Author Archives: Gerald Thulbourn

About Gerald Thulbourn

Gerald Thulbourn setup WebSanity in 2004. He has a 1st class honours MEng in Microelectronics & Software Engineering (i.e. he's a techy), 5 A grades at A level (i.e. he works hard) and loves to communicate (i.e. odd for a techy). He hates tech speak, sloppy/badly tested code, and technology for the sake of technology's sake. He loves helping people understand marketing concepts and seeing how their application makes a real difference to their business. In particular he loves training; SEO, Website Analysis, WordPress etc. Read more about us on Google+

Renaming web pages for Search Engine Optimisation

Many people, after first getting into SEO, hare off and rename their key pages (that’s the page web address or URL) to contain better key words. For example, renaming www.WebSanity.co.uk/huntingdon to www.WebSanity.co.uk/web-design-huntingdon Some words of advice: Perform some keyword research … Continue reading

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How can I improve conversions on my website?

Trying to improve the conversion rate of your website (the number of people who contact you about a service, or who buy from you online) is an often forgotten part of marketing your business online. You might have put a … Continue reading

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Give your images keyword rich filenames

Google doesn’t only read the Alt text that you set for images (make sure you set that as it is actually a legal requirement under the Disability Discrimination Act) on your page, but also the image file name. If you … Continue reading

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Urgent Google AdWords optimisation – consider turning OFF Search Partners

A little while ago I had a rant about Google AdWords matching seeming to be delivering crazy numbers of impressions when actually few people were actually searching for that term. Well, Google finally (after the second attempt and several weeks) … Continue reading

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