If you would like to advertise your business or services in our directory, call 01234-860860 to discuss your requirements.

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As well as a Featured Listings we offer:

• Banners on each page (rotating with others or unique)
• Spotlights on Home page, Business home page, and Business categories
• SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE FOR DETAILS OF OUR OTHER SERVICES (including SEO, CMS, Virtual Tours, E-Books, Blogs, MySpace, Ecommerce websites and full colour leaflet printing).

Putting The Local Business on the map

Advertise your business to 2.5 million targeted visitors per month PLUS get a FREE website, hosting and Search engine package as a bonus

Welcome to Bedford on the Web, an established local company offering a new concept in online web marketing. Our professional multi-page websites offer your potential customers the opportunity to send you an enquiry straight to your mobile, fax or email.

Who are we?

We are Bedfordshire’s fastest growing Internet Company and only local directory promoting local businesses, utilising video email technology, video streaming, flash animation and database solutions for a demanding online world. In short, we help Bedfordshire businesses to have an internet presence that stands out from the crowd, at the fraction of the cost of other Internet companies.

Our bespoke brochure websites will give you a modern, meaningful and professional presence on the Internet. With a variety of packages available, we can build a website to suit every budget.

What are we offering?

Standard Website Package : Our bespoke brochure websites will give you a modern, meaningful and attractive presence on the web. With a variety of package sizes we can build a website to suit any budget!

All Brochure Packages include:

· Complete Bespoke Design

· Bespoke Logo Design

· 1 of pages will be a contact us form that delivers your clients query straight to your email through your website · 1 year free hosting

· 1 year free domain name registration

· 1 interactive photo gallery with up to 25 images

· Basic Search Engine Optimisation to help your site be found faster by major search engines

· Up to 1 free stock photo image per page

· Analytics tracking software allows you to see how many visitors you are getting, where they are coming from and what they are doing

· Free updates for a year

· Unlimited Email Boxes *

* subject to our fair usage policy

PLUS: Promotion of your site via five online marketing channels – reaching 2.5 million targeted visitors per month.

Bedford on the Web (unlimited categories)

TheBedfordshire Pub Guide

The Bedfordshire menufinder

The Bedford Menu Finder

Wedding Services For You

All this for an inclusive price of only…. £550

Thereafter only £175 (hosting and care package) or £450 to include advertising on all above sites

ADDITIONAL SERVICES AVAILABLE: call for details and prices

Virtual Tour (2 images) or Video streaming of your site

E-book (8 pages) to showcase your business

Panoramic images of your choice

2,500 full colour A5 leaflets to promote your business.

Search Engine Optimisation

Your website is just one voice in a crowd without good search engine optimisation. We can help your web site to stand out of the crowd by increasing your profile on the major search engines. From optimising your website and utilising social media to building inbound links and creating content, Our web designers can help you impact the search engine rankings and drive new traffic to your website

Starter Package includes: £199 ( one off payment)·

· Code optimisation

· Keyword analysis

· Content optimisation for keywords (for up to 10 pages of content and 2 keywords per page)

· Correct meta tag placement and usage

· Site map submission to major search engines

· Analytic Software to track your visitors

· Directory submission to 50 directories

ADVANCED PACKAGE INCLUDES: £399 (ONE OFF PAYMENT)

AS ABOVE plus:

· Blog integration with your website

·· Directory submission to 50 directories

SEO Pro: £299 set up fee and £199 per month (minimum 6 months contract)

AS ADVANCED plus:

Optimised content creation: Article writing and submissions to various social media channels (4 per month)

Why does SEO cost as much as it does?

A lot of people have been inquiring about our search engine optimisation service and have been surprised to find it costs as much as it does. Many people seem to hold the understanding that it is a simple and easy process that can give quick and guaranteed results. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Search Engine Optimization or SEO as it is called consists of several factors. First there is the programming code used to build your website. This involves building clean, efficient code that is as easy for the search engine to index as possible. This also involves the limited use of meta tags. I say limited because many of the meta tags used in the past are at worst ignored or at best carry little weight with search engines.

The keyword meta tag has been so over abused that many search engines disregard it altogether. What is important are the Title tags, h or heading and image alt tags throughout the website and content description and summary tags. Used with keyword tags they can give the search engine a snapshot of what that page is about and in some cases the tags may show up in the description under your link in the search results.

The key here is to write the tags for the site visitor, not for the search engine. Because the search engine is ultimately looking for the same thing the searcher is looking for. The next thing is links. When Google looks at the internet and sees Site A linking to Site B Google considers that a Site A voting for Site B and Site B is moved up in the rankings. Now one link is not enough, you need dozens if not hundreds to create any real impact in your search ranking. Not only do you need quantity of links, but you also need quality. A link from a ‘bad’ site like a spam directory will have no impact at best or at worse can even lower your ranking!

Which brings us to the number one, most important thing, about SEO. Content. I will say it again. Content. Searchers want to find a page with lots of well organised content that matches what they searched for. If a searcher searched for green sweaters in Brighton he does not want to find a page about red sweaters in Reading and he most certainly is not interested in a page about purple dinosaurs in London!

Because searchers want to find what they are searching for, search engines want to deliver it. This means the search engines spend a lot of time (years) and money (billions!) in development of their technology.

It is often said there are three rules of real estate: location, location, location. On the internet content is location. Our Designer’s SEO packages are designed to deliver properly optimized code, appropriate links and offsite content pointing to your website to deliver ranking and more importantly: traffic to your website.

You can rest assured that we will deliver the best results as efficiently as possible.

EXTRAS:

A blog can be added to any site for just £100

A MySpace page can be created for any client for just £100

A full CMS website for just £499 (a CMS website is an
editable website allowing for the entire site to be edited, including adding
and removing an unlimited number of pages, editing any content through an
easy to use admin interface)