Today we have some exciting news! We will very soon be offering themes for sale via premium marketplace CreativeMarket

New themes are under development and nearing completion, and we hope you choose to support us in this new endeavour.

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What is on-page SEO?

On-page SEO is a technique that has been used for a very long time, since the early days of search engines in fact (after all if you never mention your keywords on your site how do you expect Google’s bots to know what your all about?). In the beginning search engines used less sophisticated algorithms to ‘read’ your website. Back then, when the internet was much smaller than it is today, it used to be very easy to get ranked highly for whatever keyword you were targeting – primary due the lack of completion, however as the internet started to grow, it became more difficult for search engines to differentiate between one site from another. so the technology used to read your site has evolved too, but simple tailoring your content to target your selected keywords can take advantage of these changes and push you up the search engines. But where do you start?

The Page Title

When looking at on-page SEO, the page title is the single most important element of a page. While most people don’t pay a lot of attention to the page title, it is very important for search results – try to emphasize your topic and word it in such away as to mimic the expected search terms you wish to get found for. Imaging when someone searches for a topic online, the page title is the result of that search – so this step is very important. You must use also try to utilize relevant keywords in the title, but be cautious here as to not make it seem show-horned in – appearing natural is key

Description & Meta Title

Something else you need to look at when optimizing your web pages is your description meta tag. This needs to be a short but relevant paragraph or couple of sentences to give Google a summary of what the page is about. These are important because Google might use them as snippets for your pages (Ill cover Rich Snippets in a future post) when listing your site. Always ensure ALL of your pages utilize meta tags – if your not currently using any – add description meta tags to each of your pages and make sure that each one is unique to that page.

Structure of Your URLs

This may be overlooked by some, but clean URLs are another very important part of on-page SEO. This may suprise you but bare in mind its your URL which will be displayed in search results so you want them to convey your content’s information and be easy to understand. If your dealing with a lot of articles or posts, keeping them organized and using descriptive category names not only helps your sites on-page SEO, but could help search engines when crawling your site. You may need to alter your .htaccess file when cleaning your URLs, but a tidy URL is a friendly URL, so its worth it!

If you have any questions – get in touch via @SimpleSites4U

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As well as the never-ending stream of plugin updates to keep my work in tip-top shape, I also like to dabble in WordPress themes when I have time.

Here is a sneak peak of a simple – yet stylish themes currently in the works which looks set to be aimed for at bloggers who enjoy media rich content, as well as and one looking to showcase their works.

Its using a funky grud based layout for the home page, and a more traditional blog style layout for archives and posts, all with the usual SimpleSites4U twist. Any thoughts folks, please do share below.

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Having spent quite some time looking for a solution to communucate with my clients regarding new releases and updates etc – i stumled accross a rather awesome plugin which I felt i should highlight with a quick post.

With a seriously nice interface, a powerful settings panel and even some great widgets all included, i hight recommend checking out Wysija Newsletters which can be downloaded for FREE from the WP repository.

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SimpleSites4U has been gathering momentum rather quickly since its birth early this year – not only has our portfolio of work expanded well, but also sales of said items have been getting better and better month on month, so good times indeed! Although much has happened, here are a few milestones I am very happy about (before I go onto the negatives and hopes for 2013).

Over 400 Sales In 7 months

Since our first official plugin release on 27th May 2012, we have been very luck to have sold over 400 items via CodeCanyon, as well as achieve a nice five-star rating which we believe is down to the level of service my customers have no come to expect.

Entered The Premium Theme Market

As well as releasing our first 10 commercial plugins, we are also please to say we also release our first premium WordPress theme and OpenCart template. This area will be a larger focus this year for sure, so expect many more premium (and free) themes over the next twelve months.

So, Where Now?

2013 will see many more releases as well as updates to all our current portfolio. We are also currently redeveloping the website with a focus on the support area. which will soon require verification of purchases (to help combat piracy of our work). so why not

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Keep safe folks.

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Take a look on Mojo Themes.

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Another thing I find myself doing it having the odd flutter on partycasino.com - with a combination of poker and blackjack being a firm favourite, but again in some of the large tournaments available, finding the hours needed to do if properly can be tough.

So when I have just a little window of time and I want to chill out, the iPad really is king of mindlessness - especially now the really rather awesome Carmageddon has been released in iOS and I can confirm its superb, and visually, looks great with the revamped graphics. I recommend you take a look folks.

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Enter a URL (ex. sucuri.net) and the Sucuri SiteCheck scanner will check the website for known malware, blacklisting status, website errors, and out-of-date software.

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