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The O’Brien Media Digital Insider Blog

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Blogging
Chris O'Brien

Our top tips to kickstart your business blog

At O'Brien Media we're firm believers in the importance of having a blog for your business and in this article we're going to run through our top tips for getting your business blog off the ground. You can either create your new blog on a free cloud based service such as Wordpress, Tumblr or Drupal Gardens or add a blog to your existing website (we can help you with that!).  

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News
Chris O'Brien

Keep customers and staff informed with SMS alerts

Another popular use of SMS messaging is to keep customers and staff up to date with information on closures and other information in the event of bad weather. With open rates of over 95% and an average time to open of under 6 seconds SMS messaging is a great method to communication important information to your contacts.

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Branding & Marketing
Chris O'Brien

Have you secured your new shorter, sharper, .uk domain name?

​On 10 June 2014, Nominet (the organisation that manages UK domain names) made .uk domain names available for the first time – alongside .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk and so on. If you want to register the shorter .uk version of your UK current domain, get in touch and we'll register the domain name for you (subject to your right to the domain name). 

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News
Chris O'Brien

We’re taking steps to block SEMalt and referrer spam from our hosting and analytics platforms

Over the past few months we've been seeing an ever increasing amount of "automated" and botnet generated referrer spam coming into websites hosted on our hosting platform and onto sites that we manage on other hosting services on behalf of our customers.   Here we'll explain why automated traffic is a problem and the steps we're taking to combat the issue for our customers.

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