Development

July 10, 2016
How Much Does a Website Cost?
In this Blog I share some of our internal processes and methodology used at Net Solutions to provide a cost estimate to build a website. I spent many years pioneering and implementing activity based costing for major Telcos with great success. It may sound simple but its the […]
March 30, 2016
An Introduction to Domain Names and DNS
Introduction DNS, or the Domain Name System, is often a very difficult part of learning how to configure websites and servers. Understanding how DNS works will help you diagnose problems with configuring access to your websites and will allow you to broaden your understanding of what’s going on […]
September 17, 2014
Searchmetrics Releases 2014 Ranking Factors
The team at Searchmetrics recently released the SEO Ranking Factors and Rank Correlation 2014 Whitepaper based on their own directly observable data. While many SEO analysts use theory and speculation, Searchmetrics claim that their methodology of ranking evaluations are exact, fresh and based on huge amounts of data. […]
September 9, 2014
WooCommerce and WordPress – a great solution
WooCommerce and Magento have both seen massive growth over the last few years mainly due to their strong community support. Both have their Pros and Cons but WooCommerce has hit the sweet-spot for me. Before choosing any software, I’ve always looked at “what business problem” we are trying to […]
April 3, 2014
Why am I losing Google rank
Just the other day a client who does not see the value in SEO called and said “Hey, I didn’t do anything to my website for the last year, I didn’t touch it, and now I am not on page 2 anymore, there is something wrong”. My reply […]
November 8, 2013
A world without Keywords
We all know that Google deploy regular changes to its search algorithms.  The most recent changes, implemented last week, include the removal of keyword data from search queries.  This poses significant challenges to the SEM and digital marketing worlds as keyword data still provides a valuable insight into […]
April 25, 2012
So you want to be a Webmaster
WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems on the Internet today. According to WordPress they have more than 47 million deployments worldwide. Unfortunately, with this type of claim, it attracts all sorts of want to-be web developers, web masters and hackers. By their own admission […]
April 29, 2011
Google Places not friendly for P.O. Box users
This time last year Google announced that Google’s Local Business Centre will become Google Places. Now Google have made some changes which punishes small businesses who operate using P.O.Box. This may not have been the intent but certainly is the case for some. It is not unusual for […]