As promised, behold the redesign of my blog… Oh and can I have some Guest Posts about SEO please?

Now that it’s redesigned all I need to do is to get people to read the dang thing, and start posting more often and life will be good.

New Year’s Resolutions:

• Post more on this blog.
• Stop making promises to myself that I can’t keep.

Amended New Year’s Resolutions:

• Yes try the above, but also ask people if they can help.

Given my recent illness and my determination to keep things moving, I have decided to open up this blog and allow a select few to submit Guest Posts.  I have some pretty strict rules about which sites I am happy to link to and how good the posts have to be.

Guidelines and Rules for submitting your Guest Post

Your SEO Guest Post should:

• Relate to SEO or Web Design.
• Be completely unique no spinning allowed (that includes spinning posts on your own blog).

Reasons why Guest Posts may not be approved:

• If they link thru to sites owned by a direct competitor.
• If they link thru to sites with no inbound links; I want to be sure that you actually care about your site.
• If they link thru to sites that look unprofessional, I want to be sure that your site has a decent reason for existing.
• If your Guest Post is overly self-serving.
• Not every submission is going to be posted, don’t be offended.
• I reserve the right to delete the article from this blog at any time, especially if you break any of the rules, or are found to be doing so after the fact.
• I won’t add Guest Posts that have not been spell checked and please no keyword stuffing.

Things to ask yourself before you submit a Guest Post:

• Is the Guest Post good enough to post on this blog? (chances are if it’s not good enough for your blog it’s not going to be good enough for mine)
• Could your Guest Post be improved, is it all that it can be?
• Do your research, if the Guest Post is inaccurate, makes flimsy conclusions etc.  (This is where my opinion counts) then it won’t be included on this blog.
• Is the Guest Post formatted in the best way?
• Have I made my Guest Post exciting to the soon to be much larger readership?
• Have I read David Leonhardt’s “The Golden Rules of Guest Blogging” or “The Five Unwritten Rules of Guest Posting on Blogs” by Danny Brown?

How to submit your SEO Guest Post:

Fancy submitting a SEO Guest Post then you may want to try the following:

• If you’re nervous perhaps think about reading this blog first and submit a few comments, NB: I operate a dofollow policy but only for those who leave decent comments.
• Send your Guest Posts to info [at] JustinMarch [dot] com with the subject line set as “SEO Guest Post” include your name and contact details.

I am pleased to announce that after lots of research, coding, site validation and a few headaches JustinMarch.com has finally been redesigned.

The site has been redesigned to reflect my decision to concentrate on my Web Design, SEO, & PPC services.  There is also a new page dealing with Social Media Marketing and a bunch of revamped pages including my Profile Page.  I am still offering simple Graphic Design Services to compliment my other work but Graphic Design will not be my main focus moving forward.

The redesign not only signals a determination to enlarge the business this year, but also a realisation that I have projects of my own that I want to start concentrating on.

The new site features updated graphics and focuses on pushing my SEO & Web Design services in the Gloucester and Cheltenham areas.

Next step is to redesign this blog in an effort to make it more readable and to help me get more enthusiastic about posting again.

What’s the ratio of Google.co.uk to Google.com traffic within the UK?  I have been searching for the answer to this question for weeks now.  I have conducted exhaustive searches on Google (which took all of 10 minutes) I even posted a question within the Google Support Forums and now at last I have found some data that goes some way to answering the question.

From experience I know that most UK based users are redirected to Google.co.uk by default, but I also know of other UK based users who have been using Google.com.

Finally my question in the Google Support Forums has lead to an answer supplied by Hitwise.

And the answer is:

Source: Hitwise

Before anyone else asks, yes I am looking at impoving / personalise the theme of this blog I am simply starting with one of the free wordpress themes and moving on from there.  Suggestions on paid theme sources are welcome (comments closed on here at present while I find my feet) but feel free to contact me at JustinMarch.com with any ideas.

At last I have taken the plunge and decided to launch a blog.  At present as you can see the blog is entitled “Musings of a UK SEO Consultant” although this may change depending on my mood and the way my business develops.