Category Archives: Digital

The GetSticky system is designed to rapidly transform online results for clients, so we are always very pleased to see customers achieving their goals, hitting the top of Google searches and receiving more traffic.

The Newcastle Golf Club website was one of the first sites we developed following the GetSticky system so we were happy to see the club’s search rankings and web traffic improve substantially within a month of launching.

The previous Newcastle Golf Club website had some serious search engine optimisation issues, preventing it from featuring in relevant searches on Google and Yahoo. In fact, it only showed on searches using the words “Newcastle” and “Golf”. Part of our brief was to lift the club up in searches for a series of terms.

Here is a summary of early results:

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A quick look around the sites produced by leading Newcastle web designers reveals fairly standard formats that deliver the old-fashioned “brochure-style” efforts we were all discovering a decade ago. Web design in Newcastle seems to be stuck in the Web 1.0 era.

Some of Newcastle’s agencies are designing extremely attractive Flash websites that look great and do almost nothing for the businesses they serve. This is a big concern and means that many businesses in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley are missing out on the benefits of modern web strategy and social media concepts.

The world is spending more and more time online and Newcastle’s web design community must ensure that their customers are going to be competing on an even playing field.

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