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Google Vlog #06 - REALLY tell Google your phone number!

Here's my 6th tip, how you can REALLY tell Google what your phone number is, with a novel twist to an old technique! If you are finding these tips useful, please do subscribe to my You Tube channel, *** TRANSCRIPT *** Hi my name is Clive Loseby and I'm from Access by Design. I'm talking to you today, giving you 20 tips about... read more »

Google Vlog #05 - Phone Numbers

Here's my 5th tip about your website an Google in 2017! It's about how an old practice with phone numbers can harm your Google rankings! *** Transcript *** Hi, my name is Clive Loseby from Access by Design. I'm talking to you today about 20 things you need to know about your website and Google in 2017. Number five: Phone numbers! Have a... read more »

Google Vlog #04 - Google loves Local!

Google loves local! Clive Loseby, MD of the Award-Winning Website Design Company, Access by Design, explains in his 4th tip, how you can make use of Google's resources to get on page 1 with very little effort! *** Transcript *** Hi my name is Clive Loseby from Access by Design and I'm talking to you today about 20 things you need... read more »

Google Vlog #03 - Watch your language!

Here we are with Vlog #03. Here's a tiny but important tip if you don't want Google to think you are in a different continent! Hi my name is Clive Loseby from Access by Design and I'm talking to you today about 20 things you need to know about your website and Google in 2017. Number 3 Watching your language! If you... read more »

Google Vlog #02 - Google is Blind

Here's my tip for today! This video is subtitled and the transcription is below... Hi my name's Clive Loseby from Access by Design and I'm talking to you about 20 things you need to know about your website and Google in 2017. Number 2: Google is blind, therefore if your website works for blind people, it's going to work for Google. Look at... read more »

Google Vlog #01 - Responsive Design

The "20 things about your website Google" tour is now over but if you haven't seen it yet, don't worry! With the brilliant Andy Goode of http://andrewgoode.tv I have been filming all 20 of them! Here's the first one. It is also subtitled and the transcript is below... Hi, my name is Clive Loseby and I'm from Access by Design.... read more »

20 things about Google - Thing 10 – Understanding Accessibility

Accessibility is extremely important to us, as a company. That is why it is in our name, it underlies everything that we strive to achieve as a company and has done for the last 11 years. However, accessibility can mean different things to different people. I will begin this article by defining what we as a company mean by accessibility. It is also... read more »

20 things about Google - Thing 09 - What is beautiful to Google?

Take a look at this picture of a whale. I do not think it would be controversial to say that most of us would describe this as beautiful, magnificent, awe-inspiring and so on. If this image was put up straight from Getty Images (which is where it came from), it would have the exciting title of ThinkstockPhotos-588367274.jpg. That doesn’t tell Google (or anyone... read more »

Domain renewals nightmares

Have your website and emails ever gone offline without warning? If you want to avoid this happening to you, read on… I have a question for you about your domain name. Your domain name (in case you didn’t know) is what people will type in when they want to go to your website. Usually, your email addresses will be associated with it as well. For... read more »

20 things about Google - Thing 08 - Google loves You Tube and so should you!

Everyone’s talking about video for their websites! You simply must do it yourself and here’s why! Google loves video if it’s on You Tube. It’s become extremely keen on promoting You Tube since it bought it for a few zillion quid a few years ago. Don’t bother with Vimeo or any of the other video platform if you want Google to be interested in your... read more »

20 things about Google - Thing 07 - Google loves HTML 5!

Have you heard about HTML? It stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is the code that is generated and passed to your Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer etc..) so that your website can be displayed. Before 2011, websites were coded using HTML 4. The problem with it was that there was no way of telling Google which bits of the text on the page... read more »

20 things about Google - Thing 06 – A new use for your Alt tag!

In my previous blogs I have written about the importance of starting from where you are geographically. This is because Google really wants to promote your business locally, at no actual cost to you. This is a recurring theme in my blogs and I want to take it one stage further by telling you something I am fairly confident you don’t already know Take a... read more »

Clive Loseby on Express FM

On the 16th March 2017, I was interviewed by Miles Henson on Express FM. In the interview, I chatted about my professional and personal highs and lows of the last 30 years and I also got to choose two tracks that have real personal meaning to me. I really enjoyed it, Miles was just a top chap! I have put it up here in for those... read more »

20 things about Google - Thing 05 -Google Phone Home!

In my last blog I wrote about the importance that Google places on where you are actually based. Its free Google Local service is a brilliant tool that we should all be using. Today I am going to take this further and I need to warn you that you might not want to hear what I have to say. You don’t have to take this... read more »

20 things about Google - Thing 04 Do you like your Local? Google does!

How far would you travel to meet a customer? 5 miles? 10 miles? 100 miles? How about if the local ones could come and see you instead? People like to deal with local businesses, they tend to get a better, more individual service. Google understand this and introduced Google My Business a few years ago. It is a free service so, if you have... read more »

20 things about Google - Thing 03 - Watch Your Language!

In my last blog, I talked about the need to make sure your website is worked well for people with different accessibility needs, as Google has been considering this as a very important ranking factor for at least 3½ years. Another way to look at this would be to think of Google as a person. This person has the power to put you in... read more »