When the Mauritius villas owners came to us in 2009 asking for help to market their own luxury villa in Mauritius none of us had any idea how quickly things would take off.

The villa owners Mauritius odyssey began when Free Range Websites did some internet marketing for them, and their Mauritius Villa went from being rented out part of the year, to being rented out for the whole year. They were still getting tons of enquiries so we persuaded them to help some other Mauritius villa owners to rent out their villas. With a few simple Adobe PDF Mauritius villa fact sheets they were soon making the most of enquirers coming to them asking about villas to rent in Mauritius.

Soon they had many villas on their books, and in November 2011 they came back to ask us to build a big online brochure of all their luxury Mauritius villas. Now they are all set and are over in Mauritius (not that we’re jealous!) finalising the addition of 7 more luxury Mauritius Villas to rent. Plus they are starting to build their own luxury villa number two.

With their easy-to-use content management system website they will be able to add as many luxury holiday villas as they like at no extra cost and uploading is so quick they should still have time to enjoy a bit of the lovely weather in Mauritius.

Oh, what’s that Wendy? A cyclone? Oh dear what a pity

We wish them all the very best and hope we can continue to help them build even more luxury Mauritius Holiday Villas.

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NGP have recently appointed a new Executive Director, Oliver Wootton, who took over from Co-founder Hope Thornton, in June this year. This management change has elicited exciting new initiatives and projects in the organisation. This needed to be reflected in a brand new re-design and, as all our sites are fully updateable, it was done within the existing website structure.

We also added these new projects to the in-built Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) core of the website to ensure they attained a top position on Google and other search engines.

The site now appears 2nd on Google when searching for ‘permaculture malawi‘ (one of our other sites is 1st!). It also comes 3rd for ‘food and nutrition security in malawi‘, beating competition from Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other international development agencies with multi-million pound budgets.

This site is a great example of our Organic Website Design principles; working in harmony with our customers to ensure their website continues to adapt to their ongoing needs.

To visit the site, please go to: http://www.naturesgift.org

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Keyword check – Type into Google the words that potential customers might use to find you, if you can’t find your business then neither can they.

Company name check – Type your business name into Google and see who has information about you out there. It’s good to be popular and the more positive links pointing back to you, the better.

Be more social – If you think Twitter is a birdwatcher and RSS is a car turbo, then you need to brush up on social media. It’s instant, it’s very popular and can be extremely lucrative.

Go Pro – If there is a professional body/organisation/association for your profession then join it and make sure they put your web address on their website. This will give you extra brownie points with the search engines.

No Go Slow – If your website takes more than a second or two to download then you need to streamline it ASAP. Google and other search engines want to provide searchers with super-fast responses and nobody likes a slow-coach.

Happy New Year for 2012

Barnaby Kirsen
Director
Free Range Websites Ltd.

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Secondly, it must work in real time to be a true organic website. A blog is a step in the right direction, a search facility is fine, but more interactive content is required to satisfy the needs of your potential customers.

Third and finally, you need to back up your organically grown website with a solid online marketing plan that brings customers to your website perhaps through the search engines, but not because of them.

An organically grown website will grow your business. Just make sure you get the right advice from the outset.

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