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Fitness Connection, Sandwich website design

Sandwich (Kent) Gym website goes live

Long term clients Fitness Connection have been in discussions about a new website design for many months but running a busy fitness studio and supplying website page information was proving very difficult for gym owner Brian. So when we offered a new Website design using the fully editable WordPress content management system allowing the owner and staff to update their own web pages, the task became much easier. Having already designed the original website it was a simple case of converting old to new, with a few tweaks of course! What did the client think? “Just dropping you a line to say how delighted we are with the new Fitness...

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Websites go top on google with QDF, “Query Deserves Freshness”

Websites go top on google with QDF, “Query Deserves Freshness”

QDF is a little know Google anacronym that us website designers use to get a website top of Google. It stands for “Query Deserves Freshness” which I’m sure makes you none the wiser but if you use this Google feature with your website you will see some amazing results. Google monitors the web for what it calls spikes, in other words sharp increases in activity be it searches, written content, advertising etc. Here’s an hypothetical example: Virgin announce that they’re starting flights from Manston (LoL) – there will be a furious increase in ‘virgin’, ‘flights’, ‘Manston’, ‘airport’, ‘investment’ type keyword use within their search engine. Google’s QDF algorithm will spot...

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Eric

Website image use – are you legal?

We all know that Google’s image search is free and that it’s very easy to copy those images onto your local drive – but can you use those images? Yes you can! Now I know some of you may be surprised by that answer especially if I’ve sat in front of you and got all anal about copyright law, but in certain circumstances you can use images that do not belong to you. Can I point out at this stage that I am not legally qualified and only offer this information based on my own knowledge/research but what i do know is that if you’re not the originator of an...

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google knowledge

Keeping a log of your website position on Google

How do you know if your website is doing well on Google? Google analytics is the obvious answer but manual checking gives you a different picture. Every 14 day we check the position of our main website using a ‘benchmark’ process.

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Deal, Kent beach

Looking for website designers in Deal?

There are more small business owners per head in the Deal, Kent area than any other area in the UK and they all want their website designs to be top of Google! And why not? We’ve have 6 construction trade (general builder) clients on our books, and they all enjoy page 1 or 2 position for (example) ‘builders in East Kent’. They can’t all be site 1, page 1 but it’s nice to see them all doing well. Our unique SEO set-up process and a good knowledge of Google’s SEO requirements allows us to tell our clients exactly how to go top and stay there – it’s then up to...

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oast house media (kent) logo

New website design goes down very well

Since launching our new website, Deal (Kent) based website design company Oast House Media have received some great feedback. The new branding has been a major change for the company and as with any new logo design project there can be negative feedback and a loss of confidence but rest assured Oast House Media’s website, logo and print design goes from strength to strength. New branding       Sadly we sat goodbye to ‘Eric’

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Astra Sound, website design clients

Canterbury Festival website design

If you’re attending any of this years Canterbury Festival events there’s a good chance that the PA system has been installed by web clients Astra Sound. Locally based Astra Sound have been supplying PA and Sound Engineering services to the festival and many other Kent events for 30 years. Their first website design was completed by Oast House Media 2 years ago but as soon as the Canterbury Festival ends we’re going to upgrade the web pages to Google ‘responsive’ . See old website www.astra-sound.co.uk

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wordpress admin page for website design

WordPress website training made easy

One of the most important aspects of our web design services is the ability for our web clients to update their own web pages. The WordPress editing platform is not only easy to use but self intuitive. There’s also a lot of tutorial course information available on Google like YouTube instruction videos.

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