March 2018 has seen three significant Google search updates and tests that are painting a picture of things to come this year. Brackets Google Update The first update rolled out on the 7th of March and has been informally entitled ‘Brackets’. As far as we can tell its primary focus is on content quality – […]

A Bespoke, Targeted Website for a Team GB Rifle Shooter Katie Gleeson is a Team GB Rifle Shooter embarking upon her international athletic career, most recently by representing England in the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Katie is currently approaching local businesses in order to gain sponsorship with them, which she hopes will elevate her […]

Are you ready for the Mobilegeddon? Since the end of March it has started to look a lot like, on the back of the Maccabees update, Google are finally starting to implement more changes that support mobile-first indexing. This can be seen in two key areas: Firstly, there have been notable algorithm updates that have […]

Is there still room for direct mail in the digital age? As part of a recent internal acquisition campaign for American Express, we created communication formats across multiple channels, including email, digital social, and physical direct mail. During the post campaign review, we discovered that the physical DM achieved the most take-up and was the most successful channel. We’ve long held […]

Countdown To GDPR – 25/05/18 We’ve put together a handy flow chart to help you see if your company is ready for the new GDPR legislation. It’s still not confirmed exactly what the compliance will entail, but if you follow our tips hopefully you’ll be that little bit more prepared. If you think your website […]

Are you protecting yourself from Instagram’s Shadowban? What is a Shadow Ban? The Shadowban is somewhat of an urban legend which has haunted social media users for just over a year now… But it is still an ongoing issue. The term first became popular during 2017 after a number of social media users reported a […]

Welcome to the first in a regular series of updates from Michael Bell One about all things ‘Digital Marketing’. This month we’ll be reviewing some of the rumoured and confirmed Google updates that could impact your site’s traffic, as well as the recent changes made to meta description length and how it can help get more people to click on your […]

All web servers around the world run of different software and languages. One of the most common languages is PHP which is supported globally with regular updates and changes when programming languages and issues arise. Each version of PHP remains supported for a number of years. PHP 5 was released on 13th July 2004 and […]

Reports have been coming through recently that there has been another update. There was an unconfirmed one that occurred in February (possibly started rolling out end of Jan?), which we’ve not written about, and now some more. It’s had the SEO communities awash with ranking chatter about what it could be, who it will affect, […]