We all have hosting problems from time to time, but today the largest VPS and dedicated server provider in Europe has suffered from a worst-case scenario, a major fire in their data centre. First of all, no one has been hurt, and OVH state the fire is over. Sadly the result of this is that…
Google make minor algorithm changes regularly, so we don’t typically see the massive swings in rankings that happened with the likes of Panda and Penguin. The one exception may have been the Bert update that launched on October 22, 2019 which focused on low quality poorly written content. Along with the regular minor updates, Google…
Google has been making some aggressively trying to tackle the dominance of Amazon in the shopping market in recent months. Their biggest shakeup in years happened earlier this year when they re-introduced free product listings back into Google Shopping via Google Merchant. Now for the next phase of the shakeup: commission-free access to Buy on…
I never used to pay Google Search Console much attention, only occasionally logging in to checkup, or when I get an email about warnings. However, that has changed in the past year, and it is now one of the tools I use daily to make sure things are running smoothly and to identify problems as…
Eight years ago when Google Base was a thing, it was possible to list your products within Google for free on Froogle, no Google Shopping. This saw an amazing return on investment for some of our clients providing a shopping comparison service with no associated click costs. Sadly, that all ended and we have since…
This post is purely theoretical based on what has worked for our client, on top of this there are two scenarios: Google cache caused indexing issues which in turn may have affected ranking ruing the core update Google May core update caused the site to index slowly, and the caching issues are unrelated and an…
With WordPress powering 35% of all the websites on the Internet it is a popular target for hackers. Finding an exploit in one plugin or theme can expose millions of websites. Furthermore, due to the vast number of plugins and themes, there are plenty of things to try and exploit. Recently there has been a…
Managing a lot of websites, we see all sorts of link building techniques for SEO. Nowadays the vast majority of these are guest posts, either free or paid, then some form of link insertion either for broken links, additional resources or just paid. Recently we have been inundated with emails adopting a new method (new…
Celplas PVC is a well-established company in Blackpool specialising in PVC maintenance-free building products including Roofline, trade bathrooms, trade windows and our exclusive range of internal decorative cladding for bathroom and kitchens. The previous website was using both WordPress and a separate eCommerce application to run the site, all of which was running on an…
While millions of companies have been desperately trying to make their website GDPR compliant one of the biggest tech companies of them all has fallen foul of one of the biggest no-nos within the GDPR. A software vulnerability within Google+ exposed hundreds of thousands of users to a data leak during the period of 2015 and 2018 which…