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The stats stack up – Desktop v Mobile web pages

December 2019 was a very good month for our medical stationery client, record sales through our e-commerce web site proving the web design and Google SEO is working well for this long term client. Here at OHM we’ve been aware for many years that a lot of page previews come from browsers using mobile devices, this PayPal report confirms this and more. There’s a massive shift to mobile searches and payments. One of the reason folk have more confidence with mobile payments is the relatively new bank apps and PayPal’s domination of the free payment transaction market. These PayPal accounts are of course not free to the shop owner, in...

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junk mail and spam from e-forms

Web forms, good or bad for spam?

If you have a website then you most likely have a form, usually on the contact page. Do they work? Analytics companies live and die using forms, they can gleam data and monitor trends. Insurers and price comparison websites for example will ask you to complete a paged form, ie: page one = name, telephone no. email… page 2 = requirement or reason for your enquiry, then pages thereafter go into more detail. It’s well know within the marketing trade that most folk give up after the first page when they see the data required so they delete the site. However, the page one information goes to the call centre...

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Local builders merchants offer OHM clients discounts

MKM are a national company recently located in Deal. Offering a large range of products from traditional building materials to Garden and Home products, MKM local representative Ross Musty has offered all OHM clients a discount on their ranges. Subject to existing offers and account agreements, give Ross a call on 07741 166 051 to find out more

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westminster general election 2019

Latest Newsletter

Latest news and information about all things ‘webby’ from Deal based web designers Oast House Media including: 400% increase in client’s sales oasthousemedia.co.uk/web-design-and-seo-client-sales-increase-over-400 Oast House Media invited to speak at The Hustings oasthousemedia.co.uk/ohm-attend-deal-hustings Other design services oasthousemedia.co.uk/facebook-graphics-for-heat-design-campaign Google threat oasthousemedia.co.uk/slow-loading-web-pages-to-be-penalised-by-google Office365 is very good! oasthousemedia.co.uk/office365-gains-popularity-with-web-clients Have you been hacked? oasthousemedia.co.uk/have-you-been-hacked FREE updates oasthousemedia.co.uk/google-seo-clients-get-free-updates Black Friday bargains oasthousemedia.co.uk/black-friday-website-re-design-special-offer FREE email signatures oasthousemedia.co.uk/email-signature-graphics-free-design-offer-for-ohm-clients Website re-design oasthousemedia.co.uk/new-website-for-deal-based-builders

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OHM attend Deal Hustings

As members of the local Deal Town Chamber of Trade, OHM director Nigel Stevenson was invited to the 2019 General Election Hustings. Always a lively event, the 2019 Hustings held in Deal Town Hall yesterday (2-12-19) was no exception. The questions were mainly business based with the Brexit issue surprisingly only coming up once. The Labour candidate Charlotte Cornell was well supported and added an edge to the evening with Conservative Natalie Elphicke (wife of the Dover MP Charlie Elphicke who is standing down)  following the party line with most of her answers. Liberal Democrats, Simon Dodd and The Green Party, Beccy Sawbridge both held their own with some interesting...

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signature design service for emails

email signature graphics – FREE design offer for OHM clients

Emails are an important part of your business stationery, used every day, when you make first contact they are also your e-card and if you’re a limited company they must have legal information in them (ICO requirement since 2007!). Logo, telephone numbers, web addresses and the small print all goes into what the techs call the ‘signature’. Creating a signature is (if you know how to do it) very straight forward. Most email programs have a signature design area that allows you to create your own signature with images, links and formatting, here’s the Oast House Media Christmas design using Outlook in Office365. But be careful, signatures must be small...

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black friday web design special offer

BLACK FRIDAY website re-design special offer

It’s BLACK FRIDAY this week and we’ve got a once in a year offer for you! Website NOT GOOGLE OR MOBILE FRIENDLY? We can convert your existing pages… Mobile friendly pages Google friendly and optimised Like for Like design Client friendly page editing FREE Training (at OHM) FREE office hours support FREE images (from Pixabay) FREE Google SEO set-up (Yoast SEO) FREE HTTPS (SSL) certificate Future proof …for 50% off our normal prices. Offer ends midnight Friday 29th November 2019 Sample price comparison based on our November 2019 prices… Hosting £165 WordPress template set-up £200 Page price £50 each Google SEO set-up £100 Training £50 Sample conversion price, an 8...

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free website updates for OHM clients

Google SEO clients get FREE updates

Working with our partner company GoTopSEO, all SEO clients enjoying the Google campaign management package receive FREE updates including new pages. An example of this is Deal based B and B numberonebandb.co.uk As part of their keyword phrase agreement the owner identified ‘cycling’ and ‘golf’ holidays as a possible search terms used by potential customers on Google. To assist GoTopSEO have added 2 new pages free of charge: Cycling Friendly Holidays Golf holiday accommodation These 2 new pages have specific keywords embedded in the page and source code content, Google will find this information and rank these pages creating more traffic for the website. In this case the client offered...

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email cyber hacking east kent

Have you been hacked?

The cyber security company Avast claim that 29,271,842,390 passwords have been stolen recently, mainly from emails accounts. Problem is you don’t know this is going on or where the information is being used. Some of the big attacks run into millions of addresses that are sold on the dark web. I think we need to assume that nothing is safe so do not put info into emails that’s sensitive. That’s why a lot of documents (PDFs) have a secondary security gateway, same with some websites if you try to access from another device (IP address). Larger companies use ‘firewalls’ to protect their internal mail systems and we’ve even heard of...

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Office 365 gains popularity with clients

Emails remain the biggest issue for most full support web design companies. Traditionally Oast House Media have offered email services in parallel with web hosting for free which has worked fine for years but an increasing group of clients require a better, more sophisticated email solution especially those who use their emails on mobile devices. Why? Facebook messenger and Whatsapp are leading the mobile device comms game and have unintentionally dragged emails with them but emails have additional benefits like attachments, CC and BCC tagging, email formatting, links, multi source image embed to name a few advanced attributes the aforementioned cant do. There are 2 common email formats that can...

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