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What are some common mistakes to avoid when writing a business description for local directories
When writing a business description for local directories, it is crucial to avoid common mistakes that can negatively impact your local SEO and overall online presence. Some specific mistakes to avoid include: 1. Ignoring Google My Business: Google My Business is a...
Is SEO Of Use To Small Businesses?
What are some common mistakes to avoid when writing a business description for local directories
When writing a business description for local directories, it is crucial to avoid common mistakes that can negatively impact your local SEO and overall online presence. Some specific mistakes to avoid include: 1. Ignoring Google My Business: Google My Business is a...
What are some effective ways to build local citations for Wirral businesses
Building local citations for Wirral businesses can be an effective way to improve local SEO and increase online visibility. Here are some strategies to build local citations: 1. Use data aggregators: Data aggregators can help distribute your business information...
Why use a local SEO service for your Wirral business
If you can, it's great if you can use a local web design company as it can really help not just one local business, but several in the Wirral area, here we look at SEO - and yes, the reasons would be very similar, but here we look at why you should actually implement...
Learn why you should hire a website designer for your next web project
A website for your company is a major undertaking. Your website will serve as the online shop for your company and aid in expanding your clientele. Internet access is available to more than 66% of people worldwide and 93.4% of those in North America and Europe. New...
What makes great web design?
Great web design is a combination of several factors that contribute to an engaging, user-friendly, and visually appealing website. Some key principles of great web design include: 1. Purpose: A website should have a clear purpose and cater to the needs of its users....
7 Top Tips To Writing Great Blogs For Websites And How To Make Them More Engaging
Here are the 7 top tips for writing great blogs...
A Guide To Designing a User-Friendly Site: Essential Website Design Elements
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What is Google Analytics GA4 and when does it start?
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How to Get the Most Out of Google Analytics
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What To Look For In A Web Hosting Provider
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3 Design Trends That Came Out in 2022
There are...
How Can You Increase Your Domain Authority and How Long Does It Take?
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How to Easily Import/Export Navigation Menus in 30 Minutes?
Do you want to export a navigation menu from one...
25 Best Examples Of Effective FAQ Pages
Frequently...
WordPress Permalinks Not Working: Effective Methods to Resolve Them
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Ensuring your website is secure
Everyone knows how...
The Top 7,000 Websites in 22 Industries and SEO
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Using Social Media for Marketing
How marketing your business is essential and you...
SEO Liverpool and your competitors
If you run a business in Liverpool,...
Online Selling
With more and more businesses with physical shops seeing...
Great website design
There's no question that website design is critical to the success of any business. A...
Ethical SEO Techniques for Websites
In today's market competition is the name of the game. If you have a...
An In-Depth Guide to Google Analytics 4
When it comes to website analytics, Google Analytics is second to none. With the rollout of the latest release, Google Analytics 4 (GA4), the same can now be said of applications analytics, too. Google Analytics 4 was designed to be the latest generation of web...
The Ultimate Guide to Bing SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
When we talk about SEO, Google comes to mind for most search engine marketers. It makes sense. If you can please the search giant, other search engines will follow along and send traffic to your website. Right? Most marketers don’t consider Bing (the second most used...
How to Optimise Your Anchor Text Strategy For SEO
The early days of SEO were like the Wild, Wild West. Blackhat SEO experts were doing everything imaginable to rank their sites on Google. That included keyword stuffing and creating spammy backlinks on a regular basis. Admittedly, for a time, it totally worked. These...
6 best Google Analytics reporting tools
Google Analytics reporting tools can make viewing and creating reports with Google Analytics data so much simpler. Google Analytics is pretty complicated, so having reporting tools to use that simplify it can be the difference between using your data for growth and...
The impact of continuous scrolling on SEO
Google recently made a change to mobile search results. It’s called continuous scrolling, and while it’s a minor tweak to the SERPs, it might have an impact on your SEO. Here’s everything you need to know about continuous scrolling. What Is Continuous Scrolling? You...
9 digital marketing tips for the holidays
Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Super Saturday — the holiday season doesn’t lack shopping days. Add those to the traditional boost in consumer spending that occurs in the run-up to the holidays, and you have a recipe for a record sales quarter. However, a bumper festive...
2021 advertising stats you need to know
2021 was a big year with advertisers, as they managed the impact of the COVID-19 crisis along with growing data privacy concerns. So, how exactly did advertisers fare in terms of strategy, challenges, and ad spend? To help you prepare for your 2022 strategy, we've...
Google will not set date for mobile-first index
Google announces that they will not set a date for a switch to a 100% mobile-first search index. They have announced that the deadline for the switch to a completely mobile-first index has been cancelled and there is currently no date for a final switchover....
Building a keyword strategy
Whether you’re optimising a website with a view to selling a tangible product, service, or digital service (such as SaaS), no organic product marketing strategy is complete without incorporating comparison keywords. Google continuously gets better at understanding the...
How to get your e-commerce website to rank in the SERPs
It’s probably fair to say that all e-commerce website owners want the same thing: higher visibility on search engines and more sales. After all, heightened visibility means getting seen on search engine results pages, or SERPs. You’re likely familiar with these as you...
Are backlinks from different locations better?
How Backlinks from Different Page Locations Are Worth More (Or Less): Not All Backlinks Are Created Equal. If you want to get found online, you need a strong backlink profile. The problem? Not all backlinks are created equal. Links from high-quality, relevant...
Are Google Ads a ranking factor for organic SEO?
Does whether you use Google Ads for paid search impact your search visibility on the organic side? It's been hotly debated over the years.Does Google favour advertisers by giving those who use paid ads a ranking advantage in organic search results? It’s a topic that’s...
How so websites get hacked and how to stop it?
As much as the web has grown, surprisingly not a lot has changed in how websites get hacked. The most important thing you can do in keeping the web – and your own sites and visitors – safe is to understand these unchanging truths and hold them close to heart. Consider...
Black Friday Deals and are they all they are cracked up to be?
We all love a bargain and look for great value deals in the run-up to Christmas. We also look for them too. But throughout the year if we see something we need that we know is priced right, we'll buy it. So does discounting mean the vendor has over-priced their...
Why hosting matters (buy cheap buy twice!)
Ahh, the sweet smell of hosting smugness. Think about it for a minute. You run a business and you sell from it and it all goes offline and you don’t know why. You’re losing sales. Fast. How much would you pay to fix it? Even if it’s a standard brochure website, having...
What is good web design and what’s the latest trends?
Here at Brand9, we're always looking at new design trends and enjoy looking at the great work other designers have done. So we've outlined some great things to keep in mind when designing a website. 8 Principles of Good Website Design Good design is of course...
