Name of your website?Beatles Search Engine
Your name?
Pete
Your Location (city, etc)
Lincoln
When did you start your website and why?
Around May 2007 for a bit of fun.
Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc
The beatles search engine is a search engine which only returns Beatles related results.
What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?
Finding the software to build a nice clean site - ended up using a package called Serif Webplus. The next problem was building links its so time consuming!!!!!!!!
What has been the easist part of operating your website?
Hosting it with 50webs.com
What was your biggest mistake?
Started with msn but it is almost impossible to alter the html of the site.
Who maintains your website and why?
Me because I enjoy it.
Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?
No business but I get a lot of personal satisfaction from the site.
What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet?
I think the internet is becomming a big advertising board and it is becomming increasingly difficult to use the net for research purposes as most of the search results return adverts, adverts and more adverts.
What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
Dont really have any views
What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website?
They have certainly helped because they have driven traffic to my site.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Linking to sites which are relevant to my sites topic because the visitors that arrive are already looking for what is on offer.
What method has been least successful for promoting your website?
Traffic swarm - because you get loads of visitors but they are not interested in looking at your site they only view your site to increase their credits with traffic swarm.
What would you like to see change with respect to the internet?
Less advertising
What is your website address?
Beatles Search Engine