May 23, 2018

Does the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Affect Me?

If you sell to EU residents, this law applies to you — even if you aren’t in the EU. Fines for non-compliance will be substantial and can be levied on businesses both in and outside the EU. What is the GDPR and how does this affect my business and website? The GDPR […]
January 23, 2018

How to Remove Google Blacklist Warning

Google blacklists 10,000+ websites every day. Are you one of them? For most website owners, the security warnings, hack indicators, and diagnostic pages can be daunting. It’s difficult to focus on fixing your hacked website when all of your visitors are being blocked from accessing your site. We compiled this […]
August 24, 2017

Backing Up Your Website

Akeeba Backup Instructions Before you install any extension or component into your joomla website you should create a backup. This is a restore point just in case anything goes wrong. Anything could be a crappy internet connection that drops out and screws up the upload or perhaps you install a […]
August 24, 2017

How to Exclude Your Own Visits from Google Analytics

When you are examining your Google Analytics account details it is helpful to know what your visitors are doing on your site rather than how you are looking at your site when you are making changes.  This is especially important with new websites with little traffic so far because you […]
August 24, 2017

Add Your Business to Google Maps

Adding your business to Google Maps is a great idea and it’s FREE so why not take 20 minutes and get your business listed today. It tells Google that you exist You can come up for searches for your industry/business area when searches are performed in that area You can […]
August 24, 2017

Google’s Position on Mobile Friendly Websites

Getting indexed by Google and performing well in organic search results with the big search engines, Google in particular, is critically important when you consider driving traffic to your site. On April 21, 2015 Google rolled out their “mobile-friendly” update where they are boosting the rankings for websites that are […]
August 24, 2017

Google Search Engine Optimization – Lesson 1

Optimizing your website for Google is really important.  Once you build you site, if you tell google about it, they will come, check it out, record the information and pages that are “indexable” and the robot will then scurry off to another website to continue it’s never ending search for […]
August 24, 2017

How Can Video Help Website SEO

Adding video to your website is a fantastic way of interacting with your audience and “informing” or “selling” to them.  Beyond the benefit of a video being informative and engaging  for your audience, video is important  for website SEO in many other ways. There are a couple really important elements […]
August 24, 2017

Creating a Custom 404 Page in Joomla

If your template doesn’t come with a pre-configured error 404 page we highly recommend that you create one.  This is a pretty simple process. Go to article manager and create a new uncategorised article to act as your 404 page.  Commonly this will have a message saying “Sorry, the page […]