The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new EU regulation aimed at helping to strengthen data protection for EU citizens and residents both within the EU and the wider world. The regulation becomes effective from the 25th of May 2018 Anyone who collects and...
After a year-long trial in the US, Instagram is spreading its ‘shoppable’ tags to eight other countries in advance of a potential global rollout. This new feature allows users to shop directly by using virtual price tags that are overlaid onto posts....
With online marketing being one of our core services we appreciate how important it is to get your website in front of potential customers. This has become increasingly difficult with organic listings over the years, even with good SEO, and this is why many people...
We love WordPress, and nearly all our sites are now developed in it, everyone else loves it too as it also powers 43% of the sites on the Internet. Unfortunately, that means it is a prime target for hackers. There is no point searching for an exploit in software that...
We have already posted about Google Chrome starting to warn users when they are submitting data over a form that is not secured by HTTPS. Now Google is taking another step in ridding this internet of HTTP connections. Coming in July 2018, whenever a user navigates to...
For a lot of our clients we use the free SSL supplied by Cloudflare, but in some cases that is not possible and we need to buy a certificate. One of the issues we have encountered when using Virtualmin is that it doesn’t appear to install the SSL correctly and the...
Starting in July 2018, Google will finally use mobile page speed as a ranking in their mobile search results. Back in 2010, Google said page speed was a ranking factor but it “was focused on desktop searches” only. Today though, Google announced that a new ranking...
Google has a lot of audience targeting settings within their AdWords tool. For example, you can target users that have been to your website before, which should hopefully have a higher conversion ratio than targeting generic users. It is possible to use even more...
Googles webmaster tools, or Search Console as it is now called, used to be primarily to ensure a site is indexed, submitting a sitemap and identifying 404s. In recent years it has been padded out with more features making it even more important for a website to use as...
One of the critical aspects of SEO is to establish realistic goals, and in the past, it is something we have not always done ourselves for our own projects, as well as some of our clients. It is all too easy to look at a website and say I want to rank for X, Y, Z....
