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The O’Brien Media Digital Insider Blog

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Data and Analytics
Tom Furmanski

1991 to 2019 – How many websites are there now?

Today we’ve got an infographic, 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. 

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News
Tom Furmanski

WordPress buys Tumblr for “less than $3m”, down from $1.1b in 2013

Sarah Krouse reports that Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is buying Tumblr from Verizon. Tumblr was (and still is for the most part) the blogging service of choice for millions of young people, but floundered after being sold to AOL Yahoo and subsequently cleansed of advertiser-unfriendly material (i.e. smut) when Yahoo was itself sold to Verizon.

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Code and Development
Tom Furmanski

Redirect Old Domain to New Domain via .htaccess

When you migrate a site from one domain to another, it is very important that you don’t break all the links that you built to your old domain. Proper redirection of all the pages on the old domain to the same location on the new domain will ensure that visitors to the old domain will end up in the right place.  A failure to redirect will result in a loss of visitors as well as search engine rankings.

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WordPress
Chris Grant (he/him)

Malicious plugin found to be being used to encrypt WordPress posts

Recently a new customer came to us needing their website cleaned up after a hack, as part of the cleanup we found an interesting little malicious WordPress plugin, called “WP Security”, that was being used to encrypt blog post content. The website owner complained of a newly installed and activated plugin on their website that was rendering their original content unreadable.

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Digital Marketing
Chris Grant (he/him)

Is your website homepage leaky?

Your home page is frequently the first web page someone engages with. It sets the tone for the rest of your website and is often a potential customer’s first impression of your company—and we all know first impressions matter.

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Blogging
Chris Grant (he/him)

Leading by example, some SEO & design changes to our blog

You may have noticed if you’re a regular visitor to the O’Brien Media Insider blog, that we’ve made some minor changes. All in the name of SEO (search engine optimisation) and usability. As some background, Google hates duplicate content, and while they make allowances for some duplicate content that is a natural byproduct of blogging it’s best to keep duplicates to a minimum‏.

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