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Useful Points from Google

Images and flash on your website

Interesting video from Google, they are answering a question about what you should do if you don’t have much text on your website. The main focus is on how you can enhance images (In terms of helping with search engine rankings) by adding a good description and some useful additional text, or ‘alt text’.

Google cannot see what a photo is so unless they are described within the filename and the text around the photo then they are simply a black hole on your site, this won’t necessarily go against you but you want score any points when it comes to your search engine rankings. The video also goes onto describe the best way of using flash on your site and that embedding text in images is a bit of a wasted opportunity.

58 Million Sites Run on WordPress

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04/04/2012
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And counting…

We develop websites using WordPress. Why? Because we believe it’s the best tool available to put our clients in control of their online presence, they can happily add content and update their site as they see fit with minimal help from a web developer. Anyway, we came across some interesting stats at WPMU about the popularity of WordPress and thought they were worth sharing:

WordPress 3.3 has been downloaded over 12 million times
The latest version of the software was released on 12 December 2011, making that an average figure of 105,263 downloads per day
16% of all websites run on WordPress in 2012. That’s an estimated 58,000,000 sites
Indonesians are the most prolific WordPress users on the planet. WordPress is the 8th most popular website in Indonesia. By contrast, it’s the 21st most popular in the United States, and 18th in the United Kingdom
WordPress holds 53.8% of the market share for Content Management Systems
Over half of all webmasters using any kind of CMS have chosen WordPress
Joomla, the closest competitor to WordPress in terms of popularity, holds just 9.2% of the CMS market. Drupal sits in third place with 6.7%
WordPress has been translated and localized into at least 73 different languages. This has been achieved entirely on a volunteer basis, by passionate WordPress users in all parts of the world
There are 19,017 plugins freely available in the WordPress Plugin Directory
Altogether, these plugins have been downloaded over 285,000,000 times
Over 20,000 people make their living with WordPress. Developers, designers, consultants, bloggers and countless other professionals use their WP skills to put bread on the table
Speaking of which, WordPress skills are in higher demand than ever. According to the latest Online Employment Report at Elance, WordPress programmers rank second place on a list of the 100 most sought-after freelance professionals

Let us know if you have any more facts and figures on WordPress, just drop them into the comments below.

New Website: CPJ Corporate

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14/03/2012
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Another website built with WordPress

CPJ CORPORATE are a London based property firm, they acquire property on behalf of various high net worth clients, mainly prime central London locations. As they are newly formed they wanted a simple website that could show case their portfolio and give interested parties a port of call. Nothing fancy just a clean looking site and the ability to keep it updated going forward.

Deadline was tight and to be honest we still have a few admin bits to sort out but the site went live in just over a week, bit of blurb below about how we go about building websites and the obligatory screen shot as well.

Key features are:

Straightforward editing – you can keep the site up-to-date

Onscreen editing through your web browser
Easy to add, edit & maintain pages
Add unlimited pages & posts
Drag & drop functions
Simple to add contact forms

Search engine friendly – ensure your site performs well in Google

Easy to enter search engine data
Automatically check text for keywords to optimise your site
Monitor and check links

We build websites using the best content management system in the world – everything is geared towards putting you in control. The level of technical skills required from you is virtually zero; you just need to have the motivation to start driving your online marketing forward.

Want to find out more?

VISIT CPJ CORPORATE.

Need a New Website?

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09/01/2012
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Take Control in 2012

In order to rank your site Google looks at round 200 different factors and much less than half of Google’s attention is on your website, they are mainly looking at where you are mentioned on the World Wide Web and who is linking back to you. So if you want your website to help in your search engine efforts it is important that it is up to date and that you are adding good relevant content on a timely basis. Lots of businesses find this difficult to do because their website is out of date and it lacks the necessary features for collaboration and conversion. All the websites we build use WordPress. WordPress is a content management system, it is often referred to as the best content managements system in the world and rightly so in our opinion. You can find out more about WordPress here. Why do we use it? There are lots of reasons but to keep it simple:

Very straightforward to add content
Automatic software updates
It is free to use
Excellent third party themes and features

Basically you can get a feature rich great looking website without all the hassle of coding and programming, it all pretty much comes straight off the shelf. The design and functionality is taken care of, all you have to do is think about content.

Interested in Google Webmaster?

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06/01/2012
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Learn more about how it can help your business

Came across a good article on Google Webmaster from Kiss Metrics. It is an update on a previous version and takes into account all of the recent changes and updates and how to get the most from them; including setting up your Webmaster account, the types of information available and integration with Google analytics. Google Webmaster takes a bit of time and effort but it is well worth adding your website. Below is a bit of information from Google including a nice little video that simplifies what Google Webmaster can do to help your business.

Find out how Google sees your site: Verified site owners can see information about how Google crawls, indexes and ranks your site
Analyze search data: See how many people found your site in search results, and how many people clicked on it
Receive alerts in your inbox: We’ll tell you if we detect that your site has malware or generates errors
Check who links to you: We track links from all over the web, and we’ll show you who added a link to your site
Tell Google about your site: Submit Sitemaps and see how many pages we added to the index

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