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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 works…
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Short Version of this article: If you have a WordPress site running on a theme that is not responsive or mobile friendly and don’t want to do a full redesign then the plugin WPTouch will fix your problem. It effectively adds a mobile theme to your site so that smartphone visitors are shown the WPTouch…
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Over the last 3 months I’ve spoken to at least 8-10 people who were ready to pump a decent sum of money into custom web apps for their brand new or infant business – for me, this is almost always a bad idea…here’s my reasoning: Version 0.1, Shorcuts and Versioning With the explosion of cloud…
Here’s some really common online marketing & SEO mistakes that business owners make all the time and is why you should use professionals where you can afford it. Mistakes like these cost your business customers! How many of these mistakes are you making?
Caching is the process of storing a certain type of data outside of the storage location where your site information is usually placed. This transient data is then more quickly accessible to any repeat site visitor that makes a specific site request. Caching specific types of data allows you to be able to serve up…
Websites tend to change as rapidly as the businesses they support. So, when it comes to hosting your website, it is best to consider both current needs. Also, you need to think about your plans for future growth. With that in mind, let’s look at a few options for the best web hosting in India.…
A bug was found in a popular piece of software called OpenSSL which drives a large proportion of security and encryption across the web. Ultimately, this means that for the past 2 years or so, many of the websites you assumed secure were not. The bad news is that this may expose some highly sensitive…
I get asked questions about Adwords all the time and there are a lot of common misconceptions about using Adwords and paid traffic in general. Every small business should have at least trialled an Adwords campaign that was setup and run by an Adwords professional. A lot of small business owners try and DIY their…
We’ve just pushed another website live this morning for a Fusion Project Personnel who are based in Perth and provide tradespeople to the resource sector. This website is a perfect example of how you can leverage really strong branding and commercial photography to create a sharp that looks sharp and professional without needing complicated design.…
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Adding an abandoned cart email system to your online store is a fantastic way to boost your online sales. There’s really two parts of an effective abandoned cart email system: Having the system/software/functionality to track abandoned carts and send the automated emails Having an abandoned cart email that actually works What is an Abandoned Cart?…
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…
About our marketing blueprints: The approach we use with clients is quite different to most marketing and web agencies. Our marketing blueprints breakdown the strategy and tactics we’re using with our clients to rank them higher in Google, get more traffic and turn more of those visitors into paying customers, ultimately what everyone wants right?…
I get asked this question all the time – which WordPress plugins do you use? Here’s our bog standard list: My Ftp – for easy file editing and uploads from the web console W3 Total Cache to improve the performance of the site Google Analytics for WordPress by Yoast – to integrate Google Analytics SEO…
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…
What! This is a staggering statistic. When was the last time you needed something and where did you search? Yep, I’m guessing you said the Internet! If you’re in business today, a website is simply not an option, its a necessity. Getting online is easy – even a basic one page website is better than…
We work with a lot of online stores and ecommerce business owners on both SEO and Adwords, to help them rank higher and get more visitors, and conversion rate improvements to help them sell more stuff. Here are three quick wins that are at the top of our best practices checklist, not rocket science but…
Years ago we published a blog post about Fixing Slow WordPress Sites and Optimizing WordPress Site Speed and ultimately created a whole business out of it specializing in WP Site Speed Optimization. Today we’ve now optimized well over 3000 sites at WPSpeedFix.com. We regularly get asked about Shopify Site Speed, Fixing Slow Shopify Sites and…
This is a guest post from Tom Libelt from Smart Brand Marketing, an agency that specializes in marketing and promoting online courses. In this post, Tom details a common problem with the sales pages of online courses specifically relating to their site speed AND what to do about it. Over to Tom…. The speed of…
If there’s one thing you should be doing as an ecommerce business its running an Google Product Listing ads campaign. What are Product Listing Ads? Product Listing Ads or PLA’s are triggered when Google detects a search term with buying intent and there is someone running PLAs with relevant products. In the screenshot below you…
(Note: This article is fairly short but some of the recommendations are quite technical to implement. For new customers or ecommerce businesses starting with their SEO or online marketing strategy, we recommend our Onpage SEO & Website Best Practices Service which will take care of most of the recommendations below.) I’ve had 2 calls in…
We use Zendesk as our core job management system and for the most part love it. One thing we don’t like is that the end user updates look like ticket updates instead of regular emails so much so that we really took a look at Helpscout as an alternative. It ultimately didn’t suit our needs…
There are many different aspects of hosting a website. There are the hosting service providers themselves, the plugins that you’re using, how well the theme interacts with your site, and many other different elements that you always need to pay attention to. One of these elements is the TTFB. As with almost everything, there has…
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Note: I decided to put this post together as we’ve been seeing huge success with Google Display Ads in the past 6 months. I’m now explaining the Display Network to 2-3 people a day and figured a post explaining one of the ways we use the Display Network might be useful to share publicly. If…
We’ve just pushed another new website build live over the weekend for Freedom Photography, a portrait photography studio in Perth. One of the key elements of this site was keeping the balance between imagery and text. While strong imagery in a photography website is key, its also important that the quality of information the website…
I talk about WP Engine (WPE) a lot. We’ve been a WPE customer for 4 or 5 years now. Moving our WordPress Cpanel hosting to WPE was a game changer of sorts for our business to the point where we now have a 6 figure business unit that provides hosting to our smb customers partly…
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.
With the wide variety of hosting services currently available on the market, most of which are going after the same group of customers, you need a solution that offers superior service. Bluehost and Siteground are such hosting services, both exceptional enough that they stand out as two of the best web hosting options that you…
500 Internal Server Error is a really common error message and can mean a number of things. It’s a type of information that belongs to the category of the ‘HTTP status codes’, which basically provide you with information about the success of an online request. If the online request is successful, everything flows smoothly, but…
Google Analytics is a key component in measuring the performance of your website. As part of all our monthly services we include a monthly website performance report in PDF format. The video below from our AchieveMoreOnline.com.au training portal looks at Google Analytics in a bit more detail. I’ve also included a summary of the key…
Numerous site owners and admins underestimate the importance of meta descriptions. These snippets, no longer than 160 characters, are the tags in HTML code that offer a brief overview of page content to the users in search engine result pages (SERPs). If used correctly, meta descriptions can significantly increase your site’s traffic and the number…
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We recently completed website design and development of an event website for the annual 2013 Pharmacy WA Forum which is being held in August. he end result looks great and with a site built on WordPress CMS the customer is able to edit the content themselves and tweak as necessary for future events.
Bluehost and Clowdways – these two hosting providers are some of the most popular and innovative ones on the market today, as they offer great value without breaking your bank. No matter which of the two you choose, you’ll get excellent functionality, easy management, and exceptional customer support. But which one is better for your…
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…
Learn about how we’ve helped Didgeridoo Breath build their online presence Didgeridoobreath.com – ranks number 1 in Google for “Didgeridoo Perth” plus hundreds of other search terms Didgeridoo Breath is a Fremantle based Didgeridoo store that has both a retail store and an online store that ships didgeridoos and other related musical instruments worldwide. As…
GeneratePress is one of the more popular WordPress themes that are currently available. The theme can provide both high-performance speeds and a variety of customization options that would be perfect for just about any sort of business site or personal blog. While the sheer number of satisfied customers can speak to the quality of the…
At first glance, hosting a successful party seems a straightforward affair. Having an exciting theme, stunning decorations, or delicious food is important. But slow serving staff or insufficient room for guests can guarantee failure. Web hosting is the same, so read this article to find out how the best WordPress hosting for Australia throws the…
Hey! These are the resources and links from our “SEO for Online Courses & Membership Sites” online workshop. Here’s the link to the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14QbKDjlv7Ew4Ttga-YhJCecFvWSHwZTQgY57DYW88xA/edit?usp=sharing Ecommerce Marketing & Optimization Course: ParetoEcommerce.com Google Search Console – google.com/webmasters/tools From the Future blog article on keyword research https://ftf.agency/total-addressable-online-market/ Ahrefs.com & Semrush.com Online Course “Preview” Lesson example: https://www.didgeridoodojo.com/advanced-didgeridoo-lessons-techniques/rim-shot-zipper-sound/ Online…
Last week we launched a beautiful new website for one of our partner companies, Photography Project. Photography Project is a professional commercial photography studio based in Perth, Western Australia. They specialise in location-based shoots of people, products and projects. Some of the specific services the Photography Project team provide are: Marketing Photo Library Business Portraits…
Trouble with Magento speed or the site is running slow? We’ve been running our agency for over 10 years and initially struggled whenever we took on a Magento client – the sites were usually slow, clunky and difficult to deal with. Site speed is a critical component of user experience, conversion and also Google rankings…
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