Engage Web September 2018 - Engage Web

Who is winning the battle of the stories?

Posted on September 28, 2018

The stories feature has become a permanent feature for many social media platforms in recent years, following its initial creation by picture messaging platform Snapchat back in 2013. It took off in (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

Have you worked out what’s going on in Google’s 20th birthday Doodle?

Posted on September 27, 2018

As we’ve mentioned before, Google has displayed some confusion in the past over what day it was actually born on, but it now seems to have settled on September 27. Since it was set up in 1998, that means the search engine officially turns 20 years old today.

You may already have noticed that Google’s doodle for the day is a (more…)

Posted by John Murray

Instagram founders quit jobs at Facebook

Posted on September 26, 2018

The founders of popular photo-sharing platform Instagram have recently quit their roles at Facebook, with rumours suggesting that the pair had clashed with Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerburg.

Mike Krieger and Kevin (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

Google to add news feed to mobile homepage

Posted on September 25, 2018

Search giant Google has announced changes to its iconic search engine, which will be made as part of the 20th anniversary of the company.

At a press conference in (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

Google heralds mobile-first indexing with email surge

Posted on September 24, 2018

Last week, we started receiving a flood of emails from Google telling us that several sites we look after have had mobile-first indexing enabled. It seems that we’re not alone here, with Search Engine Roundtable also reporting an outpouring of these notifications received last Thursday.

This sudden wash of emails might cause some webmasters to (more…)

Posted by John Murray

How to protect your website against a DDoS attack

Posted on September 21, 2018

You might think there’s no such thing as ‘too many visitors’ to a website. How can you have too many? It’s not like a physical shop, where you have a maximum capacity for health and safety reasons. However there is such a thing as too many, and it could come at any moment – especially if you have a particularly (more…)