Customer Street Improvements

At Customer Street I often talk about how much I love passion for what you do and people that are passionate about what they are doing. Benny is passionate about helping people learn Mandarin his website AskBenny.cn is full of mini language lessons, insights into Chinese culture and some very fun videos. In the micro class below he gets to meet Miss Shanghai 2006 and tell her he thinks she is very beautiful!

Benny’s passion is infectious. I think his site is very clean and he has spent time investing in a product that is informative, educational and fun. What’s hidden behind this is a person establishing a language learning brand that may become as popular as “Where’s Wally?”.

At Customer Street our passion is for getting our customers exposure on the internet because more exposure equals more business.

We have been working on a tool at CustomerStreet.com to track where how the web sites we build for our customers, our directories; UFindUs, SmileLocal, MoreUK and trade specific directories get found on the major search engines.

Sharon Odom-Fling is a Local Internet Marketing Expert and has written an interesting article on Internet Based Moms about how the web works for local business.

For any business to be found on the web it needs a a presence. A Customer Street Package offers excellent value by giving the business a basic website that is designed to be found by the search engines, listings on UFindUs, SmileLocal, MoreUK and a trade specific directory which also get found by the search engines and a tool so that they can edit their website and add to it. Stuart Forrest my boss wrote about how much traffic we get our customers in his posting “Traffic Aggregation is what Customer Street is about”.

We have all been reading about the credit crunch and impending recession in the media. The stories of doom and gloom talk of an impending financial meltdown. So, what does it really mean to small businesses and how can Customer Street help?

Those of us that have been around to see the previous financial crisis of recent years know that whilst there is a general belt tightening, job losses for some and real personal tragedy for others the reality is that life goes on and people still need services and products. If your toilet gets blocked and it’s a recession you still need a plumber. If your car breaks down despite the credit crunch you will still need to get it fixed.

At CustomerStreet.com the vast majority of our customers are all micro, small and medium sized businesses. We are used to working with new starts and more more established business to get them exposure on the internet at affordable rates. The exposure we get them ensures that when someone is searching for the service or product they offer in their area we get them found. We get them found on the directories UFindUs, SmileLocal, MoreUK and Customer Street Trades.

Lee Johnson the CustomerStreet.com Search Engineering Manager has uncovered an interesting article that describes Google’s secondary indexing process. Essential Google is always looking for new sites and new content Everflux and the Freshbot describe a process and a tool that enables that to happen.

Read Lee’s article here.