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Quick Wins for Your Website: Mobile, Speed, and CTAs

Want to improve your website fast? This quick guide brings together the essentials: mobile responsiveness, faster load speeds, and clear CTAs. Learn practical ways to boost user experience and conversions plus grab your free checklist to review your own site.

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How Clear CTAs Boost Conversions: Simple Tips to Guide Your Website Visitor

Learn how to create clear, effective CTAs that guide users, improve conversions, and enhance your website’s performance. This practical guide covers CTA design, placement, examples, and testing tips for real results.

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How to Make Your Website Mobile Friendly

Struggling with mobile layout or load times? This practical guide covers best practices to make your website mobile-friendly, fast, no jargon, just real steps for small business success.

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Improve Website Speed: Tips to Help Performance

Website speed is crucial for both user experience and SEO rankings. To optimise performance, it’s essential to minimise CSS and JavaScript, optimise images using modern formats like WebP, and implement lazy loading.

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Deleting WordPress Posts & Terms

Removing a page or post from WordPress? Avoid SEO issues and broken links with simple steps to keep your site tidy and user-friendly.

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Website Wednesdays Ballarat: Coffee Chats & Support

Join us at Craig’s Royal Hotel every Wednesday for a free, casual co-working session hosted by Vanessa from Brighter Websites. Work on your website, get help with digital tasks, ask questions, and connect with other small business owners – all over coffee. Free to attend, but please register. ...
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How I Recovered Deleted WP Advanced Scripts Code Like a Forensic Surgeon

When a routine cleanup with WP-Sweep accidentally wiped out every script in my Advanced Scripts plugin, I didn’t panic – I got forensic. Instead of restoring an outdated backup, I reverse-engineered the entire setup using SQL and PHP, rebuilt the lost term metadata, and imported the code back...

SEO Showdown: Why Content Wins and Backlinks Matter

Getting found online isn’t just about using the right keywords , it’s also about who’s linking to your website. These are called backlinks, and they help Google decide whether your site is trustworthy and worth ranking.For small Aussie businesses, we recommend starting with simple, local link &...
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The State of Search in 2025: How Google’s AI Mode & AI Overviews Are Reshaping SEO

In May 2025, Google rolled out new updates that are already changing how we interact with search, including AI Mode and AI Overviews, which utilise generative AI. SEO still matters, a lot. But as AI becomes a bigger part of search, how you approach SEO needs to evolve.

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How to Create a New Google Maps API Key (with Billing & Security)

This guide will help you generate a brand-new API key for embedding or using Google Maps on your website. Step 1: Log into Google Cloud Console Go to: https://console.cloud.google.com Log in with your Google account. Step 2: Create or Select a Project Step 3: Enable Billing If you haven’t already: S...
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Fixing Google Maps API Error: RefererNotAllowedMapError

If you’re seeing the following error on your website map, It means your site’s URL is not listed as an authorised referrer in your Google Cloud Platform settings. This prevents the map from loading correctly. What You Need to Do To fix this, you (or your developer) need to authorise your domain in t...
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Free Website Builders that are actually Free

Free Website Builders That Are Actually Free – Brighter Websites Recommendations Thinking about building a website but don’t have the budget yet? Whether you’re starting a side hustle, creating a school project, or testing an idea, free website builders are a great way to get online without up...

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