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Since launching Silicon Dales as our web design & development brand in 2012, we have been creating websites for our clients using the knowledge of digital marketing, content production, and search engine optimization we honed working on projects for our parent company, 24 Hour Trading Ltd. This has, until now, produced excellent results for our [...]

Images are important. Whatever system of measurement we use online, be it Google Analytics or Facebook’s “Insights” we’ll notice that content with compelling images – or a thumbnail rather than just a link – will get more “clicks” and “opens” and, generally, engagement. Put simply, pictures work, for most people. The reasons why are less [...]

A lot of the time, when discussing SEO, we talk about avoiding “unnatural” practices. We tend to really focus on not doing anything out of the ordinary to try to influence the search engines. This is because any unnatural activity is likely to be outside of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, and, as a result, is likely [...]

Doing some keyword research for one of our clients, it became apparent that, in Yorkshire, many of us are Google searching the phrase “Yorkshire Internet”. The search engine results pages for that particular search phrase provide some interesting insight into SEO, the internet, and Yorkshire, but also, unsurprisingly, a huge variation in results. Unintelligent Searching! [...]

We’ve been telling clients for some time that Google Apps (in principle, Gmail for domains) would likely remove it’s free service, as it looks to monetise this service further. When first launched, Google Apps offered a free service for up to 50 email addresses. Our business, and many of our early clients, were able to [...]

This is another of those SEO questions which we get asked periodically by our business customers, here at Silicon Dales. While the question is not always the same, it goes something like this: “Why do directories outrank our site?” or “Why do all these agency websites beat us in Google?” The short answer to this [...]

There are lots of tools out there which help us to track, and measure, the speed of a website. You can install bits and pieces into various browsers. You can visit a variety of web tools, too. But which is the best method? Well, assuming you only want to occasionally check the page load times [...]

Lots of new webmasters ask us how to get their website “higher in Google” or even how to place their website into the search engines at all. Firstly, there is no magic formula to putting a website high up in internet search engines. There is, however, best practice. It is a bad practice to engage [...]

We’ve noticed an increase in the search engine rankings for several of the websites we manage, including this Silicon Dales Web Design website, over the past couple of weeks. While we always expect our search rankings to increase over time – and those of our clients – because we focus on highly relevant high quality [...]

We like to use the Silicon Dales blog to answer questions we get asked, in a public place, so that others, who are asking the same questions (and typing them into search engines) will land here, and discover the answer. One question we are frequently asked is “can you get a news section of your [...]