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There’s a harsh reality web application developers need to face up to; we don’t do security very well. A report from WhiteHat Security last year reported “83% of websites have had a high, critical or urgent issue”. That is, quite simply, a staggeringly high number and it’s only once you start to delve into to depths of [...]

  If you have multiple users for WordPress administration,  some can end up with permissions that you really wish they didn’t have. There are plenty of plugins that will let you customize user permissions but it’s not that hard to do ourselves by removing certain links from the admin menu for those specific user roles. Basic example [...]

Should you use social media for your small business. This guide gives a good appraisal as to whether  the various options are really relevant to your business: http://blog.ineedhits.com/search-news/the-small-business-social-media-cheat-sheet-infograph-132010964.html   Belfast Web Design Northern Ireland Download article as PDF

Landing pages are critical for any promotion specific marketing – but in particular for paid marketing where a measured ROI is essential to your success . The purpose of a landing page is to provide a hyper-focused experience that is designed to accomplish the singular conversion goal of your marketing campaign. The reason why you [...]

Here’s  a list that Bing has released which should be taken into account when optimizing your websites. It gives an insight into what factors are important for ranking well in Bing searches: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2011/08/19/18-things-you-need-to-know-about-seo.aspx Download article as PDF

This is a list of my own references for use in WordPress sites: How to remove/hide items in admin menu: http://camwebdesign.com/techniques/simplify-the-wordpress-admin-sidebar-navigation/ 30 best website plugins http://blog.ineedhits.com/tips-advice/the-best-30-wordpress-website-plugins-for-2011-30149564.html?source=NL11-05-31BNLblog1h Customise posts in order or  a Custom Field http://kovshenin.com/archives/customize-posts-order-in-wordpress-via-custom-fields/ How to set up Home Page so can be edited as a Page http://bloggingexperiment.com/archives/wordpress-page-as-home-page.php Download article as PDF

It came as a surprise to me, and to others I informed of this, to learn that Google no longer uses the meta tag Keywords to decide where yours site ranks. And even worse, it hasn’t used them for years. I’ve been reading a lot of experts in SEO, and not one mentioned this. Google [...]