I would not normally blog about Search engine optimisation and SEO in Norwich, but this does deserve a mention as it directly relates to tourism in Norwich and Norfolk
Norwich SEO company Innershed.com represents many of the Norwich Hotel companies and has achieved a lot of success lately for People like the Arlington group. Their SEO has seen rank higher in Google search for Norwich related search terms.
Innershed has now secured national exposure for The Arlington Group and the Cliftonville hotel as the webcams that each has on their hotels will be featured in the daily weather forecasts on the new ITV breakfast show ‘Daybreak’
So form Monday you will be able to catch the images live on TV from Cromer and Wroxham.
SO SEO Norwich has really paid of for these companies as the producers of Daybreak found the webcams via Google search
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The next in our mini series of Hotels in Norwich is the George hotel. You will find the George Hotel just a few minutes from the historic heart of the city in the leafy affluent streets of south Norwich.
Its position in Norwich means the hotel has excellent access from the main London road. During your stay in this wonderful Victorian house hotel you can enjoy the great food on offer in the Arlington Brasserie restaurant attached to the hotel.
Owned by the local hotel chain the Arlington Group the hotel is a charismatic and welcoming option for your stay in Norwich.
Each of the rooms in the George is kept to a high standard room rates begin at a single over the weekend at a very reasonable rate of £63.00 per night the largest suites are available from around £140.00 per night.
Though you are close to the centre of Norwich it is located in a conservation area meaning you can enjoy a quiet night rest.
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In the last post we talked about using Norwich as a base for anyone who needs accommodation for the London 2012 olympics.
With a journey time of just 2 hours to London Liverpool street and central London Norwich is an ideal base for exploring London and with late trains in the evening you do not have to rush back. But the more laid back relaxed feel of this regional capital makes it a treat.
The next hotel in Norwich to consider can be found two minuets from the train station. Located on the river bank and shaded by trees the Norwich Hotel Nelson. This Premier Inn hotel offers a contemporary chain hotel experience. With a chain hotel you can expect a more universal experience but they also have the ability to offer some excellent value for money room rates.
Find out more about the Hotel Nelson
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People often do not realise that the heart of Norwich has some excellent hotels.
In the run up to the london olympics in 2012 I will be posting information on some of the best ones.
My favourite hotel in Norwich if for looks alone is the stunning St Giles House. The amazing Georgian building is one of the great architectural treats in Norwich. locted on St Giles Street just a short walk from the centre of the city. Hotels in Norwich certainly had the bar raised when this amazing building was rennovated just a few years ago.
With just 24 rooms stunning interiors ala carte restaurant and value for money pricing considering it’s quality St Giles is a must to visit. The Hotel is complete with Sun terrace and spa.
If you are travellling to the U.K for the london olympics in 2012. The Hotels in Norwich are a great alternative to trying to stay in London itself. Train services take 2 hours to London Liverpool street and the St Giles Street hotel is only a few minutes from the train station by Cab or taxi.
The peaceful Norfolk Broads, National Park lies to the east of the cathedral city of Norwich, with 30 calm, shallow lakes fringed with reeds, alder or willow. They are interlinked by a series of rivers and man-made dykes to form around 200 miles of sailable waterways in serene countryside.
Due to the unique nature of the area, the Norfolk Broads and its slow-moving rivers and silent marshes make for an exquisite place to explore our native wildlife and catch migrating birds that visit the area on route as a respite from their mammoth journey south.
Hickling Broads is the largest of the freshwater lakes and research in the 1950s lead archaeologist’s to believe that it was man made in the medieval times when the locals dug out the peat from the marshland.
The Norfolk Wherry sailing barges were once a famous site, with their shallow keel and huge red sails transporting the local goods from Great Yarmouth up to the city of Norwich along the Broads rivers.
The centre of the Broads is Wroxham, with a local rail and bus link to Norwich and the facility to hire out Broads Cruisers and Sailing Boats on either a daily or holiday basis. Hiring a boat and taking a trip up the river is really the only true way to explore and experience the natural beauty and breath-taking skies of the region.
The broads are mainly a fresh water environment, where the likes of the British Otter population seem to be making a welcome come back because of the quality of the water and the surrounding landscape. The marshland and reed beds amongst the waterways of the Norfolk Broads make the area a happy hunting ground for many kinds of birds. Mosquito repellent is highly recommended during the summer season as the unique flora attracts a variety of insects, dragonflies and butterflies.
The coast is also a well earned rest for migrating birds on route from the north flying to warmer climates in autumn and on their way back in spring. Two migrant waders from the north are the Knot, and the bar-tailed Godwit, which gather in huge flocks on the mud flats on the coastal edges of the Norfolk Broads. A real special treat for all birdwatchers to come and enjoy the amazing range of birds; whilst cruising down the rivers of the Norfolk Broads on a boat.
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We are so close to the re launch now stress levels are running high in the office. We want the new site to be a massive step forward for how a directory can work.
Right now we are working on the client admin area which will have some great new functions.
Despite the existing site looking and working just past its sell by date, visitor numbers have been up again. Another million visitors by the end of the year is looking good.
The new site will provide a great new opportunity to market tourism and entertainment businesses here in Norfolk and Suffolk. But for the first time will provide retail and other business types a great opportunity to. The SEO plan for this starts very soon. So keep an eye out
This great pub in Norwich always puts on some great events and is much loved and used by the local community
Checkout their official facebook page for more info
A Day at The Races – Sunday 29th August. £35 per person. Includes Full English at The Cottage, transport, Premier Tickets for Yarmouth Races and BBQ and Music back at The Cottage.
We still have a few spaces left £10 deposit required. Pop in or give us a call 01603 665535.
The chemical effects of falling in love and eating chocolate is similar.
Milk is very good for us so when you have time indulge both at once surely thats a good thing!
Well with perfect timing for the school holidays right now in Norwich the Shake Shed brings together the whole package in what looks to be a brilliant fun addition to the city.
Time to get the chocolate out……
“Happy Saturday Shed Fans!!! 
It’s our first Saturday in the city and we are super excited!! We’ve got our camera at the ready, FREE wristbands which will get you 10% off for life….and of course a Shed load of Shakes!! Come on down and join us!! x”
Shake Shed Norwich sells a shed load of shakes, smoothies and hot chocolates, so come on in – chill out on the bean bags, surf the net using our free Wi-Fi and enjoy the ride!!
Visit the official Shake Shed facebook page
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Information up date from the Broads Authority Team…….
Record numbers of the rare and exotic Swallowtail Butterfly have appeared in the Broads this summer – the first increase in nearly 100 years.
The Swallowtail, Britain’s largest butterfly, draws enthusiasts from all over the UK to the Broads. This year large numbers of Swallowtails have been seen at How Hill National Nature Reserve, Hickling Broad and Strumpshaw Fen from late May until early July and a rare second brood is extending the Swallowtail season into August.
Swallowtails were once widespread across the UK but they are now found only in the Broads and at Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire.
The rise is thought to be due to successful fen management over the last 15 years which has resulted in an increase in milk parsley which provides food for the Swallowtail caterpillars.
Numbers declined sharply in the 1920s when the demand for thatch and marsh hay for London cab horses diminished bringing about a decline in the reed and sedge cutting industry. This left the marshes overgrown and neglected. By the 1980s much of the open fen had been lost and milk parsley could not survive in the scrub which meant there was limited food for the caterpillars.
In the late nineties the Broads Authority, a member of the National Park family, set in motion a fen management strategy and together with the Norfolk and Suffolk Wildlife Trusts, RSPB, Natural England, National Trust and private landowners began harvesting the fen and clearing scrub which had been invading the fen since the Second World War. Government funding from agri-environment schemes to landowners has financed much of the work.
Andrea Kelly Head of Conservation at the Broads Authority said ‘This restoration programme is a fantastic demonstration of how public funding is providing magnificent wildlife results for seven million visitors who visit the Broads magical waterland each year. More visitors are saying that they have easily spotted Swallowtails this year.’
Factfile:
· The Swallowtail has a wingspan of up to 9 cm. Its wings are predominantly yellow with dramatic black markings and scalloped edging at the bottom. The British race is the subspecies britannicus, which is slightly smaller and darker than its continental cousin.
· Places to spot Swallowtails are the Broads Authority’s How Hill National Nature Reserve, near Ludham, NWT Hickling Broad and the RSPB’s Strumpshaw Fen.
Banham Zoo Snow leopard Cubs
They are so cute don’t you think and so important to the European Breeding Programme.
Banham Zoo’s three snow leopards cubs are ready to be introduced to the zoo’s summer visitors and are certain to be the most popular animals in the zoo this year.
These three 10 week old cubs are bound to prove a massive hit this summer at the Zoo, the two females and one male cub have passed their first medical check up and are ready to join the main purpose built snow leopard enclosure.
Staff have now prepared the ‘nursery area’ in the outside enclosure so that the cubs are able to access part of the zoos recently constructed “Province of the snow cat” which was opened by the zoo’s director Martin Goymour in April 2009.
Although slightly tentative at first the cubs are growing in confidence and have begun to explore their outside surroundings under the watchful gaze of mum Enif.
The cubs were born in May 2010 in a purpose built cubbing box. This was fitted with infrared CCTV cameras in all 4 corners, during their first few months this has allowed the staff and visitors unprecedented access to watch and monitor the cub’s progress, both audibly and visually, on a screen set up on the snow leopard house wall. Footage of the birth has now been placed on the zoo’s facebook page.
The cubs, although still tiny in comparison to mum, have been growing well and staff and visitors alike are looking forward to the next stage in their development as they learn to climb the rocky terrain of their enclosure just as they would in the wild.
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