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CM club: can you check out my new website please!

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smeeinit · 17/02/2007 10:00

im in the process of setting up a website,its pretty basic but can you all let me know what you think and sign the guest book!
thanks people!
my website

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saltire · 17/02/2007 10:12

Very good. Liked your sample menus, and the layout is good as well.
All my parents bring food, because they didn't want to pay the £1.50 per day extra for me to feed their child.
Where do you live, because i am moving there if that's what you charge for your hourl rate. Is that the average then for your area? If i tried to charge that much then i'd get no business

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smeeinit · 17/02/2007 10:14

thanks saltire! im in st albans area and yes my hourly rate is the norm around here! infact its the lower end of the scale!

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saltire · 17/02/2007 10:16

The lower end In my part of Fife, the average hourly rate is £3.50 per hour, and many of the CM's who charge that don't get many mindees.

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smeeinit · 17/02/2007 10:22

you need to move to the south east!! then again cost of living is higher here so swings and roundabouts i suppose!! i know people in st albans charging £5.25 p/h!

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dmo · 17/02/2007 10:46

hi great website the only thing i would change is to take your reg number off the website and just give it to parents unpon enrolment
tax credits just phoned yesterday and asked if i had a child x i said no and they had been claiming for 2yrs

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smeeinit · 17/02/2007 10:49

blimey dmo?!!! that is terrible! where did they get your details from?!!!
thanks for letting me know!
p.s.........hows ww this wk?!!

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dmo · 17/02/2007 11:01

not sure where they got my details but it makes me cross
ww not doing this week it was dh b/day on wed so went out for dinner (3 courses), then went out thurs to see ricky gervas and had a chinese, then went out last night for dinner (well boys are at their nanas so got to make the most of it )
boys back today so i'm going to be a saint again
you you doing?

Tan1959 · 17/02/2007 11:13

Great website I just added a message on your guestbook about advertising your Reg No! justmy opinion though

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smeeinit · 17/02/2007 11:22

thanks people, reg number now taken off.

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smeeinit · 17/02/2007 11:22

dmo sounds like a gr8 wk you been having!
not too bad for me this week,altho out 4 lunch and tea today!!!

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dmo · 17/02/2007 11:25

oh well enjoy yourself diet tomorrow

mykidzrmyworld · 17/02/2007 20:03

your website is great-especially as its free! I had to pay for mine so well done and hope it gets u lots of business - I had another enquiry through my website today so it does help!

mumlove · 17/02/2007 20:27

Excellent website, Just the right amount of info on there for the parents to start with.

Did you know that you missed Monday off of your menu plan.

StrawberrySnowflakes · 17/02/2007 21:02

yeah i thought that bout monday?..maybe you dont mind mondays?..but fab site..WELL DONE!

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smeeinit · 18/02/2007 00:05

thanks people! yeah dont know what happened to monday???!!! never did like mondays anyway!

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nally · 18/02/2007 00:17

I live in the wrong area! Average fee for Chelmsford is between £3 and £4.50 per hour. I charge £3 per hour for full-time and £3.50 per hour for part-time. I feel cheeky asking for more because, for some families, it would not be worth them going to work if they had to spend so much on childcare. Maybe I should not worry about that too much and just ask for more? Any thoughts????

NurseyJo · 18/02/2007 00:28

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nally · 18/02/2007 00:40

If you use one of those free websites, is it easily accessible to the outside world...? If I googled it, would it appear?

NurseyJo · 18/02/2007 00:42

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smeeinit · 18/02/2007 15:11

im not too sure if it shows up on a google search.will let you know in couple of months!!
yes jo i did mean to have capitals for twinkle and toes.
thanks everyone for looking and leaving comments,has really helped.
i think it should look better now with a few adjustments? let me know.....................

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SlightlyMadScientist · 19/02/2007 20:09

If you want it to show on a google search you have to tell google its there. Thats true for all websites - don't see why it should matter if it free.

SlightlyMadScientist · 19/02/2007 20:11

Or at least you can tell google its there. It will find it eventually but you have to have it linked (in and out) for the robots to track it. I am just going to try and find the links you need but I am expecting a takeaway any time so if they don't appear immediately that will be why...

SlightlyMadScientist · 19/02/2007 20:18

google

list of other sites and how to register - I havn't bothered with many of these - just the ones I have heard of

nannynick · 19/02/2007 20:42

Regarding Google, googlebot will hunt out sites by following links from other sites. So try to get as many other sites (those sites should have related content) to link to yours. Google has already indexed your thread on the Nanny Share board - however, in that thread you didn't include a link to your website, so may be worth adding it in, so on googlebots next visit it can crawl over to your website. It will take time to be listed.

Dmoz.org is a useful place to get listed, from the point of view of search engines picking up your entry. Can be difficult to get listed, but worth finding a suitable category and submitting a listing request.

nannynick · 19/02/2007 20:45

With google it can also help to have a Google Site Map and also have your site verified. See www.google.com/webmasters/ for more info.