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Use Google My Business to help YOUR business

Google My Business (GMB) is one of the cheapest and easiest ways to improve the appearance of your site in search results. Unfortunately, most businesses fail to utilise it to its full potential. Let’s discuss why it’s worth taking the time to make your GMB listing as useful as possible. What is Google My Business? Google My Business, in a nutshell, is a local business listing service. It’s a free tool provided by Google, allowing business owners to set up [...]

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Social Media Management Can Help Your Business To Grow

It’s vital that, when running a business, you’re actively using social media. Additionally, it’s even more important that you’re using social media properly. Did you know that 71% of people who have a good social media experience with a brand are likely to recommend the brand to others? Hiring a social media manager allows you to create a social media presence that actually builds your business and brings in new customers. Let’s take a look at some of the [...]

HTTPS: Why you urgently need to switch to secure browsing.

As of 2015, Google has adjusted their crawlers to start prioritising HTTPS pages by default. This means that pages with HTTPS are given higher priority than those with HTTP. In January 2017, a Chrome update meant that input fields that are not using HTTPS were flagged to let users know that they were transmitting data insecurely. But what are HTTP and HTTPS? Why do you need to make the switch? What is HTTP? Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is most commonly used to [...]

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Site Structure and SEO: How to Build an Optimised Website

Search engines favour websites with great site structure. If you’re looking to get your website to the top of Google’s results, you will need to tune and organise your site’s structure. This post will discuss the benefits of organised site structure and how it enhances your site’s SEO. But first, how do we improve a site’s structure? Website hierarchy One of the most important things to consider is website hierarchy. You need to plan your hierarchy before beginning anything else. This [...]

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WordPress Websites: Why You Need To Use Them

In this day and age, it is important that every business has a website. Your website should be easily navigable, readable and aesthetically pleasing. Luckily, the WordPress websites platform is designed to fulfil all of these needs. This post will explain why you should become one of the 59% of businesses that rely on WordPress for their company website. Learn more about designing WordPress websites in Southampton Simple User Interface One of the best things about WordPress is its clear and simple [...]

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Web design Southampton experts reveal how social media improves SEO

Your web design Southampton specialists are working hard to circulate important information that will help your companies website and credibility. Did you know that the SEO of your website can be improved through a good social media strategy? If you’re looking at the screen blankly, we suggest you read on. Social media and SEO are two tightly interwoven strategies that will improve your ranking and credibility of your business website. These strategies present an organic improvement to creating an appealing [...]

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Learn how to protect and restore a hacked website

Your Web Design Southampton specialists are also quite savvy when it comes to backing up and preventing a virus attack. Here at Sites For Business, we are often asked how to deal with an infected or hacked website. Viruses and hackers can infect your website in many ways, which is why it’s important to protect your websites and to make sure they are safe in the first place. WordPress is the most popular content management platform after it overthrew its [...]

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Google is mapping out a new advertising strategy

In the age of technology we are relying heavily on our mobile devices, whether it’s for a local restaurant or a nearby shop – it’s always in reach at the click of a touch screen.  Google Maps have always been our first port of call when it comes to finding somewhere close to our door, and Google is beginning to realise how much we actually use it. Which is why Google Maps advertising is becoming a new initiative to strive [...]

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Google social media on the plus side

Google+ and your business The world of social media is continuing to grow at an alarming rate! So we need to keep up. Let’s look at Google+ this social media site is often forgotten in the building of business strategies. Which is a great disappointment, because when used correctly it can make quite the impact. Have you ever noticed that when you type in keywords for the product or service you are looking for, that often a company will appear on the [...]

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Google is watching you: Our unusual ways to improve your ranking on Google

Here, at Sites For Business, we are continually faced with requests to improve a customer’s ranking on search engines. Endless businesses benefit from Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for their rankings on Google (or other search engines). For a business to appear higher in the search engine results, it provides a good first impression, which persuades the customers to click on their site. The more clicks, the more clients. First impressions are key, and being at the top of Google [...]