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The Complexity of eCommerce Shops (and a Handy WordPress Plugin That Helps) 🔧

May 29, 2025 by Ilkeston Web Design

Video on how to plan your online shopping eCommerce store

Learn how a detailed product inventory spreadsheet is the key to getting a large eCommerce store up and running with less hassle, fewer headaches and in a fraction of the time.

Filed Under: Admin and maintenance, Content writing, eCommerce, Marketing, Planning, Search engines, Tips, Video, Web design, Web development, WordPress Tagged With: content, customers, data, keywords, problem solving, SEO, Strategy, UX, website

Quick and Simple Ways to Make Your Business Better with Data 🥇

May 10, 2025 by Ilkeston Web Design

Image of Lieutenant Colombo talking about data insights

You don’t need to be a big-brained boffin to spot vital “data” clues pointing to fixable business issues and golden opportunities.

Filed Under: Content writing, Search engines, Tips, Video, Web design Tagged With: content, customers, data, keywords, problem solving, SEO, Strategy, UX, website

What Happens When Webhosting and WordPress Software Isn’t Kept Up-to-date? ⚠️

February 9, 2024 by Ilkeston Web Design

Presentation on WordPress core software and plugins

If you don’t maintain the webhosting PHP version and the software WordPress runs on, your website can malfunction, break or disappear from search engines.

Filed Under: Admin and maintenance, Article, Search engines, Security, Tips, Video, Web development, WordPress Tagged With: audit, business continuity, costs, derby, development, hacking, ilkeston, maintenance, nottingham, security, SEO, uptime, WAMP, website, WordPress

The Search Engine Problem: “Why is My Website Not Ranking?” 😶

November 6, 2014 by Ilkeston Web Design

Search Engine Frustration

The world’s best known webpage has a mesmerising monopoly on commerce and communications, which is a big problem for us small businesses.

Filed Under: Article, Content writing, Marketing, Planning, Search engines, Tips Tagged With: content, keywords, marketing, SEO, Strategy, website

Website Planning & Development Spreadsheet – Free Download 📋

June 16, 2014 by Ilkeston Web Design

Website Planning Spreadsheet Advice

Use spreadsheets to properly plan website structure, record keyword themes and have an overview of page URLs, redirects, meta titles and descriptions.

Filed Under: Planning, Search engines, Tips, Video, Web development Tagged With: design, development, keywords, SEO, Strategy

Why Any Local Business MUST Use Google Business Profile

March 21, 2014 by Ilkeston Web Design

The Power of Google Plus for Local Businesses

In this video we take a look at Google Plus Local and how it can help your small or local business from a search engine perspective.

Filed Under: Tips, Video Tagged With: marketing, SEO

Introduction to Local Business Website Keywords

August 28, 2013 by Ilkeston Web Design

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Most first-time local business webmasters either pay no attention to their keywords or go overboard on “keyword stuffing” with devastating consequences. 

Filed Under: Marketing, Search engines, Tips, Video Tagged With: content, keywords, marketing, SEO

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