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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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richards taxi dover website design home page

New WordPress website design for Dover Taxi company

We took over a 3rd party WordPress website design for Richards Taxis Dover last year so the client was already familiar with the WordPress editing platform and how WordPress works, but the design was old and a bit tired so the client asked us to re-design the web pages. To complete we needed to find new images plus the client was purchasing new vehicles so we needed to convert images from a phone camera. We sourced free images from our online library, but we also contacted Dover DC marketing who also supplied copyright free imagery. There was also an issue with the logo as we didn’t have an original file...

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number one BB new website design in kent

Number One B and B in Deal new website

Always a great pleasure to work with home town (Deal, Kent) businesses, getting a commission from an award winning business is even sweeter! This is our second website design for a UK award winning B and B, last year we re-designed Alkham Valley B and B, voted Englands top B and B accommodation. Number One in Deal Kent picked up a similar award along with regional honours over the past few years. Number One’s new website used existing text and some imagery but Oast House Media assisted with free image sourcing and SEO on all pages. We’ve also installed an interactive gallery so potential customers can get a good idea...

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new website design for canterbury tree surgeon

Just in time for the storms!

Canterbury based tree surgeon John Barton has been a website design client for many years, he was in fact the first tree surgeon with a website back in the day. John’s advertising partners have been on at him for some time to go ‘mobile friendly’ and having read our monthly newsletter about responsive website design, he called and we got the conversion process going. The brief from John was to comply with the Google ‘responsive’ web page requirement and expand his geographical keywords to compliment his Yell.com campaign and paper advertising. This type of business is one of the few left still using traditional paper based marketing! The conversion process...

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free images for websites

FREE images for website clients

Some trades really struggle to find suitable photos for their websites, especially the financial and legal sectors of business. The answer is abstract or situation photography but that can cost a lot of money to commission a professional photographer. Here at Oast House Media we have access to millions of FREE or low cost photos (and graphics) to enhance your WordPress website design. We can also commission and project manage professional photographers or take the photos ourselves. See our FREE images for websites page for more about our image services which include: FREE image supply FREE research and sourcing Low cost image library photos Professional photography commissioning and project management...

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Canterbury city scape

Local photographer used for Canterbury client images

We’d just completed the draft design for our long term client Langridge IFA (see case study) and agreed with the owner Geoff Langridge to source and use local area photos as part of the web page design. I’d already found a very nice ‘city-scape’ photo on an image library but the image had been pulled from stock leaving me with egg on face. Despite spending some considerable time looking for a replacement I couldn’t find anything like it. I was suffed! We’ve worked with local photographers in the past so I called old friend Trev Liberson from Whitstable who has a large collection of local work but alas not the...

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renowned roofing website

New roofer website, client is blown away

Renowned roofing have been clients for over six years and like many other client, and having read our regular website newsletter, decided to update their old web pages to a WordPress website design. Owner Ryan Holah gave us a simple brief – get on with it! So a like-for-like design using existing content (copy writing created by us) was commenced. The problem with the old site was imagery. So much had changed over the years and had very few good quality images archived so we suggested using supplier images. Quality images from suppliers We had to be careful and ensure copyright law was not compromised so we contact Renowned Roofing’s...

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www.cockroach

Kent pest control business smell a rat (cockroach, mouse, wasps……) new WordPress website coming soon

This is a first for Oast House Media. We’ve just received confirmation of a new website design for Crofters Pest Control based in Charing Heath, Kent. We met the business owner last week and already have a holding page up and running: crofters-pest-control.co.uk Initially a small start-up design, the client hopes to expand the web pages as business increases. OHM haven’t built a design for a pest control company so a new trade for the list! see trade list Note: the image above is a copyright free photo of a cockroach (yuk) from FreeDigitalPhotos.net. The acknowledgement is part of the usage agreement but the image is perfect for blogs like...

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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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