Hello and welcome to the website of Michael Kehoe. It originated as a university project and hasn’t really been used since I finished uni. Until now.
I am a web designer and have become interested in SEO. The competitive aspect of it is something that appeals to me, When I saw the website of a novice SEO consultant in Manchester, I was inspired.
In less than a year they have optimised their site to reach the top of the Google rankings for the search term SEO Manchester. I want to emulate that with this site for the search term "SEO Newark" so click on the link to the bottom of the page to see my SEO Newark experiment.
Or you can read on to check out my other services, skills and expertise.
In today's internet driven world more and more people are using search engines such as Google as their first and last port of call when looking for products or services.
Some good SEO should see your website flying up the search engine rankings and your business could start booming. Click here to see how I could help with your SEO.
Some people want a Flash website or a CMS (content management) or e-commerce website. I am happy to do any of these. Some people just want a static website so they have a web presence.
We will talk about what you want and what you need from your website and unlike a lot of designers, I will not pressure you into having a website that is any more than you feel you need. Long term customer satisfaction is far more important than a few more pounds in the short term.
I have a wealth of experience in web design and have worked for clients in a number of different industries, from plumbing and central heating companies to media firms, from sports clubs to artists. Click here to see my web design page.
Since I started web designing, I haven't had as much time to dedicate to graphic design and it has been a while since I got my teeth stuck into it.
That said, my background was originally in graphic design. I spent three years working closely with law firms accross the UK on there promotional literature while I was with Media Coverage.
I can help you with any number of graphic design needs you may have, from logos and corporate branding to brochure design, business cards, letterheads or posters.
Feel free to get in touch about any graphic design solutions you require. Click here to view some of my previous graphic design work.
I can design email newsletters as regularly as you feel necessary, and after the initial set up cost of designing a bespoke template with your corporate branding, you could be pleasantly surprised how cheap this can be.
You just keep sending me the content. Click here to see how I could help you with your email marketing.
I can design and build you a website where your customers can browse through your products and pay for them instantly using PayPal or any payment method you prefer. Click here to find out if an ecommerce website might be for you.
You must have noticed! These days every other person you meet regularly surf the internet in their mobile phone. Many of them don't need the internet at home because they have it on their phones.
To capitalise on this market you need to make sure your site is WAP friendly. A surprising amount of companies are yet to do this.
Search engines can tell the difference between somebody surfing on a computer and a phone and only display sites that are WAP friendly to phone users.
This is a growing target market and you could be missing out if you don't have a WAP friendly website, but getting a good few steps ahead of your competitors if you do! Click here to learn more about WAP friendly design.
Before I start, just a quick intoroduction to what the SEO Newark experiment is all about.
I have taken a college course on advanced SEO at and I found that nobody really knows what will make successful SEO as the search engines wont tell us.
There are plenty of people with plenty of advise but I want to see how useful this advise actually is. Because as with anything that we do not know about, several myths start to appear. These can end up causing a lot of wasted time and I would like to eliminate as many as I can.
So the plan is to add or take away different SEO techniques and then search for "SEO Newark" in Google.
As you can imagine, the people I will be competing against will know exactly what they are doing and SEO Newark is quite a competitive search term.
So it will be interesting to see how the race for rankings in the term SEO Newark plays out and also what SEO techniques are the most effective.
I am hoping to get as high as possible to prove my credentials as an SEO consultant and show I can compete against the key players of SEO in Newark.