by James Smythe | Apr 16, 2013 | News, Security
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... by James Smythe | Apr 4, 2013 | News
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... by James Smythe | Mar 19, 2013 | Clients
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... by James Smythe | Mar 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
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... by James Smythe | Mar 18, 2013 | News, SEO
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... by James Smythe | Mar 16, 2013 | E-commerce, Internet
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... by James Smythe | Mar 11, 2013 | News
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... by James Smythe | Mar 11, 2013 | News
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... by James Smythe | Jan 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Unfortunately we appear to be having some issues with our broadband, it looks like the problem could be quite prolonged and unfortunately will mean our phone lines are down. We will still be providing support for emergencies but in the mean time please bear with us.... by James Smythe | Dec 11, 2012 | News
Google have been making it harder to sign up to their free version of Google Apps recently, and they have finally pulled the plug on it and will no longer be accepting applications for the free accounts. This does not affect existing users. For new clients wishing to...