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How to edit your own website without learning WordPress Being able to edit your own website — change a price, swap a photo, fix…
Practical articles on web design, hosting and SEO, written for New Zealand business owners rather than for other developers. Everything here comes out of work we have actually done for clients.
How to edit your own website without learning WordPress Being able to edit your own website — change a price, swap a photo, fix…
New website not showing on Google? Here is why So your new website has just launched a few hours ago, and you’ve put in…
Why Gmail is a poor business email address for your website Over the last few years, there have been an increasing number of reasons…
Getting repeated spam SEO emails about your website? ” We can help you fix these issues and get your website ranked on the 1st…
The good and the bad about a Google Business Profile When you search Google, you often see some relevant local businesses on the right…
10 tips on promoting a new website Promoting a new website is the part nobody warns you about. So your shiny new website has…
Search engine rankings So how do search engines decide where your website ends up in those all-important search results? Google and others have these…
Choosing a domain name: 10 important points Your domain name is not just a web address; it’s the digital front door to your online…
Planning a new website: the points that matter Launching a new website requires a thoughtful strategy, particularly when it comes to search engine optimisation…
Getting on page 1 of Google, and staying there Where’s the best place to hide a body? On Page 2 of Google! OK, not…
What is SEO? SEO stands for search engine optimisation, and it refers to the practice of optimising websites and their content to rank higher…
Google Analytics for small business: tracking your website visitors NOTE: All websites that we build have Google Analytics added as standard Google Analytics is…
Most of what appears on this web design blog started life as an answer to a client question. Someone rings up asking why their new site is not showing on Google, or whether they really need a domain email address, or what to do about the SEO spam landing in their inbox every morning. If the answer takes more than five minutes on the phone, it usually ends up here so the next person can read it instead.
That shapes what you will find. There is no coverage of framework release notes, no opinion pieces about design trends, and nothing written to hit a word count. The articles are aimed at the person who owns the business and has to make a decision, not at the person who will be writing the code.
Patrick writes the lot. Impact Websites has been building and hosting sites for New Zealand businesses since 2012, so the examples come from real jobs on real servers, including the ones that went wrong. Where something is our opinion rather than settled fact, it is flagged as such.
If your site has just launched, start with the article on why a new website is not showing on Google yet, then the one on promoting a new website. If your site has been up for years and has gone quiet, the pieces on search engine rankings and improving website speed are the more useful pair. If you are still at the planning stage, read the domain name article before you buy anything.
Something you want covered and cannot find here? Send us the question. If it is a good one, it becomes the next article.
