We used WordPress and Elementor Pro to put together an easy to manage, visually pleasing, site based on Tony's initial design and moved the website from Wix.com to WordPress and incorporating the latest 2019 SEO standards to ensure that the new site climbs Google rankings quickly! The new mobile-friendly website, powered by WordPress, simplifies content management and site administration and...
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A recent malvertising campaign targeting vulnerable plugins is now trying to backdoor sites by creating rogue admin accounts. Back in July when the campaign was first noticed it was attempting to hijack sites to push popup ads, tech support scams, and malicious Android apps. Plugins targeted in July included vulnerable versions of Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode, which followed attacks in...
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WordPress announced an important change to how it will block search engines from indexing websites. This change abandons the traditional Robots.txt solution in favor of the Robots Meta Tag approach. The change brings WordPress in line with the reason for blocking Google, which is to keep the blocked pages from showing in Google’s search results. This is the Robots Meta Tag that WordPress will...
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Google has been slowly ramping local search monetisation over time. It introduced local search ads in early 2017, which put ads in local packs, and began putting ads in local Knowledge Panels roughly two years ago. Now, the company is starting to show competitor ads in local business profiles. A ‘Local Campaign’ placement Part of Local Campaigns, the ads are designed to drive visits to...
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Today we've got an infographic from Statista, showing the number of websites online since the very first one was created back in 1991. When Yahoo! came online in 1994, there were 3,000 websites while there were 2.4 million when Google was launched in 1998. Back to the beginning - 1991 On 6 August 1991, British physicist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland published the first-ever website, the...
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From the business owner, Casey Stickland "O’Brien Media has been fantastic with being adaptive for my yoga studio’s website during Covid-19, and I’ve always felt confident that their pricing has been competitive and fair according to what I’ve needed done. Very responsive and trustworthy!" Project images
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