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    John Lewis to build adjacent to New Street station
    Advantage West Midlands welcomed the news that a £100 million John Lewis department store is to be built adjacent to New Street station in Birmingham.
    Assets and Liabilities Plan submitted to BIS
    Advantage West Midlands has submitted an Assets & Liabilities Plan, endorsed by our Board, to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
    Royal Town Planning Institute award for waste infrastructure tool that promotes green economy
    A waste infrastructure support tool developed to promote a low carbon economy has won a Royal Town Planning Institute award.
    Advantage West Midlands wins again at Midlands Excellence Awards 2010/11
    Advantage West Midlands was again recognised as a top performing organisation after scooping top prize in the region's premier business awards - the Midlands Excellence Awards 2010/11.
    Oswestry's Cambrian Works Quarter steams ahead
    A £9 million medical centre housed inside a 19th century Grade 2-listed former Cambrian Railway engineering shed in Shropshire will be one of the most unique health complexes in the country when it opens in May this year.&lt
    Entrepreneurial spirit drives Olympus Engineering to success in Stoke
    Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham, opens new multi-million pound HQ for a North Staffordshire engineering firm which supplies leading blue-chip companies.
    21 new London 2012 contracts worth £2.7m won by West Midlands
    21 new 'London 2012' business contracts worth at least £2.7million were won by firms in the West Midlands in the closing months of the decade.
    Eurofins green light for new lab facility at i54
    Eurofins Laboratories get the green light to build a new laboratory facility at the i54 business park in Wolverhampton after securing planning permission from South Staffordshire Council
    Festive funding boost for micro breweries in Shropshire
    Four micro breweries in Shropshire are raising their glasses to a prosperous New Year after securing funding to expand their business - bolstering the county's reputation as one of the most popular places in the country for real ale.
    Honey farm enjoying the sweet taste of success
    A Warwickshire farm is enjoying the sweet taste of success after securing funding to help transform a former milking shed into a honey processing facility.
    New academy in Warwickshire starts training technicians for next generation of power stations
    A new multi-million pound Power Industry Academy has started training technicians for the next generation of power stations.
    Midlands Excellence Awards 2010-11 finalists announced
    Seven high-flying Midlands organisations have been shortlisted for the region's premier business awards - the 2010-2011 Midlands Excellence Awards.
    Bosch Thermotechnology relocation in Worcestershire approved
    Wychavon District Council has approved Worcester, Bosch Group's proposals to relocate its head office and manufacturing facilities to a new site on Pershore Lane, near Tibberton.
    Berryfields full of beans with coffee shop expansion
    A farm shop near Meriden is enjoying a new lease of life after receiving funding to assist the opening of a coffee shop.
    New packing facility puts co-operative top of the hops
    A co-operative of hop growers has received a boost after receiving funding worth more than £60,000 to build a new store and packing shed in Worcestershire.
    Brummie engineering helps New Street to shape up
    Birmingham engineers marked a major milestone in the Birmingham Gateway project today as they lifted out the final piece of disused concrete.
    Transformed Royal Shakespeare Theatre re-opens on time, on budget
    The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon has reopened, on time and on budget after a four year £112.8m transformation.
    Growth in the region's private sector economy gained momentum in October
    The rate of growth in the region's private sector economy gained momentum in October according to the latest survey in the West Midlands Purchasing Managers Index.
    First transatlantic cable company invests million in high tech wire production
    A Birmingham company which created the revolutionary wire for the first communication cable laid across the Atlantic Ocean in 1865 is making a million pound investment in wire production technology.
    Severn Trent Water's new £60m operations centre in Coventry officially opens
    Severn Trent Water's new £60m operations centre on St John Street in Coventry has been officially opened for business.
    Advantage West Midlands Annual Public Meeting
    Advantage West Midlands is holding its annual public meeting at 12:00 noon, on Tuesday 30th November.
    New building to help scientists uncover the building blocks of cells
    Construction work has begun on a new building which will house scientists working on the building blocks of living cells at the University of Warwick.
    New senior management team announced to lead MTC
    Dr Clive Hickman and Ken Young have been appointed as the new Chief Executive and Technical Director respectively of the MTC, under construction at Ansty Park near Coventry.
    Green pub does roaring trade with support from rural grant programme
    A Herefordshire pub which has been labelled 'the greenest pub in England has enjoyed a successful relaunch after being closed for five years.
    Herefordshire farm the cream of the crop with growing business
    A Herefordshire dairy farm which diversified as a camping site and manufacturer of farm house ice cream has expanded further with support from the Rural Enterprise Grant programme.
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    Decorative Concrete and the fading art of Article Spinning

    Some CCM members have asked about article publication services they’ve been pitched and I’ve heard a top UK ‘Internet Marketing Expert’ promote ‘article spinning’. So I decided to gather some real data.

    concrete stamping patternOne of my clients, decorative concrete specialists, Dekorbeton , supply textured concrete stamping & overlay products. Based in Istanbul they hired English experts to keep their English language site content accurate with the correct navigation and tags etc. Their web experts also offered to create and publish featured links and specialist articles as an additional service. This lined up with a number of the carefully crafted services that I had seen offered.

    The ‘internet marketing expert’, above, recommended a few good high quality links and loads of poor ones, the more the merrier.

    PageRank Analysis by Market SamuraiWhen I investigated the in-links to www.dekorbeton.com I found this pattern, see the Market Samurai report summary, right. I drilled down to find their article content in sites such as EzineArticles and Articles3000. I followed 8 such sites providing 170 links, all from the 0/10 column. Now Google don’t provide comprehensive in-link data so I use Yahoo’s excellent SiteExplorer. Market Samurai’s tool does too then merging Google’s Pagerank data. So not every PR 0 link is in the Google index. I sampled 52 of the 170 article links to find that only 17 were indexed by Google! So 2/3 of these articles were a complete waste of time. (Based on 82% of Dekorbeton traffic coming from Google. Google’s search engine share was over 93%.)

    Some of the articles were very relevent on patios etc. and of good quality. Most used keywords in the link text such as ‘brick wall overlay but often these were down in the author’s details. Many were on vaguely related topics such as soft furnishings and hydroponics. I am grateful to the director at Dekorbeton giving permission to use their data. I also confirmed that her own efforts in adding comments and answers on blogs, forums and other Web2.0 sites had a far greater impact.

    You can read more about this over on the CCM Blog.


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