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Branding & Marketing

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).

Chris O'Brien 30th December 2014 8:45 am

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Data and Analytics

Keep on top of your data with a business data dashboard

A business data dashboard is an easy to read, one page summary of business information such as sales figures, contact centre performance, or customer growth to name a few. There

Chris O'Brien 23rd December 2014 10:18 am

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Website Design

Responsive design makes Harefield Archers look good on any device

We've been busy putting the finishing touches to a lot of web development projects recently, including a new site incorporating responsive design elements developed for Harefield Archers.

Chris O'Brien 19th December 2014 7:47 am

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News

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.

Chris O'Brien 18th December 2014 5:30 pm

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Website Design

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.

Chris O'Brien 13th December 2014 12:59 am

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News

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.

Chris O'Brien 6th December 2014 12:55 am

Business

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!

Chris O'Brien 4th December 2014 11:06 am

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News

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.

Chris Grant (he/him) 24th November 2014 11:15 am

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SEO

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.

Chris O'Brien 2nd November 2014 1:56 pm

Find out the latest news from Google

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.

Chris O'Brien 28th October 2014 12:49 pm

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