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- By Thom Harrison
- 13 min read
It’s always exciting, starting an online business — but there are a few important decisions to make before you get going. One of the first is choosing the right business structure: should you...
- By Alexandra Gavril
- 9 min read
Isn’t it frustrating when you come up with the perfect name for your business, run a search, and discover the domain is already taken? Worse still, the owner doesn’t even seem to be...
- By 123 Reg
- 5 min read
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is all about improving your website so that it appears higher in search engine results when people look for businesses, products, or services like yours. Broadly it’s about making...
- By Thom Harrison
- 9 min read
You’ve got a name in mind for your business, project, or side hustle. The next step is simple: find out if it’s available to register. Checking takes seconds (literally) and even if your...
- By 123 Reg
- 2 min read
Domain Registration is how you claim a unique web address for your website — like your-big-idea.co.uk or your-big-idea.com. Once it’s registered, that name is yours to use for a set period (usually a...
- By 123 Reg
- < 1 min read
See: A Beginner’s Guide to Crafting Title Tags and Meta Descriptions that Get Clicks
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- By Will Stevens
- 6 min read
If you’re looking to get your business started online, the first thing you need is web hosting. This provides you with a place to hold everything that makes up your website — files,...
- By Will Stevens
- 9 min read
Small business owners simply can’t do without a website these days. Your customers are out there online — and they may be looking for a company like your own. But what’s the simplest...
- By Will Stevens
- 4 min read
If you’re setting up a website, picking the right domain extension can feel tricky. In this guide, we’ll take a look at the differences between .net, .com and .org, and go through the...
- By Will Stevens
- 3 min read
Choosing a hosting plan for your website can be confusing. With so many options to pick from, it can feel like you’re at risk of getting things wrong. One of the most confusing...
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Domains
Domains
- By Alexandra Gavril
- 9 min read
Isn’t it frustrating when you come up with the perfect name for your business, run a search, and discover the domain is already taken? Worse still, the owner doesn’t even seem to be...
- By Thom Harrison
- 9 min read
You’ve got a name in mind for your business, project, or side hustle. The next step is simple: find out if it’s available to register. Checking takes seconds (literally) and even if your...
- By 123 Reg
- 5 min read
Did you know that when you buy a domain name, it’s often linked to a public record that can show who owns it, when it was registered, and when it expires? That record...
- By 123 Reg
- 11 min read
Domain names are the unique addresses that make websites easy to find online. You can think of them as house names on a virtual street. Not all domain names are created equal, though...
- By 123 Reg
- < 1 min read
I’ve been off on holiday for the last couple of weeks, and as usual my return to the office this morning has resulted in an inbox full of messages and an RSS reader...
- By 123 Reg
- < 1 min read
Thanks to all our millions of customers we are the first to register one million .uk domains on one tag. To celebrate this, we are now giving away a free .uk domain with...
- By 123 Reg
- 2 min read
I personally don’t register a lot of domain names. The domains I do own tend to those I stumbled across that I can’t believe no one else has already got, or I have...
- By 123 Reg
- 2 min read
This one’s important for anyone who owns a domain ending in .web.com which they control through a 123-reg account. (The information below only applies to domains ending in .web.com – all other .com...
- By 123 Reg
- < 1 min read
We’ve been chatting about an interesting story in the office this morning: the Scottish National Party wants to establish a top level domain (TLD) for Scotland. The story has been covered by the...
- By 123 Reg
- 2 min read
123-reg has become the first .uk tag holder to amass over a million domains on a single tag. What does this mean? Well, essentially, we’re now responsible for the management of over a...
SEO Advice
SEO Advice
- By 123 Reg
- 5 min read
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is all about improving your website so that it appears higher in search engine results when people look for businesses, products, or services like yours. Broadly it’s about making...
- By 123 Reg
- 10 min read
If you’ve bought a domain together with a 123 Reg plan like Website Builder or Managed WordPress Hosting, the chances are it’s already connected — so once you’ve hit publish, it should appear...
- By Thom Harrison
- 6 min read
Google’s new AI restaurant-booking experience is now live in the UK. Built on top of the existing ‘Reserve with Google’ tool, it lets people move from a natural-language search straight to a restaurant...
- By Thom Harrison
- 9 min read
Running an online business today, big or small, the chances are many of your customers will be looking for answers from Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT before they ever click through to your...
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Make your domain part of the sell — find the perfect TLD for your brand.
Business
Business
- By Thom Harrison
- 13 min read
It’s always exciting, starting an online business — but there are a few important decisions to make before you get going. One of the first is choosing the right business structure: should you...
- By Thom Harrison
- 10 min read
For small-to-medium businesses, social media and your website work best when they work together. Social media grabs attention, and your website gives people somewhere clear to go next. Used well, the two can...
- By Thom Harrison
- 10 min read
Google Ads is a tool that can put your business in front of customers who are searching for what you offer. By far the world’s leading Pay-Per-Click (PPC) platform, it lets you run...
- By Thom Harrison
- 6 min read
Google’s new AI restaurant-booking experience is now live in the UK. Built on top of the existing ‘Reserve with Google’ tool, it lets people move from a natural-language search straight to a restaurant...
- By 123 Reg
- 5 min read
In the latest in a series of posts on going it alone Barry Adams of SEO consultancy Polemic Digital looks at one of the toughest issues faced by successful small businesses – how...
- By Tim Fuell
- 4 min read
You’ve made the commitment to run your own business, you are juggling the work / life balance, you may even be holding down a ‘real’ job at the same time. Be warned, it’s...
- By Will Stevens
- 6 min read
It’s a sad fact of life that people are willing to make snap decision based on very little information. That means many smaller businesses don’t get the chance to impress potential clients –...
- By 123 Reg
- 5 min read
In his latest post Barry Adams, founder of Polemic Digital, talks time management. As I’m typing this I should actually be working on a digital strategy. It’s not that I don’t want to...
- By 123 Reg
- 4 min read
Sales and marketing are two words that generally go well together. You’ve probably seen job titles like “sales and marketing executive” in various recruitment advertisements before, but what does this actually mean and...
- By Tim Fuell
- 5 min read
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Benjamin Franklin’s quote may be many years old, but it is still as relevant today. It’s only the third week of the new year...
Online Marketing
Online Marketing
- By Thom Harrison
- 10 min read
Google Ads is a tool that can put your business in front of customers who are searching for what you offer. By far the world’s leading Pay-Per-Click (PPC) platform, it lets you run...
- By Thom Harrison
- 7 min read
Your domain ending helps set the tone for your website before anyone clicks. It isn’t just a part of your web address — it can influence how professional and trustworthy your business appears...
- By Will Stretton
- 6 min read
No one understands your business like you, but understanding your customers is an entirely different ball game. Even if you have some notion of who they are and how to cater to their...
- By Thom Harrison
- 8 min read
Businesses today all face the challenge of holding onto customers in a fiercely competitive online world. With so many options just a click away, shoppers can easily switch to a rival offering a...
- By Alexandra Gavril
- 8 min read
If you thought online marketing is only for businesses, think again. Even if you’re not selling anything and are just looking to get more volunteers or players for your local kids’ football club...
- By Nick Leech
- 10 min read
“I’ve always wondered,” said the woman with her hand up, “if people are even visiting that page on my website”. I was doing a presentation about understanding your website visitors, at Enterprise Nation....
- By Alexandra Gavril
- 6 min read
If there’s one key thing you need to know about today’s customer is that they take their smartphones everywhere they go. And they love to use for everything, from finding a nearby restaurant...
- By 123 Reg
- 13 min read
Google AdWords is a great way to attract new customers in a cost effective manner, but it can be confusing and hard to master. This guide will explain what AdWords is and how...
- By Alexandra Gavril
- 7 min read
Ask any marketing agency or consultant whether marketing is a waste of time and money, and they’ll probably say it’s not. But things aren’t as simple as that. If you don’t know the...
- By Alexandra Gavril
- 7 min read
Ever wonder why social media or email marketing work so well for some businesses, but does nothing at all for others? Curious about why some content that seems great doesn’t get discovered or...