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Setting up a Privacy & Cookies Policy for your Website
Privacy policies and cookies notices are important on websites because they help to protect the privacy of website visitors. Importantly, they also help protect the website owner from legal liability. A privacy policy is a document that explains how a website collects, uses, and shares personal information about its visitors. While a cookie notice is […]
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WP Rocket: The Best WordPress Performance Plugin?
WP Rocket is a premium paid caching plugin that helps you improve your website loading speed (which impacts SEO ranking). It is one of the most popular WordPress performance plugins, and for good reason. Features WP Rocket offers a wide range of features that can help you speed up your website, including: Admittedly, performance tuning […]
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Backing up Your WordPress Website
What are Backups and why are they important? Backups are basically a copy of your website. They are important for even the simplest of websites, because without them, your website could be lost. This could happen if you fail to pay your hosting invoices or if your website is hacked. If your website is simple […]
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Taking donations on your WordPress website
Taking donations via a website was once seen as a function exclusively for charities. But nowadays it is quite common to see informational and community websites allowing their readers and fans to donate – in order to help keep the service running. I’ve spent some time looking at the various donation options out there and […]
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Beginners guide to backlinks
So, you’ve heard that backlinks are good for SEO, but you don’t really understand what they are nor how to go about getting them. In this article, I’ll demystify backlink terminology and give you tips on building backlinks for your website. What is a backlink? Put simply, a backlink is a link to your website […]
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The best design tool for non-designers
Canva love Canva launched back in 2013, but it’s not that many years ago that there were still people who hadn’t heard of it. Why am I writing about it then? Well, for two reasons. First, I do still mention it to some clients who haven’t heard of it. Second, many who do use it, mainly […]
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Improve your local Google rankings with listings
I’ve previously shared The Top 12 UK Business Directories and the Top 12 Irish Business Directories to list your business. It’s not difficult to create your own listings, but it is time consuming. This service can be outsourced completely for a one-off fee. Local SEO and citation building While listing your business on top directories is good for SEO […]
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Scheduling blog posts and social media sharing
Making the most of your admin time I was chatting to one of my clients, Jill at Mojoco, the other day, about admin time savers when it comes to publishing and sharing articles. The idea for this short post came from that chat. It strikes me that some of these simple tips can easily be missed […]
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Google Analytics G4 – do you need it?
What is G4? G4 is a major update to the Google Analytics platform that allows you to track people across apps and websites. G4 includes some powerful new features which aim to give you deeper insights into your website’s traffic, in order to help you make smarter marketing decisions. But, it not just intended for […]
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TermsFeed Privacy & Terms Generator
What is TermsFeed? TermsFeed provides trusted legal agreements for websites and apps. This includes Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, Return and Refund, Cookies and Disclaimer policies. All policies have a free tier although the majority of websites will need to upgrade to the premium offering to ensure coverage. However, the premium is reasonable and certainly a […]
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GDPR and US Privacy Policies the Easy Way
Do I need a privacy policy? Any website collecting as little as an email address on a contact form should not only have a Privacy Policy, but also have a strategy to keep it up to date when the laws change. Depending on where you customers are located in the world, there are numerous laws […]
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Top hosting providers for your wordpress website
What is website hosting? Hosting is a place where all of the files that make up your website live. Every website will have lots of files (containing code or an image for example) and these take up space and need to be stored somewhere. Your Hosting account is your online storage for these files. The […]
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Setting Up a Facebook Business Page
If this is something that you have been putting off, set aside 20 minutes and just get it done. You can always improve on your starting point later. If you aren’t sure that you really need a Facebook Page for your business, consider that 2.5 people use Facebook every month and more than 140 million […]
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Setting up a Google Business Profile
What is a Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business)? A Google Business Profile is a free tool that allows businesses to manage how their business details appear on Search and Maps. You will have probably have seen these listings when you type a search into Google. All businesses can create one and they are […]
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3 things we offer that a free website builder doesn’t
Yes, you can build your own website using one of the free builders such as Wix, Squarespace or Weebly. If you have a flair for design or can pick out a template that you like, it can even look really nice. But, here are my Top 10 Reasons that you ought to consider using a […]
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Host your own website with Siteground
In this article, I am not going to compare hosts and offer alternatives. I have used Siteground myself for a number of years and because I am completely happy with them, I will continue to recommend them to anyone who wishes to host their own website. Yes, you may find cheaper options out there, but […]
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