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canterbury airport transfers website

Airport transfers new website design goes live

Last month we blogged that Canterbury based airport transfers company Canterbury Airport Transfers had commissioned a new WordPress website. This is a very competitive market so a top web design with good SEO was required but to achieve we also needed to supply: new logo design graphic design free images copy writing SEO content Google map design We took a look at the competition and realised none of them use Google’s powerful ‘my maps’ software. With this free service you can create your own maps and locations. We built one a few years ago for a local restaurant, since then Google have added some great new features that help enhance...

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Google forces web security changes – HTTPS

Google Chrome will tag your HTTP web pages as 'Not Secure'

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Kent tile centre website design

Kent Tile Centre Canterbury, new website design

old for new WordPress website re-design design goes live.

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evolution of website design and the internet

New Year, the evolution of website design and the internet

Oast House Media was the first commercial website design company in Deal, Kent

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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

Why use us for your web design?

If you Google “website designers in Kent”, or “East Kent” you will probably find a list of good quality designers profiling their work on some very nice websites. If you’re looking for a new website designer that may sway your decision process, ie… They’re top of google in their own trade Their own website is nicely designed And to be honest that’s a great start so why look any further? A website is not just for Christmas Sorry to use the C word in September but it is important to remember your website designer is a long term business partner, so will they… Reply to your email questions quickly? Pick...

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Happy Birthday Google – comes of age!

Happy birthday Google, 18 years young and still growing strong. From a web designers point of view I think you do a great job considering all the black hat things going on. From a client/browsers point of view, it’s a great service Just pay the taxes and even more folk will love you!

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sandwich lakes new wordpress theme

WordPress website re-theme

We built the new Sandwich Lakes website earlier this year, see blog; but having reviewed the site a few months later the owner wanted to make more of their high quality image archive. The site, as it stood, was using a very WordPress theme but the content overlay structure took away the image impact. We did some research and suggested a new theme with virtually no home page text, what do you think? See website sandwichlakes.co.uk There’s one big issue that we also made the client aware of, not having content on the home page (Google’s first point of contact) may reduce SEO presence. There are many factors that make...

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reactive google friendly website designers

Google app searches continue to deliver different results

Since last April 2015 when Google officially changed to its ‘mobile friendly’ web page requirements we’ve been monitoring our own search terms using our unique keyword benchmark techniques Our first full test was completed back in March 16, we’ve just completed another deep search with some interesting results. See table… The first set of searches were competed on a desktop PC (not mobile) and then using the same search terms on the office HTC M8 mobile phone using the popular Google app. You can see that the mobile device is influenced by our ‘mobile friendly’ website and continued SEO policy of refreshing data (usually using news posts) Keyword search string...

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google boolean searches

More accurate Google searches – the Boolean way using ‘search operators’ and symbols

We’ve been aware of Boolean searches for some time but we thought it would be a good bit of research for our website design clients to investigate how to improve search results using Google. A Boolean search is the same as any search you carry out on Google but by using the Boolean technique it is possible to create a hybrid search that delivers more accurate results. Here’s an example: you know roughly what you want but can’t remember the exact word or phrase so you can insert ‘*’ (asterisks) to act as a wild card. Google then tries to match the missing word(s) a * saved is a *...

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