August 23, 2017

Top Ten Things to Start Your Website

To get your website to #1 spot in a search engine organically is going to take some time – just getting on page 1 is going to take some time BUT you can get into the search engines within 24 hours of your website being launched. This is really important. […]
August 24, 2017

Submitting a Sitemap to Google

Submitting a Sitemap to the search engines is the quickest way to introduce yourself.  If you simple build a website no one will know that site exists unless you tell someone. Then that someone tells someone and if you have something interesting, the information gets passed along.  The same with […]
August 24, 2017

Getting Listed in Search Engine Results

Not matter how many times I talk about it to clients or speak about it in workshops, I still get the same question. "I am trying to work out how the google thing works – been typing in my domain name and related search terms and my site’s not coming […]
August 24, 2017

Creating a Custom 404 Page in Joomla

If your template doesn’t come with a pre-configured error 404 page we highly recommend that you create one.  This is a pretty simple process. Go to article manager and create a new uncategorised article to act as your 404 page.  Commonly this will have a message saying “Sorry, the page […]
August 24, 2017

How Can Video Help Website SEO

Adding video to your website is a fantastic way of interacting with your audience and “informing” or “selling” to them.  Beyond the benefit of a video being informative and engaging  for your audience, video is important  for website SEO in many other ways. There are a couple really important elements […]
August 24, 2017

Google Search Engine Optimization – Lesson 1

Optimizing your website for Google is really important.  Once you build you site, if you tell google about it, they will come, check it out, record the information and pages that are “indexable” and the robot will then scurry off to another website to continue it’s never ending search for […]
August 24, 2017

Google’s Position on Mobile Friendly Websites

Getting indexed by Google and performing well in organic search results with the big search engines, Google in particular, is critically important when you consider driving traffic to your site. On April 21, 2015 Google rolled out their “mobile-friendly” update where they are boosting the rankings for websites that are […]
August 24, 2017

Add Your Business to Google Maps

Adding your business to Google Maps is a great idea and it’s FREE so why not take 20 minutes and get your business listed today. It tells Google that you exist You can come up for searches for your industry/business area when searches are performed in that area You can […]