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How to optimise your website for search engines

John King — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:46:46 +0000

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the term for a collection of techniques used to ensure that your website achieves as much traffic as possible, by ranking highly on searches from Google and other search engines. SEO is an industry in its own right, but there is much that you can do for free, yourself, to improve your website’s ranking.

Read this Seedcamp blog post by Andrew Hunter, Qype General Manager, on the 5 SEO tools he couldn’t live without.

Oxford Entrepreneurs’ company purchased by Google

John King — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:16:29 +0000

PlinkArt, a company run by two Oxford PhD students and incubated by Oxford Entrepreneurs, have become the first UK company to be purchased by US tech giants Google. Their technology, a mobile visual search system, will be integrated into Google Goggles.

Here at Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs, we are hard at work building our very own incubation centre, so that Royal Holloway students can be the next Google purchase! Check out this video to see Florian & Anil helping to paint the new centre…

Free basic website

John King — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:23:46 +0000

Getting British Business Online is a joint initiative between Enterprise UK, Google, BT and E Skills to help small businesses create their first websites and help them understand the opportunities offered by the Internet. The campaign has set a target of helping 100,000 UK small businesses get their first websites easily and for free by the end of 2010.

If you want your own website, for free, visit gbbo.co.uk to register your domain and to get a basic Google website.

You can then transform your basic website into an advanced, all singing, all dancing WordPress site by coming to one of our workshops! Email web@royalhollowayentrepreneurs.com to book a date.

Free tickets to the national student enterprise conference

John King — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:53:14 +0000

50 Free Tickets for Members of FlyingStart! Hurry and Register Now

The UK’s Must-Attend Student Enterprise Conference

March 26-28, 2010

University College London

Sponsored by: NCGE, Lloyds TSB. FIG, UCL Advances, Meltwater, The Cube

www.nacue.com/nsec

Engage with Julie Meyer, Penny Power, Meltwater, Google, Huddle, Microsoft, UnLtd, Tata, MMC Ventures, SIFE, Smith & Williamson, Find Invest Grow, Social Enterprise Coalition, Worksnug, Enterprise UK, Groupspaces, Shell Livewire, Newspepper, The Cube, Enternships, The Next Women, Sun Microsystems, Brave New Talent, Student Hubs, eOffice and many, many more…

Network with 200 like-minded young entrepreneurs and enterprising students, global entrepreneurs, innovative corporates and leading business support organisations during a weekend of inspiring and engaging talks, workshops, debates and exhibitions. Pitch for the chance to win £1000 from Shell Livewire and chat with UnLtd to learn about how to get up to £15,000 funding for a social enterprise.

The UK’s must-attend event of 2010 for enterprising students and young entrepreneurs.

Website: www.nacue.com/nsec
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRrbpp8XoQA