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The prices vary depending on what's included in the service and a London address can be a higher cost.

The virtual office company I own has rates for 3, 6 or 12 month periods but since you don't mention your budget I can't say if it's cheap enough for you or not. The link is in my signature below if you want to check it out.

We may be running a special offer in September - buy 12 months get 12 months free - but it will only be on offer for a limited few days. If you email us we can let you know if/when we advertise the offer.

Why don't you log into your Google places account and see what's happened in there?

Are the 90 sub pages your blog pages?

I dont think it was a accident they said that at all...it was a neat way to create a sudden influx of extra tax for April

I moved a site to another domain back in beginning of January, because we re-branded the business, and the old links are all where they were (or have risen despite no further seo being done on that url) and the new domain is now not far behind for all the original keywords we were chasing, most are about 10 positions back, or less.

Now going to start some SEO on the new url but I wanted to see how it did on it's own out of curiosity having never done it before myself. Obviously you have to keep the old domain hosted for quite a long time until new domain achieves same ranking positions, so I reckon I could ditch it by end of the year however, what I now have is 2 results in google for my keywords, so im not too sure that I even want to dump the old domain....might as well just leave it there since it redirects to the new website and I get 2 bites of the cherry.

Sometimes you know deep down you're right, but you just need a few others to remind you of that, and that you are not going bonkers, that you are not being mean or unreasonable, and when you feel better about that, it will give you more confidence in yourself. Rinse and repeat and you will get stronger.

People dont get you to Gogle No. 1 on Adwords - the amound you pay does (apart from some good adwords campaign set up and management that means it costs you less of course). But you could have paid someone to do that just the same and kept 100% of your business. He is taking advantage of you and that is not someone to be in partnership with.

You still don't explain why after 18 months you are not getting much money int the business yet you are very busy with clients and you describe it as "taking off". I just get the feeling a bit of info is missing here.

Don't do it if you can help it. You have got it this far and his investment is taking a chunk of your past efforts and you lose all control of what you built up with them. Also, what has his 3hr contribution brought in so far? What type of business is it that you have spent so much time on that still isn't bringing you an income by now even though you cannotcope with the workload? ie is there really a business here?

I have often thought of running a promo competition for one free website and at best that is all I would give. And it would be the full bells and whistles with zero catches and obligations....a true promotional free offer where both parties get what they want out of it but without any catches.

The other "free" offers that make me laugh are the SEO companies who say they will choose the ones they want to work with ie they will choose a website where the owner will be happy to be on Google page 1 for "pink dancing monkeys in kent" and then happily promote it on their website (which incidentally, will usually have had no SEO work done on it either).

Regarding the OP's offer, the hosting isn't sold on a 12 month contract it's just pay monthly and if the offer doesn't state it's 12 months either, then the website owner will be able to pay for just 1 or 2 months hosting then move away with their free website.

If they get a website that genuinely is worth a couple or few hundred pounds in any web designer's eyes, then for even 1 years hosting at

So this is what I decided to email as my reply to him:

[FONT=verdana,sans-serif]"Unfortunately the project is well out of its completion time contractually, as it should have been completed by the end of last May and I made several requests for the images so we could progress and try and get it finished last June/July. Your last email said you would ring me on the Monday when you got back from holiday, but I never heard from you again.

[/FONT][FONT=verdana,sans-serif]It might be some time before we can discuss how we move forward on a new contract with a new time schedule (which would have to be strictly adhered to this time), as I am quite busy for the next few months myself, so I will drop you a line I am free and we can discuss it then."[/FONT]

Today he has replied to give a several mostly family-related excuses (and by thew way, I don't believe for one second that any of them are untrue) and to say sorry, that he misunderstood that any timelines were involved at all, which I do find very difficult to believe, not least because the quotation did state the completion timeframes.

I also don't believe that he could not find a whole 15-20 minutes to send me what I needed. All these excuses happened after the completion date, not before, so back then he had no excuses. I even got him into a company for a