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…
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…
One of the things we pride ourselves at Dolphin Promotions is our technical skills, and one of these skills includes hosting. All our sites are hosted on dedicated servers that we fully manage ourselves. We carry out all the server updates, handle all your backups and even update your website on a monthly basis to…
The internet traditionally ran over HTTP for everything that was not needed to be secure, the data between your computer and the server is passed over in a none encrypted format. Unfortunately, over the years data breaches, security exploits and hacking, in general, have made many people adopt the HTTPS standard. Using this, your data…
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…
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…
While this post is not necessarily relevant to most of our clients, we are always looking for ways to improve the quality of our service by researching methods to improve the way WordPress works. A common hosting option to help improve the load times of a WordPress website, and in theory to reduce hosting costs,…
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…
Following our blog post about the security issues related to WordPress we thought it would be good to list some of the backup options available to WordPress users. Taking backups of your site is probably the single most important thing you can do with a website, we have had to deal with countless situations where…