{"podcast":{"title":"Websites Made Simple: How to have a successful website design business","slug":"websites-made-simple-how-to-have-a-successful-website-design-business-6718598","podcast_index_feed_id":6718598,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/websites-made-simple-successful-website-design-business/","website_url":"https://websitesmadesimple.co.uk/podcast/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/823712d6-6b6b-4146-929a-95c2d4c90d1f/Websites-Made-Simple-artwork-July-26-update.jpg","author":"Holly Christie (Website Design Business Mentor)","episode_count":65,"summary":"Welcome to Websites Made Simple, a podcast helping you become more successful in your website design business. Most small website design business owners are working hard. Really hard. At the same time they feel like they’re winging it. And their online presence isn't helping them. This podcast is here to change that for you. Holly Christie is founder of website companies, This Demanding Life and Simply Sites. Holly will walk you through the common factors that are stopping you from making a success of your website design business, and how to overcome them, in a way that feels authentic to you. If you’d like to learn more about Holly and her work you can find her at: https://thisdemandinglife.com/ or connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollycchristie/","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T10:21:06.660784+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/websites-made-simple-how-to-have-a-successful-website-design-business-6718598"},"episode":{"title":"Why Your SEO-Friendly Website Isn't Ranking","slug":"why-your-seo-friendly-website-isn-t-ranking","published_at":"2026-02-09T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/websites-made-simple-how-to-have-a-successful-website-design-business-6718598/why-your-seo-friendly-website-isn-t-ranking","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/websites-made-simple-how-to-have-a-successful-website-design-business-6718598","url":"https://websitesmadesimple.co.uk/podcast/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b4e254de-41b7-4af1-bcb1-207ac477611b.mp3","summary":"If you’ve ever delivered a well built, SEO friendly website and then found yourself being blamed when it doesn’t rank or generate leads, this episode will feel very familiar. Welcome to another episode of Websites Made Simple with me, Holly Christie. Check out my new offer: https://websitesmadesimple.co.uk/sparks-group-mentoring/ It’s a supportive group mentoring session for website designers and developers to bring real questions, tricky client situations, fuzzy boundaries, and those moments where you’re thinking, “This isn’t actually my job, is it?” In this episode, I’m joined by SEO specialist Nikki Pilkington to talk about the difference between SEO friendly and SEO optimised, and why that distinction matters so much for web designers. We dig into how good websites end up being labelled “not working”, how easily expectations drift, and why web designers often carry responsibility for outcomes that sit firmly outside their role. We get into: • What SEO friendly actually means from a web design and build perspective • Why SEO friendly is a baseline, not a ranking strategy • How “just add the keywords” quietly sets you up for problems later • Where your responsibility as a designer genuinely starts and ends • Why selling SEO as a one off is a trap, even when clients ask for it • How blurred roles damage trust between designers, SEOs, and clients • The conversations that protect you before a project even begins • How to stop your work being judged on results you were never hired to deliver If you want clearer boundaries, more confident explanations, and fewer projects where everyone looks bad six months later, this episode will help you put language around things you probably already feel. Come and find out more at https://websitesmadesimple.co.uk or email me at hello@…","meta_description":"If you’ve ever delivered a well built, SEO friendly website and then found yourself being blamed when it doesn’t rank or generate leads, this episode will…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1406,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/websites-made-simple-how-to-have-a-successful-website-design-business-6718598/episodes/why-your-seo-friendly-website-isn-t-ranking/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/websites-made-simple-how-to-have-a-successful-website-design-business-6718598/why-your-seo-friendly-website-isn-t-ranking.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}