You’ve seen the cookie pop-ups on other websites and wondered if you’re supposed to have one too. Maybe someone mentioned “GDPR” in a meeting, and now you’re not sure if that applies to you. Or you’re just trying to work out, plainly, whether your website needs a privacy policy at all.
If you’ve been asked to confirm your website meets WCAG accessibility standards, whether by a government client, a funding body, or a tender document, you’ve probably had the same reaction most people do: what exactly are they asking for, and do we actually meet them? You’re not alone.
External links are like votes of confidence from the rest of the web. Internal links, the ones pointing from one page on your site to another, work more like a nervous system. They don’t just help people click around your site.
Every link on a webpage does more than let someone click through to another page. It also sends a signal, and a single line of code attached to that link can completely change what that signal means to a search engine.
Most website problems aren’t obvious. A site can look perfectly fine and still quietly lose visitors at every step. These are the most common website design mistakes on small business sites, why they happen, and what to do instead. Popups that appear before the visitor has read anything Popups aren’t inherently bad.
Images are usually the biggest files on any web page. Upload them without thinking, and your site slows down, your Google rankings take a hit, and visitors leave before the page finishes loading. Get them right, and you claim one of the easiest performance wins available, all without needing a developer.
Most small business websites have the same pages: Home, About, Services, Contact. The problem usually isn’t which pages exist. It’s how they’re organised, what each one is supposed to do, and whether they actually guide a visitor toward getting in touch. A good small business website structure solves all three.
You’ve probably been told your website needs to be “optimised.” It’s one of those words that gets thrown around a lot without anyone explaining what it actually means. On-page SEO isn’t complicated once you see what’s involved.
If an agency has offered you a Google ranking guarantee, they’re either misinformed or not being straight with you. Google says so itself. No one outside of Google controls the algorithm, and Google doesn’t hand out guarantees, not even to its own products. This matters because the promise is everywhere.
You’ve probably been told to start blogging for your business. Maybe by a web developer, a marketing contact, or someone in a Facebook group. It’s been on the to-do list for a while. This post makes the honest case for why it’s worth doing, and what actually makes it work.