Business Insights

To prepare for Black Friday 2017, here are some of the lessons we learned for our ecommerce clients  from last year. Black Friday is now the biggest shopping period of the year. This November, we’re predicted to spend £7 billion over Black Friday. That’s the kind of action no ecommerce business can afford to miss. Forget your […]

Not Everybody Bakes for a Living! Let’s get straight to the point. You work in a niche B2B industry. You’re looking to increase your engagement and the number of backlinks to your website’s content. You’re frustrated, it seems easy for those in the B2C arena – you see examples churning out a few glossy, mouth-watering […]

Google has just been fined a record €2.9bn ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) by the European Commission after it ruled Google had abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison widget at the top of search results. Update 18/09/2017 Google has offered to display rival shopping comparison sites via an auction in order to comply with an […]

The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most impactful change to EU privacy law to hit in the last twenty years. Its broad compliance requirements will demand a lot from businesses across all markets. If you handle your customers’ personal data, GDPR affects you. No matter where personal data is sent, processed or […]

Lots of people in the web industry are talking about the need for SSLs for HTTP web pages with forms on them. This extra layer of security started out as a “belt and braces” option for websites wishing to display an added element of trust to their customers. But now, Google is leading the charge […]

Google have been rolling out some further features to Google My Business listings recently, meaning there’s more information available to display than ever. So, if you haven’t already, make sure you’re making use of some of these awesome features! Google Posts You may have heard about the recent launch of Google Posts, these posts sit […]

5 years ago, asking computers a question directly was the stuff of sci-fi. Today, there are 33 million voice-first devices in global circulation[1]. Voice search has the potential to have a huge affect on mobile and local search moving forward. Are you ready? In this blog we will provide practical insights on how voice search […]

Social media is an extremely powerful tool. The number of active social media users now stands at 2.789 billion. That’s an enormous pool of potential engagement that you can pull from for your brand. But how do you tap into that? How do you find your target audience and keep them interested in your brand? […]

Every day, 500 new sites are being created using WordPress. That’s a huge number of sites that need to be kept secure and free from bugs. Because WordPress is an open source community, developers are in charge of keeping it in tip-top condition and ensuring that it complies with the latest industry standards. It’s these developers […]