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Updating and Improving

Advice for website owners covering all aspects of running, maintaining and improving their sites.

Why should I keep WordPress updated?

WordPress is an open source system, which means that the source code that powers it is freely available for anyone to download and use. This also means that anyone looking to hack into a WordPress website also has the opportunity to dissect the code and exploit any vulnerability they find. WordPress is used to power…

August 3, 2014 by Gary Filed Under: Updating and Improving Tagged With: Wordpress, Plugins, Updating

Site Speed and Search Engine Optimisation

Since the beginning Google has been trying to return the most relevant websites to its users. In the spring of 2010 Google announced that it would take a websites’ speed into consideration when calculating its search rankings for websites. Google took the decision that faster loading websites deliver an improved user experience over slower sites.…

May 23, 2013 by Gary Filed Under: Updating and Improving Tagged With: SEO, Search Engine Optimisation, Hosting

Basic photo optimisation for websites – Resizing and Cropping

Everyone loves seeing nice photographs on websites. Photographs can help illustrate what your business does, and when it comes to selling products from your website then good quality images are paramount. In this article we start with the simple task of resizing and cropping our images. Why should I optimise my images? Image optimisation is…

May 12, 2013 by Gary Filed Under: Updating and Improving Tagged With: Photography, Optimising Photos

Tips for improving your small business website

Consider your small business website. There’s an awful lot of small business websites that are failing to deliver on their owners expectations due to some basic problems. Does your website represent what you do? Think about all the things your business does for its customers, probably there’s a lot more to your business that your website…

May 11, 2013 by Gary Filed Under: Updating and Improving Tagged With: Content Marketing

On site SEO checklist

On site or on page optimisation is the foundation of any SEO strategy. Just like the foundations of your home it’s important to have a solid base from which to start. On site SEO covers basic elements that have been around a while; these are well proven SEO techniques that should be applied to all…

December 20, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Updating and Improving Tagged With: SEO, Search Engine Optimisation

Understanding how Search Engines Work

While the exact methods that Google, Bing and Yahoo use to index websites are closely guarded secrets, the concept is simple, they want to find the most relevant page for whatever a user is searching for. How do they that? When Google searches its database of indexed pages it starts by looking for pages that…

December 9, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Updating and Improving Tagged With: SEO, Search Engine Optimisation

Responsive wordpress website design

We’re choosing to use WordPress for more and more clients websites these days. The good thing is that we can rely on wordpress to handle all the dull routine which leaves us more time to concentrate on the presentation and usability of our websites. This keeps development costs as low as possible which enables us…

November 4, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Design and Redesign, Updating and Improving Tagged With: Wordpress, Website Redesign, Responsive

SEO Chichester

Are you looking for more traffic to your Chichester businesses website? By ensuring your website’s pages are well optimised we can help your Chichester business get higher rankings in the search engine results pages. On page or on site SEO is the first step in getting targeted visitors to the website of your Chichester business.…

July 8, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Updating and Improving Tagged With: SEO, Search Engine Optimisation

Small Business Blogging

As part of your offsite SEO strategy guest blogging or article writing is one of the ways to help drive new visitors and generally increase exposure for your businesses website. Choosing where to publish your articles is an important one. You’re ideally looking for popular websites that are in your sector, but aren’t direct competitors.…

July 2, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Updating and Improving Tagged With: Blogs, SEO, Search Engine Optimisation

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