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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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Hosting transfer IN, new client moves their existing website to OHM

We don’t just design websites, we also host our web pages and occasionally we receive a transfer ‘in’ request. Our dedicated London based servers are used to host 1000s of web pages for 100s of business. The vast majority are designed by us. Last month we received an inquiry from local Dover based taxi company Richard’s Taxis who’d been having ‘update and reply (sic) issues’ with their Middlesbrough based design company. After receiving the WordPress web pages and database it was a relatively simple ‘reload’ process. Now we have control over the pages we can add missing SEO and complete the updates the client had been waiting for. We will...

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Eric

Image use on websites

Every website we build has images. Everyone of those image belong to someone. So, the basic rule of images use on websites (and any other media) is…. if you don’t own it, don’t use it. That may come as a bit of a shock to some of you who probably think if its on Google, it’s free? This is a common misconception and in truth the likelihood of getting caught is slim. But if you do get caught, the penalties are high. basically the owner/creator could take you to court for copyright infringement for £1,000’s not including court costs. We did it! many years ago a local business used our...

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google search results website designers in kent

How to monitor and manipulate your Google position!

We’ve just completed a comprehensive search on Google using 3 devices and the same ‘website design’ based search terms. It’s something we’ve been doing for years and strongly recommend to all our clients using a list of pre-agreed search terms like our ‘website designers in Kent‘ sample. On the table below you can see in the first column: search text, this is the list of terms you think folk will use to find you. Initially this may be a bit hit or miss but by asking your customers ‘how did you find us’ you can usually deduce the common terms. In the second column I’m showing the results on a...

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