Its been a while since I posted, this is due to the Christmas rush of work. In the meantime I thought Id put together some little hints on how to achieve good SEO on your website. User Friendliness – often called UX High Quality Content – dont be complacent ON – PAGE SEO – this is within your content and on …
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Whats the CDN? So firstly CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. In lamens terms a CDN delivers the content of your website more quickly and efficiently to your visitors based on their location. A CDN is made up of a network of servers, we often refer to these sorts of hosting as Cloud based. They are all over the world …
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You are aware of website ranking I’m sure. You want to be page 1 .. this part of web design takes time .. sometimes up to a year to get exactly right. This great graphic shows some of the work that has to be done in order to get a site google or in fact any search engine ready. It can take …
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Here’s a quick tip … compress your images and call them by a name that makes sense… gshstv.jpg is not going to help you..product_use_position.jpg will.. Compress using tinypng.com and keep under 2000pixels wide as screen sizes on most computers will be max 1920 across.. Here is a couple of examples of the same image with the same settings.. The above image is name …
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This feature stops offscreen images from loading until a visitor scrolls to them. Make your page load faster, use less bandwidth and fix the “defer offscreen images” recommendation from a Google PageSpeed test. Andy above all optimize your images… websites wont load fast with large files 2mb is not going to cut it… aim for under 30kb.
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Here’s a quick weekend tip. If you are redesigning your website remember to resubmit a web map in order to update your urls that are with google.. saves your visitors getting missing 404 pages. Get your developer to complete a 301 redirect this can be done on your servers root. A web server needs to have the apache module mod_rewrite …
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NEWS…. With all this extra activity on my server Im upgrading to a even faster one …. still onshore but its being built for me with my clients in mind. Prices will remain the same for now, but the service is going to be even better… During this upgrade I will be moving your websites… there should be no downtime… …
Continue ReadingIts all about SPEED! Yes I’m addressing that old thing… So here are some FACTS….as a lot of people dont know the truth… 1. Hosting – Choosing the right hosting package with the right setup assists in the speed of your site. If you have a small site but lots of traffic you still need to have bandwidth. If you …
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Recently, Google Chrome announced that they will soon start blocking mixed content also known as insecure content on web pages. This feature will be gradually rolled out starting from December 2019. This should give website owners enough time to check for mixed content errors and fix them before the block goes live. Failing to do so will cause poor user …
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To keep up with the competition, especially in the more lucrative niches… To keep up with the competition, especially in the more lucrative niches, SEO needs to be considered an ongoing effort with planned, periodic spurts of increased activity scheduled ahead of time. Links are fundamental to the internet as we know it. Without links, most search engines would not …
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