Finance mortgage calculators

We are continually improving our financial websites such as the nowfirsttimebuyer website for first time buyer mortgages in the housing market and our nowselfemployed website for self certification mortgages.
We finally got out our rather clever Mortgage Calculator across all the sites and have been interested to see how sticky our sites become – so we are [...]

STV take over from BBC

A late cancellation from Phillip Jay of the BBC must have given the folks organising the YCF digital conference a “bit of a moment” to quote the late Colin McRae. However, the substitute speaker turned out to be pretty refreshing.
Robert Dawson Scott has only just joined STV – 9 days and counting. That newness gives [...]

The STV back catalogue

STV were represented well at the YCF conference on digital entertainment in Glasgow recently. Asha Oberoi from ITN Source explained the challenges of moving their extensive back catalogue onto the online world – inability to find the original agreements, the lack (of course) of any previous internet publishing rights, the challenge of coming up with [...]

Time Engine Optimisation

A good point was raised by Robert Dawson Scott (new start at STV website) at the YCF digital conference…..
google doesn’t include time on a site as an SEO factor.
I’m sure he’s right. And it opens up some thoughts about how SEO will change in the next couple of years. It also makes you wonder if any [...]

Online Marketing Scotland

We put live a wee while back Search Engine Optimisation Scotland for free SEO advice (free not just for the Scots of course – we wouldn’t want to be seen as exclusive). Trouble was as soon as we put our free SEO advice website live we knew we had more work to do.
We realised that we needed [...]

Search Engines and the webmaster

We’ve been looking at the effectiveness of the webmaster tool that you can use to monitor your website from Google. Unlike the brilliant Google Analytics the Google Webmaster tool seems to need a wee bit more work from the geniuses that are Google.
We’re finding Google Webmaster reports that some of the websites we have developed [...]