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The O’Brien Media Digital Insider Blog

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Website Design
Chris O'Brien

Google now labels mobile-friendly websites in search results

Google have recently started to indicate whether websites are optimised for mobile visitors when displaying sites on search results pages served to mobile users after testing out different methods of indicating whether a website is mobile compatible over recent months. 

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News
Chris O'Brien

Get 10% off business print essentials on Small Business Saturday 2014!

Small Business Saturday, a day celebrating small businesses up and down the country, is now in it's 2nd year and we’ve got an even better offer this year with 10% off all business print orders over £40 placed on the 6th December 2014.  

To get your discount just order online via our Print Shop and use code SBS2014 at the checkout – your discount will be deducted from your order sub-total – or email us on [email protected] for a quote including your 10% discount.

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Business
Chris O'Brien

Our 5 tips for a successful and social Small Business Saturday

It’s not just retailers that can take advantage of Small Business Saturday, whether you're a service business or a self-employed consultant you can get a boost from Small Business Saturday by getting in front of as many people as possible so make sure your Small Business Saturday is a social one! 

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News
Chris Grant (he/him)

Porthcurno, key role in global communications

Way before the Internet, smartphones, and social media a global communications revolution was taking shape in a tiny coastal village in Southwest Cornwall. The invention of the electric telegraph in 1837 has ushered in a roller-coaster of innovation that has shaped the world we live and work in today.

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SEO
Chris O'Brien

Securing your website with an SSL certificate

Google has been saying for a while now that having an SSL Certificate for your website will help it rank better within organic search results.  While it won’t give you a huge advantage over your non-secure competitors there is always the possibility that, in the future, Google will give HTTPS secured website a larger boost on search results pages as more sites adopt HTTPS. 

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Find out the latest news from Google
Chris O'Brien

Google has updated it’s Webmaster Guidelines

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.

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Website Design
Chris O'Brien

New Website for Swindon Commercial Services

We created a new, easy to navigate website for Swindon Commercial Services, based on the Open Source Drupal content management system that allowed staff at to keep their new site up to date with nothing more than a web browser and an internet connection.

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