The Urmston Partnership was set up 6 years ago to actively work towards the regeneration and promotion of the Urmston area. Made up of businesses, the local community and with the support of Trafford Council, the aim of the partnership is to create a successful town centre for the area. More

The new urmston.net search engine differs from other search engines because it actually searches a database that is maintained by the business owners themselves. For a small annual subscription; less than the price of a credit card sized advert in the Messenger for just one week, local businesses will be granted autonomous access to the urmston.net business maintenance pages. Once you have logged-in you will be able to add/delete and update your business details and create a list of products or services that your business offers, complete with prices. Whether you offer a single service or stock a thousand items, the choice is yours but every item or service that you add will automatically be included in the search engine. Beauty Salons could list their services; takeaways could list their menus and update their prices on a regular basis etc.

I already have a few local businesses that are keen to sign-up; Mike at Goldtime Jewellers for example thinks it's a great idea. He's going to be able to list all his watches on the search engine as well as his watch repair service. So if you've got a broken watch, typing in the keywords "watch repair" will display Goldtime Jewellers in the results. The search engine will operate on a first come first served basis too so if Mike has "watch repair" setup as a service and someone else joins the scheme at a later date who also does watch repair, then Goldtime will be first in the search results because Mike was the first to sign-up. If you’re interested in subscribing to the service you can contact me by using the contact page.