Your website is your real estate

We all agree that a certain exposure to social media is necessary in order to promote your website, services and products. However, I don't know how much you are aware of the fact that for example Facebook calls now every sentence, every image, and video its own by the sheer fact that you are publishing it on Facebook. You just silently agreed. More and more we are finding that search engines and social media control how we interact, advertise, think, live and breathe. "Artifical Intelligence" precisely delivers cut-out personal advertising right into our faces. Your personal...

List your business/website on powerful online directories

List your website for free in these directories

Here is a list of high-profile platforms to local directories that allow you to list your website for free (at the time of writing). These websites cover a range of audiences. You submit your website’s URL, as well as additional information about your business or organization. These sites, in turn, incorporate your info to their data banks, ensuring that your link is there when users are searching your content categories. In addition to direct display of your content, adding your links to these directories improves your site’s Search Engine Optimization, gradually improving...

Google ranking and sitemaps

Google is always changing the way they rank sites - there are hundreds of updates to their algorithm every year. But, despite all the changes, Google's #1 recommendation has always been to have an up-to-date, valid XML Sitemap. If you aren't creating a sitemap and maintain it on a regular basis, you could be missing out on rankings - not only for your main website pages, but also for the niche pages that can rank best to bring in long-tail traffic. Don't despair, there is an easy, elegant & cost effective solution! As our existing clients with a Joomla website know we install by...

Components that help your website to become No. 1 in Google

Get free traffic from search engines, appear relevant to the people looking for the products and services A number-one ranking within Google’s organic search results is valuable because you don’t pay for the resulting clicks. That’s why you need a website that conforms to search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques. It is hard to determine how relevancy is calculated as the algorithm is often changed, and realistically only Google really knows what it is, but there are ways to improve your chances: Page content Content is very relevant to your business and the products...

Take Control of your Google Search Result

With Google Structured Data Markup Your website brand is very important to your online success. Take control of your Google search results by adding Google Structured Data Markup to your Joomla! website. What is Google Structured Data Markup? Structured data refers to kinds of data with a high level of organization, such as information in a relational database. When information is highly structured and predictable, search engines can more easily organize and display it in creative ways. Structured data markup is a text-based organization of data that is included in a file and served from...

Where can I find royality-free images for my website?

Paid stock photos There are many websites that sell beautiful images that you can use on your own website or provide us with ... www.bigstockphoto.com www.shutterstock.com Royality-free stock photos however it might be worthwhile checking out these guys as they do not sell the images, you can donate if you like or submit your own, however, the images are available to be used commercially on your website www.pixabay.com www.unsplash.com www.pikwizard.com www.pexels.com www.rawpixel.com www.freeimages.com 32 Best Sites for Free Stock Photos – The Secret List! A great free stock photo site...

Link Building / SEO

Link Exchange SEO Perth Hills Web Design

An important part of your website ranking with search engines is that other websites find your content interesting and display a link to your website. Here you find a list of websites that are happy to exchange a link with you. You can utilise it to your liking. Link exchange has been a practice in the internet ever since. And it is a good practice too – if you do it right. Link exchange has a potential to positively impact site traffic and improve business relations. I give you a link, you reciprocate, everyone’s happy, right? If only it were as easy as that. Link Exchange...

Need to take credit card payments on the go?

I know that some of you are looking into a simple and cost effective solutions to take credit card payments on the go. I just came across a wonderful offer that allows you to do just that in a non fuss manner. Accept Chip and PIN payments Accept MasterCard and Visa, credit and debit card payments Connect via Bluetooth with most Android devices, iPhones and iPads Set up secondary users so your staff can take payments with the one PayPal account. No monthly fees 1.95% transaction fee for payments through the Chip and PIN card reader No monthly fees or lock in contract. This seems to me a...

Google rewards mobile friendly sites

You probably use, like most people, Google to navigate your way and search around the web. It’s typically how lot of other people will find your site too. Whilst Google is a search engine you want to have your website listed on, it can be quite a task to keep up with the regular changes to the rules that determine which websites show at the top of the natural search results. On 21st April of this year Google changed the rules yet again to prioritise mobile friendly websites when users are searching via Google on mobile and tablet devices. Here’s what google had to say: Today’s the...

Is my website really down?

Some of you have a lot of personal user interaction with the visitors that come to your website. Often people will tell you about their experience with using your website. That is great feedback that you always should listen to. However, there are situations that cause you stress in particular when people are saying "I can not access your website" or "Your website is down" etc. How do you know for sure if your website is really down? First of all, there are lots of reasons why the website is down, or could be down. A good way to make sure that this is not just a ONE USER experience...