Guides

• Your own ordering website and app, or the delivery apps?

  For most takeaways it is not one or the other. Delivery apps bring you customers who have never heard of you.

• What is a B2B ordering portal, and when does a wholesaler need one?

  A B2B ordering portal is a private part of your website where trade customers log in to see your range, their own account details and their past orders, and place orders without phoning or emailing. A wholesaler usually needs one when regular customers place repeat orders and the team spends its day taking them by hand.

• What does website maintenance cover?

  Website maintenance is the work that keeps a site safe, working and up to date after launch. It covers software and security updates, backups, checking the site is online, fixing anything that breaks, and making the content and design changes a business needs over time.

• Website or app: which does your business need first?

  Most businesses need a website first. It is how new customers find you on Google, it works on every device without a download, and it is where an app would send people anyway.

• How to choose a web design company: a checklist

  Choose a web design company on the work it has really built, a clear written scope before any work starts, the standards every site is built to, and who owns the site and its logins at the end. Ask how you will see the site as it is built, what happens after launch, and who you will deal with.

• Redesigning your website without losing your Google rankings

  Rankings are usually lost in a redesign because old page addresses stop working, content that ranked is cut, or the new site is slower or harder for Google to read. None of that is inevitable.

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