Qld Businesses – Boost Your Online Marketing with a $5k Business Basics Grant
The Queensland Government’s Business Basics Grants Program is an exciting opportunity for you to transform your online marketing assets and digital marketing. Whether you’re looking for a tailored marketing strategy, a new website, or business coaching, this is your chance to have it funded. What is the Business Basics Grant Program? Let’s start with the…
Read MoreLocal Marketing– Why you Need a Great Google Business Profile
If you run any kind of local trade or service business, you need a steady flow of local enquiries from the right kind of people, to keep you and your team busy, week after week. Having a Google Business Profile could do wonders for your business. It will help you get found online in local…
Read MoreNew .au Domain – Advantages and Potential Issues for Businesses
Here’s the good news if you’re after cheap Australian domains! A new domain type will become available for anyone with an “Australian Presence” – from about October 2022. Called a 2nd level domain – the new .au extension not only makes Australian domains four characters shorter (by removing the .com part) – but they will…
Read MoreHorrible Things Can Happen to Websites on Cheap Hosting, and When Themes and Plugins Are Not Updated
Imagine having your website taken over by terrorists. Yep. Leaving a horrible message and infecting your innocent veggie growing blog with thousands of malicious files. It happened to me this month, and it was my fault entirely. We’ve experienced good growth in the last couple of years and our team has been super busy looking…
Read MoreSeven Essential WordPress Plugins
WordPress powers 42.3 percent of all websites and a staggering 65.2 percent of sites that use a content management system (CMS). The platform’s users have access to more than 55,000 plugins. It’s an overwhelming number, one that makes differentiating the overhyped from the genuinely useful a significant challenge. If you’re ready to level up your visitors’…
Read MoreAn SEO Audit Will Reveal if Your Website has Been SEO’d Properly
Every website needs to be structured, coded and optimised properly to appear in search engines. If it isn’t, it probably won’t appear in the first few pages search engine results when someone does a search. For Example: if you have a concreting business, you would want your website to be found on page 1 of…
Read MoreHow to write a press release that journalists will actually publish
Press releases are often touted as being one of the best ways to get media coverage for your business. However, with many journalists receiving over 50 pitches and press releases each day, it’s getting harder to get journalists’ attention. If you Google “press release templates” you will be inundated with page after page of similar-looking…
Read MoreThe implications of the latest WordPress updates
If you have a WordPress website, (30% of the world’s 2 billion sites are built on WordPress, making it the most popular website content management system of all), then please read on. Firstly, here’s a simplified summary of what wordpress is and how it works. If you’re not too technical, it’s important to read this…
Read MoreWebsite Maintenance – 6 Things You Need To Do Every Month
Just like your car, websites require regular maintenance to keep working properly. Sounds a bit strange, I know, but there are things which can go wrong, and things which need regular “servicing” to maintain optimum performance. Not performing regular website maintenance is just like not having your vehicle serviced. If you don’t regularly have the…
Read MoreDo you need to switch to HTTPS?
Website URLs that start with https:// already have a security certificate installed. If your website URL starts with http:// – then now is the time to think about migrating to https://, which involves adding a security certificate to your website. If you’re building a brand new website or doing a complete redesign of your existing…
Read More