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 algorithm for mobile search call the “Speed Update” will…
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 targeted lists than this, and for a while now Google has…
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 part of their marketing and general…
The European Union has handed Google a record-breaking €2.42bn (£2.14bn) fine for abusing its dominance of the search engine market in building its online shopping service By artificially and illegally promoting its own price comparison service in searches, Google denied both its consumers real choice and rival firms the ability to compete on a level…
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…
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…
Over the past year one of the main complaints we have had from new clients about their old web developer is regarding hosting issues. This is especially true for companies using WordPress as the platform behind their website. The main problems these clients suffer from are: Slow hosting Frequent and/or prolonged downtime Hacked websites causing…
Announced earlier in the year, Google stated that they were looking to improve their mobile results in a new upcoming update that would focus on the mobile friendliness of websites. Based on a comment from a Google employee it is speculated that the update will have a bigger impact on related search results than we…
WordPress SEO by Yoast is one of the most popular SEO plugins on the market with over 1 million active installs. Unfortunately yesterday WPScanVulnerability identified a security issue with it and issued the following statement The latest version at the time of writing (1.7.3.3) has been found to be affected by two authenticated (admin, editor or…