Posts Tagged ‘Scotland’

Competition launched for businesses in the Cairngorms National Park

Business News, SEO Scotland | Posted by Katie
Mar 15 2010

competitionWe have just emailed a huge list of businesses within the Cairngorm National Park asking them to follow us on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.  Have we missed you out?  Let us know… sorry if you are outside the Park but we had to start somewhere.

So our competition is as follows, actually you dont have to do anything onerous, just follow us or become a fan in March or April and you go into a draw.  The winner – totally and utterly picked at random – will get one of our SEO First packages  to the value of £360.

To all our fans and followers that are already signed up, dont worry we will enter you too, as long as your business is within the Park boundaries all you have to do is message or DM us and into the pot you go.  Winner will be notified by email and also blogged about here in the first week of May….. good luck!

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Twitter Search … what search?

Client News, SEO Scotland, Technology | Posted by Gavin
Feb 26 2010

Using Twitter is becoming a larger part of our daily business practice, but I find it bizarre that the ‘Twitter Search’ facility on the site is of little or no use at all. 

Twitter is all about building a following and following like-minded people, whether for business or pleasure.  As this is such a core part of the whole Twitter-thing, why is the search facility so poor?  In my opinion, the essential part of connecting with other businesses, is to be able to find them in the first place.

We run an SEO & Internet Marketing business in the Highlands of Scotland and there are not many businesses (in the grand scheme of things) that embrace the whole ‘social media’ thing in our area which makes the Twitter’s inability to provide concise search results more frustrating.

However I recently came across an extremely helpful article with tools and tips at Mashable – http://bit.ly/mnQ1g - Have a read if you get the time.

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Trip Advisor set to charge for business listings

Business News, Client News, Events in Aviemore, SEO Scotland | Posted by Gavin
Jan 11 2010

Trip Advisor, the well established travel/accommodation review site is no stranger to controversy with many blog posts and comments from the hotel & leisure industry questioning its policy on ‘the right to reply’ and ‘bonifide posts’.

TA bills itself as providing “Unbiased holiday reviews, photos and travel advice for hotels and vacations”

It came to light in 2009 that Trip Advisor was to begin charging for business listings – this has now come to pass.

As we have over 20 years experience in the hotel & leisure industry we are interested in feedback and comment from any Hotel, Guest House, B&B, Self Catering, Restaurant etc as to what this means to you ….

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The Sunday Times rave review for Kilberry Inn

Client News | Posted by Katie
Aug 10 2009

kilberry-roofYet again customers David & Clare at The Kilberry Inn have received a great review from The Sunday Times this weekend.  We know that the food is fabulous, the wine list delectable, the service perfect, the beds comfy and their website somewhere in between all of that, but it is great when they are awarded such high praise from such a well known newspaper.  To read the article in full you can go here and keep your eyes out for the Hairy Bikers who have also spent time there and will be on the TV soon with tales from Clare’s kitchen.

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VisitScotland | A star too far?

Business News, Client News | Posted by Katie
Aug 03 2009

stb-goldAs you know, we are neither an hotel or a guest house or a B&B however, many of our customers are and this latest ‘gold star’ addition to the VisitScotland rating system has put the accommodation cat amongst the paperwork pigeons.   

The main question being how, do visitors know what they are booking into with so many schemes on the go?  Some schemes are voluntary, some are most definitely not and what is the difference between a 4 star property and a 3 gold star property – is the 3 gold star one now better?   It took quite a bit of digging but I did eventually find the star grading information but I am still not quite sure how clear I am.

We are interested to hear your views as we have only heard negative comments so far and we are sure there are positive ones as well – aren’t there?  Not quite sure why everyone we speaks to seems to dislike VisitScotland, what we are sure of is that the majority of our accommodation customers are members and pay a lot of money to stay members, so VisitScotland must be doing something right.

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