No, not if you're trying to get more business! Recently, I seem to be inundated with adverts from web design companies, one particular ad that caught my eye was from UENI, as they were offering a to build and host forever for £65! To host a website there is normally an annual fee and for your domain name there is another an annual fee, I wondered how on earth could they do this, so I thought I'd take a look. I think I figured out how you avoid paying for your domain and hosti

Why do you have a website and what do you expect it to do? I guess that at the minimum it needs to do is to showcase your business, hopefully it generates business and if an ecommerce website, you it has to generate sales. But how do you know if your website is effective? If you have an ecommerce website, that's fairly easy to judge, as you know how many sales it generates, but could it generate more? If you don't sell from your website, knowing how successfully it promotes y

During a recent Wix webinar there were a few people saying that there websites weren't doing as well as they hoped, so I offered to give them a hand. One, who took up my offer, is a professional setting up her own design consultancy and on the face of it the website looks ok. Wix makes it easy to build good looking websites but it takes more than that to rank high in Google search results. Again Wix offers you the SEO tools to do this, but as with most tools, if you don't kno

Since my last post on SEO the performance of a.carlingplastering.com has gone from strength to strength. I use Google Search Console and Google Analytics to check the websites performance, it allows me to see which search terms the website appears for, how it ranks for each of these terms and how many people visit the website. In the last week, according to Google Search Console, the website has ranked 1st or 2nd, for ten different search terms that we want to rank for. It's