It’s easy to fall into the trap of designing a website purely for search engines. We know or can guess the many ranking factors and there’s often no major conflict between these and what users like. However that isn’t the most efficient way of boosting rankings. Search engines are always trying to figure out what…
The official government password advice from the National Cyber Security Centre has been updated recently and we think it’s a lot more workable than past information. We all have to contend with multiple passwords and we know that, ideally, they should be trade-off between something you can remember but is also hard to guess by…
The latest ranking factors report from SEMRush is based on a study of 600,000+ keywords in local databases. It provides a very useful insight into the 12 most prominent and controversial factors, chosen to shed light on what really impacts search results The main goal of the study was to identify any consistent patterns in…
WordPress 4.8 is out now. Named after jazz pianist and composer William John “Bill” Evans, WordPress 4.8 adds improved security, bug fixes and extra features. WordPress is the world’s favourite Content Management Systems, powering about 60% of websites. With that in mind, an update of WordPress to a new whole number version is an important…
Only a couple of years ago, I thought we might be seeing the beginning of the end of email accounts for business. Social media, the rise of mobile phone usage, instant messaging, texting etc all made me think that email would go the same way as letter writing. To misquote Mark Twain, reports of email’s…
