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As with many things in life, recommendations and advice can change as time passes. For many years, the sendmail and PHP mail() function have been perfectly acceptable methods of getting contact form messages sent to website owners and site visitors. Times have changed though. As more and more email providers are tightening the restrictions of what they consider an acceptable...
We are taking a look at some tools and plugins for new or existing bloggers.
In case you didn’t spot it, Google dropped this cool little tool in the past few days. The webpage asks a series of questions; “are you a business?”, “are you an SEO expert?” before presenting a list of recommendations for ensuring your website is optimised for inclusion in the Google search engine. For experts and seasoned devs there’s not a...
This week saw the formal release of a brand new plugin from two of our team, well actually, myself and Daniel; Daniel putting in all the legwork on the code side of things. Track The Click is a little tool we’ve been putting together over the last few months, based on my own needs as a website owner. I think...
We’ve been writing about this big change to Google search for most of 2021, and starting this month the update is beginning. Google confirmed on June 15th that the big performance and experience update would begin in mid-June, completing by the end of August 2021. The update isn’t expected to make seismic changes in the search giant’s results pages, but...
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I found this recent Twitter thread pretty fascinating stuff, essential reading for any websites out there that create a lot of regular content and have an interest in SEO. In a nutshell, heat map data from a previous NN Group eye-tracking study shows the unique “F-shaped” pattern users quickly default to when scanning through a webpage. The report shows that...
It’s been quite some time since the contentious Gutenberg editor landed in WordPress, and from where I’m sat (as both someone who runs sites and helps others) the new editor looks to have been a roaring success. For sure there were early teething issues around legacy sites adapting, but I can say first hand from working day in, day out...
I like to roll this post out every once in a while, as a timely reminder – do you have offline backups of your website data? A complete backup of your website data, stored offline, not on our servers, that if you needed you could turn to, to restore your website to function? Some of you might have been affected...
Here’s another nail in the coffin for websites that steadfastly refuse to move to HTTPS and SSL. Our favourite WordPress website WP Tavern covered the Chrome 90 update in fine detail, writing: Chrome’s upcoming version 90 will use https:// by default in the address bar, bringing a significant improvement to security and loading speed. HTTPS adoption has shot up significantly...
