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Give your customers a direct link to give you a Google Review
Most businesses now have a Google My Business profile. These are the profiles that appear near the top of your phone when you search locally. A business without a local business profile will be less visible to potential customers in their local region. Making it easy for your customers to post a review An…
Read MoreWeb Site Photography
Visually enhance your new or existing website with professionally captured photographs specific to your requirements. Professional photography is an absolute must in today’s competitive business world. Your website photography and design is as equally important as your search engine optimization (SEO) and online advertising – it is essential you have high quality visual branding, presented…
Read MoreMaximising the potential of your Google My Business listing
Its a given that things are always changing with how your business presents in the online environment. One of the most important areas to look at is how Google changes and what you as a business owner need to do to keep up with those changes. Google My Business is an increasingly important aspect of…
Read MoreWordPress Membership Web Sites
A membership web site might be required for a number of reasons. Your web site may be A club or organisation that only wants to share info with it’s members You may be a commercial organisation that wants to sell content. i.e give paid access to certain areas of a website There are a number…
Read MoreWordPress Maintenance
WordPress maintenance is an often overlooked requirement after a web site goes live. After a new WordPress website goes live, there are a number of key maintenance tasks that need to be attended to on a regular basis. If you, the web site owner, haven’t got a plan in place to handle this, you may…
Read MoreAutomating WordPress Plugin Updates
I recently had a request from a client who was interested in updating their WordPress Plugins themselves. At the time, the possibility of auto-updating was raised. I did a search and found – https://wordpress.org/plugins/stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates/ which can be configured to automate the updates of other plugins. The only potential gotcha here is if a plugin update…
Read MoreOrganising Gmail – How to set up a labels & Filters
I often see clients floundering as they search for old emails in their Gmail. Below are some instructions to help better organise your emails. Setting up a label and a filter Here are some instructions for setting up a label and filter in Gmail. In this example, I am only showing a simple filter example.…
Read MoreThe search engine affects of Google’s new policy for websites not optimised for Mobile Phones
From Tues 21, April , 2015 Google will be penalising web sites that are not mobile phone optimised. What this means is that if your competitors’ websites are mobile optimised, and your website is not, its likely that their websites will be favoured in mobile search results ahead of your own website. Read here at Search…
Read MoreHow to Embed a Youtube Video into WordPress
A quick and easy guide STEP 1 – Choose edit Assuming you’re working from your Youtube video manager, the first thing you would do is to click the edit button for your video.
Read MoreCreate and Share a Folder in Google Drive
Google drive is a great tool for sharing files. See instructions below for Accessing your Google Drive Creating a folder Uploading some files to the folder Sharing the folder
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