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Category: Google SEO

New website for Ivy

Neil Carrington contacted Oast House Media earlier in the month requesting a WordPress upgrade for his old static page design (Garden Services) plus a new 4 page website for his new business – Ivy Removal. If you’ve ever had the pleasure of removing ivy from your property you will know it is a gardeners nightmare, but did you know it’s poisonous? It’s also very difficult to completely eradicate, leave one tiny bit of the plant and in the right conditions it will grow back. That’s why Neil identified this niche area in the gardening services market and requested the new website, complimenting the existing services already offer on the main...

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website design for mobile devices

Low cost web design for start-up businesses in East Kent from just £450.00 inc

Not every business can afford a big budget web presence, charities and clubs struggle to find funds for websites, new business start-ups have to be careful with outgoings. These are all good reasons to consider a low cost web design – will there be a compromise on quality? No! The compromise will be on the number of pages you can have but with training you can add these yourself because all our website can be edited by the client. Our post design support and training is free so you could opt for our £450 entry level web design package that includes… first years hosting 3 web pages theme design layout...

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website designers in east kent

How to Research Keywords for Google SEO?

Top SEO tips for your business website

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Karllee WordPress website design upgrade

Karllee construction WordPress website design upgrade goes live

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lost emails

Client loses £1,000s business from website inquiries

Make sure your emails are working or risk losing out

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website re-design special offer

November 17 Newsletter

More web design news for Kent based clients

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refreshed website content

Refreshed content – the simple SEO answer to going top of Google?

There is no doubt that since Google kicked ‘back linking’ into touch a few years ago it’s now all about streaming original, quality, keyword heavy content into your web pages. Our website homepage is updated on average every week (with posts like this) and the results are very rewarding. In our trade, being top of Google for “website designers in Kent” is a great achievement because every website designer in Kent is trying to do the same thing. But there’s no magic, no tricks, just a few minutes a week adding content. For WordPress websites this is easy… pick a subject you know all about write about 300 words add...

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google search results website designers in kent

Tracking your website’s Google position

We reported this topic a few months ago but SEO (search engine optimisation) has changed so here’s our latest ‘best practice’ guide update. Using Google’s webmaster tools is fine and we recommend it as a great SEO tool but you can’t beat a manual test – this is how we track our Google position on Google SERPs (search engine results pages). Clear your browsing history First and foremost you MUST clear any history cached by your web browser (it changes results), on our devices using Firefox the ‘clear history’ is under the ‘history’ tab, nice and easy. Ideally you need to clear this every time you search (We’ve got an...

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website design for mobile devices

Upgrade to WordPress Google friendly web pages

Over the past two years we’ve been converting old html static page websites to WordPress web pages Why? In April 2015 Google changed it’s delivery policy on results pages, it clearly stated, having identified that over 50% of its results were viewed on mobile devices, that all websites needed to be ‘mobile friendly‘ or as we call it in the trade – ‘responsive’. Google set up a checking service: search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly to help developers and designers to evaluate existing pages. Here at OHM we decided to design all new websites using WordPress and for good reason: Google likes WordPress and the 2 companies work closely together SEO is built into all...

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five web design mistakes

5 common website design fails

We’ve been designing websites for Kent businesses for nearly 20 years, in that time we’ve seen some common mistakes made buy business owners who should have gone to the professional. Here are our top five website design fails… The biggest error you can make is buy into a cheap template design like Wix or Yell Template websites simply do not work on Google, optimisation is not available and in many cases content and images are shared – Google wants to see original content. Although they advertise support, very often after the honeymoon period your calls and emails are ignored. Long term, costs are usually much higher than a pro-design. Not...

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