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Google to mark HTTP pages as “not secure” from July 2018

Chris Grant (he/him) July 11, 2018 0 Comments
How secure is your website? If you’re collecting sensitive customer information like passwords or credit card information, or even if you've got a contact form that can be used by customer to send you messages what are you doing to ensure and reassure customers their information is safe with your business? What’s HTTPS? HTTPS is the acronym for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. It is a...
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What is the new Google search console?

Chris O'Brien February 01, 2018 0 Comments
In early 2018, many website owners began receiving a message from Google about a new version of Google Search Console. This edition is in beta and users can switch back and forth between the old version and the new version while the new version is being tested. It is likely that we will see new features and tweaks to the new version before the “beta” label goes away. So far, the most...
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Important Google changes that could affect your business

Chris O'Brien October 22, 2017 0 Comments
On October 27th, a new version of Google Chrome will be released that will prominently label any site without an SSL Certificate as “non-secure” in the browser bar. You will be affected by this change if your website contains input fields (such as a contact form), asks for passwords or any other sensitive data, or is visited in incognito browsing mode. That means it’s now more important...
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Google’s Chrome browser will soon label non HTTPS websites as “Unsafe”

Jenny Howell July 08, 2016 0 Comments
After Google announced that it had started considering HTTPS as a metric when deciding the pagerank of a given website (giving higher priority to SSL secured websites over their non-SSL counterparts) it was only a matter of time before they took the next logical step and started further penalising websites without SSL (HTTPS) support. What we weren't expecting was Google to decide to go a...
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Google makes another a move to call time on app-install intersitals

Chris O'Brien January 08, 2016 0 Comments
Google has spoken and an all too common feature of the mobile web will never be the same again if developers and site owners follow the path sign-posted by the search giant. App install interstitial ads - those full-screen ads that pop up suddenly when browsing on a mobile device prompting you to download and install an app - are proving too annoying for mobile visitors and Google intends...
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Get a Google ranking boost for minimal cost by going secure

Chris O'Brien August 10, 2015 0 Comments
It's nearly been a year since the news that Google will look favourably on websites using SSL security broke so we thought we'd revisit the top benefits of securing your website. Security is a top priority for Google and its many users - by increasing the effect that HTTPS encrypted sites have on your position in search results Google can protect their users and make shopping on the web a...
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Going mobile – Google is calling time on non-mobile friendly websites from 21st April

Chris O'Brien April 05, 2015 0 Comments
Until now Google has focused on labeling mobile-friendly websites in results, but from 21st April 2015 if your website is mobile-friendly you'll get a ranking boost over your non-mobile friendly competitors in search results pages when Google's latest algorithm change takes effect.  The aim of this shift towards mobile users is to show people browsing from their phones or tablets websites...
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Google has updated it’s Webmaster Guidelines

Chris O'Brien October 28, 2014 0 Comments
On Monday 27th October Google published revised guidelines to ask for site owners to modify their robots.txt configuration to allow Google to access additional files that are used to display your website to visitors (these are called CSS and Javascript files) and previously weren't needed for Google to correctly index your website.  Google's new advice is: For optimal rendering and indexing,...
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Fixing Google Apps Gmail’s

Chris O'Brien September 19, 2013 0 Comments
We recently switched our email client software from a mix of Outlook and Thunderbird to Postbox due to it's simplicity and responsiveness (we'd started to find Thunderbird a bit sluggish and Outlook was only used on a couple of PCs), after a few days we started to see authentication errors on our Google Apps email accounts with a error message of "Too many Simultaneous Connections". A bit of...
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Resolving Google Drive “The account that you entered does not match” Error

Chris O'Brien August 14, 2013 0 Comments
After we switched over some of our email accounts to use a secondary domain name in Google Apps we started having issues with the above error ("The account that you entered does not match...") showing on some computers but not others.  To resolve we needed to delete the Google Drive preferences and cache folders... Close Google Drive from the taskbar - the Google Drive icon is at the bottom...
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