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01225 436109Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
After a few experiments* with things like Joomla, Drupal and a couple of other Content Management systems, we have pretty much standardised all our managed content websites on the WordPress platform.
* we call this the Dark Ages, about 5 years ago!
The question is why? Why is WordPress so good?Well there are a number of great reasons to use WordPress.
Firstly it’s FREE and Open Source and in constant development. This is really important. The World Wide Web is still a bit like the Wild Wild West out there and you need to make sure whatever software you are using is being properly maintained and protected.
Secondly it is immensely powerful. You can do pretty much anything with it from a simple blog site to a classified advert site with all points in-between. We’ve built shops, directories, and all sorts using WordPress plug-ins. WordPress scales up really well too, sites like Mashable are built on WordPress and we’ve used Amazon Cloudfront to speed sites up by delivering static content from the cloud.
WordPress lends itself to modern designs really well too, some of the premium themes are actually really good indeed too. If you take a look at some of the best design sites out there then about 40% of them are actually being built on WordPress. We can design sites for WordPress and be completely relaxed about being able to do the technical build of the website. (It helps that we are really good at it too).
WordPress can be a cost effective way of getting your own site built. Our £50 blog hosting package gives you a choice of the hundreds of standard themes that come with WordPress. For a few dollars more, you can choose a premium theme and get lots more functionality built in to your site. In fact if you pay us for a few hours of your time, we can help you set it all up and you can have a WordPress site with a premium theme that will look great, you can edit yourself and add unlimited pages, images and news/blog articles. We can also build you a custom design or fit your existing site design if you don’t want a change, but want the extra power.
One of the greatest things about WordPress is that Google loves it and WordPress loves Google back. WordPress is built from the ground up to work really well with Google; plus you can add Search Engine Optimisation plug-ins and things like the Google +1 plug-in to make sure your site plays the game in exactly the way that Google wants it played. Simply, WordPress sites perform well in Google and by adding regular news or blog articles you are doing exactly what Google wants you to do to keep your site fresh and important.
So we love WordPress. We are WordPress experts; we could write you a plug-in, build you a site and scale your site from an iddy biddy one to a great big one running on it’s own server with cloud delivered content. We can even teach you how to use WordPress yourself in our scheduled classroom training.
To find out more about our scheduled classroom training, our £50 blog hosting offer or to get us to help you build a WordPress site……drop us a line
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Making your site Visible to GoogleAs part of the initial setup service Godjira will create and edit your main page keywords and description. These are important hidden fields that help search engines find and index your site
Godjira will register and verify your site with Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live search engines. This involves adding your site to the webmaster tools section at Google and including a verification code in the page.
Godjira create an XML sitemap for your site. This is a coded map of all the pages in your site that the major search engines use to help them index the site. Google encourages you to use a sitemap to help them.
Godjira will create a Google analytics account and include the counter code on each page of your website.
You can link the analytics to your own Google account (if you have one) or get the report emailed to you on a monthly basis.
Sites hosted on Godjira’s servers at Heart Internet come with their own Control panel login at http://www.control.godjira.co.uk
There you can manage as many of the details of your site as you like including your email settings.
Godjira charge an annual fee for hosting your website. That fee includes the renewal of one .co.uk domain name. Domain names registered on your behalf by Godjira automatically renew, so you don’t need to worry about losing them.
Godjira always make sure the domain name is registered to you. That way you can have control about what you do with your domain name and if you want to move it, it is easy for you to do so.
Keywords should be used throughout each web page on your site. They should be repeated in the title, the meta description, the meta keywords, the main heading of the page and in the main text of the page. Keywords should reflect the words that people search for on a search engine. Each page should have a different title, description and keyword selection.
Including lots of keywords and repeating keywords in hidden text is considered bad practice.
Godjira offer additional services to help you market and maintain your website.
We can provide a regular monthly maintenance and on/off site search engine improvement to a fully fledged on line marketing campaign using exciting new social media methods such as Twitter and Facebook as well as mailing lists, news and Blogging campaigns.
