Random posts about developing online businesses

Here are the different website topics that we have available. They've mostly been written by our Drupal web developer, Guy Doughty. They include both technical web development and general website topics.

SEO: Why is a large % of organic (free) traffic not recorded in Analytics?
Google Analytics was once fantastic at showing us detailed information about our Organic (Free) traffic. We could see how many people arrived at our website. We could see what keywords the user searched for before arriving. As well as a breakdown of other important numbers such...
Rank for different areas using Local Search Engine Optimisation
Local Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is critical for many businesses now. Basically any business who service clients in a particular geographical location.  Many people now add city and regions to their searches for local services ie "web designer eastbourne...
How mobile responsive web design helps SEO
With the adoption of smart phones and tablets forever on the increase, mobile optimised websites are becoming a must. It is also a ranking factor for determining your position in Google for mobile searchers.  It is also said that 70% of mobile surfers would be more likely...
Using LinkedIn to promote brand awareness online
Have you noticed how LinkedIn pages regularly appear in the search results now? For both companies and individuals. We certainly have! Creating the companies page on LinkedIn With LinkedIn you can create a page for your company. Like with all content that you publish, you...
Upgrading a Drupal 6 website to Drupal 7 using Drush
Overview So we want to upgrade from Drupal 6 up to Drupal 7. Here's the thing with a major upgrade, it isn't just Drupal core that needs upgrading, it's all the modules and themes as well. Whilst upgrading Drupal core, contributed modules need to be disabled. Many modules and...
Where is Drush installed?
We needed to create some site aliases for our system during upgrading sites from Drupal 6 up to Drupal 7. This Drupal development service can be tricky but greatly helped by Domain aliases.  Anyway the command to find the installation of Drush on your system is: drush site-...
How to run different versions of PHP on Centos with Parallels Plesk
Whilst providing our Drupal web design and development services, We found ourselves working with the Rooms module for Drupal 7. Having got quite far through the set up, a known bug with the calander cropped up. In short it means that you must have PHP 5.3.9+.  Being as...
How We solved this infinite redirect loop on a views page view
In just the last few hours trying to resolve a infinite redirect loop issue on a Drupal 6 site. It occurred when visiting a page created by views.  We tried: Changing the path of the view. Looking for a path alias. Looking for a redirect. Looking in the...

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