Ascensor Blog

The Business Show Report

After a brilliant 2 days exhibiting in London the real work begins in following up on all of the leads that were generated.

As always…

New Team Members: Leeds

We are pleased to welcome Sarah into our Design Team to further strengthen the capacity within our creative department. Sarah is a self-taught web designer and has started work this month.

We are also looking forward to Matt starting in…

Copiserv – Amazing SEO Results in 2 weeks!

Not wanting to count our chickens, blow our own trumpet or any other catch-phrase… but, the signs look better than good for the winners of our 3 months of SEO competition drawn at the…

The Penguin: SEO Update

Well, what a few weeks it’s been for many website owners! If your website has slid down the rankings in the last week then there is a pretty strong chance that your website has been pulled up as part of…

Our SEO Competition Winners!

Work has now begun on the web marketing of Copiserv who won our 3 months of SEO competition at the recent Wakefield Business Conference. The prize, worth more than £960 for search engine optimisation…

BiY: Ascensor join as Associates

Ascensor have become an Associate of the Brand Yorkshire business support network BiY. Brand Yorkshire has more than 15,000 members across the region and provides a variety of business support tools including business networking. A quarterly magazine…

Share – Yorkshire Business Networking

Ascensor are members of the Share Network, an exclusive group of Yorkshire based business owners who meet every other Tuesday. Each meeting takes place at a different member’s offices, giving the host an…

WBC 2012: Our Exhibition Experience

Ascensor Web Design went on the road yesterday, exhibiting at the first of Hillrich’s Yorkshire Business Conferences at the Cedar Court hotel in Wakefield.

We turned up with our custom built space-only stand,…

SEO: Onsite vs. Offsite

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of helping a website to rank well on the search indices. It is the process of showing the search engines that a website is relevant to those people who may be interested in…

The Law Has Changed: Cookies

Cookies are small files that are used by website owners to speed up the user experience, it’s something we all live with as website users, if cookies didn’t exist the fluidity of our internet use would be affected. A cookie…

People Talk: The Importance of Reviews

Customer reviews (summarised by star ratings on websites) have always been one of the most important factors in influencing buying decisions, because we trust in someone elses buying experience more than we trust what the seller says about themselves. Whether…

Project Manager Wanted: Leeds

We are looking for a Project Manager to join our Production Department in Leeds.

We have seen continued growth during 2012 and this necessary appointment will boost efficiency and organisation within our busy web design…

Yorkshire Business Conferences!

We are really pleased to announce our exhibiting at the Yorkshire Business Conferences this year and really excited about the prospect of promoting our services right across our region.

The Yorkshire Business Conference programme begins in Wakefield on the 26^th…

New Team Member: London

We are pleased to announce a new team member based in London. Kat joins the team as an Account Manager and she will be responsible for managing existing London accounts and working on new business in the area.

Kat starts…

New Team Member: Leeds

Ascensor welcome the addition of Imran into our design team as Web Designer. Starting on the 2^nd April, Imran’s appointment further strengthens our creative department. Imran is an award winning Digital Media Design graduate from…

SEO is about Building Relationships

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of making the search engines aware of a website or profile or blog’s existence, it happens naturally, it is the recognition that a relationship is present.

A…

Ego Creative Projects is launched

Ego Creative Projects is the first site completed of three for Yorkshires leading event management and prop production company, Prego Events.

Ego’s remit is the specialist manufacture of prop products, supplied or hired to the events industry, and the website…

Minimising Google’s effect on you

It’s the day after Thursday 1^st March 2012, the day when Google’s privacy laws changed to allow their convergence of personal data into a single source, combined from all of the Google applications you have used.

Despite the complaints, they…

Meet Google, your new Big Brother!

Users of Google services (pretty much all of us in one way or another) should be aware that the internet giant’s privacy policies are soon to be changed, these changes are due tomorrow, Thursday 1st March 2012.

However you use…

SEO: Demystified

Ascensor customers are now seeing the benefit of the advanced Search Engine Optimisation service that we fully launched at the end of last year. SEO Demystified is our multi-faceted package where the mystique is removed, we tell our clients exactly…

Ascensor Exhibiting in London 2012

After the huge success of last Novembers Great British Business Show we are exhibiting again on May 17^th and 18^th at Excel, London. Just 10 minutes away from Canary Wharf, this…

Who’s talking about you?

On a mass-communication level IT makes things simple, it enables information to go viral, but the best thing is that everything that is said can be tracked and reported on. Recent news surrounding the proposed law to give people the…

Does your Google search look the same?

How often do you do a search on Google from different devices or different places or after you have been using social media and your Google results are different? The answer is probably quite a lot…

Whether you have noticed…

How good a Social Listener are you?

Social Media now has a reported 1 billion daily users, that’s a lot of people, and most of them are talking. How much time do you spend talking, and how much of it is listening? If everyone is talking and…

TV Adverts vs Video, no competition!

Advertising spend is up, last year saw businesses in the UK spend more than £16 billion on advertising, this equates to year on year growth of almost 1.5% and certainly indicates that UK plc could be starting to shake-off the…

Putting your business firmly on the Map

Are you using Google Places properly? At the very least you should have a Google Maps listing, but if you listed yourself, then the chances are you could be missing a golden opportunity.

Google…

Are you Feeding enough?

I am of course talking about product feeds onto third party websites such as Google Shopping, eBay and Shopzilla.

If you own an E-commerce website and you are not currently sending data feeds into Google Shopping then you are certainly…

Social Media: Speak for yourself!

In the last few years it seems like every man and his dog have become social media experts. No doubt there are some very good social media professionals about, but would you trust someone else to do your talking for…

New Team Member

It has taken us a long time to find the right person, but we are well chuffed to welcome Jason into the Ascensor sales team. Jason joins us as Account Manager, responsible for growing northern sales and further developing account…

SEO Competition Winner!

At The Great British Business Show Ascensor ran a competition for one lucky business to win a free 3 months SEO campaign worth £960!

We have selected our winner and we would like to congratulate Paul Moughtin from…

E-commerce vs Physical Retail

We’re often asked if E-commerce will ever replace physical retail completely. Even though the high street seems to be shrinking, new shopping centres are continually springing up, there is clearly…

‘Making E-commerce Pay’ seminar

Making E-commerce Pay is a discussion about some of the things businesses should be doing to make more money from online retail.

So, what makes a successful E-commerce website, what can you do to increase turnover and what can you…

GBBS Earls Court 2012: Summary

The Great British Business Show at Earls Court, November 17^th and 18^th 2011 was the first large exhibition that Ascensor has displayed at. Having a purpose built stand helped us to differentiate against the…

Join Us At The Great British Business Show!

The Great British Business Show will soon be here! For the duration of the 2 day show, Ascensor will be occupying Stand 644.

Our stand will be mainly focussing on

Slow websites are bad news

Website speed is not only one of the most important factors in engaging with your visitors ie if it’s slow they will move on, if it’s quick they are more likely to move in, but it is also a contributory…

Getting links from relevant websites

Social Media now carries significant weight these days in the passing of link juice to websites, but traditional link building is still a critical factor as the search engines look for balance between the many forms of offsite Inbound links are the foundation of the google search algorithm, something that through evolution has got more and more sophisticated, trying to stay ahead of SEO companies like Ascensor and with a focus…

Effective Keyword Targeting for SEO

Your website will only be found on the search engines if the search engines know what words you want to be found for. It may sound like a no-brainer but you would be surprised how many sites don’t target keywords…

Getting your new site ready for the Search Engines

With literally trillions of web pages, hundreds of thousands of new domain registrations daily and competition that is well established in the market, what should your web company be doing to ensure your…

YCCA 2011: Ascensor selected as IT Partner

Ascensor are pleased to have been selected as the IT Partner for the forthcoming Yorkshire Children of Courage & Achievement Awards 2011 sponsored by St. James’s Place Wealth Management.

Our involvement includes the provision of the main voting

BNI Infinity: Preparing for launch

Joining BNI Infinity in Canary Wharf 4 weeks ago is probably going to be one of the best moves I have made in terms of driving Ascensor to the next level.

New Client Win: Prego Events

Ascensor have secured the website design contract for 3 new sites for one of the UK’s leading event management companies, Prego Events. Prego, based…

Huge Business Event: Canary Wharf

On the 5^th October 2011 the number 1 business event in the London Docklands will be taking place.

Businesses comprising local firms and national organisations will be coming together for a breakfast meeting that will facilitate networking and relationship building;…

New Client Win: Michael Dyson Associates Ltd

Michael Dyson Associates Ltd based in Huddersfield is a multi-disciplinary construction consultancy working in the housing sector.

Ascensor have been appointed as the web design agency for a re-design of the company website. The new…

Does your website work for you?

Why did you choose to have a website built? Was it because you needed to find new customers? Was it because you wanted to showcase your services? Was it just because everyone else was doing it, so you thought you’d…

Ascensor join BNI Infinity, Canary Wharf

Ascensor are very proud to announce that we have been accepted into the new flagship London BNI Group, BNI Infinity in Canary Wharf.

This presents a huge business opportunity for Ascensor. Andrew Firth will…

Much more than football: 8th October

Much more than a football match…

On the 8th October 2011 Huddersfield Town host Stevenage in aid of the Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice to coincide with…

Making E-Commerce Pay: Ascensor Seminar

Joining Duncan Bannatyne and James Caan, Andrew Firth, Ascensor’s Managing Director will be speaking at the Great British Business Show 2011, at Earls…

Great British Business Show: 17th & 18th Nov.

After having a few forays into small local exhibitions, we’ve decided just to go for it this time…

On the 17^th and 18^th of November 2011 Ascensor are exhibiting at the