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Your Site May be Sinking Below Sea Level

Jul 1

Posted by Kieran Daly in Grange Web Design | No Comments

You may think your site is well designed but take some time to make sure the basics are right and bring your pages up to sea level as they may be sinking.  Good content is important but how it is written and structured will make sure the sea water is not lapping around your sites ankles.

We all want to optimise our websites to make them have the most traffic possible.  I always say that hard work is the main way to do this by working on your content through on page SEO and working outside the site for backlinks and improving your reputation.

There is no quick fix but there are some useful sites that can help you make the right decisions on what you re doing with your site.  Google Webmaster Central is one of he best sites to start with making sure that your site is at least doing the basic tasks correctly.  A few hours working with this site and your own site will ensure that the website you have is at least on a level playing field with the other sites out there.

The site can help you to

  • Ensure that your site meta and titles are accurate.
  • That there are no crawl errors on your site.
  • That your sitemap is accurate
  • Show your top site queries
  • Display your sitelinks.

I suggest that everyone should check this site at least once a week to make sure that they are not making any basic errors that are stopping Google indexing their content correctly. 7uyzqz9e82 – Hello Technorati!

Building an Online Brand

Apr 15

Posted by Kieran Daly in Grange Web Design, Technology, Twitter | No Comments

I have been reading tonight about building an online brand a new term in social media.  At the moment I accept that I am present on-line but do not have a distinctive on-line brand.  However besides the linked article above there are some steps that I have taken to build my brand.

Twitter Presence

i work hard on Twitter to build my presence, share with other people what interests me and forward information that I find interesting.  I am a big fan of Twitter and think that it is a very powerful tool in social media.

Blog Regularly

I  keep this blog up to date regularly with information that I am passionate about and that I think people will find interesting.  I put solid work into this and make sure that the information is crisp and up to date.  A blog is really a personal perspective on the topics that are close to your heart.  It is great if people come visit, learn, add to their RSS feed but ultimately it will not change the focus of the content that you produce. Comments are useful however and in my recent PowerPoint post I did get some useful feedback that I plan to include in an update soon.

Build a Solid Business Proposition Web Site

I recently updated my web design site so that it can provide the best information about my products and offerings.  I work on it most days and hope that is also a valuable resource.  Even if you were not interested in using me to build your site I think it would be a good starting point in answering the basics on what is required for starting a web site and on-line presence.

Other Social Media Tools

I am still peering from a distance at tools like Stumbleupon, Friendfeed, Facebook, and Linkedin as  I do not want to enter this apce without think about where I want to end up.  I will probably dedicate a week or so to each of these tools over the coming months, enjoy what htey give me and in the process continue to build an on-line presence.