In a recent conversation with a client about introducing a search engine marketing strategy she made the comment “I’ve paid a lot of money to optimise my domain” which triggered some concern in me as we typically don’t optimise the domain as such, it tends to take care of itself. Turns out the situation was …
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Writing your website about us page can be a daunting experience. Your web developer is waiting for your content, or you’re creating the site yourself, and now you’re staring at a blank about page wondering where to start. Your website about us page is somewhat more nuanced than your home page, which focuses on the …
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Whether it’s the state of the world today, or something you’ve been considering for a while, there’s no doubt that adding online sales to an existing business, or setting up an online store from scratch, is a lucrative opportunity. Online sales capability extends your market reach beyond your local area to national and even international …
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Two essential things we’re going to need from you when we assist with your Search Engine Optimisation ( SEO ) are access to your Google Analytics account, and your Google Search Console. The great news is you don’t have to part with, or share, your personal access details, you can simply allow third party access …
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We often have clients request to justify the copy on our websites. We understand that the desire to have everything looking symmetrical can be the motivation, so we get it, but the outcome is a poor reading experience, and we typically recommend against it. Great typography is something worth striving for, it can enhance the …
This post explains how to use Image Capture on a Mac to download images from your iPhone. The reason being from time to time we need to obtain those images to use developing your site, especially when we know those images can be used to position your business nicely and more authentically than using stock …
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Why do I need WordPress maintenance? What is a Care Plan? These are common, and expected, question we get from our clients. Considering the investment you’ve made getting the website developed, it’s a good question to explore. If you’re surfing the web chances are you’re visiting a site built on WordPress. Accounting for over 30% …
WordPress’ Gutenberg Editor, in particular embracing it as a site building tool, seems somewhat controversial which appeals to my contrarian thought process. At a recent word camp Sydney I noticed a strong focus on WordPress theme builders, specifically Elementor, Beaver Builder and, to a lesser extent Divi. I was, despite all the great content and …
There’s nothing more ‘mood altering’ than receiving en evening phone call from a client who is unable to access their business email. Then, spending time troubleshooting and resolving the issue, finding the web server security had blocked their IP address due to too many failed login attempts from another user, taking the whole business offline. …
One day, in a different role, a somewhat pious friend and client came to me with a problem. Her emails from her personal account were no longer being delivered. After some head scratching and asking a lot of questions it became apparent that she had a rather large prayer group, several hundred people. She had …
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