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Richards Taxis Dover wordpress website re-design

Dover Taxi Company, taken for a ride?

Most certainly not! Richard’s Taxis Dover have been web design clients for nearly 10 years so when OHM put a special re-design offer out to clients the owner jumped at the opportunity. With a new car and more reviews to add plus a general website health check, the new design was completed within a couple of days. Photo retouch Richard (a keen photographer) sent over some excellent photos of his new taxi, the best of the bunch taken at St Margarets Bay near Dover had an ice cream parlor in the background. Using our Photoshop skill we managed to remove to make the image and presentation look more professional. The...

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barton forestry services in kent web design

3rd website for logging company, page 1 on Google in less than 24hrs

We must be doing something right, this is the third website for local woodsman John Barton. This new WordPress web design is for his new Barton Forestry Services in Kent. John and his family have no time for the web content so we got a free swing at all the design and content including: New logo design Copy writing and Google SEO Page layout and design In fact all John supplied was a handful of photos! The logo had to represent the company name which we also assisted with completing web and company house searches to make sure there was no conflict. Copy writing is an additional service we offer...

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golf club web design in kent

Golf club website re-design

St Augustine’s Golf Club (near Ramsgate) have had a close affiliation for many years with keen golfer and OHM director Nigel Stevenson. Local to the office and not as challenging as some local course, it was a pleasure to work with and get to know the club organisers on their new WordPress web design. Having completed the web pages, the challenge now is to create content that is in real time relevant to the club activities, which is hectic. Apart from the usual on-line booking for members and visitors, there are opportunities in the future for Golf Societies, Weddings, Birthday Parties plus the members social events. St Augustine’s is a...

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top of google SEO in Kent

Query Deserves Freshness (QDF) puts OHM blog top of Google

2 days after publishing this news blog [oasthousemedia.co.uk/web-browser-trends-have-changed – 16-8-22] it went top of Google out of 2.22 million results, this was probably a Google reaction to a popular ‘news’ search on an active website. We’ve blogged about this Google search algorithm in the past, it’s call ‘Query Deserves Freshness (QDF)’, a Google re-ranking function that ranks popular subjects (ie: news) in order of ‘freshness’. What this means is if you use WordPress’s powerful post publishing feature you can put your web pages top of Google even if the competition is corporate and the results in millions. Unfortunately it’s a brief moment of fame that will be replaced by the...

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disable right click copy

Protect your web content – disable right click

One of the big problems with website content (text and mages) is theft! It is all too easy to copy and paste from a web page to a document on your computer. For most this is not a malicious action, school project, personal message, social media for example. But in a few cases copying content from web pages is for commercial gain. OHM director Nigel Stevenson is also listed on Google as a Media Consultant using his website www.nigelstevenson.co.uk as a platform to showcase his media knowledge. Most of the content in his web pages are extracts from his book “On your marks” – a designers guide. ISBN 978-0-9926886-0-8. The...

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search engine optimisation keyword phrases

How important is SEO for your website?

Here at Oast House Media we build SEO into all of our web pages as part of the price, but… What is SEO? SEO means Search Engine Optimisation, the process of optimising a web page to mazimise it’s impact on search engine results pages (SERPs). There are many areas within a website that Google identifies and actively seeks to cache and then use the data as a search element. Imagine your website is a jigsaw and each piece of your jigsaw is an SEO element. Some are easy to find (like the jigsaw corners or edges). Some are much harder to locate like the centre or large colour area jigsaw...

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google seo campaign management in kent

New Years resolution? – go top of Google

Here at Oast House Media we’ve already completed our first web design in 2022. We normally find January a busy month as business owners reflect on the previous year and consider their marketing options. A well designed website, optimised correctly for Google (the UKs top search engine), will generate sales and more importantly you are not losing enquiries to your competitors if you keep your web pages fresh and manage your SEO campaign correctly. Oast House Media working with our Google SEO partners GoTopSEO have a proven track record of achieving this and continue to work with and support local businesses in Kent. Taking all the stress away from the...

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byford construction website re-design in kent

Website re-design for Canterbury building company

This is the 3rd reincarnation of the Byford Construction web design as long term client Grant Byford took advantage of our recent web discount special offer. Replacing an old html design in 2015, the client wanted to address some issues highlighted by his customers who noticed that some of the images and galleries were not accessible enough on the 6 year old WordPress design. Not unhappy with the overall performance or design, the discounted prices we offer all existing client were just enough to encourage phase 3. The new WordPress website design fully enhances the home page image slider plus much better gallery rendering. OHM also updated the Google SEO...

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Is your website top of a Google search page?

Here at Oast House Media we don’t just build websites, we know that our clients also want to be top of Google. If you manage to achieve the Holy Grail of page 1, listing 1 you will see an increase in sales enquiries. If you’re not on page, your business could struggle in the future as the post Covid shift to on-line sales increases. Why Google? Google has on average over 85% of all UK search use (source Statista) followed by Bing (7%) and Yahoo (3%) – you can forget the rest including Yell.com as their market share is very small. What is Google looking for and how does it...

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nigel stevenson media design consultancy

Nigel Stevenson Consultancy new web design

A rare moment to blow ones own trumpet, Oast House Media director Nigel Stevenson is also a media consultant working in Kent with new and established businesses on their corporate web and print design requirements. “I’ve been in the media business now for over 40 years and created the consultancy company for over 10 of these but the old website was not sending the right message. Using the content of ‘On Your Marks’ written for new businesses I’ve redesigned and populated the web pages with factual content and images. There are also many ‘top tips’ to help anyone buy media save time and money” The new web pages are packed...

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