Posts by Tristan Whittaker
The Problem with Referral Spam and How to Stop It
We all know how annoying spam can be. But it goes further than getting irritating emails. Referral spam uses the same principle, but instead of targeting email accounts, it targets the search engines. The idea is that someone uses fake referrals to hijack your Google Analytics account and send lots of traffic to their site…
Read MoreThe Importance of Landing Pages: What Makes a Good One?
Landing pages – even the term is enough to send some people into a cold sweat. The term applies to a page people will land on when they arrive on your website. You want them to hang around rather than leaving for somewhere else, so it makes sense to create a landing page capable of…
Read MoreDo You Need a WordPress Care Plan?
Plenty of people use WordPress to power their website or blog, and it makes sense to do so. However, it is only as good as your efforts to maintain and monitor it. If you find it a struggle to back up and update your site as often as you should, you may well benefit from…
Read MoreSuperiority of Managed WordPress Hosting Over Regular
When it comes to hosting your WordPress website, you have a choice between different types of hosting. Most people will choose regular or “shared” hosting over managed hosting. Shared hosting means that one physical server hosts multiple websites and the resources of that server are shared among many websites. This sharing of resources is the…
Read MoreWhat Is the Mobile-First Index?
No doubt you’ve heard of a search engine index before. The index is a collection of web pages found by a search engine. Those pages are then sorted and presented to you whenever you search for a term or topic. With that in mind, the term mobile-first index is self-explanatory. Google has always focused on…
Read MoreA More Secure Web: The Importance of https://
Do you pay attention to the address bar when you visit a website? Do you check to see whether it starts with HTTPS? You should, and in 2017 it will become even more important that you do. Google recently announced the release of Chrome 56 in January 2017 that will treat all standard HTTP pages…
Read MoreNew Care Plan Reports Coming Soon
We’ve been building, managing & maintaining WordPress websites for the last 10 years so we know WordPress exceptionally well. By providing our WordPress care plans to our clients, it allows them to focus on their business without having to worry about their website. We handle all the WordPress updates, backups & security for them, saving…
Read MoreThe cost of WordPress website development
An interesting article about the cost of WordPress website development. Codeable are a company based in Denmark, founded in 2012 and this article highlights the the costs involved in developing a WordPress website. To put these costs in pounds sterling… Grand total for a WordPress business website: £18,000 With pre-developed theme: £6,600 With eCommerce solution:…
Read MoreIs Your Site Mobile-Friendly? It Should Be!
It’s been obvious for a while that more and more people are searching for information and even buying products on their mobiles. If you’ve ever visited a website on your mobile phone you’ll know how frustrating it is to try and read small print on a small screen or scroll from side to side to…
Read MoreGoogle Penguin 3.0 Update
As many of you will now be aware, Google has been at it again. By that I mean they’ve issued another updated version of Penguin – this time called Penguin 3.0. (I’m sure some of you would want to tag the words ‘The Revenge’ onto the end of that, but as you’ll see that may…
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