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WordPress vs SquareSpace, Wix, Weebly and other builders
Why wordpress is still miles ahead of competitors Wondering if you should use wordpress or a subscription website builder such as SquareSpace or Wix? Here’s why I think a well built wordpress site is still miles ahead of its competitors. Technology solutions Today I heard a great descriptive phrase: ‘technology agnostic’. It describes the value…
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How much does a website cost?
UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE PAYING FOR WITH A WEBSITE BUILD To estimate how much a site will cost to build, test, go live, host and work continually efficiently to build your business, it’s important to be clear on what you’d like your website to achieve, what results you want it to return and what your business…
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Inspiration from the side hustle
I know many businesses who have more than one focus and income stream. I do too, but I’ve not thought the 2 intersected. I rarely tell my Love Communications clients I also sew homewares out of lunatic teatowels and in my LoveAndWest life (advanced teatowelism), it rarely comes up that I’m also a web developer.…
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Content challenge – my wrestle with the empty page
I’m challenging myself this month, August, to produce content every day (a slow start as this is my first day – August 3! but a start all the same). I’m doing this not only because I should practice what I preach – I tell clients to blog blog blog – then repurpose the blog content…
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Why I love Word Camps
I love WordPress wordcamps. The recent 2-day community get together for learning, sharing, reconnecting, laughing, story telling, commiserating, celebrating and troubleshooting is always great and this is why they work so well: The Cost:$55 for 2 very full days of wide ranging info sessions, with lunch, coffees, a drink token for the Saturday night party and…
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Better SEO – Untangle your Technology
Want to maximise your site and content for SEO? Make sure your website is working well in these 3 aspects: Technical – make it easy for Google to index your site Content – use title tag, use keywords you know your audience will use in their search, use synonyms for your keyword choose a keyword…
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Working with the google algorithm
The Google Algorithm is the huge list of factors (more than 200) that are taken into account when Google is ranking your content in first place or waaay out in the cheap seats. When a major change to the algorithm happens, the update is given a name – generally each is named after a living…
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Strategy and SEO
Google works with ‘crawlers’ that roam the web returning new information and content, so adding new posts, pages, products, information to your site, gives Google bots a reason to visit and index. They reward sites that evolve and update. For this reason, and to keep your business message fresh and a conversation going with your…
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SEO by the numbers
The Google search engine is designed to deliver users the best possible return for their search results. Google has a big list of requirements – the factors within its algorithm that helps deliver a fair result for users first – that it uses to build its index fairly, so that the best results are returned…
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