Welcome to the O’Brien Media Insider – Your Go-To for Digital Insights and Business Know-How
The O’Brien Media Insider is your behind-the-scenes look at all things digital, creative, and business-focused. From web design trends and SEO tips to small business insights and local Swindon highlights, our blog covers a bit of everything – just like we do at O’Brien Media.
Whether you’re a client, collaborator, or curious visitor, this is the place to catch up on the latest from our team, explore practical advice, and get inspired to grow your digital presence. Dive in and see what’s new!
It’s well knows that engaging your consumers online via social media helps drive traffic to your website and helps build a brand community; the more people that become
The use of SMS and email marketing is huge globally. Businesses adore the access this gives them to their customers and it's a great way to get current information, great deals, and important pieces of news out that customers are not going to want to miss. However, in order to use both SMS and email marketing it is imperative that businesses understand that there are rules.
We're putting the finishing touches to our new webmail system which will replace the current system used by customers who host their websites and email service with us. The new, much improved and more feature rich webmail solution also includes task management and calendering support.
We're putting the new system through some final testing before it's launched next Monday (5th October) when all existing emails, contacts, filtering rules, signatures and settings will be moved over to the new system. If you'd like to try out the new system ahead of launch day just drop uis a line on [email protected] and we'll send you details of how to access the new system.
Switching web hosting providers and changing the physical location of the servers powering your site can affect it in a number of ways. One of these is SEO and you site’s position in search engine results. Although many believe that location changes only have a minimal effect on a site’s SEO rankings, here are several points that show how the effects on your search result placement, and thus on the number of visitors to your website, can be significant.
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 little but safer for everyone. We're also strong advocates of anything that can improve online security so we're 110% behind Google on this one.
If you got an email from Google, saying Googlebot can’t access your CSS and JS files, you’re not alone. Google recently began sending emails to verified webmasters and website owners
As with most tasks you’ll face when creating or managing a website using the Drupal content management system (CMS) there are multiple ways to create and display content. In this article we’ll look at the four main content creation, curation and display methods that we use when building sites for clients.
A goal for any business, large or small, is brand recognition. How can you make your brand not only stand out from your competition but also remain in the minds of current and potential customers? One way is to get creative with your marketing.
We thought we'd post a little follow-up to our article about responsive design from August last year where we give an outline of what "responsive design" is as it's now more important than ever for your website to be responsive and mobile-friendly. In this post we've summarised our top three reasons why having a responsive, mobile-friend, website is essential to keep your business or organisation competitive in today's fast-paced digital landscape!
Most people are aware by now that giving the pages on your website human readable names that relate to their content is a must, and helps search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo index your website content and determine what it's about but spare a few minutes thought to how you use images on your website and reap some SEO rewards.
