SEO steps up
A quick word or two from the SEO Nottingham team at Dijitul.
As the heat steps up on the internet more and more companies are finally starting to look at their website for an additional revenue stream and entering the world wide web with their products and services. Google, the biggest search engine in the world at default lists ten companies on each page, so as you can imagine being one of these ten can sometimes be very VERY difficult.
With more companies fighting for that page one position SEO is becoming even more fierce and its time for you to step up your game and start improving a number of on site factors. There are quite a few elements which will decide your websites rank on Google and by ensuring each and everyone of them has been thoroughly checked and done correctly you are increasing your chances of getting onto page one, lets be honest who looks any further than page one?
Here at Dijitul we know a thing or two about SEO, in fact, we have a list of page one results that would amaze you, our clients were certainly most impressed. What we always say to people is this;
“Are you on google for the services and products that you sell?”
If not, then why not? You are simply missing out!!
To find out more about search engine optimisation please call SEO Nottingham on 01623 650333 or simply visit the SEO section on our website: http://www.dijitul.co.uk/promote-your-business/seo-nottingham/
WordPress NextGEN Gallery Shortcodes
Whenever we build a website using WordPress and the client request a gallery – we always use NextGEN.
I cant fault them for the features it offers, its a fantastic bit of kit – but when it actually comes to the shortcodes to get it to display stuff – NextGEN fail big time.
So i google it every time, sometimes finding what i want – but most of the time having to piece it together from examples people have p=ut on forums.
Today, i found a blog that lists many of the Shortcodes – so i thought i’d repeat them so they are easier for people to find! – Thanks InfoPint!
List of Short Codes for NextGEN Gallery
Short codes are the piece of text which you add along with you text on your blog post or sidebars. Short codes can also be added inside the theme templates.
For a slideshow :[ slideshow id=x w=width h=height ]
For a album : [ album id=x template=extend] or [ album id=x template=compact ]
For a gallery : [ nggallery id=x ]
For a single picture : [ singlepic id=x w=width h=height mode=web20|watermark float=left|right ]
For a image browser : [ imagebrowse r id=x ]
To show image sorted by tags :[ nggtags gallery=mytag,wordpress,... ]
To show tag albums : [ nggtags album=mytag,wordpress,... ]
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Cheeky Hardcoded Access to Clients eCommerce Store
Our clients often come to us with websites they have had developed somewhere else – sometimes the websites are awesome, made well, with the right elements taken into consideration to enable them to succeed in the SERP’s – but unfortunately, most of the time they are garbage.
We’ve had some site in particular that as we delve further and further into the really bad coding, we are finding things that make the team here at dijitul physically sick.
For starters, they had themselves hard coded into it so that they were receiving any emails that were sent through the contact form on the site, and were being notified every time there was an order placed!
We found out yesterday that the cheeky buggers also hard coded themselves an admin account so that they can log in and check stuff whenever they want, too.
I guess when you don’t know much about the internet and things like online shops – you don’t know what to look for or ask for when you have one built. Just be wary – and if you are spending a lot of money having something developed then make sure you go with a reputable company who will speak to you in plain English.
Also, unless you truly need to – stay away from customised shopping cart platforms – as they might tick all the boxes now, but in 6 month/1 year down the line they will need changing/updating and it costs a lot of money. Pre-made software is usually modular, so things can be added and removed fairly easily.
