Data

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

Chris O'Brien December 18, 2014 0 Comments
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. This is a global problem affecting websites regardless of the type of site as the "visits" are all automated and generated randomly - so if...
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Are you making the most of your business data?

Andy Smart October 19, 2014 0 Comments
Data quality is a key component of any business.  At its heart, data allows a business to build great and lasting relationships with customers – both internal and external. Building a consistent and holistic view of customers is not easy, however. It’s important to realise the importance of data granularity.  For example, storing a customers name in discrete data fields (title, first name,...
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Block referrer spam from hosting platforms

Chris Grant (he/him) February 24, 2014 0 Comments
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. This is a global problem affecting websites regardless of the type of site as the "visits" are all automated and generated randomly - so if...
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Place name data for UK Towns, Cities and Villages with Counties

Chris O'Brien November 22, 2011 0 Comments
This is the source data we use for the address auto complete fields in our internal CRM system. It's based on data from various sources and cleansed as far as possible to remove duplicates.  It's ideal to be used with jQuery auto complete fields and we use it pulled from a mySQL database table. There are currently 48,423 records in the attached csv file. This CSV file is offered on an...
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Microformats and Business Websites

Chris O'Brien November 16, 2011 0 Comments
Microformats?  First you probably want to know what they are, well the Microformats website describes them as: a way of adding simple markup to human-readable data items such as events, contact details or locations, on web pages, so that the information in them can be extracted by software and indexed, searched for, saved, cross-referenced or combined. 1 So why is support for Microformats...
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