Google has always been quite open about how to get good search result positions in terms of SEO activity and content strategy planning – just write good, original and purposeful content that people, not bots, want to read. Gone are the ‘black hat’ days of old, 2019 is all about quality content to help drive sales. (more…)

2019 Is the year you need to embrace the power of video in your marketing activities. A video is a king. Cisco argues that by 2022, nearly half of internet traffic will be video-based which means marketers really need to engage with video as a means of creating new customer engagement avenues. (more…)

Right, 2019 is all about making sure your website is ready for “Okay, Google”, “Alexa,…” or “Siri,…” voice search results. The voice search metrics are ground-breaking and will impact on marketers in the future. However, today, they are causing ripples. (more…)

The next big update of Windows 10 (in April) will mean that Microsoft will reserve 7GB of your device’s storage in order to accommodate its future ‘quality updates’ or new versions of the OS.  Measures you can take to check that you will have enough reserved storage space or to avoid storage space problems include: (more…)

The chaos caused to flights from Gatwick just before Christmas (and latterly, Heathrow) by drone sightings near the airports has prompted Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, to announce new counter-drone measures to be taken to protect UK airports. (more…)

The UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has issued advice to holders of .eu domains that, in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit, they may need to switch to another top-level domain such as .com and may also need to seek legal advice. (more…)

On 2^nd January, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, issued a revenue warning for this quarter to investors, and pointed to challenges in China as being one of the main downward driving forces. (more…)

Action Fraud, the UK’s Cybercrime reporting centre, has warned that fake TV licence payment scam emails have generated 5,247 complaints between 1st October and the end of December, with 1,983 complaints in December alone. (more…)

The UK’s fraud reporting service, Action Fraud, has reported that contactless card fraud doubled in 2018 to £1.8m stolen compared with £711,000 in 2017.  (more…)

If you use Google Chrome and you’d like to make sure that you know when you’re visiting a site that’s been hacked and you’d like to set up a watch list for sites that you regularly visit, or those that store personal data, here’s a handy browser extension that could help. (more…)