Author: Tom Buckland

Site speed is important when you are looking to search engine optimize (SEO) your site.

In 2010 Google announced that your site speed would impact your ranking. What they mean by this is how long a visitor will have to twiddle their thumbs until your site has loaded in its entirety.

People are impatient by nature, especially in today’s digital age.

Therefore, if they have to wait longer than a few seconds, they will close your site and move onto something or someone else.

Site speed is important to both your SEO and your UX conversion. More importantly, site speed is essential to keeping your visitors happy and wanting more.

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There are a lot of common on-page myths when it comes to understanding search engine optimization (SEO)

As a result, SEO is a difficult concept to grasp.

When you think you have search engine optimization mastered, something changes that throws you off.

There is only one constant in SEO, and that is the fact that it is changing all the time.

However, there are many popular misconceptions around SEO tactics that can lead you down the wrong path when looking to optimize your website and blogs.

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Effective meta descriptions have one essential task, to hook a reader into visiting to your site.

Perfect meta descriptions provide a succinct description of what your website entails. This description is in conjunction with what the rest of your website contains.

Most contact sharing websites will generate a meta description for you, but you want to write this yourself as it is the last avenue you have to hook a reader.

If you have ever wondered what a meta description is and what they do for your SEO, you will find out. Let us go over the techniques used to craft the perfect meta description for your website and in doing so, learn how it will impact your SEO ratings. (To find out more about SEO ratings, you can contact us).

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SSL or Secure Sockets Layer is a level of protection most websites in 2018 should have. SSL can be seen by the green padlock & secure note when on Google Chrome.

Security & especially cyber security is currently in the news with multiple massive billion pound companies getting hacked on what seems like a weekly basis. Today HQ SEO are not going to dive in depth into cyber security but we are going to talk about the importance of having SSL installed and most importantly working on your site. Below are our 4 strongest recommendations when it comes to SSL & HTTPS.

Furthermore, we are going to outline the various differences between getting a paid for SSL or using a free service such as Let’s Encrypt or Cloudflare.

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What do you want your website to do for your business?

Whatever it is, chances are you need as much site traffic as possible to achieve that goal.

And one of the best ways to drive traffic to your site? Great SEO.

SEO has been shown to be central to online business success. By using effective SEO techniques you can boost the number of visitors to your site, increasing contacts, leads and sales, all of which means more growth for your business, especially when combined with other effective digital marketing techniques.

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There are now more than 1.5 billion sites online.

So how do you make your site stand out against all this competition?

When it comes to search engine optimisation, it pays to be as thorough as you can.

Luckily, there are some great technical SEO tools out there to help you with that. In this post, we’ll look at the top 10 technical tools to use in 2019, what they can do for your site and how they can grow your business.

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