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Why Keeping Your Website Up-to-Date is Crucial for Business Success

In today's digital age, having a website is no longer enough to succeed in the online world. It's essential to keep your website up to date to stay ahead of the competition and reach your target customers. In this blog post, we'll discuss the importance of keeping your website up to date in terms of software and plugin updates and new content for pages and blogs. Software and Plugin Updates The...
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Understanding SEO: A must-read for business owners in Swindon

As a small business owner in Swindon, you want to ensure that your website is easily discoverable by potential customers online. That's where SEO comes in. Here are some SEO basics to help you get started:KeywordsKeywords are the terms that people search for on search engines like Google. By including relevant keywords on your website, you're more likely to show up in search results when people...
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Why Updating to WordPress 6.2 is Critical for Your Website’s Success

As a web design business that specialises in WordPress websites, we at O'Brien Media are always on the lookout for the latest updates and releases related to WordPress. So, when we heard that WordPress 6.2 was recently released, we couldn't wait to dive in and explore all the new features and enhancements that this version has to offer. WordPress 6.2 is a major release that brings a lot of...
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How O’Brien Media is Reducing its Carbon Footprint

It's Chris here, the founder of O'Brien Media (and Head of Design and Development). I am proud to announce that our company is making a significant change towards becoming a more responsible and environmentally conscious technology business. We are switching from single-use plastics and non-recycled postal and office supplies to recycled paper products and recyclable and biodegradable postal...
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Marking Data Protection Day on January 28th

Data Protection Day is an internationally recognized event celebrated on January 28 to recognize the importance of data protection and to raise awareness among individuals, organizations, and government bodies. On this day, we endeavor to spread the message that protecting our personal data – our digital heritage – is essential for a safe and secure future. It’s important to understand how...
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: How Can Small Businesses Stay Cyber Secure

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and it's more important than ever for small businesses to stay cyber secure. Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting your computer networks and data from unauthorized access or theft. If you're not sure what cyber security is or how you can stay cyber secure, don't worry! In this blog post, we'll explain everything you need to know. We'll also provide...
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3 Ways to Google-Proof Your Product Reviews

These days, potential customers are more likely to check online reviews before they buy a product than they are to ask a friend or family member for a recommendation. In fact, according to BrightLocal's 2018 Consumer Review Survey, 84% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations. What does that mean for your small business? It means that if you're not paying attention to...
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Chronic Pain Not Always a Barrier to Work: How O’Brien Media Was Founded

As Pain Awareness Month draws to a close our Founder, Chris, thought now would be the perfect time to share the story of how disability, chronic pain, and a desire to use my website design and development skills, came together resulting in the creation of a business that worked around my disability, and that could, later on, help others who had been unfairly passed over by other employers into...
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MUM update: What does the future hold for SEOs?

Could MUM be Google's next step towards becoming a semantic search engine? Discover how MUM may affect SEO in the future Multitask Unified Model is a new technology for Google launched in May 2021. In fall 2021, the forthcoming rollout was announced, and the technology was explained in more detail. Using artificial intelligence or natural language understanding and processing, MUM answers complex...
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