there are sites which collect all tweets on a certain subject and replicate them – without so much as a by your leave.

In short, your Twitter status updates, and all web content, should be thought of as a permanent record. That’s why, if you are representing your business online, you should exhibit the utmost transparency and honesty – and furthermore, you should think carefully about which members of your business you trust to do the same.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll keep on saying it: social media is a fantastic tool for business promotion, but for heaven’s sake be careful what you write.

The news that the new government have revised plans to roll out broadband by 2012 may affect small businesses and their online marketing. We’ve mentioned before on this blog our anticipation of the greater functionality that all businesses will be able to include on websites once the whole country is enjoying a fast connection… well, if you had great plans for an all-singing, all-dancing site, better put them to one side. The target is now 2015.

One remarkable fact that comes from the reports of the new government’s backdown is that as well as the two million homes in the UK who cannot get speeds as high as 2Mbps, about 160,000 households still cannot get any form of broadband at all. These are homes in remote and rural areas, who were presumably without power of any sort not terribly long ago, but it is certainly worth remembering that you may still have customers on dial-up… if they have internet access at all. Others may be accessing via cyber cafes and community centres, meaning hurried visits as the clock ticks away on a paid-for slot.

The low-tech solution? If you happen to have rich content such as videos or Flash, offer a pared-down site with the essentials on it too. Plus, you might want to give a phone number you can be contacted on, alongside your email address. Two million households represents a lot of potential customers, and they will be grateful for your concessons.

Here’s proof, if it were needed, of Twitter’s ever-increasing omnipotence: babies can now tweet from the womb. Yes, back in February, we reported that dogs can tweet: in our estimation, this is a step further into the realm of… well, the rather ridiculous.

The Kickbee is a fabric band that the pregnant mother can wear while relaxing on the sofa. Dad at work? No problem – with every kick of the foetus, he’ll get a little alert on Twitter to remind him of what is growing back home. Just take a look at the video above for a graphic representation.

So, what’s next? Tweeting from beyond the grave? You know, somehow I wouldn’t be surprised if someone came up with that next.