Google might still be the leading search engine in the U.S. by a large margin, but over the last six months, searches powered by MicrosoftBing are increasing at an impressive rate. So impressive, in fact, that if the trend line continues, there will be a real contest between Bing and Google next year — and Bing may just come out on top.

Research shows Google was responsible for 64.42% of searches in the U.S. in March, 2011. Bing-powered search — which includes both search.yahoo.com and bing.com — accounted for 30% of U.S. searches.

Bing vs Google

The scenario: if Google drops 3% of its market share each month, while Bing gains 5% each month. Of course, this assumes sustained growth and sustained losses on the parts of both search engines. In a volatile market, it is extremely unlikely that we’ll see these exact numbers over the next year.

But if you do assume a constant trajectory, Bing will overtake Google in less than a year — January 2012, to be precise.

At the moment Bing has real momentum and after years of referring to Google as “the search giant”, it looks as if there is a serious contender for that title — and we could be heading towards an era dominated by two search superpowers.

The new Pure Amenity website went live today after an extensive website development using WordPress 3.0 – in essence the website is a simple brochure however behind the scenes the development required much, much more.

The Homepage:

Labels Page:

The website requires a labels section with details of the products available from the company along with the ability to download information on each products.

For more information about this project and to see the website visit: http://www.pureamenity.co.uk

No we are not looking for jobs but we are looking for an experienced senior PHP Developer to join our development team.

Ideally you’ll have several years (3+) PHP experience, but also the knowledge of best practices when working as a team on projects.

Key Skills we’re looking for are:

• PHP 5
• HTML & CSS Standards
• LAMP server experience
• Actionscript 3
• Javascript & frameworks such as jQuery
• SQL & query performance analysis
• Performance and scalability techniques
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for client interaction

Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment across multiple small and large scale projects ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget. You will also be expected to work under the direction of our CTO working on a wide portfolio of projects for blue chip organisations as well as smaller clients. You will also be working on internal online software development.

Salary 30k + bonus and benefits. The role is dependant on experience, Norwich based person preferred however can work remotely – we are looking for the right person not where they live.

To apply for the position please send your CV to Daniel Arpels at jobs@websitedesigncentre.com

We are delighted today to release a new eCommerce website for longterm client JoJo Mangoes. Jojo Mangoes specialises in funky childrens clothing

The new website concentrates on visual appeal with easy navigation and quick checkout. Spencer Crutchley, Chief Operations Officer for the Website Design Centre Group said, ‘We have been working closely with Paul and his team at JoJo’s and are delighted with the new website. Working on the whole online marketing strategy for the company it became clear that although the previous website was functional it was hard for users to find the products and then buy them. We took alot of this research into account when we created the new website which we are very happy with.’

For more information on JoJo Mangoes visit http://www.jojomangoes.com

Today, the Website Design Centre is celebrating its 3rd birthday by offering FREE website audits! To get your audit click here

The Website Design Centre is a website design company in Norwich with locations though out the United Kingdom which was born on the 12th of February 2008 and is fast becoming one of the UK’s leading online marketing agencies. The business continues to grow year-on-year through its unique combination of first-class service, cutting-edge online marketing solutions and focus on delivering real profit that sees clients average a £20 return for every pound spent.

The Website Design Centre offers a full range of digital marketing and advertising services including Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Digital Advertising, Price Comparison Marketing , Digital Creative, Web 2.0, Strategic Consultancy, Media Buying and Planning and E-mail Marketing.

Daniel Arpels, Chief Executive Officer and Founder said, ‘its incredible to think what has been achieved in the last 3 years. We never thought that the company would grow so quickly and are delighted to be celebrating our 3rd birthday with news of several new office locations being opened very soon. I would like to personally thank the clients that have supported us and the continued hard work from all that work with the Website Design Centre Group.’

The Website Design Centre are delighted to have released a brand new website for the Norwich photographer Lee Blanchflower. The new website gives Lee the ability to showcase his collection of photographs and the power to keep the site fresh using the companies award winning content management system.

Daniel Arpels, Chief Executive of the Website Design Centre said, ‘We have had the pleasure to work with Lee on a number of our clients projects and was delighted when Lee approached us to create his new website. We are all looking forward to helping Lee drive traffic to the new site in the weeks and months to follow.’

Lee Blanchflower said: ‘Lee Blanchflower Photography would like to sincerely thank The Web Design Centre Team for their work in building and managing our fabulous New Website. Their enthusiasm, product knowledge and ideas were inspiring for our business. The Website Design Centre provided an affordable, professional platform which best suited the needs of our customer and our products, not their own. Throughout every stage of development and launch, we have consistently received informative reports, increased web traffic and subsequently, greater business and new clients. At Lee Blanchflower Photography, we now have an attractive, interactive and modern website, a great platform for email marketing and Content Management System enabling us to update our site at the touch of a button. I would genuinely recommend The Web Design Centre. Thank you.’

Visit Lee Blanchflower Photography Website

Online marketing agency, the Website Design Centre Group (www.websitedesigncentre.com) – a member of Digi3 Ltd, is bolstering its team to meet demand from both existing and new clients with the appointment of Tony Cox as Client Relations Manager. Cox will report directly to Group Chief Executive, Daniel Arpels.

Cox joins the Website Design Centre Group from a music retail giant with responsibility for client satisfaction and retention. His primary duty will be to liaise with development and digital marketing clients whilst also working with the companies growing monthly retained SEO clients.

Spencer Crutchley, Chief Operations Officer at WDC said, “Over the last year we’ve seen a growing demand to continue our market leading customer focused services as clients look to make sure that they’re maximising all the available business opportunities with a well optimised site and digital strategy. It’s great to now be in a position where we need to grow the team to meet that growing demand. Tony knows customer relations inside out and his rare blend of theoretical knowledge and technical expertise means our clients will benefit from a truly seamless process.”

The appointment rounds off a stellar year for the agency which saw it rack up a host of new national account wins and a 35% growth.

Cox said when asked of his appointment at WDC “I’m delighted to be joining the Website Design Centre at a time when they are expanding so rapidly. I know they already have a great client list, ethic and culture and look forward to being apart of all that. The campaigns they run for their clients are bucking the general downward trends in the economy and showing some really strong results for clients.”

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About WDC

Founded in 2008, WDC is fast becoming one of the UK’s leading online marketing agencies. The business continues to grow year-on-year through its unique combination of first-class service, cutting-edge online marketing solutions and focus on delivering real profit that sees clients average a £20 return for every pound spent.

The Website Design Centre offers a full range of digital marketing and advertising services including Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Digital Advertising, Price Comparison Marketing , Digital Creative, Web 2.0, Strategic Consultancy, Media Buying and Planning and E-mail Marketing .

On Monday the Website Design Centre were delighted to launch a brand new website for Laser Docs, a pain free laser hair removal clinic in Norwich which is run by three Norfolk GP’s.

The website has been created using our packaged website service for visual appeal and to deliver key marketing messages. The company also needed the ability to edit the website’s content, pricing and terms. The solution was to provide them with our award winning content management system allowing the doctors and staff to easily access the website online using true drag and drop technology.

Laser Doctors has employed the Website Design Centre as their online marketing consultants which includes search engine optimisation, email marketing and social media marketing. Daniel Arpels, Website Design Centre CEO said, ‘we very excited to work with Laser Docs. We believe there is a huge market here in Norwich for laser hair removal and are working closely with the company.’

For more information visit the website at www.laserdocs.co.uk

Today the Website Design Centre Group have launch the new Next Step Beauty College website at www.nextstepbeauty.co.uk

Next Step Beauty College provide nail courses in Norwich and beauty courses in Norwich. The college originally employed the Website Design Centre to create a brochure style website back in 2008 which quickly became number one on Google for a variety of key phrases leading to major growth for the company. The companies massive growth has meant that an new solution needed to be found allowing students to book and pay for courses online. As well as a fully automated booking process students also needed a ‘student portal’ allowing them to download resources, find their course dates and communicate with tutors in an easy-to-use way which was fully trackable.

Scott Mardon, Chief Technical Officer for the Website Design Centre Group said, ‘we were delighted to help Next Step achieve their ultimate goal which was to create a system where by students had the power to book courses and allow the company to expand their operation without the need to recruit admin staff. The solution we built is not only very powerful but user friendly allowing the company to upload course information simply and quickly.’

Visit Next Step Beauty College Website

Other notes:

The beauty company are now offering nail courses in london, beauty courses in london

We are pleased to launch our ‘introduce a friend’ referral scheme giving clients, friends and associates an even better reason to refer someone to the Website Design Centre Group.

Spencer Crutchley, Chief Operations Officer said, ‘We have discovered that over 98% of our clients who have used our services are so pleased that they would recommend us to their friends, family and associates. We think this deserves a big ‘thank you’

Referring clients to the Website Design Centre could not now be easier, simply visit http://www.websitedesigncentre.com/homepage/about-us/introduce-friend/ fill in a quick form and if your referral leads to business you will receive £100, its that simple!

For more details please visit: http://www.websitedesigncentre.com/homepage/about-us/introduce-friend/