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Just About Digital – Online Visibility

Posted on November 12, 2018 | Updated December 7, 2018 by Tracey Rickard
Just About Digital Online Visibility

I was recently asked to present at the Just About Digital development day being run by Socially Shared networking.  My subject was online visibility and I talked about ways to raise your online profile and to direct traffic to your..

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Positive Feedback that I Saw By Accident!

Posted on September 4, 2018 | Updated October 16, 2018 by Tracey Rickard
Your Central Hub

I have just found your site after receiving my Guardian News email. What a fantastic amazing website!!

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The Face Behind the Tech

Posted on April 23, 2018 | Updated October 18, 2021 by Shelley Wilson
The face behind the tech

Working with a web designer is like a meeting of creative minds. They listen to your ideas and then construct a beautiful site from your musings. There are numerous questions you would need to ask your potential designer ahead of..

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There’s More to Web Design than Code and SEO

Posted on March 26, 2018 | Updated April 7, 2018 by Shelley Wilson
Shelley Wilson

Being passionate about your chosen career is a must when you run your own business. You live, breathe, and eat with it morning, noon, and night. However, as with any business, there’s always a sole trader or a team (large..

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Somebody Stole My Content

Posted on February 12, 2018 | Updated March 31, 2018 by Tracey Rickard
Thief

I cannot believe it happened and it was a bit of a shocker to see my very carefully crafted content appearing word for word, page for page on somebody else’s website.  My home page text was there, then my main..

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Why do WordPress sites do so well in the search engine rankings?

Posted on January 10, 2018 | Updated February 24, 2018 by Tracey Rickard
WordPress and search engine rankings

Plenty of statistics continue to indicate the dominant position of WordPress among the web’s content management systems (CMS). Did you know that the WordPress CMS powers almost three in 10 websites online and that it enjoys a 59.4% market share..

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5 tips for optimising your images for the search engines

Posted on December 28, 2017 | Updated October 18, 2021 by Tracey Rickard

If you’ve ever been driving down the road and decided to take the longer, scenic route instead of the shorter and more obvious way home, you will be able to appreciate the magic of online images. Images are very much..

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Reveal the Full Yoast SEO Menu in WordPress

Posted on October 12, 2016 | Updated June 5, 2019 by Tracey Rickard
Yoast updates hide menu

WordPress out of the box is already technically quite a good platform for SEO but that doesn’t mean you can’t improve it further! This plugin is written from the ground up by Joost de Valk and his team at Yoast..

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Great page load speed relies on good hosting

Posted on June 15, 2016 | Updated October 18, 2021 by Tracey Rickard

There are many things that we should all be doing today as WordPress developers to ensure that pages load quickly to please our visitors and of course good old Google SEO. Optimise images, basically make their file sizes as small..

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Make sure you are on Google Business

Posted on October 26, 2014 | Updated March 30, 2018 by Tracey Rickard
Google Business - content marketing

If you are interested in optimising your website for Google you should make sure that you have added your Google My Business listing. Google My Business connects you directly with customers, whether they’re looking for you on Search, Maps or..

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Manage Your Metatags & More SEO for WordPress

Posted on July 19, 2014 | Updated October 18, 2021 by Tracey Rickard
SEO in a nutshell

SEO for WordPress makes it easy for you to manage your website. SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is the art optimising your website to ensure it is found and ranked by Google and other major search engines. Getting the Foundation..

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