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I love this quote from Woody Allen: “Eighty percent of success is showing up”. So many small businesses get sucked into the old “I need a fancy website mindset” which is completely wrong. At the end of the day, what you really want is the result a website can bring, more leads, more enquiries, more sales,…
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There are 2 new changes with the search engines you need to be aware of, both pretty easy traffic wins especially if you’re a small business or retail business where people come to your premises, shop or office. Click play on the video above to learn more. 1) Bing Places has now gone live in…
Contents Some Important Remarks Regarding Godaddy Hosting: Optimizing the speed of our customers’ websites has been something we started as part of our agency, and it ended up with the creation of a whole new business focusing on WordPress Speed Optimization – WPSpeedFix.com. Offering this service, has allowed us to see and optimize hundreds of…
Generally speaking, having 5 or more reviews on your Google Places listing will help you rank higher in the search results. Before you ask, yes you will absolutely get penalised if you try and do your own reviews so don’t do it! Instead, here’s the strategy we have our SEO clients implement that has worked…
Important Note on Network Solutions as a Hosting Provider: Through our web agency work we started optimizing customer sites for speed and it ultimately ended up a new business of its own that focuses on WordPress Speed Optimization – WPSpeedFix.com. Since we started we’ve now optimized over 2000 sites so we’ve worked on our fair…
Here’s a quick tip if you run a Wordpress blog or are a blogger – you probably knows what Feedburner is….if you don’t and you’re blogging in any serious way then you should so go and Google “feedburner” right now and learn about it! One thing that really gets me is when bloggers don’t setup…
I recently spoke with a small business owner who told me they didn’t want to pay someone to do SEO & Adwords for them as they didn’t know what they’d get and they thought it was too expensive anyway. I can understand that, both SEO and Adwords can be very difficult concepts to grasp. When…
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Forget about “keywords” when it comes to your website. The only time you should be using the term “keywords” is when you’re talking about keyword research. If you’re referring to that field inside your website CMS called keywords or the META Keywords field, you’re wasting your time. Search engines stopped paying attention to the META…
Contents Important Note About Bluehost Hosting: We started optimizing customer websites for speed as part of our web agency work and ended up creating an entirely new business focussed on Wordpress Speed Optimization – WPSpeedFix.com. Through WP Speed Fix we’ve seen and optimized 100s of Bluehost sites over the last 2-3 years. The process below…
Both Google & Bing have been making a lot of changes to their Maps systems recently (see this link for more info) You should read this post if you’re: 1) An Australian based business 2) Your business has a physical location and relies on your Google Maps or Places listing to attract customers or customers…
This week Google unleashed another fantastic feature to really help small business owners further leverage their Google Maps (aka Places aka Local Business Centre) listing. You can now respond directly to reviews (positive or negative) on your Google Maps listing. A big deal – the ability to respond to positive AND negative feedback This is…
We’ve been overwhelmed by the positive feedback from the Achieve More Online workshops this week. A lot of business owners who attended left the workshops feeling a little overloaded and wondering where to actually start. So, we’d thought we put up this post to give start you off in the right direction.
I’m regularly asked the question of the best way to get an online store up and running without a big budget….or more accurately a tiny tiny budget (a few hundred dollars!). This strategy is excellent for people who have an online store concept they want to test but don’t want to invest $5000+ on a…
We’ve been rolling out Google Plus profiles for clients a lot lately and I think I’ve written the same email 50 times explaining why we’re doing it! Long story short, for 95%+ of the businesses we work with there isn’t really any social benefit to utilising Google Plus right now…BUT there can be a huge…
Contents IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT HOSTGATOR: We started optimizing customer websites for speed as part of our web agency work and ultimately created an entirely new business focussed on Wordpress Speed Optimization – WPSpeedFix.com. Through WP Speed Fix we’ve seen and optimized 100s of Hostgator sites over the last 2 years. The process below works for…
Through our WPSpeedFix.com service we’ve worked with thousands of sites and close to half the sites we work with are Woocommerce sites – it’s clear that Woocommerce speed and performance issues are extremely common. Contents How to Fix and Speed up Your WooCommerce Site Woocommerce can have huge performance requirements, especially larger Woo sites that…
Marketing your business online is important now more than ever, in particular, local search optimisation. What this means is making sure your business ranks well in search engine results pages (SERPs) for search terms relating to your business AND your location. Why’s that?