Posts covering local SEO, server location, speed and rankings for UK businesses
A guide to choosing web hosting for professional services businesses in the UK, covering trust, secure enquiry handling, and GDPR considerations, with links to guides for specific professions.
A guide to choosing web hosting for health and wellness practices in the UK, covering security, booking systems and local SEO, with links to detailed guides for specific practitioner types.
A guide to web hosting for plumbers, covering mobile performance, distinguishing emergency from planned work, and what helps plumbers get found locally.
What a builder’s website needs from hosting: why project photography is the whole story, the storage multiplier most people miss, checking your backups actually include the images, and what plan level fits.
Landscaping work tends to involve a more dramatic before-and-after than most trades, a bare, overgrown garden transformed into something genuinely different. That makes photography the centrepiece of a landscaper’s website even more than for other tradespeople, and it’s worth building the site around that rather than treating photos as an afterthought. Show the transformation, not […]
What a garage website needs from hosting: why MOT reminders turn your site into a data system, why both your forms fail silently, using a hosted booking service instead of a plugin, and what plan level fits.
A guide to local SEO strategy for UK small businesses, covering Google Business Profile, NAP consistency, reviews, local content, and backlinks.
From grassroots football clubs to regional swimming squads, sports clubs across the UK increasingly rely on a website to share fixtures, results, news and membership information. For volunteer-run organisations, the website often sits alongside social media as the main way to reach members, parents, supporters and new recruits. This guide covers what to look for […]
Structural steelwork and ironwork tends to operate at a different scale to most trades on this blog, often as a subcontractor on larger construction projects rather than working directly for homeowners. That changes who’s actually looking at your website and what they need to see. Your audience is often a contractor or project manager, not […]
What an industrial maintenance firm’s website needs from hosting: building for a plant manager on a poor factory connection, why planned work arrives by form and forms fail silently, and reaching institutional inboxes.
What a pipefitting contractor’s website needs from hosting: why expiring coding certificates make version control critical, publishing evidence at usable file sizes, showing weld detail without a slow gallery, and reaching institutional inboxes.
A guide to choosing web hosting for tradespeople in the UK, covering image-heavy portfolios, mobile performance, and local SEO, with links to detailed guides for specific trades.
What a plant operator’s website needs from hosting: building for a poor site connection, why your ticket categories should be text rather than a PDF, keeping availability easy to change, and why the cheapest plan is genuinely enough.
What a groundworks contractor’s website needs from hosting: publishing certificates and RAMS at usable file sizes, the archive adoptable work generates, deleting superseded documents still live and indexed, and email deliverability to main contractors.
What a dry lining contractor’s website needs from hosting: why you should link to manufacturer system data rather than hosting copies, publishing your own documents at usable sizes, and reaching main contractors’ inboxes.
What a cabinetmaker’s website needs from hosting: why drawings and photographs need different file formats, handling client plans and floor plan uploads, testing forms with attachments, and protecting your portfolio.
What an insulation installer’s website needs from hosting: why a grant eligibility form is not an ordinary contact form, where submissions should be stored, caching that survives scheme announcements without breaking your forms.
What a glazier’s website needs from hosting: surviving storm and break-in traffic spikes, why your speed problem is the theme rather than the gallery, designing the emergency route for one tap, and what plan level fits.
What a decorator’s website needs from hosting: why compression damages colour on flat painted walls, balancing mobile speed against image quality, handling customer room photos, and what plan level fits.
What a stonemason’s website needs from hosting: showing detail without a slow gallery, the storage multiplier on high-resolution work, why a CDN earns its place for heritage enquiries, and checking your photos are backed up.
What a sign maker’s website needs from hosting: why PHP upload limits are the fault you hit first, where customer artwork actually lands and who can see it, testing forms with attachments, and mailbox storage for proofs.
What a plate fabricator’s website needs from hosting: treating it as a due diligence resource rather than a shop window, keeping capability packs under corporate attachment limits, and managing expiring certification.
What a scaffolding company’s website needs from hosting: publishing certificates and RAMS at usable file sizes, deleting superseded documents that are still live and indexed, backups that actually include your uploads, and what plan fits.
What an upholsterer’s website needs from hosting: why paired before-and-after images double your page weight, why fabric colour suffers from compression, testing your form with photo attachments, and protecting an irreplaceable archive.
