Comments on: Government closing 600 UK sites good news & bad news for SEO’s

By: steven philip boyce

steven philip boyce — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:12:18 +0000

i’m going to miss my business link advisor – we had some great meetings – i found the advice very helpful.

By: Manchester Web Design

Manchester Web Design — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:03:00 +0000

I don’t think this has stirred up the SEO industry that much, As long as there is limited topspots for rankings and excess demand for those spaces, the SEO industry will continue to thrive.

By: Web Design Norwich

Web Design Norwich — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:41:21 +0000

This has to be good news for all SEO agencies out there and from a general point of view everyone! as they have been spending silly amounts on useless websites.

By: Neil Smith @ Used Skis

Neil Smith @ Used Skis — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:48:49 +0000

Should have checked before I posted !
The list is at
http://coi.gov.uk/aboutcoi.php?page=357

not too sure which site are going though ..
Probably
number10.gov.uk
mod.uk
:)
LOL

By: Neil Smith @ Used Skis

Neil Smith @ Used Skis — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:45:25 +0000

Great stuff ! Patrick, this is why blogstorm is a high Alexa site in the UK !

This is another surprise move by the conservative government. Just to echo the other commenter , is there a list of these sites ?

By: Yorba Linda Homes

Yorba Linda Homes — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:44:45 +0000

Now that is an expensive website!!! lol The cost of the websites stipulated above are a budget cutting effort that many individals would never had thought of. The monetary figures for the site seems astranomical. Very interesting read thanks for sharing – p.s. most expensive site i've read about!

By: Stephen Webb

Stephen Webb — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:21:00 +0000

This will have a huge impact and i'm sure was not a decision that was rushed. Closing this many websites will have a ripple effect, a result of which will be the void in search results as mentioned. I'm sure there will be a fair few companies who will try and take advantage of this opportunity and offer their SEO services.

It will be interesting to see how Google will handle this many sites and links disappearing, as certain search results will be completely shaken up once the sites are offline. The discontinued sites will no doubt have had a good search ranking, and therefore the impact of them disappearing will be widespread.

By: James Saperia

James Saperia — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:10:57 +0000

I see the old Business Link West Yorkshire domain (blwy dot co dot uk) has already fallen into private hands and has been re-branded as Business News.

By: David Iwanow

David Iwanow — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:51:48 +0000

Why don't they open up running the sites to private industry who might be able to maintain a site for less than £35 million/year. Seriously that's insane prices for a website, but I guess a lot of web development agencies might be out of pocket now they lost that cashcow….

By: B2B Data UK

B2B Data UK — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:32:25 +0000

Sounds good to me, as now i can capitalise on the weakened positioning of my rivals. First page here we come. We've already gone up 4 pages in 4 weeks.