Googles Official SEO Guide! Clients often ask about SEO, what it is, how to do it, why results are not guaranteed and why it costs too much. I recommend learning a bit yourself to see why it is such a complex subject and where better to start than the Google official SEO guide. You can download Googles SEO starter guide here.
Read more ... →One of the first things you need to consider as a small business owner is how you are going to invoice your clients and keep your accounts up to date. This process needs to be quick and simple, preferably automated as much as possible, otherwise you risk drowning in admin every week, month and year.
I have been using quickfile for my account management for a couple of years now and I have to say I am very impressed with this free accounting tool. So impressed I have written this post to recommend it to my clients. I consider QuickFile the best FREE accounting software for small businesses.
Read more ... →What is a responsive website? Let’s go back a few years. Not long ago the biggest challenge presented to a web developer was the array of browsers, which rendered websites in different ways. This resulted in lots of trickery to make sure the code behind the website was tweaked to work on all browsers, namely, those which didn’t follow web standards. Internet Explorer, cough, cough!
Read more ... →WordPress is a FREE (open source) program that anyone can use to build a website. Originally WordPress was built as a tool to create a blog, but over time has grown into far more than that due to its open source status a world of developers have made WordPress a brilliant framework to build ANY type of website. WordPress is now a great content management system (CMS) and not just a blogging platform.
Read more ... →With over 700 million websites on the internet how can you make your site stand out? What makes a good website? How can you stand apart from your competitors? A good site grabs your attention, strikes at emotions, and gives you the information you need. In this article I will discuss ideas for making your website engaging for your visitors, with tips to help you make your site work harder and win new customers.
Read more ... →As a website builder and SEO consultant there is a question that comes up fairly frequently when speaking to clients, so I will try to answer it in this article. The question is, how long does SEO take to work?
In short, the average amount of time it takes to see real results in a correctly executed SEO campaign is 4-6 months, and this is just an average! Sometimes it takes much longer if the competition is high, and it can be far quicker for low competition keyword phrases.
Read more ... →A domain name is a human friendly address for a computer connected to the internet anywhere in the world. For example, www.mywebsite.co.uk. Computers are actually identified by a series of numbers called an IP address. IP stands for Internet Protocol. Each IP address is unique to every computer on the internet anywhere in the world. It looks something like: 10.5.122.90. Hard to remember right? Particularly if you had to remember one of those for each and every website you want to visit?
Read more ... →All businesses, big and small, need a website and presence online. How much do websites cost is usually the first question I get asked by a prospective client. What type of website you need will depend on your business and industry. It wasn’t that long ago you could get away with no website at all for your business. About 8 years ago, simply advertising in the local press and Yellow pages was enough to drum up new business. It’s 2015 guys, things have moved on. Yellow pages are dying a slow death, noticed how thin that big yellow book is these days, not sure how it is even still going.
Read more ... →Freelancing isn’t easy. You have to find your own clients and be very disciplined. But the pay off’s are great if you succeed. However, the work you produce needs be perfect to impress future clients and gain more work. You work on your schedule, but the task you have usually has a deadline, which in most cases is yesterday. A freelancer needs a multitude of both personal and industry specific skills, being a jack of all trades and a MASTER of some usually helps. If you’re unfamiliar with freelancing, you might be surprised at what skills freelancers actually use to run their businesses.
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