Welcome to the Welford Media blog!
Here, we’ll be sharing our insider tips, tricks and guidelines for you to make the most of your website or eCommerce store. Our team has been providing digital services to customers for over a decade now, offering web design and development, system integration, hosting, analysis and more, so we have a lot of expert knowledge to share.
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Featured SEO trends to jump on in 2020
As of December 2019, there were 1,268,289,402 active websites, which means that if there’s ever a time to consider investing in high-quality SEO, it’s now.
Why Do Small Businesses Need a Website?
Do small businesses need a website? Simply - yes! Having a website can benefit your sales and visibility tremendously. Read on to find out more...
The secrets to understanding your customers
At the heart of every business plan destined for great success, is the ability to put oneself in the shoes of the customer. It doesn’t matter if you sell a high or low ticket product or service, you will be able to apply everything you learn in this blog to your business.Filter

What’s the best digital marketing technique?
We are huge advocates of less is more in digital marketing, honing in on two or three techniques and establishing your authority in these domains is what will drive your revenue through the roof this year.
How to easily increase the average order value of your store
As the years go by, ecommerce is undertaking some serious growth - in the United States alone the market topped over $500B in 2019. In this blog we are going to show you some growth hacks, so you can get your fair share of the $500B + market.
How do I improve my website ranking in the search engine results page?
In 2019 on the first page of google the five first organic search results account for 67.60% of the total clicks, which means it’s now more important than ever to perform highly online. Google usage is on the rise, which means it's now just as important to be in the top 5 to survive.
Christmas & New Year Opening Times 2019
On behalf of the whole Welford team, we hope you have a wonderful Christmas and wish your business all the best for 2020!
Craft CMS Review
In this post, we'll go through why we've fallen head over heels for Craft CMS & our favourite features of the only CMS platform we'll ever recommend to clients.
How your business can make informed decisions using Google analytics
Stop making decisions based on assumptions and start basing your decision making on the consumer’s actions with google analytics. So many businesses neglect this free tool so we’re going to run through why you shouldn’t.
Why a blog increases your eCommerce sales
Have you ever heard the phrase, ‘Content is king’ before? Blogging enables you to reach the billions of users that make up the internet, it can help promote your business, product or service as it works as a method of attracting an audience.
How to add your business logo to your OpenCart 3 store?
Branding matters as it’s the visual associated with your brand, that’s why we are going to take you through, step by step, exactly how you can add your logo into your OpenCart store.
Magento vs. OpenCart - How Do They Compare?
As the end of life of Magento 1 approaches, it’s time to consider alternatives to the platform. In this blog we will be comparing Magento 2.0 to OpenCart 3.0.
Magento 1: End of life - What Do You Need To Know?
Support for Magento 1 will end June 2020, over a decade after its release. What does this mean for its users? Stores built in Magento 1.0 are more vulnerable and could experience cyber security attacks, general breaks in website functionality and a sudden halt in quality bug patches.
How to change the default image size on your OpenCart 3.0 store
We run through exactly how you change the default image size from the admin area of OpenCart 3.0.