SEMRush has an interesting post on the cost and effectiveness of trying to run SEO in-house. They focus on Enterprise SEO where the in-house team will be costing over $500k per year, which is a bit beyond the size and scope of Dolphin Promotions. However, we feel that the points can be scaled to an…
WooCommerce 3.0 Hs finally arrived and this is the biggest release in a long time. 2.6 was released back in June last year but 2.0 was released all the way back in 2013, which is decades in internet time. Though technically this is more like 2.7, WooComemrce have just changed their release naming to Semantic…
Google published its State of Website Security in 2016 today, reporting that there was a 32 percent increase in the number of hacked sites in 2016 compared to 2015. Google added that it doesn’t expect the trend to slow down anytime soon. Google said that these hackers are getting even “more aggressive,” and at the…
PHP is the programming language used behind 82% of the sites on the web, but it hasn’t really had a major release in over a decade with PHP 5 being released in 2004. Even PHP 5.5 is 4 years old. PHP 6 was abandoned due to various issues and finally, PHP 7 was officially released…
The SEO industry has been watching an unconfirmed Google ranking update that seems to target more of the link quality aspects of the overall algorithm. A large amount of the chatter regarding this update comes from Black Hat communities which would suggest that it is focussing on filtering out spammy results due to poor quality…
Due to the nature of some of our software development work we have seen a growing demand for IT support. This covers a wide range of needs from general email support to fully fledged IT support including network and server installation. The demand for this service has grown due to the increased reliance on the…
Please note, none of our clients are vulnerable to the following security issue In the past few days WordPress has bene suffering from a serious security breach. Securi, a specialist website security company identified a severe content injection (privilege escalation) vulnerability affecting the REST API. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated user to modify the content…
Google has announced that it is to boost its Safe Browsing programme by flagging sites which have been repeatedly listed as serving malicious code, unwanted programs, or hosting social engineering content. Launched in 2005, Google’s Safe Browsing system checks crawled websites for a range of malicious content ranging from malware and viruses to ‘phishing’ pages…
We have recently changed service providers with our phone system, unfortunately, with the way our old one was set up we were unable to port our number. Therefore our new office number will be 01253 963 016 All other details such as postal address and payments remain the same. Thank you.
Following on from our previous post about free SSL on WordPress websites. Google has now announced that from January 2017 any website using an unsecure HTTP connection that has any form of password login or credit card forms will now receive an “Not Secure” warning. ‘Studies show that users do not perceive the lack of…