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		<title>Internet and SEO Services for Sites</title>
		<link>http://www.dcsavvy.com/internet-and-seo-services-for-sites-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lovely</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Popularity of your site and its potential to earn good money depends upon internet and the search engine results. I stumbled upon a Toronto SEO Company which has helped many sites to get the desired rank with the search engines. SEO needs to be taken very seriously because it effects the traffic to your website. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Popularity of your site and its potential to earn good money depends upon internet and the search engine results. I stumbled upon a Toronto SEO Company which has helped many sites to get the desired rank with the search engines. SEO needs to be taken very seriously because it effects the traffic to your website. You may be having the best designed site but there is no use if people can not find it. That’s where the search engines come in place to help you. But it takes more than good design to be ranked with the search engines. A SEO company works with you to identify the keywords which would be used by the users to search on internet. The keywords are populated well so that search engine picks up your site in the results. The rank in top 10 results is what most people desire to get.  A well defined SEO service would strive for this. You may choose to optimize your first page or entire site. It all depends upon your budget and the company you choose for doing the job.</p>
<p>You can go extra miles for making your site more popular and get some good sale volume converted from traffic you get. Pay per click advertising is a good method as suggested to me by this company, to share the banners with the sites that are either in similar business or have the high traffic websites. You can identify the affiliate programs to participate and most of these companies have good options to give you the matching banners to your business. Once your site gets its optimum results with search engine and you notice the increase in visitor counts, you may choose to either offer you ads or go along with the big providers to make extra bucks with your site.  It does not take very long to put up these banners. The pay per click program may give you the edge over the others and your website can start earning from the first month of operations itself. Just find out the suitable program for your site and host it on your pages. It is worth to check the high paying ads targeted to site owners.</p>
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		<title>How to make money on the internet</title>
		<link>http://www.dcsavvy.com/how-to-make-money-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lovely</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earn money online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make money from home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make money on internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make money online]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays with the internet connection at out house many people prefer earning from their house. There are many ways through which you can make money effectively from home using internet. Now that the internet brings you anything and everything at your doorstep, the chances of making a profitable earning through the internet is very high. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nowadays with the internet connection at out house many people prefer earning from their house. There are many ways through which you can make money effectively from home using internet. Now that the internet brings you anything and everything at your doorstep, the chances of making a profitable earning through the internet is very high. There are many companies which facilitates job from home scheme. In such schemes you get to from home using the internet and you get paid for like regular workers. One might keep wondering what the possible ways to make money from home are. Internet always helps you in this concern. There is ample number of options available to make money online. There are many internet blogs and online forums which suggests you many available options.</p>
<p>All that you should do is a little browsing on the accessible jobs that are there on the internet. There are many ways to make money online. There is just one drawback, where there are websites which directs you to surveys which makes others earn money. Leave alone that disadvantage to look at the very big opportunity to make money online. There are many options such as: you might make money by taking paid online surveys, money blogging, making money by creating websites, affiliate marketing, flipping websites, simple article writing, data entry, encoding medical transcription, trading binary options, Google adsense, selling products at eBay and the freelance writing and much more. These are just few available options to list. There are many other ways to make money. If you good at marketing the best option that suits you would be to sell your own product. Write a blog on something which you think you are good at and advertise it on the internet and sell it, by which you can earn a real lot of sum. The second<br />
best option would be freelance writing or the data entry writing or the article writing. These involve minimal skills and don’t stress you much. They don’t need any caution deposit or any kind of earlier investment. Some websites would be specific about the pre-investment. Most of the website will want you to invest before you start working. You should take care about the various terms and conditions that the website puts forward. You shouldn’t get tied up with something before knowing the brief history of the website.</p>
<p>The websites that offer you a job to <a href="http://makemoneyonline.biz/" target="_blank">make money online</a> will have its own conditions which one must check under any circumstance. Stock market is one another way through which people can make loads of money. One can keep track of the share markets every now and then through the internet. This requires your knowledge to make a profit. You might find many other options in some of the online forums and blogs regarding the several ways to make money online. There are few other options other than the listed ones above. Ensure you go and register in the right website or you go on the right way to earn money online.</p>
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		<title>Internet reputation management</title>
		<link>http://www.dcsavvy.com/internet-reputation-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lovely</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inoculation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet reputation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The continued success of an online business venture depends a lot on how your potential customers perceive you and in these days when everything is out there in the open and can be accessed through the internet, it is all the more important that your reputation is beyond blemish and spotless. Customers, partners, vendors and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The continued success of an online business venture depends a lot on how your potential customers perceive you and in these days when everything is out there in the open and can be accessed through the internet, it is all the more important that your reputation is beyond blemish and spotless. Customers, partners, vendors and the general public would like to deal with only those companies or units that are clean and transparent. Even employees would like to remain loyal only to those companies that are beyond any reproach and that is the reason why it is very essential to protect one’s reputation.</p>
<div id="attachment_119" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 486px"><img class="size-full wp-image-119" src="http://www.dcsavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/SocialMediaLandscape.png" alt="Interent reputation management" width="476" height="320" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Interent reputation management</p></div>
<p>At the same time, the internet can also be used by vested interests to create a lot of mischief and post erroneous information about somebody and that can result in people reading the wrong things about that person, which will directly impact his business interests. As more and more such information is posted about the company or the person, the sites on which they are posted often rise in page rank and get read by more and more people thereby magnifying the issue several times over.</p>
<p>Fortunately, there exist entities that are referred to as reputation management consultants and they can resolve such issues quickly due to the expertise they have gathered over the years and such entities ensure that they undo any damage that is caused due to any negative and misleading postings by these vested interests.</p>
<p>When such reputation management consultants propose a solution, they do so after careful study of the problem and the solution is a long term one so that you are bothered with the issue again in the near future.</p>
<p><strong>So how do they actually work?</strong></p>
<p>They follow an online repair service that is referred to as ‘Inoculation’, in which they ensure that the initial pages of results that are thrown up through a search are not visible to the surfer and instead only positive news about the company or person gets reflected. This will automatically push the negative postings down and the surfer will not be able to see them. If you are the affected party, you can see the results through monthly reports that are submitted to you by these agencies and that should allow you to concentrate on your online business without any apprehension.</p>
<p>They make use of positive news gathered through earlier press releases or that given by customers for the Inoculation process and also ensure that they link this through other micro sites and blogs so that the same content gets reflected. They constantly monitor search engine rankings and the effects of their Inoculation campaign so that the impact is long term and your reputation is well protected over many years.</p>
<p>So to summarize, <a href="http://chooseacharity.net/reputationmanagementconsultants-com-–-idea-of-inoculation" target="_blank">ReputationManagementConsultants.com</a> essentially combine effective and advanced search engine optimization techniques to manage their Inoculation process. As mentioned earlier, they will use techniques based on the impact you want them to create and will make use of a variety of mediums such as micro sites, blogs and press releases to ensure your reputation is intact and not sullied.</p>
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		<title>Web development – A team effort</title>
		<link>http://www.dcsavvy.com/web-development-a-team-effort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lovely</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[application software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web designing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s business, you cannot afford not to have a website of your company as many people are using computers to source information about companies, products and services. If you do not have a website, you could be losing out to your competitors who would be in a position to reach across more favorably to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_110" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 458px"><img class="size-full wp-image-110" src="http://www.dcsavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/web-development1.JPG" alt="Web development" width="448" height="336" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Web development</p></div>
<p>In today’s business, you cannot afford not to have a website of your company as many people are using computers to source information about companies, products and services. If you do not have a website, you could be losing out to your competitors who would be in a position to reach across more favorably to your target audience.</p>
<p><strong>So how do you go about making a website?</strong></p>
<p>The answer to that is you have to get in touch with professional web development companies who are able to design, provide content to the site, help you in online business development opportunities and also provide all the necessary scripting as well as coding required to run the website smoothly. Web site development encompasses a range of activities and need not be restricted to just the design of the site in question. Both static as well as complicated internet dependent application software needs to be attended to by such developers.</p>
<p>This is an activity that involves a number of qualified and capable people, each bringing his or her expertise to the function. So you have code writers, designers, content writers who can deliver content that is SEO friendly and meets the customer’s expectations and so on. It is usually not possible for a single individual to attend to everything and come up with a website that is high class. In that respect, every web development company is similar and differs only in the number of people they employ to carry out these functions. Smaller companies take on lesser jobs and concentrate on them with limited number of individuals and the bigger ones are able to take on diverse assignments due to more number of people working for them. The webmaster is the captain of the ship so to say and it is he who coordinates and makes sure that the website is delivered as per the customer’s requirement. He is somebody who must have a working knowledge of all aspects related to web designing and hosting.</p>
<p>This industry has shown phenomenal growth over the last two decades and that is not surprising considering more and more companies wish to get closer to their customers through the internet and presenting a website is the best way to do that. They have realized that traditional ways of communicating with customers are no longer adequate and the customer now has more options to choose from. Unless they maintain regular communication and contact, they stand to lose their customers.</p>
<p>With so many <a href="http://www.seop.com/web-development/" target="_blank">web development</a> companies wooing you, it becomes critical to compare them for what each of them can offer, check out the rates at which they can do the job, take referrals from existing customers and only then decide on the one company who will design your website. It is thus necessary to balance what you are expecting out of the company along with the budget you can afford so that your business interests are well taken care of.</p>
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		<title>Get your site developed &amp; designed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lovely</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The great business ideas must have the great implementation as well. There are many business owners who run the services for the masses. Yet to contact them you have to use the phone and directories. In today&#8217;s times you can not survive with that business model. A business without a website is just like living [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The great business ideas must have the great implementation as well. There are many business owners who run the services for the masses. Yet to contact them you have to use the phone and directories. In today&#8217;s times you can not survive with that business model. A business without a website is just like living in dark ages. A website is a basic requirement for any business. I was referred <a href="http://www.9thsphere.com/" target="_blank">Toronto web design</a> company by one <a href="http://www.onedegree.ca/" target="_blank">blog</a> and it helped me getting very detailed website. A corporate site is all about the mission and corporate statement. A website is like your printed material which can be read by all which includes the media and your customers. A slow moving business can be accelerated with good marketing campaigns launched online for the business website. You need to get a website if you do not have it so far. Almost all types of business houses have their dedicated websites to offer the information and services to their customers. Even the individuals are having their websites where they post the blogs and other material which is widely read by all.  <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-102" src="http://www.dcsavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/website_design.jpg" alt="website_design" width="404" height="332" /></p>
<p>It is not very difficult to get your website created but more over it requires the preparation and the material with sound words which would appeal to your customers. I got everything well designed with the help of the Toronto based website design firm and it equipped the site with everything a site needs. The best approach is to involve your people during the process of your website designing and have a professional web design and develop to create your website. You can ask multiple designs to be created for review and selection. It would make right sense to go with the best branding theme and colours. Any design you select will become your identity online.</p>
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		<title>Buying an established website</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lovely</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buy established website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buy website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[established website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[websites for sale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you have some few extra hours a day that could be spent running a online business probably for advertising your product and services or for checking and responding to emails, have you considered buying your own website for your business? if not, then don&#8217;t panic from where to begin as websites for sale offers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have some few extra hours a day that could be spent running a online business probably for advertising your product and services or for checking and responding to emails, have you considered buying your own website for your business? if not, then don&#8217;t panic from where to begin as <a href="http://www.consultsites.com/" target="_blank">websites for sale</a> offers you ready to use, established websites to run your business online. When you buy an established website, then you have skipped the process of designing and building a new site, your next target is just to promote your new online business to start making money right away! Buying established website saves more cost than having a customised site developed for you. It save you lots of time, energy and cost would have been spent on process such as domain name registration, web hosting, adding good content and laying the foundation of SEO.</p>
<p>An established website has more chance of ranking high in search engine and in return attract more traffic, because a site that has been online for years probably the owner does not have the time to run it again or has lost interest in it but with a lot of backlines and lots of traffic, will give you a chance to make more money from the first day you bought it. Websites are easy to buy with lots of sellers online with wide range of websites, if you are looking to make money online with your own online business then you have come to the right place as <a href="http://www.consultsites.com/" target="_blank">websites for sale</a> is the leading marketplace for buying and selling fully functional websites, established adult ecommerce website, established golf ecommerce website, established jewellery affiliate website and established kid toys ecommerce Website.</p>
<p>Remember buying an established website will save you the time to develop a new site, the age of the domain name and the site content is also valuable. So if you are thinking about entering an online business a more convenient way is to buy an established website with steady flow of traffic.</p>
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		<title>SEO and pay per click management</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lovely</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creating a website which earns profits and revenue round the year is not very easy task. It involves many steps right from registering a domain name which must be easier for users to remember and refer to others. Once you have a domain name which has marketable name. The next step is to optimize the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Creating a website which earns profits and revenue round the year is not very easy task. It involves many steps right from registering a domain name which must be easier for users to remember and refer to others. Once you have a domain name which has marketable name. The next step is to optimize the content on it. You need the expert help in figuring out what is going make sense and get you the visitors from online search engines.</p>
<p>While you are redesigning the look of your site and optimizing the text there, you can think of signing up with a <a href=" http://www.topclickmedia.co.uk" target="_blank">pay per click management company</a>. This step needs to be taken at the early stages of building a great online site as you go forward promoting your site, it would be able to earn you the money as well. The new age search engines are smart and run with the advanced algorithms.</p>
<p>It is very difficult to fool the search engines for ranking your site in first 10 results. A well managed service from <a href=" http://www.topclickmedia.co.uk/seo.htm" target="_blank">search engine optimisation</a> will be able to advise you properly. Many such companies offer the full services and some can guarantee you the good ranks as well. It is worth to find such companies and invest some money as it is going to be the investment which will earn you good amount in near future. Pay per click advertising is one of the main online advertment method and in most cases, is the most effective ways of advertising online, moreover there are other options you can use to advert your site or business online.</p>
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		<title>Best deal for mobile phone and mobile broadband</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lovely</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile broadand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile phone deals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moile phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nokia N900 contracts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are thousands of mobile phone users around the world and many of those are always looking for best models to play with. The mobile phone is more than a talking machine. Many people hold their phones very dear to them. The newer phones come with good features and are bought in thousands of numbers. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are thousands of mobile phone users around the world and many of those are always looking for best models to play with. The mobile phone is more than a talking machine. Many people hold their phones very dear to them. The newer phones come with good features and are bought in thousands of numbers. UK market is good and ripe with good deals for all the users and buyers of mobile phone.</p>
<p>As a customer it is your right to bargain on the prices for the mobile phones of your choice. With very little efforts you can find the <a href="http://www.moby1.co.uk" target="_blank">mobile phone deals</a> in UK for your next model of moile phone. The modern mobile phones come with advanced features like 3G support. <a href="http://www.best-mobile-contracts.co.uk/mobile-broadband.aspx" target="_blank">Mobile broadband</a> is catching up with the users and you must be able to find the cost effective services. The plans and packages for broadband hold good equation while looking at the options for larger downloads and the bandwidth usage.</p>
<p>Your choices are good at many online stores and the sites of providers. <a href="http://www.best-mobile-contracts.co.uk/phones/Nokia-N900.aspx" target="_blank">Nokia N900 contracts</a> let you have the phone from service providers and these deals come bundled with plans and phones. There are advantages of having the good plans and almost free phone. You would be able to have a nice life around these best deals in UK market.</p>
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		<title>Broadband in Villages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broadband providers like to boast about their coverage within UK, the trust is that ofcom says quite a portion of the UK population either have no broadband at all or have very slow broadband. Its not too bad in cities but in villages, its another matter as illustrated in an article on BBC website, excerpts [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Broadband providers like to boast about their coverage within UK, the trust is that ofcom says quite a portion of the UK population either have no broadband at all or have very slow broadband. Its not too bad in cities but in villages, its another matter as illustrated in an article on BBC website, excerpts of the article follows. Before the excerpts, if you are shopping for broadband you can compare broadband at various websites and conduct broadband speed test compare prices at various websites.</p>
<p>Cumbria is a microcosm of counties across the UK, many of which still have some &#8220;notspot&#8221; areas &#8211; defined as places that have no or below two megabits per second broadband.<br />
Lindsey Annison has been campaigning for faster online connections for her rural community in Cumbria for over 20 years.<br />
She is one of an estimated 15% of the UK population who cannot get speeds above 2Mbps.</p>
<p>The problem, a common one for rural communities, is that her village is just too far away from its local telephone exchange to offer the kind of speeds the government has pledged everyone will have by 2012.<br />
&#8220;On a really good day I can get a 1Mbps connection but you can&#8217;t do anything with it. I can&#8217;t use Skype for example,&#8221; she said.<br />
The fact she can achieve even this is down to help she has got from a firm which specialises in getting more broadband out of lines that are a long way from telephone exchanges.</p>
<p>&#8220;Outlying farms can&#8217;t get anything,&#8221; she said.<br />
Ofcom estimates that 15% of the population cannot get broadband above 2Mbps.</p>
<p>In Northern Ireland nearly a third of homes can&#8217;t get 2Mbps and in Scotland over a quarter languish on slow speeds.</p>
<p>Cumbria has by no means been bypassed by the digital revolution. Last year the North West regional development agency spent £19m on a county-wide wireless network and running fibre to a deprived estate near Carlisle.</p>
<p>But, according to Ms Annison, it has been a failure.</p>
<p>&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t made the slightest bit of difference. I haven&#8217;t found anyone in Cumbria who is getting a connection off of that wireless network,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>This is disputed by the North West Development Agency (NWDA), which was responsible for laying the network.</p>
<p>It said that the network had benefited around 40,000 businesses in the area as well as enabling consumers.</p>
<p>&#8220;Before, only 40% of Cumbria could get half a meg of broadband but now 96% can. People can get significantly better access, up to 2Mb in some instances,&#8221; said Phil Southward of the NWDA.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broadband providers like to boast about their coverage withing UK, the trust is that ofcome says quite a portion of the UK population either have no broadband at all or have very slow broadband. Its not too bad in cities but in villages, its another matter as illustrated in an article on BBC website, excerpts [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Broadband providers like to boast about their coverage withing UK, the trust is that ofcome says quite a portion of the UK population either have no broadband at all or have very slow broadband. Its not too bad in cities but in villages, its another matter as illustrated in an article on BBC website, excerpts of the article follows. Before the excerpts, if you are shopping for broadband you can <a href="http://www.ipseos.com/broadband/" target="_blank">compare broadband</a> at various websites and conduct <a href="http://speedtest.ipseos.com/" target="_blank">broadband speed test</a> and <a href="http://www.ipseos.com/" target="_blank">compare prices</a> at various websites.</p>
<p>Cumbria is a microcosm of counties across the UK, many of which still have some &#8220;notspot&#8221; areas &#8211; defined as places that have no or below two megabits per second broadband.<br />
Lindsey Annison has been campaigning for faster online connections for her rural community in Cumbria for over 20 years.<br />
She is one of an estimated 15% of the UK population who cannot get speeds above 2Mbps.</p>
<p>The problem, a common one for rural communities, is that her village is just too far away from its local telephone exchange to offer the kind of speeds the government has pledged everyone will have by 2012.<br />
&#8220;On a really good day I can get a 1Mbps connection but you can&#8217;t do anything with it. I can&#8217;t use Skype for example,&#8221; she said.<br />
The fact she can achieve even this is down to help she has got from a firm which specialises in getting more broadband out of lines that are a long way from telephone exchanges.</p>
<p>&#8220;Outlying farms can&#8217;t get anything,&#8221; she said.<br />
Ofcom estimates that 15% of the population cannot get broadband above 2Mbps.</p>
<p>In Northern Ireland nearly a third of homes can&#8217;t get 2Mbps and in Scotland over a quarter languish on slow speeds.</p>
<p>Cumbria has by no means been bypassed by the digital revolution. Last year the North West regional development agency spent £19m on a county-wide wireless network and running fibre to a deprived estate near Carlisle.</p>
<p>But, according to Ms Annison, it has been a failure.</p>
<p>&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t made the slightest bit of difference. I haven&#8217;t found anyone in Cumbria who is getting a connection off of that wireless network,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>This is disputed by the North West Development Agency (NWDA), which was responsible for laying the network.</p>
<p>It said that the network had benefitted around 40,000 businesses in the area as well as enabling consumers.</p>
<p>&#8220;Before, only 40% of Cumbria could get half a meg of broadband but now 96% can. People can get significantly better access, up to 2Mb in some instances,&#8221; said Phil Southward of the NWDA.</p>
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