June 23rd, 2020
Google is constantly changing and evolving their algorithms that crawl our websites. Continuously altering the playing field that dictates which search queries relate to which web pages. This is why Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is such big business. And Google…
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June 19th, 2020
This article explains how to tell Google that you have changed a page on your website and that they should re-index it as soon as possible. If you have updated a page on your website then this is what will…
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June 6th, 2020
A few years ago it was common to see website addresses like: http://www.glassmountains.co.uk ….whereas the more modern version is: https://www.glassmountains.co.uk You’ll be forgiven for not noticing the difference right away, it’s all down to the HTTP / HTTPS bit at…
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June 2nd, 2020
The purpose of this post is to, over a series of articles, revisit what Search Engine Optimisation means, and what practical implications it has for website owners. Note: the main audience for this blog and our Facebook Group etc are…
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May 21st, 2020
Will redesigning my website harm my SEO? That’s a valid question – after all, we don’t want to go to the time & trouble of redesigning a website if it ends up harming our Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Or do…
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May 17th, 2020
How to optimise your WordPress images for SEO. In this article we look at ‘filenames’, ‘captions’, and ‘alt’ text. Read on >> If you’re going to the trouble of putting new content onto your website or blog, then we may…
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May 6th, 2020
How to use the WordPress Yoast SEO Plugin to help you write a stronger opening sentence on your blog or website page content, that Google will love. In this screencast, I show how you can use the Yoast SEO plugin…
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April 30th, 2020
We all want Google to LOVE our websites, but sometimes we need them NOT to index certain pages. Here’s how the WordPress Yoast SEO plugin can help >> I’m assuming here that you have a WordPress site and have Yoast…
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April 27th, 2020
We noticed one of our new pages was not displaying correctly in Google Search results, after a little digging, & with the help of Yoast SEO , we fixed it. The Issue Not so long ago we unveiled our new…
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September 16th, 2019
Last Friday I made the trip down to BrightonSEO and what a fascinating time I had. I’d like to share a small selection of those insights here. As a WordPress design/hosting company we are obviously very much aware of the…
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November 29th, 2016
When writing copy for your website, you’d ideally like search engines such as Google to be able to understand your content as well. If Google like what they see, they’ll rank your website higher up; and with higher rankings should come more…
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August 26th, 2016
With Google’s recent announcement that, come Jan 2017, they are going to crack down on annoying interstitials (pop-ups to you and me), especially when on mobile. Now I can pretty much be sure that we’ve all been annoyed by a pop-up…
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