PET BUSINESS BLOG.

A WUF website truly showcases your business

A WUF website truly showcases your business

Pet businesses of the world it’s time to stop undervaluing what you do and time to tell the world how awesome you are! I’ve been on tons of calls with people recently and one thing that occurs on nearly every call is this… You are a stand-out pet business owner with...

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Is your website misrepresenting your pet business?

Is your website misrepresenting your pet business?

How do you feel when you look at your website? In these slightly trickier times, a less than polished or amateur looking website is simply not going to cut it. There are a LOT of pet businesses out there now, in your area, offering the same thing as you. There are...

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How long should a Blog Post be?

How long should a Blog Post be?

From the Series ‘Questions I get asked all the time’… How long should a blog post be? As always, a bit of a piece of string question as it kinda depends on the topic and the goal of the blog post. But as a general guide to try and help you guys out we have the...

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Pet business online booking systems – the lowdown

Pet business online booking systems – the lowdown

I regularly get asked to create a website with a booking system on it, usually for a dog walker, doggy daycare centre, dog trainer or dog groomer. Now as usual, there are a bajillion ways of doing things online, lots of different softwares and services that all...

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SEO Mini Series – Part 6 – Can I do SEO myself?

SEO Mini Series – Part 6 – Can I do SEO myself?

Let’s look back at what we have learnt from the SEO mini series! In Part 1 we learnt how search engines work with the spider bots, Index and algorithm all working together. In Part 2 we understood that we have to tell the spider bots what we do, where we do it and who...

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SEO Mini Series – Part 5 – Simplifying Off Page SEO

SEO Mini Series – Part 5 – Simplifying Off Page SEO

Off-page SEO is when you do things on other areas of the internet to help your website rank better. Let’s visually think of the internet as a huge spiders web that the spider bots are crawling. Imagine the spiders web will have a little tiny light on the web every...

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SEO Mini Series – Part 4 – Simplifying On Page SEO

SEO Mini Series – Part 4 – Simplifying On Page SEO

Having worked out our keywords let’s now take a look at on page SEO. On page SEO is stuff that we are going to do to our website. Where and how you do this depends on which platform you are using. Each platform is getting really good at allowing you to make the...

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SEO Mini Series – Part 2 – Why Do We Need SEO?

SEO Mini Series – Part 2 – Why Do We Need SEO?

Yesterday we looked at what a search engine is. We discovered that spider bots crawl the internet, store information in the Index and then when someone searches for something the algorithm looks at everything stored in the Index and decides what to show the search...

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SEO Mini Series – Part 1 – How do Search Engines Work?

SEO Mini Series – Part 1 – How do Search Engines Work?

Before we can understand SEO let's go right back to the start - let's learn how search engines work! If we understand how search engines work then we can start to understand how SEO or search engine optimisation works. SEO is just that - search engine optimisation....

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Jo Scott Art – a client success story

Jo Scott Art – a client success story

Or - how WUF supports your business as it grows and changes. Jo Scott was one of my favourite clients, and yes I say was, because Jo is a no longer a client but she is very much a WUF success story and she may not be a client anymore but she is very much still a good...

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Updating the design of a pet business blog

Updating the design of a pet business blog

A blog is a fantastic way of getting your pet business found on Google Most people set up their website with a simple blog, write a few posts and then it falls by the wayside. This is such a shame as having an up to date, blog on your website is a great way of getting...

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Why do Google search results look different?

Why do Google search results look different?

Why does my Google search look different to yours? After chatting to lots of people recently about their SEO this came up a lot, so I thought it would be worth popping on here for everyone. When we chat about where peoples websites are ranking in Google I do have to...

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SEO – a simple look at the different sections

SEO – a simple look at the different sections

Why I like to think of SEO in terms of a pie Most people talk about SEO in terms of on-page and off-page, but as SEO evolves and becomes more of an on going process I like to look at it like a pie with each slice of the pie adding it’s own yumminess to the whole SEO...

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The added value that comes with a WUF website – DocketWP

The added value that comes with a WUF website – DocketWP

I love investing in my business and in tools that are going to make my work flow and processes cleaner, quicker, smoother and generally make me and my clients life much happier as a result! I’ve recently invested over £1000 in two huge bits of software which have been...

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Moo Moo & Bear Shopify Store – an SEO success story!

Moo Moo & Bear Shopify Store – an SEO success story!

We launched the brand new Moo Moo and Bear shop for Nadia just 4 months ago. The old site was using WIX as a platform and as well as design issues there were several flaws in it that meant Nadia was missing out on orders. Having been thinking about it for a while,...

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Why you need a website and not just social media.

Why you need a website and not just social media.

Why reading 'I get all my business from Facebook' gives me the willies. I’m reading a few threads recently where people say ‘oh you don’t need a website, I’ve built my business on Facebook and/or Instagram’ Now don’t get me wrong, social media is ace - it’s brilliant...

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The added value that comes with a WUF website – Photoshop

The added value that comes with a WUF website – Photoshop

What do you get with a WUF website? Well you get a lot of extra bits - bits that I don’t really talk about but which I hope make all the difference. The other day I was doing some work on clients pictures in Photoshop and realised that as part of the making a website...

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How much does a dog walker website cost?

How much does a dog walker website cost?

Most people hate talking about prices - I'm happy to! UPDATED 2021 This blog post used to talk about what went into a quote for a dog walker website. I no longer quote for dog walker websites as I have a fabulous new service called Ready Steady WUF which is made just...

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Why does your website need an SSL certificate?

Why does your website need an SSL certificate?

Have you ever encountered the Grey Screen of Death? This is what happens when you visit a website using the Chrome browser that has no SSL (Security) certificate attached to it. Google’s own Chrome browser is used by roughly 78% of web traffic, making it by far the...

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5 Quick Tips For Choosing A Company Name

5 Quick Tips For Choosing A Company Name

In this post I have 5 quick tips of actions to take when you are choosing your new business name. Starting a new business? Exciting times! But before you get carried away with that new name there's a few important checks to do first.   1. Google the name The...

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