Are you ready for Google Analytics 4 ?
What's it all about ? If you have a website, you ideally need to have some form of analytics tool to monitor how it is performing. The most common solution for this is Google Analytics (GA). If you are just…
Make sure your website is mobile friendly
Original post July 2019 - updated October 2021 Back in November 2016, Google announced that their ranking algorithms would gradually start making more use of the mobile versions of website pages rather than the desktop version of a page’s content…
Why can’t I see my new web page ?
I originally wrote this post back in 2012 but decided to update a couple of things in it as it is still true, perhaps more so today, as caching is being used more widely to speed up websites these days.…
The need for speed in your website
Back in 2020, Google announced that they would be making User Experience (UX) more important in ranking search results and that they were introducing some new ranking factors to support this. Google generally are quite secretive about what they use…
Website hacking on the increase
(Updated February 2021) Until about 2014, I had never had any websites hacked, however, hacking seems to be on the increase and I have had to recover a number of sites for clients more recently. In fact, back in 2015…
WordPress 5.6 update warning
WordPress version 5.6 was recently released (December 2020). This is a major update and like the previous version 5.5 it has caused some problems with some websites. I have had a few clients already who have updated their sites to…
No more .eu domains after Brexit
If you read my earlier articles on this topic ( Does your website use a .eu domain ? and Maybe you can keep your .eu domain names after Brexit ) you will remember that there was some uncertainty as to…
Are WordPress automatic updates for Plugins & Themes a good idea ?
The release of WordPress version 5.5 (11th August 2020) [superceded by version 5.5.1 on 1st September 2020] included a preliminary implementation of an option to enable automatic updates for themes and plugins in your website. Auto-updates for plugins and themes…
More online marketing tips you can try during the lockdown
One more animated video with something else you can try.
Some more tips on what you can do for your website during the lockdown
Another quick animated video with something else you can try for your website.