Really Wild Bird Food are family-run business based in Hampshire, who specialise in growing, harvesting and supplying seeds and feed mixes for garden birds. Since their business was first set up in the early nineties, their selection of products has expanded rapidly, which means that their website is now a one-stop shop for a variety of garden bird and wildlife products, including:

  • Suet products, peanuts and live/dried mealworms 
  • Bird feeders, tables and stations
  • Feeder cleaning and hygiene products 
  • Bird baths and nesting boxes 
  • Food, habitats and accessories for attracting other garden wildlife 
The farm and business is headed by husband and wife team Richard and Lesley, who came to us with a vision of a new, user-friendly ecommerce website, which retained their approachable, hands-on image. In addition, they also wanted the ability to easily manage their product listings and company blog, which was especially important for a couple with such a long to-do list!
 
We are now happy to say that the website has been completely revamped, to include an eye-catching, user-friendly design, highly optimised SEO and copy, and a functional content management system that's easy to use. In addition to these many benefits, the site is now fully responsive, making it easy to navigate on mobile devices, and optimised to perform well in mobile search results.
 
Whether you're looking for seeds and wildlife products for the budding bird-spotter in your life, or you'd simply like to have a closer look at the new design simply click here to visit the new and improved Really Wild Bird Food site!
 
Would you like a functional, attractive and SEO friendly ecommerce site for your business? Get in touch now to request a free quotation.
MJM Cleaning Website

MJM Cleaning & Maintenance Ltd is a cleaning company owned by Martyn Madden, a former prop forward who played rugby for the Scarlets and the Welsh international team before starting his own business in 2002. MJM deliver a wide variety of services, including:
  • Office and washroom cleaning
  • Builders cleans
  • Window cleaning
  • Carpet cleaning
  • Deep cleans
Martyn recently asked us to give his company's website a comprehensive update: an eye-catching new look, revised SEO, and a user-friendly design that would function equally well across all devices.

As ever, the Designer Websites team were only to happy to rise to the challenge, and our hard work can now be seen at www.martynmaddengroup.co.uk. In line with the brief we were given, the new and improved MJM Cleaning website has a responsive design, improved search engine optimisation, and a smooth user journey that we hope will lead to lots more enquiries for Martyn and his team.

MJM have offices in Cardiff and Llanelli, so if you're based in South or West Wales and you need a professional cleaning service to keep your business looking good, be sure to get in touch with MJM - we think you'll find their new online home a real pleasure to use.
Printmet Website

Printmet Ltd is a metal fabrication and engineering company that's based right here in South Wales. We're big fans of theirs since they fabricated and installed the large curved sign that now sits outside our building and advertises our services to passers-by.


The Printmet team recently asked us to create (or fabricate, if you will) a brand new website to promote the company's specialist services online. They needed a site with:
  • A responsive design
  • An appealing, professional look
  • Great SEO
  • Superb usability
  • An easy way for potential customers to get in touch
Our hard-working designers, developers and SEO specialists took all of the above into consideration, and the result is www.printmet.co.uk, Printmet Ltd's brand new home on the web. This mobile-friendly brochure website features information about the services that Printmet offer, along with images of the work they've completed for clients in the recent past.

The guys at Printmet are remarkably talented - remember, we've seen the fruits of their labour first-hand - so if you're looking for a skilled team of metalwork specialists, we strongly recommend that you visit their new website and request a quote today.

ABC Designs are a team of signage and display specialists based in Barry but working with companies across South Wales and South West England. With more than 30 years of experience, the ABC team are capable of designing, manufacturing, and installing a vast range of different solutions, including:
  • External signage (shop fascias, outdoor banners, car park signs, engraved plaques)
  • Internal signage (desk wraps, large-format prints, wall vinyls, raised lettering)
  • Vehicle graphics (signs and graphics for cars and vans)
  • Exhibition displays (roll-up banners, pop-up display stands)
If the company's name sounds familiar to you, it may be because you read our recent update about our brand new meeting room - ABC provided some of the room's most eye-catching design elements, including these great 3D wall signs:

Meeting Room Signage

As you can see, ABC Designs are capable of truly outstanding work, and so when they asked us to design their new website we knew that the standard would have to be high. We're pleased to announce that www.abcdesignswales.co.uk is now live, and we hope you'll agree that it has a great look and a professional finish that's entirely worthy of this business.

The new ABC Designs Wales website is completely responsive, and its modern, image-centric look was specifically designed to show off the company's work in the best possible way. As you browse the site, you'll see myriad examples of what these skilled craftspeople can produce, and this will hopefully help you to imagine what they might do for your own premises.

If you need any sort of signage / graphical / display solution, we'd strongly recommend ABC Designs Wales for the job - their new website can be found here.

Need a website for your business? Designer Websites are the people to call - click here to request a quotation.
Google's New Mobile Index

We've discussed this rumour before, and now it looks like it's really happening: Google have confirmed that they are creating a completely separate index for mobile searches, meaning you may soon see two completely different sets of results for the same Google search on your smartphone and your desktop PC.

This revelation isn't completely out of the blue, of course. Google's mobile and desktop results have been gradually looking less and less alike for quite some time now - in fact, we're already at the point where many websites rank highly for their keywords on desktop but not on mobile (or vice versa). However, all results are currently still pulled from the same Google index, and the forthcoming split could have a big impact on the SERPs when it happens.

And that's not all. Google's latest statement included the assertion that, to quote Search Engine Watch:

"This mobile index will become the primary Google index. The newly separated desktop index will not be kept as up-to-date as the mobile one."

In other words, the new mobile-specific index will take priority over the current index. This may seem surprising at first, but it actually makes perfect sense; more than half of all Google searches now come from mobile devices, so of course the company would want to ensure the quality of their mobile results above all else. 

With that in mind, the question that SEO-savvy business owners should now be asking is...

How can I rank highly in Google's mobile results when the new index arrives?

Some people will be reading this because they've already got high mobile rankings and they're anxious to keep them. Others may be here because they've never had much luck in Google's mobile SERPs, and they're wondering if this new index could be their big opportunity to change that.

Whichever boat you're in, here are a few tips for making sure you don't get left behind when Google's mobile-only index eventually comes into play:

1. Make sure your website is mobile-friendly.

This is a no-brainer, but since a lot of business websites still aren't optimised for mobile users, it's worth stating anyway. The best way to ensure that your website will work well on smartphones is to plump for a responsive design that automatically adapts to fit the screen it's viewed on - more on that subject here.

Some non-responsive websites have so far managed to slip through Google's net and rank reasonably well in mobile SERPs even though they're not mobile-friendly. However, the forthcoming mobile-specific index will almost certainly put paid to that, so it's a good idea to upgrade now and use Google's own mobile-friendliness testing tool to ensure that you're giving smartphone users the best possible experience.

2. Minimise your page loading times.

If there's one thing that we all hate to see when browsing the Internet on a mobile device, it's a webpage that takes ages to load. Excessive load times discourage mobile users from interacting with your website, and if you don't speed things up, Google will quickly boot you out of their mobile rankings in favour of a site that doesn't force visitors to wait around.

In order to ensure that your website is loading as quickly as possible, test it using Google's PageSpeed Tools. This will inform you of any changes you can make to boost your site's load speed.

Google PageSpeed Insights

You may also wish to consider using AMPs (Accelerated Mobile Pages), a recent Google initiative that aims to make the web instantaneously accessible on mobile devices - learn more here.

3. Optimise for local searches.

If your mobile customers have their location services turned on, Google will serve them local results for certain queries. Here's what that looks like:


If this so-called 'local pack' shows up for your primary keywords, that's a good indicator that you need to be thinking about local SEO. You want your shop (or restaurant, office, clinic, etc.) to show up prominently in Google results when someone in the area searches for your service, and this can be achieved by:
  • Add your business on Google My Business. Add your opening hours and a short written description of your organisation; you may also wish to embellish the listing with images.

  • Ensure that your company name, address, and contact details are consistent throughout the Internet (i.e. on your website, your Google listing, your social media profiles, and any other listings you have online).

  • Encourage people to review your business on Google, as well as on other well-known websites that publish reviews of local businesses (e.g. Yelp, TripAdvisor, Facebook).

  • Ask other local businesses to link to your website (but only if they are reputable, their website is of a high quality, and the link is relevant to your business - e.g. if you own a hair salon, a link from a grocery store may not benefit you, but a link from a wedding dress shop might if they're encouraging people to visit your salon for a haircut before the big day).

4. Use Google Search Console to stay on top of potential issues.

One final piece of advice (and this applies even if you're not interested in the mobile SERPs): add all versions of your website to Google Search Console and check the dashboard frequently to ensure that everything is as it should be and nothing is going wrong on your site. Of particularly relevance to today's topic is the Mobile Usability report, which can be found under Search Traffic on the left-hand side of the console.

Mobile Usability

This blog post highlights a few other reports that it's important to check regularly once you've added your site on Search Console.

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If you want to ensure that your website is mobile-friendly and fully-optimised for this upcoming Google change, Designer Websites can help! Click here to request a quote, or select one of the following services to find out more about what we can do for you: