Google Analytics is a headache at the best of times. So let’s block out the noise and focus on a few key metrics that will give you insight into how your website visitors see you, so you can adapt your website to get potential customers to stick around longer AND improve your SEO. This is my mini-guide to Google Analytics for beginners.

Copy should move people to act. Someone can be drawn to your website by beautiful photos, but it’s your readers’ reaction to what you’ve got to say that will determine whether they click away immediately, or stick around and become paying customers. Here's a breakdown of the two most fundamental aspects you need to consider.

Don’t go from one season to the next just hoping for the best. Seasonal businesses are a challenge to run at best. There’s the constant worry that you need to be making enough in a short window in order to see you through the off-season. I’ve found these are the 6 most effective ways to maximise engagement all year round.

The important bits of SEO aren’t all technical. There are some human factors that can seriously improve your SEO ranking. So it’s as much about persuading people to click on your website as it is about providing the user with relevant, useful, valuable content once they have actually clicked on your page. The experience on the website, itself, is going to be the difference between you and the competition.

Are you putting off your ideal customer? The importance of brand messaging is often underestimated. Doing your brand messaging properly can build a community of dedicated customers, transforming your company from making sales in dribs and drabs, into a thriving business that’s raking in the dollars.

The pitfalls of blogging for business. How many of you have clicked onto a blog and got bored within the first three lines and clicked the backwards arrow immediately? This is super detrimental to your visibility online and SEO. I’ve started to realise that it is the HOW (not the WHY) to blog that is the thing that stumps people most.

Are you getting left behind on search engine results pages? Are your competitors continually ranking higher than you? Getting SEO spot on can catapult you from hiding in the shadows to being at the top of your industry. Before we understand HOW to implement SEO, we’ve got to understand WHY SEO is important first.

Is SEO all a bit jargony and overwhelming? Most small businesses know the WHYs, but it’s the HOWs that are confusing us the most. Getting SEO right can help you jump up the rankings on Google, fly past the competition and increase traffic on your website ten-fold. Keywords are a great starting point, but it doesn’t stop there. Let’s dig in to the technical stuff.