🚩 Beware of web design quotes that are:
Vague on deliverables
Lacking clear timelines
Suspiciously cheap
Missing post-launch support
A good quote should be transparent, customized, and come with a solid plan.
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Ready to get your business on Google without breaking the bank? SEO isn’t just for big corps with fat budgets. With a few clever tweaks, you can boost your visibility, attract more customers, and save some serious cash.
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A little reminder to include what your product does in every email for your newsletter list, people forget your logo and what you do.
Remind them!
Ever wondered if your website is doing everything it can to help your business grow? You’re not alone!
Here are a few areas to consider:
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Finding a #website developer/agency to build you a new site is hard, do a search and you will find 1000s.
To help I have created 5 questions you can ask them to help identify which is best for you.
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How much should a small #website cost in 2025. The world has moved on, maybe there are savings to be had!
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3. Finally, identify the reason why those pages have less traffic. This stage might take you a little time and a spreadsheet.
If you haven't the time, let AVE Analytics do it and present the reasons to you.
2. Identify which pages now receive less traffic. Your analytics tool should tell you this.
1. First off you need to know that you have less traffic, make sure you have an alert set up or you regularly look at your analytics.
Here are the 3 stages in finding why your website has less traffic: 🧵
What would your business do if you lost 25% of your income?
A: Look at your analytics tools that confirm you have lost 25%.
B: Have a staff meeting.
C: Open your AVE analytics dashboard and see why this has happened and what you need to do to fix it.
#OptionC #HintHintC #ClueItsOptionC
I tried the new version of ChatGPT o3 high, designed for coding. It worked very well, with no mistakes. I will keep playing, but I recommend giving it a try.
AI is improving very quickly.
#AI
Finally, website owners are seeing sense and uninstalling Google Analytics.
There is no such thing as FREE software!
#Google #SEO
I'm not sure how small businesses will like a load of AI bots phoning them up for quotes, maybe they will need an AI bot to answer the calls and reply for them?
Google is testing a new AI function called "Ask for me".
What this will do is find out information for you and come back with the results, like phoning window cleaners for you and asking them about their availability and costs.
Is this what we want?
#AI #SEO
Top tip: Don't miss out on possible extra sales if your website traffic suddenly increases by 25%. Get alerted instantly and reap the extra sales.
#WP #WordPress #AVEanalytics
Do you sell a product?
Then ensure your webpage answers long-tail questions people ask AI tools, like recommending a product.
For example: "recommend a product that ..."
#SEO
By simply changing your analytics tool from Google Analytics to the Free JG Website Analytics (only 887B) you reduce each page load by 65KB per visitor!
If your site has 100K monthly visitors, you will save 6GB!
Think of the emissions you would save too!
#WP #WordPress
Can your business afford not to know why your website traffic has just dropped by 30%?
If you can find out why your website traffic has dropped, how will you fix it?
AVE Analytics
#WordPress #WP #WordPressDevelopment
As a keen skier, all these skiing posts are driving me crazy with envy! :(
Sadly won't be able to go this season, maybe next...
Just a little reminder that ChatGPT uses Bing.com search results, ranking on Bing.com has got more important over the last 18 months or so.
Check Bing's webmaster tools and grab those higher positions for ChatGPT traffic.
#SEO
The new version of JG Message Manager will be live soon with new cosmetic options to suit your website's image.
#WordPress #WP #WordPressDevelopment
Trying out self-hosted Matomo analytics today. On installation it creates 48 tables in your WordPress database. Is that what they call "bloat"?
I also noticed it saves user's WordPress passwords, why would it need that?
#WordPress #WP #WordPressDevelopment
It's quite handy to be able to show a message on your website to your visitors on certain days, maybe a lead-up to a Sale. It's even more convenient if it is managed automatically!
JG Message Manager WordPress plugin
#WordPress #WP #WordPressDevelopment
Over the weekend, it was my company's birthday. Happy birthday Juicy SEO. We have been helping websites perform better for 14 years!
A lot has changed, but, I suspect the biggest changes are still to come!
#SEO
Would you know if the sponsored link you paid for got removed?
Maybe you pay to sponsor an event and in return for a link on their site to yours.
A new feature is being added to AVE.
#AVEanalytics #WordPress #WP #WordPressDevelopment
Today I have been finishing off the FREE WordPress plugin for Website Analytics. If you need to know how many visitors your website has and what they have done, this is for you.
Download from the WordPress repository or our site.
#WordPress #WP #WordPressDevelopment
I have started using Whimsical to create the flow of my plugins in design phase, so far very good and easy. Worth a try if you are a developer!
It saves so much time in the end when planning out the code in advance. This tool is one of the best I have tried.
Anyone suggest another?
It's January Sale season! If you don't let your website visitors know your products are on sale you won't create FOMO, highlight your amazing prices.
Don't be shy, shout about your Sale prices by using a flexible Message plugin.
Search "Message Manager woocommerce plugin"
#WordPress #WP #WooCommerce
On a Monday I assign tasks for each day of the week. Last week I made those public for last week's jobs. I quite liked it so here we are again:
One main job for this week for AVE, search engine algorithm changes.
Answer the question "did the last Google update affect my website?'