Here we talk about SEO, which is the practice of ensuring your website is user-friendly AND search engine friendly.
Screaming Frog is actually a spider, which is actually a very useful website tool, for SEO in particular. Ok, could it get any more confusing than that? Let's try again. Screaming Frog is a free tool (available here), which allows you to do a full [...]
SEO myths have always been in existence. Since SEO became big business and all these new SEO companies started sprouting their roots, they've all had to find a 'USP' to win over their customers, and for me, that's where a lot of these silly myths [...]
A good Google ranking is the holy grail for most webmasters. Over the years I have tried EVERYTHING under the sun when it comes to SEO. Clients often come to me having read up a bit of Google ranking performance, with ideas of their own [...]
A lot of people ask me how Google decides what to rank where. How do you get to the top? What are ads and how do they work? How do you get a local result and a map marker? Well, I'm going to try to [...]
In a straight-talking, no-nonsense approach, I thought I would talk to you about Google Panda and how it might affect your website. With Google Panda, Google changed it's 'rules' around how it ranks websites in it's organic search results. This is old news, and the point [...]
In the first of a series of end-of-year blog entries, I wanted to talk about one of the biggest changes in the history of Google Search - the 'mobile friendly' update. On 21st April 2015, Google made changes to it's search algorithm, which meant web pages that were [...]
Our latest website was designed and developed for a company called Stoves & Sheds, based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. You've guessed it, Stoves & Sheds sell Stoves and Sheds! They offer a range of products for sale all over the UK, for either delivery or local [...]
Micro-Brew.co.uk is a brand new website by gowiththetimes.co.uk. Launched this weekend, the micro-brew website is for a company called Armthorpe Process Solutions, who manufacture and install microbreweries in pubs and breweries. Micro-brewing is becoming more popular and the microbrewery is one of APS's key products. [...]
Since the day I started in the web industry, I have come across loads of customers who really don't understand the first thing about how a website works. And why should you? That's my job. Questions like "what is hosting?" "what does a domain name [...]
Beware of Dodgy SEO Companies (COWBOYS)! This month I just wanted to mention an increasing amount of emails I'm noticing from (mainly overseas) SEO companies claiming that "your website contains errors. Let us give you a free review of your website and we can help you [...]