Website Management

December 23, 2014
BruteProtect acquired by Automattic – Jetpack or Bloatpack
For quite some time now we have been using the BruteProtect plugin for our Managed WordPress clients. BruteProtect allows the millions of WordPress bloggers to work together to defeat Brute Force attacks using a cloud based solution. It served us well and was a member of the Net […]
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 […]
May 22, 2014
Google rolls out Panda 4.0 updates
We have all been expecting it and it finally occurred. Yesterday Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed the release of Panda 4.0 on his Twitter account. This is a new Panda algorithm and not your typical monthly refresh. Matt Cutts told Search Engine Land that this Panda 4.0 update impacts approx […]
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 […]
March 13, 2014
Australian Privacy Principles
Privacy issues are being reviewed globally and Australia is no exception. New privacy legislation and Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) came into effect on 12 March 2014 to regulate on how organisations handle personal information. The APPs, replaced the Information Privacy Principles (IPPs) that previously applied to Australian and […]
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 […]
October 2, 2013
About DDOS attacks
Its called a Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. Here is the scenario. You operate a small business and have a website and some email accounts for your staff. You pay your hosting company a few hundred dollars per year. All of a sudden you become the target of a […]