Category: Google SEO

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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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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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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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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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New website for Kent based Scaffolders

Another existing client referral, ASK scaffolding services are based in Thanet covering all of Kent. They specialise in residential, commercial and specialist scaffolding projects, something owner Tom Brown want to emphasise on his new WordPress website design. So, rather than bunch all the services on to one page, OHM suggested that the residential, commercial and specialist scaffolding sections have their own pages. This enables a greater scope for keyword phrase use thus enhancing Google search engine optimisation (SEO) requirements. OHM also contacted the logo designers and used their new design corporate colours in the style of the web pages, see holistic web design. As the client works on future scaffolding projects,...

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How important is SEO for your website?

Here at Oast House Media we build SEO into all of our web pages as part of the price, but… What is SEO? SEO means Search Engine Optimisation, the process of optimising a web page to mazimise it’s impact on search engine results pages (SERPs). There are many areas within a website that Google identifies and actively seeks to cache and then use the data as a search element. Imagine your website is a jigsaw and each piece of your jigsaw is an SEO element. Some are easy to find (like the jigsaw corners or edges). Some are much harder to locate like the centre or large colour area jigsaw...

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Website re-design for Castles Removals and Shippers

Last of 3 re-designs that will see Castles Removals web presence in good order well into the 2020s. Already featuring on page one (Google search) for ALL local search terms, Castles new re-designed website will enhance the on-going SEO success. Keeping your web pages refreshed and interesting is good for both human browser and search engines. Top search platform Google.co.uk is a hard task master when it comes to the correct content and coding. Using WordPress, the new Castles design will also enjoy a continued top position but with a re-design that will keep potential new customers on-page and clicking on the contact links. see website: castlesremovals.co.uk Also see: Castles...