Lollipop Local

Many small business owners are looking for specialists who can help them with their local marketing in Essex. But how can you work out which ones have the experience to help you to increase your brand awareness and get the telephone ringing with new customers who are ready to buy? Local Marketing Experts Local Read more [...]

If you’re a new business looking to get a foot on the internet with a simple website designed to fit a start up budget, call us today on 01702 476517 Why A Simple Website Design Is All You Need No matter what your business or industry, the principle is the same. It’s no good spending a fortune Read more [...]

I received an email from 38 Degrees recently about their successful attempt to stop the so called Snoopers Charter – The UK Communications Data Bill. Late on Thursday 25 April, Nick Clegg announced that he will not allow the Government’s plan to spy on everyone’s internet use to go ahead. Fortunately Read more [...]

Business owners often ask me how they can start taking online payments through their website or just over the phone so I began researching the subject. Taking £7000 or less per annum in online payments For those businesses who are handling less than £7,000 via this method, Paypal is still the cheapest Read more [...]

Wordpress does not always make it obvious where it has hidden features like Author on its pages and posts. And it is important to remember that it is possible to have different authors on each page or post. Especially if you are looking to implement authorship images in Google search. How Read more [...]

I noticed a blog post from Hostgator yesterday that reveals the uncomfortable news of WordPress Brute Force Flood. This is an online attack of WordPress sites all over the world covering over 90,000 IP addresses. It started last week and, after a brief hiatus, resumed its attacks on the morning of Read more [...]

When it comes to how to get top of Google for Free, we need to start at the beginning with what most people see as the first step of getting onto the internet. Building a website. Hope Marketing Most business owners use a tactic called Hope Marketing. They work on the basis of ‘If you Build Read more [...]

There is nothing worse than going into one of your WordPress blogs and discovering that you have 10,000 pending comments! The spammers have found you. That’s what happened to me this morning when I was checking on the blogs of two clients that we manage – one had over 10k, the other over 3,000 Read more [...]

If you’re looking for simple website design in the West Midlands, Lollipop Local are branching out. We now offer simple effective websites at budget web design prices which include basic search engine optimisation from our new offices in Halesowen. Situated close to Birmingham, we are ideally situated Read more [...]

The Flesch Reading score makes life very difficult when you’re trying to apply SEO copywriting skills to a UK website. Or, at least, it does if you’re an SEO copywriter who actually loves the English language. According to Flesch Kincaid, the higher the score, the easier the words are to understand, Read more [...]