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Google errors – Webmaster Tools benchmark?

The most useful set of free tools available on the web (for us) is  Google’s Webmaster Tools. This set of reports are visible from their dashboard and are (fairly) simple to use. It is however important to remember that the whole holistic picture of your site’s performance is not there in one place. Webmaster Tools stats show only search queries from Google. Your log files may combine search results from all search engines, so you must also check on Yahoo! etc.

Webmaster tools on Google are perhaps the best way of tracking your site’s performance. Unfortunatley, like everything else, it sometimes goes wrong but unlike some reporting sites, Google issues heads up statements and come clean.

Quote: ‘The search query data shown in Webmaster Tools for the month of June may not be complete for some sites at the moment. We are aware of this issue and are looking into it; you do not need to take any action. We hope to have the full data shown again in the near future. This will have no effect on your site’s performance in search results. Thank you for your patience. Update: This issue is now resolved and all missing data has been restored’ Read blog post (June 10th 2010 and resolved June 24th 2010)

Video inspires story

I made the video below –  taken after the Sandcastle Competition on Woolacombe beach. The tide came back in, reclaimed and leveled the sand. The music in the background is an extract from ‘Again’ which was released on iTunes etc. last year.

The entry below is taken from http://systemculture.com/blog/?p=386

The Beach Hut follows the stories of the people who own the beach huts on Everdene sands, families who come to Everdene each year, people who fall in – or out of – love, remembering their pasts, or trying to forget them… Veronica Henry has brilliantly drawn together the comings and goings of life over one long, hot, lazy summer…

This video inspired one of Veronica Henry’s stories.


Veronica Henry writes articles for The Daily Mail – here’s a link to an article she wrote about becoming invisible at 40.

We have been down for a while

Unfortunately this site has been down for a while… However we  are BACK!

Thanks mainly to our friends at North Devon Web

  

A D V E R T I S E M E N T
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Our websites are powered by 100% wind energy; we are proud that the machines hosting our Web site and e-mail are fully eco-friendly! As energy awareness continues to grow, people are not just looking to make lifestyle adjustments, they want to make environmentally responsible decisions, North Devon Web is powered by renewable energy.

We are making the effort and helping our clients to be eco-conscious. This initiative isn’t a marketing ploy; we encourage responsible environmental practices inside the office and practice them outside the office and we know that many of our clients feel just as strongly.

North Devon Web can provide web hosting. There are lots of companies on the web who can provide cheap options – the majority are trustworthy. We can arrange hosting either in the UK or in the USA; we have clients who host on both sides of the Atlantic.

Client backup site

We have successfully created backup site for System Culture which can be found here: www.systemculture.com. All reviews and interviews are now visible on this site together with music players and links. This has been enabled by www.NorthDevonWeb.com, a ‘green’ web hosting and design company based in the UK.

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Veronica Henry – WRITER IN RESIDENCE AT HOTEL DU VIN!

WRITER IN RESIDENCE AT HOTEL DU VIN!
My publishers, The Orion Publishing Group, and Hotel du Vin/Malmaison hotel are delighted to announce their collaboration on a “Writers in Residence” project that will run from July through to November 2010.
I am absolutely thrilled to be kicking off the initiative, and will be writer in residence as follows:
  • 19/20 July Hotel du Vin Poole (UK)
  • 21/22 July Hotel du Vin, Brighton (UK)

I’ll be Twittering about my experience, and writing a short story inspired by my visit – if I can manage to drag myself out of the wonderful Egyptian cotton sheets or the infamous HdV baths!
I remember going to the first Hotel du Vin when it opened in Winchester: I was enchanted, and have remained a huge fan ever since. We both strive for a similar style – quintessentially English escapism with a touch of wit – so I think it will be a very productive collaboration, and the perfect environment to find inspiration.
My fellow Orion authors Katie Agnew and RJ Ellory will be following suit (or should that be suite) later in the year, and are both very entertaining as well as being wonderful writers. For more information, read press release


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The Beach Hut
by Veronica Henry
Published by Orion 22nd July 2010
The Beach Hut follows the stories of the people who own the beach huts on Everdene sands, families who come to Everdene each year, people who fall in – or out of – love, remembering their pasts, or trying to forget them… Veronica Henry has brilliantly drawn together the comings and goings of life over one long, hot, lazy summer…
This video inspired one of my stories.

Veronica Henry writes articles for The Daily Mail – here’s a link to an article she wrote about becoming invisible at 40.