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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have three website optimization packages for you to choose from.   We will advise you of the best seo package for your site, once we have established your requirements, or we may recommend a bespoke seo package.   All plans feature ongoing seo work, with updates and monitoring of your site and your competitors.   We are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">We have three website optimization packages for you to choose from.   We will advise you of the best seo package for your site, once we have established your requirements, or we may recommend a bespoke seo package.   All plans feature ongoing seo work, with updates and monitoring of your site and your competitors.   We are flexible regarding payment methods, eg. A deposit and monthly installments by direct debit are accepted (at no additional fee).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">See our packages below:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-197" title="seopack1" src="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/seopack1.jpg" alt="seopack1" width="638" height="308" /></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/seopack31.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-213" title="seopack3" src="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/seopack31.jpg" alt="seopack3" width="638" height="367" /></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Contact us today to discuss how we can help your business grow.</h3>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OwenDevelopment</dc:creator>
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You may have heard a lot about Social Media Marketing and may even be implementing it here and there, but are you truly driving results?

OwenDevelopments can help you climb the social media mountain by first developing what we call an SMO (Social Media Optimization) strategy.   Next, we work with you to identify desired outcomes &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">You may have heard a lot about Social Media Marketing and may even be implementing it here and there, but are you truly driving results?</h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">OwenDevelopments can help you climb the social media mountain by first developing what we call an SMO (Social Media Optimization) strategy.   Next, we work with you to identify desired outcomes &#8211; i.e. inquiries, traffic/page views, sales, reputation, influence, credibility, charity etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-357" title="search" src="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/search.png" alt="search" width="108" height="106" />Once we understand the desired objective, we choose tactics wisely, while cognizant of what actions will influence the desired outcome with the most impact.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Social Media Marketing is characterized by communities that allow users to do many or all of the following:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Create profiles/accounts</li>
<li>Grow a network of colleagues/friends</li>
<li>Collaborate with other community members</li>
<li>Submit content</li>
<li>Vote on content</li>
<li>Tag content</li>
<li>Comment on content</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The &#8216;media&#8217; in social media refers to the platform as well as the content.   For example:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Blog Marketing</li>
<li>Social Network (Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace)</li>
<li>Wiki</li>
<li>News</li>
<li>Bookmark</li>
<li>Forum</li>
<li>Discussion thread and text</li>
<li>Image</li>
<li>Audio</li>
<li>Video</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">With the plethora of social media options, OwenDevelopment ensures that you tackle the right channels with the right content!  And search engines will give you a boost to your keyword rankings based on the popularity of the sites linking to you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Online Public Relations (PR) can increase targeted traffic to your website when working with an experienced guide.  OwenDevelopment does this by integrating online public relations, keyword optimized press releases and search engine optimization to increase brand visibility in the marketplace helping you experience an increase in traffic, leads and sales.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;">Push vs Pull Marketing</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Companies spend thousands of pounds every month pushing their message into mediums where they think prospects live and play.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We challenge our clients to work with the more effective pull strategy. We pull prospects to clients&#8217; websites by increasing client visibility in mediums where prospects are already visiting. Get in touch to find out more.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p>Some of the many channels we use to market your site:</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OwenDevelopment</dc:creator>
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Do you have a great website, but not enough sales?

 
In today&#8217;s economic climate, you need to be as efficient as you can be with your Internet budget.   Why go to the expense of redesigning your web site when the same user problems might be duplicated in the new version?
Our value proposition is simple: making small [...]]]></description>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;">Do you have a great website, but not enough sales?</h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">In today&#8217;s economic climate, you need to be as efficient as you can be with your Internet budget.   Why go to the expense of redesigning your web site when the same user problems might be duplicated in the new version?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Our value proposition is simple: making small changes based on user metrics and measuring the results will be more cost effective, faster, and ultimately more successful than redesigning the whole thing without measuring the effect of the changes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We will advise on any web-based activities: from ideas of successful sites, to best methods to market your site, to colours we reommend on the site to specifically direct the users emotions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We work closely with clients to find opportunity and get results. Proven techniques done to perfection:<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-351" title="consulting" src="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/consulting1.png" alt="consulting" width="205" height="270" /></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Attracting Prospects</li>
<li>Search Marketing (pay per click and SEO)</li>
<li>Online Promotion (newsletters, banner ads, blogs, web articles)</li>
<li>Print Materials (brochures, advertising)</li>
<li>Engaging Users</li>
<li>Website Design (professional, intuitive, fast)</li>
<li>Website Architecture (easy to find information)</li>
<li>Website Content (a thoughtful, simple message)</li>
<li>Website Usability (ease of use, links)</li>
<li>Converting to Sales</li>
<li>Value Proposition</li>
<li>Eliminate Complexity (simple, simple, simple)</li>
<li>Address Concerns and Perceived Risks (tackle them head on)</li>
<li>Compelling Call to Action (ask me to do something!)</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Maximizing these opportunities requires experience and skill. Our goal is to help your customers take action on your site, whether it be making a sale or subscribing to a newsletter.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Site Analysis</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There are many things on every website that make visitors leave.  We track those things down by thoroughly inspecting your website from many different angles (content, structure, navigation, etc), searching for ways to improve customer retention.  We then create a custom report that digs into the specifics, rather than just giving vague &#8220;fortune cookie&#8221; advice.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Whatever your query, we can find the solution through professional, consultative approaches. We can find the right solution for your business at very affordable rates.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OwenDevelopment</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[J &#38; D Alexander are a jewellery business in Rochdale, UK.  The owner approached us as he wanted to increase his business and revenue during the credit crunch &#8211; as like everyone else &#8211; was having a dip in profits due to the economic climate.  A website is a great way of having permanent advertising [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">J &amp; D Alexander are a jewellery business in Rochdale, UK.  The owner approached us as he wanted to increase his business and revenue during the credit crunch &#8211; as like everyone else &#8211; was having a dip in profits due to the economic climate.  A website is a great way of having permanent advertising &#8216;out there&#8217;, where people can come across it via searches or links.  With SEO, people find YOU and visit your site to see what it&#8217;s about.  In business, top rankings mean everything and the top ranks win all the business.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p>Within days of their jewellery site up and verified on Google&#8217;s index, I moved to hit high rankings in searches for specific keywords users would typically type in.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see a closer look at the results of effective SEO:</p>
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<h3><span style="color: #888888;">If someone searched for &#8216;Rochdale Jewellery&#8217; in Google (out of 65,800 results): <span style="font-size: x-small;">(click to enlarge)</span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/rochdalejewellery.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-499 aligncenter" title="rochdalejewellery" src="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/rochdalejewellery-1024x567.png" alt="rochdalejewellery" width="644" height="357" /></a><br />
 </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<h3><span style="color: #888888;">If someone else searched &#8216;Rochdale Jeweller&#8217; in Google (out of 72,700 results): <span style="font-size: x-small;">(click to  enlarge)</span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #888888;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #888888;"><a href="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/rochdalejeweller.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-500 aligncenter" title="rochdalejeweller" src="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/rochdalejeweller-1024x567.png" alt="rochdalejeweller" width="644" height="357" /></a><br />
 </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<h3><span style="color: #888888;">If someone searched &#8216;Jewellery Shop Rochdale &#8216; in Google (out of 65,200 results): <span style="font-size: x-small;">(click to  enlarge)</span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #888888;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #888888;"><a href="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jewelleryshoprochdale1.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-504" title="jewelleryshoprochdale" src="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jewelleryshoprochdale1-1024x567.png" alt="jewelleryshoprochdale" width="644" height="357" /></a><br />
 </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<h3><span style="color: #888888;">If a user searched for a product that they just happened to sell on their site &#8230; you guessed it! (out of 47,000 results):  <span style="font-size: x-small;">(click to  enlarge)</span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/chopardsearch.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-502" title="chopardsearch" src="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/chopardsearch-1024x567.png" alt="chopardsearch" width="644" height="357" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Can you see how this would increase the level of business for you?    The best thing about this is it applies to any market, any business, any size, any website.  I can use all the correct methodologies and techniques that I know search engines like and encourage and thus gain great results to help your exposure on the web.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> </p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Call us today on 07881 577887 to see how OwenDevelopment can help get your business to <span style="color: #ff0000;">stand out</span> from the crowd&#8230;</h2>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OwenDevelopment</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEO is the active practice of optimizing a web site by improving internal and external aspects in order to increase the traffic that the site receives from search engines.
 
Web designers that practice SEO can vary; some have a highly specialized focus, while others take a more broad and general approach to seo. Optimizing a web [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">SEO is the active practice of optimizing a web site by improving internal and external aspects in order to increase the traffic that the site receives from search engines.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-344" title="google" src="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/google.png" alt="google" width="340" height="362" />Web designers that practice SEO can vary; some have a highly specialized focus, while others take a more broad and general approach to seo. Optimizing a web site for search engines can require looking at so many unique elements that many practitioners of Search Engine Optimisation (SEOs) consider themselves to be in the broad field of website optimization (since so many of those elements intertwine with each other).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The majority of web traffic is driven by the major commercial search engines &#8211; Yahoo!, MSN, Google &amp; AskJeeves (although AOL gets nearly 10% of searches, their engine is powered by Google&#8217;s results). If your site cannot be found by search engines or your content cannot be put into their databases, you miss out on the incredible opportunities available to websites provided via search &#8211; people who want what you have visiting your site. Whether your site provides content, services, products, or information, search engines are a primary method of navigation for almost all Internet users.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Search queries, the words that users type into the search box which contain terms and phrases best suited to your site, carry extraordinary value. Experience has shown that search engine traffic can make (or break) an organization&#8217;s success. Targeted visitors to a website can provide publicity, revenue, and exposure like no other. Investing in SEO, whether through time or finances, can have an exceptional rate of return.<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-346" title="seo" src="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/seo.png" alt="seo" width="309" height="270" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Search engines are always working towards improving their technology to crawl the web more deeply and return increasingly relevant results to users. However, there is and will always be a limit to how search engines can operate. Whereas the right moves can net you thousands of visitors and attention, the wrong moves can hide or bury your site deep in the search results where visibility is minimal.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In addition to making content available to search engines, SEO can also help boost rankings so that content that has been found will be placed where searchers will more readily see it. The online environment is becoming increasingly competitive, and those companies who perform SEO will have a decided advantage in visitors and customers.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OwenDevelopment</dc:creator>
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Web Optimisation to achieve great rankings



In today&#8217;s competitive online world, seo can give you the edge to get ahead.   Literally millions of people use search engines every single day, 365 days a year &#8211; and your business could be missing out on huge numbers of potential clients by ignoring this fact.
At OwenDevelopment, our sole goal [...]]]></description>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #888888;">Web Optimisation to achieve great rankings<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify;">In today&#8217;s competitive online world, seo can give you the edge to get ahead.   Literally millions of people use search engines every single day, 365 days a year &#8211; and your business could be missing out on huge numbers of potential clients by ignoring this fact.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">At OwenDevelopment, our sole goal is to build a stylish and professional website, make it live on the internet, with applied seo in place to increase your search engine ranking positions and enhance your company&#8217;s image.   By achieving this, we hope to increase your website&#8217;s traffic and (ultimately) your company&#8217;s revenue.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;">What makes OwenDevelopment any different?</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;m glad you asked:  There are plenty of web optimisation and SEO agencies who claim they can guarantee you a first page place on Google for any phrases, so what makes our service any different?</p>
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<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>1. <strong>No contract: </strong> With our seo, so if you feel it isn&#8217;t working you (0which we doubt), you can feel peace of mind that you can  cancel at anytime, no bad feelings.</li>
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<li>2.  <strong>Our Portfolio: </strong> Including this site.</li>
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<li>3. <strong>We hate spam:</strong> We won&#8217;t sign you up to low-grade sites which means endless seas of meaningless junk mail, instead we use purely legitimate methods approved by Google.  We (unlike some), know the importance of quality seo.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #888888;">To find out more regarding our Search Engine Optimisation packages feel free to contact us today either by phone or by filling out our quick and easy <a href="http://owendevelopment.co.uk/?page_id=3">contact form</a>.</span></h3>
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