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Why is it important to do a Website SEO Audits & what do you look for?

David Williams - DEW IT Web Design Kariong September 3, 2019SEO Audit, Web Design Central Coast, Website 0 Comment

SEO - search engine optimisation Central Coast

Originally posted 2018-12-18 15:54:46. A website SEO audit involves analysing the on page SEO factors affecting the ranking of a website. On-page SEO is very important as it affects where your website ranks in the search engines like Google. While it is impossible to make any hard promises about where a site will rank as that is solely in the control of companies like Google, it is possible for us to optimize the on page SEO factors on a page/site to increase the probability of it ranking well. It is important to understand there are no 100% guarantees anyone

Home Assistant Updates May 2018 and Sonoff-Tasmota update

David Williams - DEW IT Home Automation Central Coast September 3, 2019Home Assistant, Home Automation, MQTT, Sonoff Tasmota 0 Comment

Originally posted 2018-05-21 12:56:29. May 2018 will see the release of the latest version of Home Assistant. Home Assistant has been in ‘beta’ for as long as it has been generally available and it seems it is soon to be going to be released as a real ‘product’ if chat on the support chat forum on discord is to be believed. Home Assistant recently changed the way releases are handled so as to release more stable .0 releases than has sometimes been the case and the accompanying up to 6 ‘dot’ releases to fix errors introduced in the new release.

New Tasmota Firmware for Sonoff 6.4.x and Home Assistant Discovery

David Williams - DEW IT Home Automation Central Coast September 3, 2019Home Assistant, MQTT, Sonoff Tasmota 0 Comment

Originally posted 2019-01-10 12:50:58. This post is my latest in a series of posts about using Sonoff devices in Home Assistant over MQTT. The main reason for yet another post is that the latest version 6.4.x firmware for Tasmota has changed the way it interacts with Home Assistant MQTT Discovery and there are also some other gotchas with the Arduino Core version used. OK I’ll stop talking jargon real soon I promise and hopefully that will make everything more clear. First though, I’m just going to recap and post links to all my articles on the Sonoff Switches and Tasmota

Simplifying Automations in Home Assistant

David Williams - DEW IT Home Automation Central Coast September 3, 2019Google Home, Home Assistant, Home Automation 0 Comment

Originally posted 2018-04-21 13:56:11. Automating my Coffee Maker This article is about simplifying my automations in Home Assistant. Before I did this, I had 8 different automations controlling my coffee maker. (first-world problems right). These did the following: Weekdays turn coffee maker on at 7am Weekends turn coffee maker on at 8am Weekdays turn coffee maker off at 2pm Every night turn coffee maker on at 7pm Every night turn coffee maker off at 10pm Every 4th Sunday turn coffee maker on at 7:15am Every 4th Sunday turn coffee maker off at 8:30am Every 4th Sunday turn coffee maker on

Using SEO to drive growth to your website

David Williams - DEW IT Web Design Kariong September 3, 2019SEO, Web Design Central Coast, Website 0 Comment

Originally posted 2018-02-09 14:49:41. I was recently listening to a great podcast on Michael Covels Trend Following Podcast with John Jantsch from January 2017. Covels podcast is ostensibly a share/financial markets trading podcast but he has a habit of interviewing some really interesting people who have nothing to do with trading at all. I have purchased more than one non-trading related books from authors he has interviewed and get a lot of great information from his podcasts. Highly recommended! The RSS feed for his podcast is at http://trendfollowingradio.com/rss John Jantsch and Phil Singleton wrote a book called SEO for Growth