If you are running Joomla 4, and doing the Joomla 5 Pre-Update check and receive this error "An error has occurred while fetching the JSON data: HTTP 500 status code."  ..read more

Everyone is familiar with Facebook, so for those of you that have new businesses I thought I'd jump to Instagram and give you a bit of an overview.  Age of users. The majority of Instagram's demographic is under 35 years. Who is it best for? Instagram works particularly well for business that are able to visually portray their products of services such as fashion, hospitality, education, retail, sports, entertainment, architecture, design and beauty ..read more

What to post about? Try creating content "Buckets" Struggling to find things to post about on social media? The content bucket method will help you to diversify your content and share information that is relevant and helpful for your audiences. Think about what your audiences are interested in, other than your business ..read more

We have received several queries from our clients regarding a scam which is doing the rounds again. This one is relating to internet keywords, and the company that is sending you the email is trying to protect your internet branding/trademark by contacting you first to see if you want the china/asia based domains. The email goes something like this ..read more

Source: Google Webmasters Blog https://webmasters.googleblog.com/ State of Website Security in 2016 First off, some unfortunate news. Google has seen an increase in the number of hacked sites by approximately 32% in 2016 compared to 2015. They don’t expect this trend to slow down. As hackers get more aggressive and more sites become outdated, hackers will continue to capitalize by infecting more sites. Types of Hacks Gibberish Hack: The gibberish hack automatically creates many pages with non-sensical sentences filled with keywords on the target site. Hackers do this so the hacked p ..read more

Thanks to our accountants Bentleys for this article which we took from their excellent newsletter ..... Unfortunately, scammers pretending to be from the ATO and demanding money or threatening that they have a warrant for your arrest and are going to send you to jail are still very active. According to a recent report, 40,500 of these ATO scams occurred between January to May in this year alone – netting the scammers $1.2M! Peta Grenfell even had a threatening message from the ‘ATO’ on her answering machine at home the other day.  So what should you do if you receive one of these calls or ..read more

Google announced on the Webmaster blog that they are going to be boosting the effects of the mobile-friendly algorithm they launched back on April 21, 2015. Google said the update will happen “beginning in May,” and it “increases the effect of the mobile-friendly ranking signal.” Google said if you are already mobile-friendly, you do not have to worry, because you will not be impacted by this update. Source: http://searchengineland.com/google-boost-mobile-friendly-algorithm-coming-may-244941?utm_source=moztop10&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=moztop10 ..read more

Source: http://www.stlouisdigitalmedia.com/blog/local-seo/what-is-nap-consistency/ by Kyle ODonnell. “How do I rank higher on the ‘maps’ section of Google or other search engines?”. Well there are many different strategies that can help your business’s presence on a search engine’s ‘maps’ section… such as verified information or the number and quality of reviews… but one of most effective ways is by creating what is called ‘NAP Consistency’ for your business throughout the web. What is ‘NAP Consistency’? NAP is an acronym for, ‘Name, Address, Phone’. NAP Consistency&nb ..read more

Recently there have been reports of sharp spikes in visits reported by Google Analytics, this is seen as spikes in the sessions/users/visits graph in your monthly analytics report. If you look at the "Visits and Pages/Visit by Source/Medium" section of your report you will probably see a listing for social-buttons.com/referral which attributes for a fair chunk of your visits. This is spam referrer traffic, they have never actually visited your site at all, they have just found a loophole in the Google Analytics system, and have randomly selected your Google Analytics ID and fed it to Google to ..read more

If you are using a Wordpress site, and are using Contact Form 7 (CF7) plugin, and you have an issue where nothing appears to happen when you click on the submit / send button, then check your page optimisation settings ..read more