With “phishing” attacks dominating the technology news this week we look at ways to prevent yourself becoming a victim. (more…)
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Tips to avoid “phishing” attacks
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Web mail accounts hit by “phishing” attack
Thursday, October 8th, 2009It has emerged in the last few days that users of the most popular web mail services on the net have been targeted by a massive “phishing” attack, including Gmail and Hotmail customers. (more…)
Flash – beautiful site vs SEO friendly site
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009There’s no doubt about it – sites created in Flash look beautiful. Flash offers lightweight, stunning multimedia that even the cleverest of Java Script programmers cannot match. But what about the effects on SEO? We discuss the pros and cons of building sites with Flash. (more…)
Google analytics, a great free tool for tracking your site
Monday, September 28th, 2009One of the first things a webmaster wants to know once they’ve launched their new site is how many people are visiting it and what pages they are hitting. Who better to provide this sort of information than the company who has dominated the search engine market for the past 5 years? (more…)
Our price guide
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009If you’re thinking about requesting a website and you’re not sure how much it will cost we have put together this guide to give you some idea of prices. (more…)
Web sales up 16% in August
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Sales on the net grew by 16% compared to the same month last year according to the research group IMRG. (more…)
Underscores vs dashes
Monday, September 21st, 2009Good SEO is about eking out every percentage of extra juice from your site, leaving no area where the opposition can get an edge. Even though giving 0.1% away in one area may seem irrelevant, given away 0.1% in a few dozen areas quickly adds up and leaves the possibility that the opposition can have a significant on-the-page advantage over you. (more…)
The Open Directory Project
Sunday, September 20th, 2009If a survey of SEOs around the country was taken as to which site they hate the most, Number 1 would almost certainly be DMoz.org. Many people outside of the world of SEO may wonder what this seemingly innocuous web directory has done to rattle so many chains? The simple answer is that getting a site listed in DMoz’s huge directory is one of the single most effective ways of boosting your rankings in Google. (more…)