Newsletters and Google SEO
With new web design clients joining us every month and the increased interest in websites and Google search engine
A few days after completing the web design: staugustinesgolfclub.co.uk, Oast House Media attended the second on site WordPress training session in as many weeks (see Ashford Umbrella WordPress Training). St Augustine’s Golf Club are course and club house very active so it was vital that committee members Chris and Brian were fully up to speed on how to create posts and how to edit content on the existing web pages. The 2 hour session covered: WordPress Dashboard overview Creating posts Editing pages Adding images and text content Google SEO best practice and managing the Yoast SEO plug-in We also offer as part of our hosting package, continued office hour support...
New client Faversham Feet were looking for a new WordPress website to promote their services on Google. Having already selected a great web name, business owner Gemma had the simple task of writing up copy for 3 pages and supply of images. Not for the feint hearted, some of the images were pretty gruesome but important for Gemma and here potential new clients, so a well designed services page was very important and a great opportunity to get high value Google keyword phrases into the website Oast House Media also designed the company logo for a previous printing project so all the colours were pre-determined. see website: favershamfeet.co.uk what did...
Ashford Umbrella Centre are a Kent based charity organizing events, day trips and safe environment day care for vulnerable folk in Kent. Organiser Eddie Chambers has been a long term client but with the help of locally sourced funding decided to upgrade the website to attract more clients. The new website will enable the client to update the web pages with new and past events, activities and staff information Oast House Media will also be assisting with WordPress Training, Google SEO, copy creation and Social Media
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...