marsdenman en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:55:07 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://singletrackworld.com/forum/search.php http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1149721 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:44:44 +0000 mastiles_fanylion 1149721@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Honey????? WTF! Why not use mango chutney and keep it remotely Indian? </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1149618 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:27:31 +0000 mrsflash 1149618@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>mmmmm curry. We had a lamb and potato curry tonight. was yum. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1149452 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:53:47 +0000 spokebloke 1149452@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Got the new book this week and did the base a couple of evenings ago. Wife came back from the pub and said the house smelled fantastic. Resulting chicken tikka masala (3 kids under the age of 9) was bloody marvellous. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1149329 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:27:31 +0000 lowey 1149329@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>I had a few more go&#39;s at Kris&#39; base sauce. I find it much more pleasant using spanish onions. Got a batch on the go even as I type.</p> <p>This one isnt too bad either :-</p> <p><a href="http://www.curryhouse.co.uk/rsc/maindish.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.curryhouse.co.uk/rsc/maindish.htm</a> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1149051 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:11:03 +0000 DaddyPig 1149051@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>I&#39;m interested in the new base sauce recipe. original proper stinks the house out </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1149008 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:52:46 +0000 Drac 1149008@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Apparently it&#39;s a bit shit. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1148998 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:49:25 +0000 DaddyPig 1148998@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Anyone tried the new curry secret book?? </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1062049 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:43:22 +0000 zaskar 1062049@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Where does Luke live again?</p> <p>Mmm food....signs off... om nom nom </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1061980 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:08:27 +0000 AndyPaice 1061980@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>if you can find a copy try &#39;Floyds India&#39; by Keith Floyd. Some very good currys in there <img src="http://singletrackworld.com/forum/my-plugins/bbcode-buttons/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" alt=""/> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1060575 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:26:02 +0000 Drac 1060575@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p><em>I wouldnt be put off by too much onion IMO as Onion also helps to thicken the sauce, try whizzing the onion in a food processor firts or at least half of it. </em></p> <p>That&#39;s what the book suggests it&#39;s still too much, the indian forum up there is far better than the book.</p> <p>Just bought Gordon Ramsays new book and made one from there was excellent. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1060513 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:10:33 +0000 4ndy B 1060513@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>I&#39;ve been using this curry cookbook for over 10 years</p> <p><a href="http://www.kazi.org/products/Encyclopedia_of_Indian_Cooking-2242-14.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kazi.org/products/Encyclopedia_of_Indian_Cooking-2242-14.html</a></p> <p>The curries taste far better than in any curry house I&#39;ve ever eaten in.</p> <p>Delhi Chicken curry &amp; spiced Mango rice are two of my faves from the book </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1060484 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:04:15 +0000 Johnboy373 1060484@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>I use this recipe. Perfect every time.</p> <p><a href="http://www.natco-online.com/acatalog/Holy_Grail.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.natco-online.com/acatalog/Holy_Grail.html</a></p> <p>I wouldnt bother with the secret onion paste part tho. Alot of work for not much taste IMO. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1060089 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:41:56 +0000 lowey 1060089@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Moved away from Kris&#39;s base curry now as the smell of the boiling onions was horrendous.</p> <p>Started using the Melting Base Gravy revision 3 from this web site. Much nicer.</p> <p><a href="http://indian-recipe.org/curryforum/showthread.php?t=4233" rel="nofollow">http://indian-recipe.org/curryforum/showthread.php?t=4233</a> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1059674 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:22:14 +0000 Dorset_Knob 1059674@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>I&#39;ve been making my own curries from scratch for ~20 years <img src="http://singletrackworld.com/forum/my-plugins/bbcode-buttons/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" alt=""/> </p> <p>A little secret worth knowing when you start going <em>off-piste</em> and experimenting with your own spice mixes, probably after a few beers, is this: if it all goes wrong, put in a dollop of honey. That will bring you back on course.</p> <p>An alternative is tomato ketchup, but deploying the honey makes it looks like you know what you&#39;re doing if you have an audience.</p> <p>And if it&#39;s gone really wrong, you can splosh in white wine vinegar / cider vinegar, <em><strong>then</strong></em> a dollop of honey, and call it &#39;sweet &amp; sour&#39;. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1059658 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:14:53 +0000 aP 1059658@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Anjum Anand is the bible in this house. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1059653 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:12:24 +0000 me1onhead 1059653@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Just ordered it now.<br /> As it happens I&#39;ve recently been asking around workmates for a recommended curry book.</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1059612 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:46:46 +0000 munkster 1059612@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Just made the base curry sauce from this book - all going well so far EXCEPT it seems to have made twice as much as the book suggests it&#39;ll make!!</p> <p>I&#39;m pretty sure I&#39;ve followed the recipe to the letter but now I&#39;m not so sure... Anyone else find this? ta! </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1058647 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:57:52 +0000 5thElefant 1058647@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>On most forums you can stick in a sig line. If your mate posts on lots of, say, camera forums... get that sig line filled in. 1,000 links from a major camera forum will do the world of good for rankings. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1058637 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:55:37 +0000 LoCo 1058637@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054996 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:02:30 +0000 mastiles_fanylion 1054996@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>That site is nice but it isn&#39;t going to be very well SEO&#39;d as it is all Flash...</p> <p>You can&#39;t win can you <img src="http://singletrackworld.com/forum/my-plugins/bbcode-buttons/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" alt=""/> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054983 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:58:15 +0000 colande 1054983@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p><blockquote><br /> mastiles_fanylion - Member</p> <p>I just don&#39;t think the site reflects what is a creative industry very well - it looks old and dated to me. Obviously it is all subjective, but I have seen much more polished photography sites.</p> <p>And what Leffeboy says - it just isn&#39;t compelling. To make a High Street metaphor - someone could have the best spot on the High Street, but if the shopfront isn&#39;t enticing people in, they won&#39;t make the sales.</blockquote></p> <p>+1 agreed the site is bland<br /> way too much text and not enough photography, </p> <p>this is the only photographer i know, and her website is much more interesting , image rich, colourful, contemporary.<br /> <a href="http://www.phototom.co.uk/index2.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.phototom.co.uk/index2.php</a> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054912 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:35:45 +0000 mastiles_fanylion 1054912@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>I&#39;m not sure why mastiles_fanylion doesn&#39;t like the site but I would suggest loads more pictures and flash to make a slideshow so people will stay looking at your site longer. You can&#39;t click on any of the pics to zoom in which just isn&#39;t good enough any more</blockquote></p> <p>I just don&#39;t think the site reflects what is a creative industry very well - it looks old and dated to me. Obviously it is all subjective, but I have seen much more polished photography sites.</p> <p>And what Leffeboy says - it just isn&#39;t compelling. To make a High Street metaphor - someone could have the best spot on the High Street, but if the shopfront isn&#39;t enticing people in, they won&#39;t make the sales. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054902 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:31:26 +0000 leffeboy 1054902@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>Where specifically to spend cash on advertising would you suggest in terms of return on investment?</blockquote></p> <p>Google AdWords. He needs to bid on combinations of &quot;photographer&quot; and &quot;worcester&quot; and he only needs to use it for the area he is in of course. </p> <p><blockquote>He&#39;s done that in the past before, with next to zero return by way of results...</blockquote><br /> He may have got a lot of visitors but not converted them to bookings because the website isn&#39;t compelling enough. So he needs to be using Google Analytics (or something similar) to see when people visit, what part of his site they go to, how long they spend looking around to see if it gives any clues as to what point they give up on him.</p> <p>...and everything that TimS said as well </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054582 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:15:00 +0000 TimS 1054582@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>What&#39;s not immediately clear from the website when I visited is how to contact him - there&#39;s no &quot;call to action&quot;. It could be that lots of people are visiting the site, but then go away again straight away without making contact. There&#39;s loads of books on the subject and <a href="http://www.cxpartners.co.uk/cxblog">these guys</a> talk a lot of sense regarding usability.<br /> Also, for a photographer&#39;s website, I don&#39;t like the look of the it: it looks to cluttered with text, and doesn&#39;t make enough of the pictures (which is what I&#39;d want to see as a potential customer) , but that&#39;s a personal thing. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054562 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:10:03 +0000 Mary Hinge 1054562@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>It&#39;s all in the links (apparently).</p> <p>My neighbour has his own web design company <a href="http://www.fish-media.net/">Fish Media</a> and does small sites quite cheap.</p> <p>Also done stuff with Brawn F1, CenterParcs, M&amp;S so knows his stuff.</p> <p>Worth a call I&#39;d say. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054553 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:07:05 +0000 mboy 1054553@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>But when in doubt spend some cash on advertising. </blockquote></p> <p>He&#39;s done that in the past before, with next to zero return by way of results...</p> <p>Where specifically to spend cash on advertising would you suggest in terms of return on investment? </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054514 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:53:58 +0000 Ogg 1054514@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Google ignores meta tags, links from other websites with a higher page rank are the most important along with good descriptive text on the pages.<br /> But when in doubt spend some cash on advertising. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054513 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:53:52 +0000 leffeboy 1054513@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>I&#39;m not sure why mastiles_fanylion doesn&#39;t like the site but I would suggest loads more pictures and flash to make a slideshow so people will stay looking at your site longer. You can&#39;t click on any of the pics to zoom in which just isn&#39;t good enough any more </p> <p>As for good relevant content on a photo site, that means every picture has a caption next to it and a story nearby that is relates to that picture. Name the photo appropriately and also use &#39;Alt&#39; text to describe it. Help the search engines know what is going on as they can&#39;t see</p> <p>Good sites - take a look <a href="http://www.moonriverphotography.com">here</a> (not mine)</p> <p>He could make life easier by using a specific pro photo host. The above site is on <a href="http://www.smugmug.com">SmugMug</a> but they don&#39;t handle gbp yet which makes them a bit of a pain for selling photos </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054463 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:37:39 +0000 mboy 1054463@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>And looking at the site - tbh I wouldn&#39;t consider using the guy because it just doesn&#39;t look very professional. If I were him I woulc be looking at a redesign of it before spending time/money getting it up page rankings. </blockquote></p> <p>Fair comment, but could you expand why?</p> <p>Also, any examples of anything you&#39;d consider a good photographers website would be appreciated for comparison.</p> <p><blockquote>re you have the URL submitted to the search engines is quite important. </blockquote></p> <p>Without wishing to sound dumb, on a photography website, what constitutes &quot;good relevant content&quot; that isn&#39;t already on there? </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054461 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:37:11 +0000 nightbikeman 1054461@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Sign up for the webmaster tools and you can tell google about your site <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/webmasters/">http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/webmasters/</a> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054444 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:31:00 +0000 leffeboy 1054444@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>Still doesn&#39;t come up on google for me though no matter what I search...</blockquote></p> <p>interesting, I changed browsers and it came much lower. Google also taylors your results to what you have searched for before so that may be why</p> <p><blockquote>thing is he&#39;s not just a wedding photographer, in fact he&#39;d rather get away from it!</blockquote></p> <p>Then definitely AdWords and make sure his info is embedded in photos so that if companies post them on other sites for whatever reason the search engines will pick up that info. Similarly he has to make sure wherever possible that he is given credit for the photo using a link. It&#39;s hard work but every link counts and it does pay off.</p> <p>And what mastiles_fanylion says - good relevant content. Get him to modify the meta tags depending on what is on the page so that they are relevant as well </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054420 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:24:31 +0000 mastiles_fanylion 1054420@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>And looking at the site - tbh I wouldn&#39;t consider using the guy because it just doesn&#39;t look very professional. If I were him I woulc be looking at a redesign of it before spending time/money getting it up page rankings. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054412 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:21:44 +0000 mastiles_fanylion 1054412@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>It has more to do with how the site is constructed than anything else - and making sure you have the URL submitted to the search engines is quite important. Make sure there is good relevant content . </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054370 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:10:09 +0000 mboy 1054370@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Cheers both, will give him this thread to read in a bit...</p> <p>leffeboy, thing is he&#39;s not just a wedding photographer, in fact he&#39;d rather get away from it! Still doesn&#39;t come up on google for me though no matter what I search... </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054295 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:40:05 +0000 Candodavid 1054295@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Killer-Web-Content-Deliver-Service/dp/071367704X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1264109945&amp;sr=8-1">Best web design book i have read</a> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054292 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:38:53 +0000 leffeboy 1054292@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>If I search for &quot;wedding photographer worcester&quot; he is 4th which isn&#39;t bad<br /> but<br /> currently he has a pagerank of 0 (in Google of course) which means he will low down the pile for all standard searches such as &#39;photographer worcester&#39;. He can improve his page rank a bit by signing up in relevant photography forums (e.g. dgrin) and making sure a link to his site is in his footer. Currently only two sites link to him and that isn&#39;t enough. Posting random links to his site is frowned upon. The more relevant the site/link, the more effective it is likely to be. IPTC info in the photos on the site might help with their relevance as well (his site name should be embedded in all photos in case anyone else posts them up). Blogging on events he takes pics of helps as well.</p> <p>However, pagerank really isn&#39;t everything and in this case he probably needs to look at Google AdWords. I think there is a deal running where they offer $100 for you to try but you need to sign up for Google Analytics first (he isn&#39;t using it - he should be). He probably needs to up his prices a bit and spend a bit more on advertising to get random web traffic in.</p> <p>good luck </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/improving-a-websites-hits-on-a-search-engine#post-1054119 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:58:38 +0000 mboy 1054119@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>My Housemate is an event photographer, been doing it for a few years and he&#39;s not at all bad at it... Anyway... The issue is he&#39;s only getting dribs and drabs of work in through his website. He&#39;s recently moved area (moved back to Worcester from Herts 6 months ago), but isn&#39;t too bothered where the work is, though it would be beneficial if it was local...</p> <p>Anyway, when I search &quot;Photographer Worcester&quot; on google, his website is pretty much nowhere to be seen. Is it just as simple as banging on loads of times on your homepage where you&#39;re based, and what it is you do? Or is there more to it than that?</p> <p>His website is here...</p> <p><a href="http://www.esthetephotography.com/">http://www.esthetephotography.com/</a></p> <p>Any hints or tips would be gratefully appreciated, and likewise, if anybody needs a photographer for any upcoming events, let me know and I&#39;ll get him to get in touch and give you some discount too. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1038833 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:48:51 +0000 flippinheckler 1038833@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>Drac - Member<br /> Yup great book but I find the base sauce uses a bit too much onion</blockquote></p> <p>I wouldnt be put off by too much onion IMO as Onion also helps to thicken the sauce, try whizzing the onion in a food processor firts or at least half of it. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1038797 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:41:27 +0000 lowey 1038797@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>No mate.... simple job made easier with a blender though. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/curry-secret-book-wow-i-just-ate-curry-house-curry-and-i-made-it-myself#post-1038528 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:49:57 +0000 DaddyPig 1038528@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>is it a massive effort knocking up the base sauces? </p>