Middlesbrough Business Listings

Today we have been revamping a listings site for businesses located in and providing services to Middlesbrough and throughout Teesside. All of our clients who have SEO packages with us and meet the criteria of being local or supplying goods and/or services locally will be listed on middlesbroughbusiness.com for free. Other companies can contact us to add their listing.

The site is very simple to use - select the category you are looking for and click search.

You will then be presented with a list of companies in that category. Select a company and you will be taken to either a standard page with logo, images, links to their website, email, phone, etc., e.g.

Or a purpose made page that matches the company's website design where all the links take you to their main website.

If you want to be listed then contact us at TeesADS.

On the CD Player: Schubert, Debussy and Tchaikovsky

New Hosting & Hosting Management Accounts

We have just struck a deal to host the site of a local bearing and transmission company based in Stockton. We welcome Stockton Bearings and Transmissions Ltd to the TeesADS family and wish them every success with their website.

We have also been adding new content to the AWR Plant website. We have a deal to manage this site, as well as optimise it for search engines, and update its content based upon the latest plant they have for sale including pictures. New plant has just been added and there is more to come shortly.

On the CD Player: The Horrors, The Velvet Underground

Managed Hosting, SEO Analysis & SEO updates

Today we have been updating the content for one of our managed hosting clients. AWR Plant Sales sells used industrial plant throughout the country and we have been adding their latest sales items having recently upgraded their site for them by tweaking the design and improving its search engine performance.

A large amount of SEO content has been added to DAC Loftspace to get their website ranked as it currently does not appear in the major search engines - by taking over their SEO management we intend to provide them with the service they deserve rather than the one they were getting!

We have also been updating the SEO content for Craig Morris Plumbing & Heating to give their click through traffic a bit of a boost.

Finally we have been engaged in some analysis for existing SEO clients to measure site performance and suggest improvements to the SEO strategy including G&D Roofing, Michael Bott Plumbing & Henrietta Hire.

On the CD Player: The Pixies, The Raconteurs, Joy Division, Nirvana

Two New Contracts

TeesADS is pleased to announce contracts with 2 new partners.

A and B Landscaping based in Suffolk have engaged our services to redesign and search engine optimise their website. We have hosted this site for a couple of years but the design was created for them some time ago. We aim to provide a more professional and vibrant image for this company on the web and drive new business to them.

Our second client is a new web based micro business from business consultants based in Teesside and we hope to provide them with a spanking new image for this website and develop an ongoing business relationship that will benefit both companies.

Look out for new designs on both sites in the near future.

On the CD player: The Wedding Present, Arctic Monkeys (we're tired & it's late - so something lively)

The Recession is Over?

Watching Newsnight night last night the economic discussion highlighted that the UK has been out of recession for over a year. Talking up the economy is fine but what does that mean for SMEs and ordinary folk? We think that for some there has been no light at the end of the tunnel and for many working people the worst is yet to come.

TeesADS started the financial year with a plan to widen our client base and broaden our portfolio with more design work for print, more direct customers and more SEO work. This has been a successful strategy in these difficult times and vital in maintaining the business. In August an important regular client of ours ceased trading and yesterday another regular client informed us they could not pay their bill. It is sad that two local business have gone to the wall.

In both cases we designed and hosted many of their clients' websites. In the vast majority of cases we continue to do so and have taken over the management of those companies web portfolios. The bizarre outcome of these two companies declining is that it has strengthened our portfolio and client base. Hopefully when the worst of the economic situation is over those of us still here will be in a much stronger position.

We wish those involved in the failed companies well and hope they bounce back.

Print Design

Today we have created some advertising leaflet artwork for Henrietta Hire, a wedding car hire firm in South Wales, who are a website client of ours. The leaflets are A4, Z-fold and double-sided and the artwork matches their website for wedding cars South Wales.

On the CD Player (Matt's in charge): White Stripes, Kings of Leon (early stuff not recent poppy stuff).

Putting a Quote Together & Updating Websites

Much of today has been spent making a few updates to the functionality of Something Paranormal requested by the folks there. This meant a little change to the database driving this dynamic site as it wasn't part of the original requirements. A good, normalised database design initially means these things aren't too difficult to do and it keeps the client happy so is well worth it.

We're now working on a proposal and quote to update a website for a local company - we can't say who at the moment but we think we can provide a competitive quote and more importantly offer a better solution than those we are competing with. Time will tell whether the potential client agrees!

On the CD Player: The Pixies, Radiohead and Lindisfarne (yes a strange mix, we know)