Personal Online Reputation Protection for Business People There’s undoubtedly stuff about you online you’d rather people not be able to see. It might be dated, incorrect, negative, embarrassing, personal… whatever the reason, the first step to taking control of your reputation and identity online is to contact us. We’ve years of experience doing this for […]
Internet-wide DDoS attack October 21 2016 Today’s (October 21, 2016) wide spread global DDoS attack was a big event, and a bad one: An attack on the Internet, not just on a website. A DDoS attack is when bad actors flood a server with redundant or duplicate requests to freeze it up and make it […]
Is Marketplace, Facebook’s latest online commerce venture, finally f-commerce? Facebook is making another attempt to get into the online commerce business. On the back of its not-so-successful earlier attempts — online classifieds and stores, Facebook Gifts, Buy buttons in newsfeed ads — and with the jury still out on Facebook Messenger commerce chatbots, it remains […]
The Social Media Treadmill & how to get off it Social media can feel like a treadmill… spending hours in the morning posting, tweeting, blogging, re-blogging, sharing, tagging, friending, following, linking… and then starting the whole process all over again that afternoon. And you’d be right, because the of way social networks function. Say you […]
User-Agent Journey over Your Web Server: A Pinball ride or a directed Path? As this blog has noted many times before, Google is penalizing poor site technology. Make sure you give all user-agents, search bots and browsers, a clear pathway over and across your server. If you send them ricocheting all over the place like […]
The “Next Generation” of Search Web search will inevitably give way to “distributed” search. Instead of typing a query into a browser, you’ll ask a ubiquitous digital assistant (in your phone, watch, car, as well as on your PC). This is already with us. The digital assistant — Google’s Assistant, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s […]
Kim Kardashian wins “Break the Internet” Webby Award Kim Kardashian-West was awarded the “Special achievement: Break the Internet award’ at the Webby awards in New York City on Monday May 18, 2016, for her outstanding success online. As we observed on September 28 2015, the Kardashian’s online content and technology are ahead of most corporates.
How Small Businesses can Face Down big Online Challenges People who work for themselves, and small and medium-sized businesses, face stiff challenges online: from deep-pocket Big Brands who saturate their categories to specialist niche brands that seem to always keep an edge, from trying to stay on top of social media fads or figuring out […]
Be local to a customer next door — or the other wide of the world Local optimization is about getting a website found for search queries made nearby, for for small scale, metropolitan area, and regional queries But “localization” can be applied on any scale, from a street up to global. With the right combination of content, […]
Is your site SLoMo? If not, here’s why it should be… On top of everything else, Google has specific criteria for a website’s Social, Local and Mobile (SLoMo) ranking factors. Meeting these criteria is essential to claiming higher search results because Google prioritizes sites that are socially connected, locally relevant and mobile friendly. Being SLoMo […]
