The most common question we are asked, when we receive a new web design enquiry is always; ‘How much will a website cost?’ More often than not, the email includes little or no information and offers no real insight into the client’s actual needs or wants. It can be tricky to provide an accurate quotation […]
WordPress powers an astonishing one-third of all websites these days. It has been the CMS platform of choice for our community since the mid-aughts when many of WordPress’s SEO features were implemented. It is therefore relentlessly attacked, largely for SEO spam reasons, but attacks can escalate to much worse. Here’s a look at some WordPress […]
Crawl errors occur when a search engine tries to reach a page on your website but fails at it. Let’s shed some more light on crawling first. Crawling is the process where a search engine tries to visit every page of your website via a bot. A search engine bot finds a link to your […]
There are a few reasons why we should defer parsing of JavaScript in WordPress. The most important one is speed and performance. Generally, JavaScript is placed between the <head> </head> tags. When opening a website, it loads the code from top to bottom. This means that if you have lots of JS or long strings, […]
The crawling, indexing, and ranking of webpages that rely heavily on JavaScript is a hot topic in the SEO industry at the moment. There are lots of people performing tests and sharing their results, as well as opinion pieces and perspectives from outside of the SEO echo chamber. And of course we have official documentation […]
With Google’s continued focus on user experience and engagement metrics in recent algorithm updates, it’s become even more important for marketers to pay attention to how fast their sites are. Page speed has long been a ranking factor for desktop search results, and it may soon impact mobile rankings as well. The benefits of improved […]
Search engines are getting smarter. There is little doubt about that. However, in a CMS-driven web where content can often exist on several URLs, it is not always clear what is the authoritative URL for a given piece of content. Also, having content on several URLs can lead to problems with link and ranking signals […]
An important, but sometimes overlooked element of onsite search engine optimisation is the robots.txt file. Usually not weighing more than a few bytes, a poorly configured Robots.txt file can be responsible for creating a lot of indexation and search visibility problems if not implemented properly. Usually found in your websites root directory the Robots.txt file […]
Last month we covered the following topics on mistakes that users make when building a solid business website: • Not backing up your website • Testing a product on a live website • Ensure your backup is safe • Lack of permalinks • The use of cheap web hosting companies • Downloading too many plugins […]
WordPress has become a popular and vital tool for creating business websites, but there are common mistakes that webmasters make when using this tool that could affect their website. Over the next two months we shall unpack and then address these mistakes to ensure you have a successful business website. Not backing up your website […]
