In this article, we share 11 tips on how good web design from the outset can improve your SEO and user experience for swindon website designs
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WordPress is rapidly becoming the CMS of choice for pretty much everyone. According to w3Techs, by the end of 2018 over 60% of CMS based sites were using it, which means it accounts for over a third of all websites!
The only real problem we often see with WordPress installations is the speed, it’s not uncommon to see page load speeds between 5 and 10 seconds or more! So how do we fix that?
The Short Answer is There are No “Tricks” For years people have been looking for the quick fix to achieve top search engine results, some worked for a while, some worked, most very briefly but if the technique in question was leaning heavily towards the dark side, the benefits have almost certainly been wiped out […….]
Exact Match Domain Update 2012 Well, Google are at it again, they have now penalised exact match domains in the SERP’s. For the last few years people have been asking me if this is a “trick” which works for quick SEO gains, The answer has always been “Yes, it does at the moment, however it’s […….]
Ever since Google started with their bout of Panda, and more recently, Penguin updates SEO’s have been either affected (or more accurately their clients websites have been) by them, or are at best a little nervous that something done in the past, by them or a previous firm, could just tip the balance and send […….]
As time marches on the techniques used for SEO must keep pace with the search engines and their algorithms. 2012 has proven to be an exceptional year with regard to how building links has changed. I’ve long held the view that the vast majority of directory links, blog comments and articles have been worthless, however […….]
Be sure you get the SEO basics right There are a number of fundamental basics of SEO which apply to virtually every website on the internet, they are not always adhered to, however they do exist and have remained constant for many years. Search engines and Google in particular are often making changes to the […….]
What is Blog SEO ? This is quite a common question and a fairly simple one to answer, so I shall attempt to keep this post brief. I am also assuming that you will be doing this manually, as opposed to using one of the WordPress plug-ins, which will do some, but not all of […….]
A few things that you shouldn’t do for SEO There are a number of strategies for achieving high positions in the search engines, and there are a few which ensure you won’t! This article addresses some of the more common ones. So, this weeks nominees in no particular order are: Duplicate Content This is quite […….]
Get Keyword Research Right, First Time! There are so many things you can do to aid an SEO campaign, take a look at the forums and you will find hundreds or thousands, in fact, probably tens of thousands of threads, with webmasters of varying levels of experience discussing the pro’s and con’s of various techniques. […….]
Firstly, just to be clear, the title tag is a line of text in your website which is no visible on the web page, but is seen in many search engines if you do a search, it will appear as the title of the web page, followed by some text and then the sites URL. […….]
As you undoubtedly already know, other websites linking back to yours helps with your SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages) so are key in any SEO campaign, but an important aspect of this is which keywords the other site uses for that link, if you can encourage them to use the keywords which you want to […….]