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!
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.
Twitter has just released a new opt-in direct message (DM) feature that allows anyone to send you a DM, without the need for them to follow you first.
Brands, businesses and community managers should give some serious consideration to enabling this new feature and here’s why…
Until now Google has focused on labeling mobile-friendly websites in results, but from 21st April 2015 if your website is mobile-friendly you'll get a ranking boost over your non-mobile friendly competitors in search results pages when Google's latest algorithm change takes effect.
Recently when making some changes on a Magento based store we encountered a mySQL error in the Magento administration pages when trying to delete products which prevented any
Over the years we've owned quite a large number of domain names, from variations on our business name such as obrienmedia.eu, common misspellings like obrianmedia.co.uk, and even for specific products and services we offer such as smsmessenger.co and tasknow.co.uk. This isn't to play to our vanity but to protect our business and brand from others who might – either intentionally or accidentally – decide to register a similar domain name, at which point we would run the risk of customers looking for us finding another business.
It was once again a pleasure to have with Malmesbury and Braywood Dance, this time to create eight page A5 programmes for their next performance.
Hot on the heels of the "Year in review" website statistics email we sent out in January to clients who use our website hosting and analytics platform for their websites that summarised website performance during 2014 we're pleased to launch our new monthly website performance reports.
We were approached by Swindon based estate agency Harvey Hudson to create a new website with some very specific features.
PPS commissioned O'Brien Media to update the website we designed for them in 2014 to reflect their new name and branding and to develop new functionality to collect feedback from residents and stakeholders on the development of solar farm developments.
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!).
