Forum: Website Design 
12th December 2014, 10:42 AM
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Views: 342  SEO by Yoast indexing pages it shouldn't
Hi,
I've finished my Wordpress website and have got it listed with Google.
I used SEO by Yoast in order to set a couple of pages to "noindex", to create a XML site map and to create custom...
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Forum: Website Design
12th December 2014, 10:35 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 762 |
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Forum: Website Design
18th November 2014, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 392 Re: Need help with pricing
I've never charged per page before as pages can take a few minutes to add, but getting to grips with the theme and any custom changes are where the most time is spent.
Have you got a suitable...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
18th November 2014, 05:14 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 887 Re: How do people contact you?
Thanks, it does sound like essential requirement then.
I've just signed up for a new phone number today (based on your recommendation of keeping a separate line for business, and can then manage...
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Forum: Website Design
17th November 2014, 03:03 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 868 |
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Forum: Conversion Rate Optimization
16th November 2014, 06:56 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,077 Re: Critique my Cat Furniture Site
I really like the minimalistic design and the use of photos which have a white background (one a white website). It looks very clean and draws more attention to the focal point within those images.
...
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Forum: Website Design
16th November 2014, 06:41 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 389 Re: suffusion question - ignore pic on site
Is this built with Wordpress?
If so, try having a look under Appearance > Menu's and seeing if the pages are stacked under one another (some slightly offset to the right signifies that they are a...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
16th November 2014, 05:25 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 741 Re: Talk about your business
If people are confused about what you do, you're explaining yourself badly!
For the past few months now, I've been trying to find someone new every week and then explain what I do in as short a...
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Forum: Website Design
16th November 2014, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 462 |
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Forum: Offline Marketing
16th November 2014, 05:13 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 887 Re: How do people contact you?
Thanks for the votes so far. I've been trying to decide whether or not to have a phone number for my business as i prefer to deal by email.
I think I am going to have to get a phone number as it's...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th November 2014, 06:50 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 406 Re: my site is not indexed up to date
Have you uploaded a site map to Google? If so, have a look at it, as it often mentions how often to check the page for updates.
If you haven't done that, then as far as I'm aware, the more often...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th November 2014, 12:34 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 877 Re: Do you know any other quality UK directories?
Most of the decent ones I've come across usually require payment in some form e.g. Check a Trade. Although this is a shame, at least they then end up maintaining a certain quality level.
Are you...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th November 2014, 10:01 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 681 Re: Ranking on Bing & Yahoo
I haven't personally used Yahoo and Bing for web searches, but have noticed on producing a new website that although Google indexed my whole site extremely quickly, Bing has only indexed my home...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
14th November 2014, 09:51 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 887 How do people contact you?
When you're using offline marketing, what tends to be the most popular way in which clients then contact you?
Do most people end up visiting your website and then message you through a contact...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th November 2014, 09:46 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 789 Re: Why I Hate SEO...
This is encouraging to read as I've got my offline marketing plan figured out, but haven't really delved too deeply into my SEO plan.
If you were starting from scratch, are there certain SEO...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th November 2014, 09:39 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 667 Re: How long for Google to index a website?
Doug: Thanks, I never realised that option existed within Wordpress! I'll definitely keep that in mind for next time. I was actually caught off guard by how quickly Google indexed my website. I was...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th November 2014, 09:33 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 391 Re: Will it be considered Thin Content?
When using the SEO plugin by Yoast, I keep being told to keep my pages to a minimum of 300 words.
Saying that though, I've just launched my site and in the process signed up for a 6 social media...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th November 2014, 06:20 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 667 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th November 2014, 06:17 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 725 Re: Site Bounce rate help pls
Website loading time can have a major impact on the bounce rate.
What is your current bounce rate %?
Where is your target market? Do you just serve India, or the whole World, or just specific...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th November 2014, 05:36 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 667 Re: How long for Google to index a website?
Thanks the reply, that's great to know it'll settle down in about a month. Also good Google should automatically remove my no-index pages.
I've just had a look and I don't have any posts in the...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th November 2014, 04:55 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 667 How long for Google to index a website?
I created a new Wordpress website a couple of weeks ago. I started editing the site, getting the theme setup and all the pages, but left each page blank.
Annoyingly, my website has ended up being...
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Forum: Social Media
11th November 2014, 05:44 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 809 Re: How to make Google+ work for your business?
Have you tried promoting Google+ from your website? For example, put the link in your email signature, or in any invoices/receipts you send to clients. You can also try and put social media icons on...
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Forum: Social Media
11th November 2014, 04:52 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 585 |
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Forum: Website Design
10th November 2014, 06:54 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 487 Re: Vimeo video autoplay full width
Just found one which works, so this thread isn't needed anymore (typical that I spent most of today trying to sort it out, but manage to find the answer a short time after posting this thread!)
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Forum: Website Design
10th November 2014, 06:32 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 487 Vimeo video autoplay full width
Hi,
I've got a Wordpress website which responds to the width of the browser. This works great for everything, but is messing up when I try an embed a Vimeo video.
Using the code from Vimeo, I...
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Forum: Social Media
10th November 2014, 03:17 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 585 Re: Google+ Setup For Business
Thanks for the reply and the links.
Is it possible to hide my address if I only presently serve clients at their homes?
I don't mind submitting my address to work out the centre point of my...
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Forum: Social Media
10th November 2014, 02:49 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 585 Re: Google+ Setup For Business
Thanks for the reply.
For a Service Area business, do I have to enter a visible address, which the service area is then based from? Or can I just say a Town/City and then a radius in miles?
I...
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Forum: Social Media
10th November 2014, 12:36 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 585 Google+ Setup For Business
Hi,
I'm a little confused and was wondering if someone could help.
I've signed up for Google Plus and am looking to add a business page.
When signing up, I get the option of a Storefront or...
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Forum: Website Design
2nd November 2014, 04:26 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 4,061 |
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Forum: Website Design
1st November 2014, 04:45 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 735 Re: Bluehost/Wordpress Help
It might be worth contacting your hosting company to see if there's any restrictions they've put in place.
I once couldn't edit the code files of a Wordpress Plugin. On contacting my host, it...
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Forum: Website Design
1st November 2014, 04:20 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 626 Re: Wordpress Theme Update Issue [URGENT]
Definitely check out Child Themes for next time though.
Basically they let you have two themes installed; the main one and a child one.
The child theme starts off blank and you only ever add...
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Forum: Website Design
1st November 2014, 04:08 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 626 Re: Wordpress Theme Update Issue [URGENT]
Couple of options:
Contact your host - Sometimes they do keep backup copies.
Alternatively type into your web browser: cache:www.yoursite.com - this brings up Googles last crawl of your...
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Forum: Website Design
1st November 2014, 03:58 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 910 Re: WP TwentyEleven theme totally customized
This has turned out very well. The site has a lot of information, but has a really nice clean look to it as well!
May I ask how you embedded the Youtube video without any of the player buttons,...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
27th October 2014, 08:51 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 840 Re: How can I earn more local business??
Be careful undercutting other businesses as a way to get work. The more you do that, the lower the value of a website becomes. If your quality is the same as those charging 4 figure sums and they're...
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Forum: Website Design
27th October 2014, 08:33 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,460 |
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Forum: Website Design
25th October 2014, 12:39 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 692 Re: Web Graphic Question
Brand new from Adobe, Photoshop used to go for £1000 on its own.
Currently, the creative cloud for just Photoshop is £9 a month.
That means that the one time purchase was equal to 111 monthly...
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Forum: Website Design
16th October 2014, 08:05 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 300 Re: LP 2 Pages
What's the website built with?
Some Wordpress themes adjust for the width of the display, so you can put images as large as you like and they're shrunk to fit the page, on others, the image will...
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Forum: Website Design
16th October 2014, 02:57 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 451 Re: Amazing Photoshop Tutorials?
You can get quite a few photoshop magazines which have good guides. Some I've followed have been very advanced, but when it's explained step by step, it's extremely easy to follow and the difficulty...
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Forum: Website Design
14th October 2014, 05:07 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 404 Re: HTML and CSS
Some hosting can be very cheap. What country are you from?
Siteground used to do an offer in which you paid $9.95 for your first year hosting including the domain name. Unfortunately it looks like...
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Forum: Conversion Rate Optimization
14th October 2014, 04:12 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,869 |
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Forum: Website Design
14th October 2014, 04:07 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,194 |
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Forum: Website Design
14th October 2014, 03:53 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 357 |
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Forum: Website Design
14th October 2014, 08:15 AM
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Replies: 49
Views: 2,590 Re: Any easy way to build a logo?
What is the website going to be about and can you use that to create a logo?
For example, if you're a carpenter, make a physical logo from wood and photograph it.
If you detail cars for a living,...
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Forum: Website Design
14th October 2014, 07:22 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 584 Re: Web site landing page comments wanted
Very nice imagery!
Good to see how quickly you can absorb all the information on the page and great how the phone number is prominently displayed.
Only question I have it how you're going to...
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Forum: Website Design
13th October 2014, 05:13 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,215 Re: Site feedback please
Have a search in the footer.php for a couple of the words in the current footer such as "Powered". Search this using Ctrl+F (or Cmd+F on a Mac).
You should be able to get a rough idea of where...
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Forum: Website Design
13th October 2014, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,215 Re: Site feedback please
A few short points:
Pros:
Great colour scheme
Great layout
Slider works very well and gives a professional look
Things to improve:
The text above the slider is a little long and pushes the...
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Forum: Website Design
12th October 2014, 05:50 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,278 Re: About graphic design
Check out the "for dummy" books, as well as Youtube and you can go a long way.
I'd also focus on one software for the moment and then transfer over to others. Personally I'd begin with Photoshop...
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Forum: Website Design
12th October 2014, 05:31 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 817 Re: Feedback on my site , common critics
Few short points:
Pro's:
Good solid colour scheme
I always visit an "About" page on a website, so it's good seeing that
Good mixture of text and images
I like how you've got an email address...
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Forum: Website Design
12th October 2014, 05:22 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 792 Re: Your site needs to look good
Well said, and even more importantly for design based websites!
Another thing is to ensure that a website works well on tablets, phones etc. I've seen some great looking websites which work...
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Forum: Website Design
12th October 2014, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 423 |
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Forum: Offline Marketing
10th October 2014, 04:38 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,659 |
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Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display)
10th October 2014, 04:26 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 490 Re: Quality vs. Quantity
Just out of curiosity, have you used Google Ads and if so, what made you target Bing?
What does your website do? And is it a local or global site/service?
Quality is when someone signs up to...
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Forum: Website Design
10th October 2014, 04:09 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 927 |
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Forum: Website Design
10th October 2014, 03:56 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 442 Re: Can anyone ID this wordpress template
Although this website isn't running Wordpress, if you do find one that is, you can use a website like this to tell you which theme it is:
What WordPress Theme Is That?...
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Forum: Website Design
10th October 2014, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 703 |
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Forum: Website Design
28th August 2014, 12:33 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,000 |