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    • Phone line issues

    by Daniel Johnston on April 26, 2013

    We are currently experiencing a few problems with our phone lines. If you need to contact us urgently please send an email to info@dolphinpromotions.co.uk.

    We hope to get them working soon. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

    Infographic: The power of Facebook advertising

    by James on April 18, 2013

    With 1 billion users, and 23% of these users checking Facebook 5 times a day or more, it is an excellent platform to advertise on. Facebook have released an infographic showing some interesting facts about their platform.Facebook-advertising-infographic

     

    WordPress websites targeted globally by a botnet

    April 16, 2013

    Sites developed with WordPress have been under attack from a botnet of tens of thousands of computers for the past week. The botnet is using a brute force attack on the admin users to try and gain access to the sites administration. Once within the administration the hackers will be able to insert malicious code [...]

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    Google Shopping results in universal search drop 79% after shift to paid model

    April 4, 2013

    Following Google’s Shopping move from free to paid there has been a huge drop in the number of shopping results that are shown up in the organic/universal listings within Google.com Example of universal search   Searchmetrics produced a report showing that in January 2012 shopping results appeared in 20% of universal search integrations, however by [...]

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    New Website Launched for Briden Insurance Contractors

    March 19, 2013

    As part of our work with the ProBuild Contractor Network we have just launched a website for Briden Insurance and Building Contractors. Developed in WordPress allowing the client to manage everything themselves including updating the gallery with all their latest work

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    Sir Tim Berners-Lee, pioneer of the internet wins the Queen Elizabeth Prize

    March 19, 2013

    Sir Tim Berners-Lee the British computer scientist and four others have been awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize which comes with a £1 Million prize fund. The award has been given in acknowledgment for creating the foundations for the internet. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which oversees the Web’s continued development which outline the [...]

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    BBC News receive a manual link penalty notification from Google

    March 18, 2013

    Last Saturday the world’s largest broadcast news organization, BBC News, received an unnatural link notification from Google. A BBC News representative posted in the Google Help Forums about the notification seeking advice on how to find and remove them:   I am a representative of the BBC site and on Saturday we got a ‘notice [...]

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    Number of sales up, Value of sales down

    March 16, 2013

    The number of people who made purchases on-line in February grew by 13% according to IMRG although the average amount each customer spent dropped across all categories except gifts (up by 36%), health and beauty (up by 8%) and lingerie (up by 9%) which is probably attributed to Valentine’s Day. Tina Spooner the chief information [...]

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    Google shopping to become pay per click

    March 11, 2013

    Google Shopping or Google Base as it used to be called has been one of our favourite tools for getting traffic and sales for our e-commerce clients for several years now. Unfortunately last year Google decided that it would be changing this service from being free for merchants to list their products into a commercial [...]

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    Google may drop rankings for bad merchants

    March 11, 2013

    Google wants to protect searchers from bad merchants and could potentially drop rankings for websites that have a history of bad customer service later this year. The news came during the “How to Rank Better in Google & Bing” session at the SXSW conference in Austin. Google’s chief web spam fighter Matt Cutts responded to [...]

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