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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 [...]

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! [...]

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 occasionally talk about comment spam, as it is the ugly sister of allowing people to post comments on WordPress blogs and websites built using WordPress as a CMS. Just so all of our colleagues and clients know for sure, any comment which starts with the obscure phrase “terrific paintings” is definitely comment spam. Also, [...]

We often install the Open source (free, and developed by a community of programmers, rather than one, paid, team) Content Management System (CMS), WordPress. WordPress was originally a blogging platform developed by Matt Mullenweg, but, in its short history, the software, which runs on (also Open source) PHP and MySQL, has developed into far more [...]

In our post completion SEO guide, and whenever people ask us how to improve their web presence, one of the things we recommend is adding a website to quality directories. The are two things to be aware of here, though, and one is included in that sentence: Quality. We recommend hand crafting your directory listing, [...]