i'm peter
i love the internet and creating websites is my passion.

It would appear that my quest to get a placement during my time at university has been successfully accomplished.

The boss at Aberdeen Web Design company Studio NEC has kindly allowed me to join his team with the main part of my daily tasks being involved heavily in the SEO area of their services. I will be joining the team on as many days as I can manage to fit in around my university timetable, but I am extremely excited to get stuck in and start seeing results for both their own website as well as current and future clients.

I’m pretty sure I’m capable enough to make an impact whilst also being able to develop my skills in the field of SEO. My tasks, I believe won’t be only on the optimisation of websites, but also will include dabbling in other web design/development aspects of their client work. This has to be the best kind of placement that I could have asked for as it allows me to get my hands dirty in every aspect of the things I will be learning at uni AND some extra stuff that can only truly be learned on the practical side of things.

I cannot wait to start with them and hope it is the start of something much bigger. Keep an eye on your rankings folks, ‘cos I’m coming for you.

This summer has been a pretty interesting one for me. I’ve been off university for since March and I’ve struggled to get myself noticed as much as possible by advertising my web design services on Gumtree, Facebook and any other way I possibly could imagine. Nothing came of it for a long time and I gave up trying and just got involved in the local media scene by following local companies and their employees on twitter. This led to striking up friendships and getting to know the people involved in the local business area of which I was looking to enter after I graduated.

Towards the end of the summer I decided I was going to advertise myself again in the hope of getting some little projects to start the cogs in my brain again and blow the dust off my copy of textmate before I headed back to university for my final year. Boy did I not expect what was going to happen next.

Within the space of a few days I was contacted by a local creative design company in Aberdeen asking me to do a freelance project for them. I couldn’t have been happier to oblige as I really wanted to test myself and see what I was capable of. That’s not the only thing though as I was also contacted by a friend on facebook who had spotted my “page” and asked if I would create a website for his business.

The thought of having two projects at once, was something that I looked forward to rather than hated, as it meant I was going to have to test my ability to manage two seperate projects. This would be something that would definitely be advantageous to me in both university and when working in a real client focused environment.

I have completed the freelance project for the company in Aberdeen and still currently working on the other project at the moment, but hope to have it completed in the next few days.

I would just like to extend a big thank you to Deer Digital for giving me the opportunity to work with them. It definitely helped me to develop some of my skills further into something that I would normally not get the chance to.

Over the past few years, I have been dabbling in SEO and acquainting myself with the giant that is Google. My main goal being to achieve a number one spot in a highly competitive keyword on google.COM. That’s right, I’m talking about the biggie and not just google.co.uk.

It would appear that I have successfully managed that and achieved a number one spot in a search term that has “331,000,000″ other competitors and gets approximately “1,000,000″ global searches per month. Here’s a screenshot that can back up my claim.

This is one of my best positions in google out of the sites that I own along with the sixth position I managed to get on the term “Apple Macbook”. Something that I am very proud of and can say that has been accomplished by white hat methods only.

So yeah, I did it!

I do offer my SEO Services in the Aberdeen area and may also help others further afield via skype consultations. Please get in touch to find out more.