Shropshire Hills & Ludlow

Visit Shropshire Hills Spring Newsletter

Welcome

Spring has most definitely sprung in the Shropshire Hills. We hope you are able to enjoy the sun (when it shines!) as well as reaping the benefits of the new tourism season.

In this newsletter:
  • Give your website a facelift with our SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Training – FREE for members
  • Great Days Out leaflet – where to get yours
  • What’s on in May in the Shropshire Hills.

Join us on Tuesday 16th May at 2pm for
FREE SEO Training
with Helen Culshaw of Ascendancy

We have recently employed Helen Culshaw of Ascendancy Internet Marketing to undertake some work on improving the SEO on www.visitshropshirehills.co.uk.
Helen’s team has now completed the work, and our web manager at Virtual Shropshire is already beginning to implement it.  We hope that it will improve our SEO and benefit all of us!  
 
As part of the exercise, Helen has also put together a 1 hour online presentation on basic content optimisation (SEO), which we hope will be of benefit to all our members who have a website.

Helen will cover basic content optimisation, including:

  • Title tags
  • Meta descriptions
  • Heading tags such as H1s, H2s etc
  • Body content
  • Internal link building using descriptive anchor text
  • The importance of avoiding duplicate content
  • Finding and fixing broken links
  • The importance of backlinks.

Helen will do this by sharing her screen and demonstrating all of the above using the back end of the Visit Shropshire Hills website – but the general principles could be applied to any website.
 
Helen is an acknowledged expert in her field, so we are delighted to be able to offer this training session to our members.  We hope it will give you more ideas on how to improve your own website.

***CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO REGISTER***

Click here to Register for SEO Training
Great Days Out Leaflet

The 2023 Great Days Out leaflet was launched at our Leaflet Swap on March 23rd, and is currently being distributed through the area. There are good stocks at Ludlow VIC, Bishops Castle Town Hall, Church Stretton and Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre if you would like to pick up supplies for your own business.

There is a  great map and lots of information about events and places to visit and explore, please encourage your visitors to pick up a copy and use it to explore!
Great Days Out leaflet
What’s On in The Shropshire Hills

Festival Season really begins in earnest in May, so here’s just a few to whet the appetite:

 
MONDAY MAY 1st
CLUN GREEN MAN FESTIVAL
http://www.clungreenman.org/

MAY 12th to 14th
LUDLOW SPRING FESTIVAL
https://www.ludlowspringfestival.co.uk/

MAY 11th to 14th
BISHOPS CASTLE WALKING FESTIVAL
https://www.bishopscastlewalkingfestival.co.uk/

MAY 24th to 28th
LUDLOW PIANO FESTIVAL
https://ludlowpianofestival.com/

MAY 16th to 29th
BISHOP’S CASTLE ROUND AND ABOUT WALKS

https://bishopscastleandbeyond.co.uk/location/round-and-about-walks/#:~:text=This%20circular%20Ramble%20(23%20miles,shorter%20distances%20if%20you%20choose.

If there’s something happening near you, please do let us know so we can make sure it’s on the Events calendar – email us info@visitshropshirehills.co.uk
 
Clun Green Man Festival