My father Vic Furze, (75yrs old) has been busy for some time now, creating a web site at www.andover-fire-log.co.uk that records a large diary (log book) for the Andover Fire Brigade from 1908 to 1916. down in Hampshire.
The Log Book, is a real diary that was started exactly 100 years ago by the local fire brigade, showing all the fires they went to, how much it cost to pay firemen, the cost of refreshments, hire of the horses etc. They even name the "little girl" that played with the matches and set fire to the place - its a fascinating place of life 100 years ago.
Its his first web site (well he is 75+ and this new fangled web thing is fascinating to him), and on many days, struggles to understand the difference beween MS outlook and IE Explorer, but he's persevered and created a great website faithfully reproducing (scanning) over 150 pages of the log book. Each page is a scanned copy of the diary, together with notes about each event.
He's currently writing to the BBC etc, local radios, newspapers, fire brigades etc, even fire brigades around the world, to let them know there's a new site, and hints suggest there may be a "local interest feature" on the beeb on the 100th aniversary of the diary, eventually, the links from other places will show up, but in the mean time, when people type "andover fire log" into search engines, nothing shows up (of course not yet and I understand why.)
I've advised him to start with forums for firemen etc, get a few incoming links,
Now the difficult bit, how do we get the sites showing up in the major search engines BEFORE the beeb and others get hold of the story, it would be great to let people search for the site name
As he's doing this for "the fun of it", He's clearly unable to employ "search engine" companies etc, to handle it, and lots of the SEO submission companies want "a few pounds for their efforts" but can anyone suggest reputable urls that might be able to help in his endevours please and no cost to him.
If you want to take a peep, click on the link, I think he would be chuffed to bits to see people actualy looking at the pages.
kevin
The Log Book, is a real diary that was started exactly 100 years ago by the local fire brigade, showing all the fires they went to, how much it cost to pay firemen, the cost of refreshments, hire of the horses etc. They even name the "little girl" that played with the matches and set fire to the place - its a fascinating place of life 100 years ago.
Its his first web site (well he is 75+ and this new fangled web thing is fascinating to him), and on many days, struggles to understand the difference beween MS outlook and IE Explorer, but he's persevered and created a great website faithfully reproducing (scanning) over 150 pages of the log book. Each page is a scanned copy of the diary, together with notes about each event.
He's currently writing to the BBC etc, local radios, newspapers, fire brigades etc, even fire brigades around the world, to let them know there's a new site, and hints suggest there may be a "local interest feature" on the beeb on the 100th aniversary of the diary, eventually, the links from other places will show up, but in the mean time, when people type "andover fire log" into search engines, nothing shows up (of course not yet and I understand why.)
I've advised him to start with forums for firemen etc, get a few incoming links,
Now the difficult bit, how do we get the sites showing up in the major search engines BEFORE the beeb and others get hold of the story, it would be great to let people search for the site name
As he's doing this for "the fun of it", He's clearly unable to employ "search engine" companies etc, to handle it, and lots of the SEO submission companies want "a few pounds for their efforts" but can anyone suggest reputable urls that might be able to help in his endevours please and no cost to him.
If you want to take a peep, click on the link, I think he would be chuffed to bits to see people actualy looking at the pages.
kevin
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