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Category: Google SEO

Richards Taxis Dover wordpress website re-design

Dover Taxi Company, taken for a ride?

Most certainly not! Richard’s Taxis Dover have been web design clients for nearly 10 years so when OHM put a special re-design offer out to clients the owner jumped at the opportunity. With a new car and more reviews to add plus a general website health check, the new design was completed within a couple of days. Photo retouch Richard (a keen photographer) sent over some excellent photos of his new taxi, the best of the bunch taken at St Margarets Bay near Dover had an ice cream parlor in the background. Using our Photoshop skill we managed to remove to make the image and presentation look more professional. The...

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barton forestry services in kent web design

3rd website for logging company, page 1 on Google in less than 24hrs

We must be doing something right, this is the third website for local woodsman John Barton. This new WordPress web design is for his new Barton Forestry Services in Kent. John and his family have no time for the web content so we got a free swing at all the design and content including: New logo design Copy writing and Google SEO Page layout and design In fact all John supplied was a handful of photos! The logo had to represent the company name which we also assisted with completing web and company house searches to make sure there was no conflict. Copy writing is an additional service we offer...

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golf club web design in kent

Golf club website re-design

St Augustine’s Golf Club (near Ramsgate) have had a close affiliation for many years with keen golfer and OHM director Nigel Stevenson. Local to the office and not as challenging as some local course, it was a pleasure to work with and get to know the club organisers on their new WordPress web design. Having completed the web pages, the challenge now is to create content that is in real time relevant to the club activities, which is hectic. Apart from the usual on-line booking for members and visitors, there are opportunities in the future for Golf Societies, Weddings, Birthday Parties plus the members social events. St Augustine’s is a...

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s and s fencing and landscaping web design and copy writing in deal Kent

S and S Fencing and Landscaping

New website for S and S Fencing and Landscaping goes live, Deal based Fencing and Landscaping company covering South East Kent requested a new website and copy writing. The design was an entry level 3 page web presence with SEO for the local area. The clients Dave and Dan specifically identified the Deal, Dover and Sandwich areas to be included in their search phrases. With a logo in place OHM used the style and colors into the web design. OHM also supplied the copy for all 3 pages based on the clients bullet list of services. Images were also converted from HEIC format to jpg then auto sized for web...

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top of google SEO in Kent

Query Deserves Freshness (QDF) puts OHM blog top of Google

2 days after publishing this news blog [oasthousemedia.co.uk/web-browser-trends-have-changed – 16-8-22] it went top of Google out of 2.22 million results, this was probably a Google reaction to a popular ‘news’ search on an active website. We’ve blogged about this Google search algorithm in the past, it’s call ‘Query Deserves Freshness (QDF)’, a Google re-ranking function that ranks popular subjects (ie: news) in order of ‘freshness’. What this means is if you use WordPress’s powerful post publishing feature you can put your web pages top of Google even if the competition is corporate and the results in millions. Unfortunately it’s a brief moment of fame that will be replaced by the...

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Google Reverse Image Searches

Did you know you can search for images using an image? ‘Google Images’ is a search engine that analyses an uploaded image using color, orientation, pixel patterns and size.  It was created by Google in 2001 due to a search spike for pictures of the green Versace dress worn by Jennifer Lopez in February 2000 [full story]. Further development of the search algorithm enabled Google to reduce exposure to offensive imagery and add value to search depth including illegal image use. Here at Oast House Media we are very careful not to compromise copyright and IP law, sourcing our images from copyright free (creative commons) libraries How to use the...

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New website for old pub Facebook referral

Wix website owners may be interested in this; we had an inquiry via Facebook for a re-design of an old Wix website. The Half Moon and Seven Stars (Preston) business owner Dave Cullen was unhappy with access and the performance on Google SEO of his Wix design. On investigation it was clear that Wix had left several important ‘Google specific’ elements out of the old web pages and the owner was struggling to update his web pages. The new design using WordPress ticks all the boxes for Google so we expect halfmoonandsevenstars.com to improve with both client access (so they can update the web pages) and their Google SERPs (search...

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Summer Newsletter 2022

Here at Oast House Media we’ve had a long term policy of keeping all our clients informed. The door is always open as the saying goes. We’ve been sending newsletter to clients for over 10 years with a range of topics from web design to logo design, scams to special offers, competitions to company news and just about anything that may be of interest to a business owner. Originally we emailed the business owner directly from our email accounts, but for the past 5 years we’ve used MailChimp. MailChimp is free to use but we opted for the pro version so we could receive detailed stats about activity especially posts...

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intermix DJ disco live music in Dover

Welcome to Kent – “DJ Kentastic” Intermix2

Long term client and top London DJ “Kentastic” (Ken) has up sticks and moved to Dover, Kent. With a high Google profile in London, OHM have just re-optimised the WordPress web pages for the East Kent area inc: Dover, Deal and Sandwich. With  the day job and house moving duties taking precedence at the moment, the optimsation will concentrate on the channel towns but Folkestone, Canterbury, Herne Bay and Whitstable will be added later this summer (2022) If you are looking for a top DJ for your party, wedding or kids event, see: intermix2.co.uk Find out more about out Google SEO optimisation services

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disable right click copy

Protect your web content – disable right click

One of the big problems with website content (text and mages) is theft! It is all too easy to copy and paste from a web page to a document on your computer. For most this is not a malicious action, school project, personal message, social media for example. But in a few cases copying content from web pages is for commercial gain. OHM director Nigel Stevenson is also listed on Google as a Media Consultant using his website www.nigelstevenson.co.uk as a platform to showcase his media knowledge. Most of the content in his web pages are extracts from his book “On your marks” – a designers guide. ISBN 978-0-9926886-0-8. The...

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