Your Website’s New Home: A Comprehensive Guide to Setting Up Plesk on a VPS

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So, you’ve got a Virtual Private Server (VPS) and you’re ready to launch your website. That’s a fantastic step! But the thought of managing a server from scratch can feel a bit daunting. What if there was a way to simplify server administration, empower you with intuitive tools, and get your website up and running without needing to be a command-line wizard?

Enter Plesk.

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Top 10 Essential Website Tweaks to Dominate Local Google Search for Your Services

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Are you a local business owner struggling to get found on Google when potential customers search for your services in your area? You’re not alone. The digital landscape can feel competitive, but the good news is that optimizing your website is a powerful way to climb those local search rankings.

This comprehensive guide will walk you through the top 10 crucial website modifications that will make your local services shine in Google’s eyes, driving more qualified leads directly to your door.

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Google – Local SEO top tips

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Here’s quick list of factors that will help your business rank as a “Local Business” with Google. These are all important points that will help you rank at the top with Google local searches.

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General Local SEO information

  • What are customers looking for?
  • Use Long tail keyword expressions along with Keyphrases
  • Avoid Jargon
  • Create posts for questions asked locally
  • Check what your competition are doing
  • What is your users’ intent? What is the purpose of their search term?
    • Informational Intent – just more information
    • Navigational Intent – user wants to get to your site quickly (e.g. contact page)
    • Purchase Intent – Looking for pricing and comparisons
    • Transactional Intent – Ready to Buy! Make sure you page offers purchase
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How to guarantee your website is ranked in Google

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Technical Article: Make sure your website is at the top of the search engines

If you want to get your website to rank at the top of the search engines, follow this in-depth article.

Here we explain detailed SEO Instructions on how to make sure you have all the correct SEO techniques.

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Quick Tips on Using Keywords – Be seen on Page One of Google

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Let’s start by defining what Keywords are… keywords are those words and expressions that people use within the search engines to find stuff.

They are usually looking for either Products or Problems (how to, where do I, what is the, etc.). Taking a step back it’s important to realise what all the major search engines do. Search engines have software programs that reach out into the web space and try to find everything that they think will be interesting to the public when they search – not only interesting – BUT also RELEVANT. Continue reading “Quick Tips on Using Keywords – Be seen on Page One of Google” »

Quick Tips on getting Ranked on Google – Title Tag

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This article forms part of a series of quick tips for search engine optimisation on this blog. Please also see Quick Tips for OnPage Meta Descriptions and Quick Tips for OnPage Meta Keywords which explain more details about OnPage SEO Techniques for Search Engine Ranking.

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Quick Tips for OnPage SEO META Description

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Using the Meta Description to best advantage on your website

The META Description tag is always placed in the HEAD section of your webpage and is not visible on the actual webpage.

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Quick Tips for OnPage SEO Meta Keywords

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Meta keywords are part of your onpage search engine optimisation techniques that you should build into every page as part of your website design process. Onpage SEO is an important part of ensuring that your website ranks well within the major search engines. Continue reading “Quick Tips for OnPage SEO Meta Keywords” »

Top SEO Tips for Business

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This post concentrates on Top SEO Tips for business to make sure that your onpage and offpage SEO is complete. These techniques will ensure that you are doing the right things with the search engines and Google. Before you start any complicated SEO techniques you should ensure that all the items in this post have been completed for each page on your website. Google ranks relevancy to the search term entered by the user on the search page. Your web page or blog post should talk about the subject searched for and ensure you answer their question, completely and accurately with good relevance to their query. Continue reading “Top SEO Tips for Business” »

How to beat your Competitors with a Web Competitor Analysis

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Before any effective Ad campaign or website design or re-design you should analyse your market and your competitors. This is obvious in the business world and is even more important when it comes to your online presence. Micro Update will complete a competitor analysis COMPLETELY FREE as part of our web creation process. Continue reading “How to beat your Competitors with a Web Competitor Analysis” »