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ComparisonsDelivery apps take 25% to 35% of every takeaway order. What that costs an Irish food business, and what taking orders direct on your own site costs.
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SEO & PageSpeedYour supplier's product descriptions sit on every other stockist's site too. Google shows one of them, rarely yours. What to write on the page instead.
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SEO & PageSpeedA rival's ad sits above your own business name in Google. What Google's rules allow, what Irish trade mark law covers, and what actually wins the click back.
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Web60 FeaturesIrish gift vouchers must run at least five years, and the VAT can fall due before anyone redeems one. What to set up when you sell them from your own site.
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ComparisonsClick and collect lets a shop sell online with no courier, no packaging and no return postage. What it costs, where it breaks, and how to set it up.
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InfrastructureA pricing error went live on your online shop. What Irish consumer law actually requires, when you can cancel the order, and how fast you must fix it.
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SEO & PageSpeedMore than half the phones in Ireland are iPhones, and Apple Maps runs on separate data to Google. How to claim, verify and fix your Apple Maps listing.
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ComparisonsRate parity ended across the EU in November 2024. You can now price lower on your own website than on Booking.com, and most owners have not moved.
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InfrastructureA customer asks you to delete their data. Your WordPress site keeps copies the delete button never touches, and the clock runs for one month.
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ComparisonsAdding a second website for a new service or brand splits your rankings, your budget and your attention. When two sites genuinely work, and when one wins.
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SEO & PageSpeedSearch your own business name on Google. If directories, old profiles and competitor ads sit above your website, here is how to take that page back.
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ComparisonsPay-per-lead platforms sell the same job to up to five trades. What buying leads really costs, and when your own website pays you back instead.
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InfrastructureA competitor copied your website word for word. What Google actually does about it, how to get the copy delisted, and the evidence to gather first.
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Web60 FeaturesAn unlinked page is not a private one. How to password protect a page on your website, what WordPress does natively, and where hiding quietly fails.
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InfrastructureAn invoice for your domain, an email about your SSL, a call about your Google listing. How to tell a real website bill from a fake one before you pay it.
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Irish SMEWhen an Irish business changes hands, the domain, hosting and Google profile have to move too. What a buyer's solicitor will ask you to prove before closing.
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ComparisonsEveryone says hiring is a job board problem. Your careers page quietly decides whether the best candidates in Ireland ever apply to you at all.
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SEO & PageSpeedBuilding a service area page for every town you cover runs straight into Google's doorway rules. What actually earns local enquiries, and what to build instead.
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SEO & PageSpeedChanging your business name? Your rankings, links and listings do not follow you automatically. The sequence that protects what your website already earned.
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SEO & PageSpeedYou changed the page and customers still see the old one. Several copies of your site hold the old version. Learn which you can clear and which you cannot.
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InfrastructureIrish law requires your website to display your company number, legal form and registered office. What must appear, where it belongs, and what it costs.
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InfrastructureWebsite photo copyright catches Irish business owners out every year. Irish law, licensing traps, AI images, and how to check what is on your site.
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ComparisonsAn AI can generate a website in an afternoon. Editing it afterwards is a different job entirely. What to ask before you let one write yours.
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InfrastructureCleaning a hacked WordPress site is the easy part. Removing Google's 'this site may be hacked' warning and rebuilding the search visibility it wrecks is the real cost.
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Irish SMEA free Gmail address on your quotes quietly tells customers you might not be a real business. Why a professional email at your own domain wins you more work.
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SEO & PageSpeedA customer who searches your website is ready to buy. When the search returns nothing, that is a sale walking out the door, and you never even see it.
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SEO & PageSpeedGoogle Search Console now shows how your Instagram, TikTok and X posts perform in Search. Useful, yes, but it still cannot hand you the audience.
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Irish SMEA photo from Google Images can trigger a copyright demand letter months later. How Irish businesses source website images they are legally allowed to use.
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SEO & PageSpeedA dead link should not cost you a customer. A custom 404 page turns a not-found error into a second chance to keep visitors on your site and off a dead end.
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SEO & PageSpeedYour website is live but nowhere on Google? Before you blame slow SEO, check the one WordPress setting that quietly tells search engines to stay out.
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SEO & PageSpeedPaste your website link into WhatsApp or Facebook and get a blank box or the wrong photo? That preview is built from your own site, and it is yours to fix.
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InfrastructureYour WordPress site has a valid SSL certificate but the browser still shows 'Not Secure'. Mixed content is why, and here is how to find and fix it.
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SEO & PageSpeedAggressive website pop-ups can hurt your Google ranking on mobile and drive customers away. Learn to capture leads without paying that price.
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InfrastructureFormer staff, freelancers and old agencies often still have live logins to your site. Learn how to audit who can access your website and revoke stale accounts.
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InfrastructureComment spam floods business websites with junk links while real customers stay silent. Why closing your comments section is the smart operational call.
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InfrastructureScammers can clone your site, register a lookalike domain and add an SSL padlock in an afternoon. How Irish businesses spot the fakes and shut them down.
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ComparisonsMarketplaces like Etsy take a cut of every sale, own your customer list, and can change the rules overnight. Your own website keeps that value with you.
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SEO & PageSpeedEmbedding video the wrong way is the heaviest thing on most business websites. See how a YouTube embed hurts Core Web Vitals and four faster ways to add video.
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InfrastructureA pre-authentication WordPress core flaw let anyone break in without a password. Here's what 'automatic updates' actually covers, and what still needs checking.
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SEO & PageSpeedInternal linking tells Google which WordPress pages matter most. Learn how orphan pages lose rankings, and how to audit and fix yours in an afternoon.
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InfrastructureAn accessibility widget promises EU compliance for one line of code. The FTC fined the largest vendor $1m for that exact claim. See what genuinely works.
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Web60 FeaturesAn AI website builder only builds what you tell it. What to include in your business description so the finished WordPress site actually looks like you.
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SEO & PageSpeedGoogle often scores Core Web Vitals for your whole website, not one page at a time. Here is how origin-level grouping works, and what actually fixes it.
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SEO & PageSpeedTwo pages targeting the same search term split your rankings instead of building one. Here is how to spot keyword cannibalization and fix it yourself.
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InfrastructureCyber insurance will not pay out if your website security does not match what you told the insurer. Here is what Irish policies actually check.
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InfrastructureA strong WordPress password means nothing if it is reused elsewhere. Credential reuse, not weak passwords, is the real risk to your admin login.
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SEO & PageSpeedEvery Google Ads click costs more when your landing page loads slowly. See what actually drives Quality Score, what slow pages cost, and how to check yours.
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InfrastructureYour hosting provider can be sold, struck off or wound down with little warning. This covers what happens to your website next, and how to stay protected.
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Industry NewsThe Grow Digital Voucher offers Irish businesses up to €5,000, but a bespoke agency website is excluded. What the LEO grant actually funds, explained.
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SEO & PageSpeedA single broken link can quietly cost a business real enquiries for weeks before anyone notices. Here is how to find and fix dead links on WordPress.
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