There are a number of factors that influence where your website is ranked in search results. The major ranking factors include the following: An Accessible URL . Optimised Page Speed (Including Mobile Page Speed). Mobile Friendliness. Domain Age, URL and Authority. Optimized Content to include the right keywords in pages, meta and alt tags. Technical…
From a web design perspective, many of the world’s most visited websites (https://www.alexa.com/topsites) are rather dull. Websites such as Google, You Tube, Facebook and Amazon are not shining examples of award winning web design but they have other obvious attributes. Here is the current top ten for the UK: Google.co.uk – Enables users to search…
The latest version of Google’s web browser Google Chrome is now clearly marking all http websites as ‘Not secure’ and all https websites as ‘Secure’. Google Chrome version 68 was released on 24 July 2018 and adds a very clear message for http and https websites. Here is the message for http websites: Here is…
There is a new generation of page builder plugins that make web design with WordPress a breeze. In the past we often had to accept the page designs of the theme developer or spend time customising the CSS files, adding to the functions file and modifying graphics and icons. As web developers this wasn’t a…
AJ Doyle PhotographyWebsite for Midlands based event and wedding photographer AJ Dotle Photography. Website for Midlands based wedding and event photographer AJ Doyle Photography. The WordPress website uses the excellent Next Gen plugin to manage the upload and display of images. The client galleries are password protected and allow the online ordering of prints and…
In November 2016, Google announced that it would be changing the way it indexes websites and coined a new phrase – mobile first indexing. This means that instead of using the desktop version for its index, Google will look at the mobile version of a website. It will index keywords, content and then evaluate relevance…
