Website design, web development and outsourcing, based in Hexham - Northumberland
Search Engine Optimisation or “SEO” is the practice of enhancing a website so it appears prominently in search listings. Onsite SEO ensures that the content and code within a site is geared around the key-words which you expect your visitors to be searching for. Inbound links to a website can also significantly enhance the search engine ranking of a site.
Digital Acorn built our new website which incorporates editable pages and case studies with image uploads, PDF document downloads, multiple maps and independent contact pages for each company within our group of companies. Additionally Digital Acorn extended the SEO capability to allow custom-editing of our keywords, meta-descriptions and document titles. I am delighted with the results so far and … [Read more...]
"Digital Acorn have helped me develop my Wordpress based website and blog. They've always provided simple straightforward advice for non 'techy' types like myself and have responded to requests and questions promptly and effectively. We work together to develop the website's SEO and I look forward to working with them in the future." Mark - Camperscape - Camper Van Hire The Camperscape brand … [Read more...]
I've spent a little time looking at html5 recently. It has some excellent features. Everyone seems to start with the 'video' tag - and whilst this is useful - it isn't the main deal for me. Yes, it cleans up the code a little syntactically, but there are still codec/format wranglings and different browsers currently support different formats... so... nothing changes there. I love … [Read more...]
Has your Google ranking just taken a tumble? If you have ever enlisted an SEO practitioner who may have been less than ethical then this may be why. Google has rolled out an update to its search algorithms which detects and seriously downgrades the rankings of link and content farms. This is great news for information seekers on the internet. Prior to this update many pages containing only minimal … [Read more...]
Google's Blogger platform is a great starting point to get into blogging It's easy to see with the following list of positives that it is a popular choice. No hosting worries - hosted with Google. A good range of templates to choose from A nice and easy wysiwyg editor Easy to add widgets Blogger is used as a blogging platform by individuals and business bloggers. Unfortunately each … [Read more...]
“Prior to working with Digital Acorn I edited my site with FrontPage, but I had a lot of browser compatibility issues with my site, and the styling wasn't consistent. Digital Acorn converted my site to use WordPress. I can now easily edit and add content without the worries of styling. This process also fixed URL canonicalisation problems. I still work with Digital Acorn, and am … [Read more...]
“Digital Acorn developed a bespoke holiday property module for a content management system (CMS) allowing me to display and manage property availability. It also enabled me to provide my potential customers with tourist information and local information about the around Lake Garda area. My website continues to receive a lot of traffic thanks to its page one ranking in Google for "Lake Garda … [Read more...]
Here are a few testimonials I have received for our website-repair service and our other services from professional colleagues on linked-in. “The services on offer by Digital Acorn include frontend, backend, e-commerce, SEO, Blogs, Social Media and many more. They are extremely professional and get the work done on budget and on time. Looking forward to working with them again”. Ian @ … [Read more...]
I attended the SEO seminar by Silverbean this afternoon... It was at the RMT (the accountants) offices. It was pretty good, and did go into some detail about keyword densities and anchor text. But of course it wasn't as technical as it might have been (they do have a service to sell). Learn't some useful stuff about the layout and copy needed for good landing pages. I'm also going to sign up for … [Read more...]
I've just done some modifications to a magento install which I administer to allow custom canonical tags to be specified in the "Custom Layout Update" field of product items and categories. Magento is notoriously bad for url canonicalisation out of the box, as it generates at least 4 urls for each product, all with almost identical content. So I copied head.php from … [Read more...]
Digital Acorn was established in 2006 and is based in Hexham, Northumberland UK. We've been fixing and enhancing websites ever since.
Peter has over 15 years experience in software development, website development, computer game programming and project management.
Solving problems, fixing bugs, optimising code and proposing innovative solutions are what makes him tick.
Peter splits his time between supporting customers and coding. Peter is likely to be your primary contact and ensures you are delighted with our service
Competitive pricing, guaranteed inhouse coding and a personal service are just a few of the factors which ensure satisfied customers.
Lee joined Digital Acorn in January 2011.
Lee is an experienced PHP developer and has a keen eye for quality webpage layouts ensuring you an excellent finish on your project. He has exacting standards for both the visible details and the compliant HTML and CSS coding underpinning your site.
Lee is also our Social Media expert, providing advice on the best way to engage your customers through these crucial channels.
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