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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 your website and Google in 2017 and today I'm talking... 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 look at this portion of somebody's website. This chap runs... 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 to know about your website and Google in 2017.No. 4... 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 right-click on your webpage and look at these command that... 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 this image here of this red car. I could have... 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. I'm talking to you today about 20 things you need... 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 the same definition that Google uses, although it has only... 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 else) what it is in even the most basic terms.Let’s... 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 example, my company’s domain name is accessbydesign.uk. It used to... 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 website, it’s a simple as that! Why put Video directly... read more »