The government has revealed a set of ambitious plans to regulate the online world, and will give website owners a duty of care to protect their users from illegal and harmful content. The new proposals state that

Posted by Alan Littler

For many of our content clients, we find and write news stories to do with their industry on a regular basis – sometimes daily, sometimes every few days, and sometimes once a week or fortnight. News is always happening of course, so usually there’s plenty to work with. What happens, however, when there’s a big […]

Posted by John Murray

You could be forgiven for thinking digital marketing was all about rankings in search engines. The way some people describe what they do – especially in blog posts, social medial posts and email pitches – that can

Posted by Darren Jamieson

No matter the size of your business, you are still vulnerable to being hacked. This is something Facebook found out over the weekend after its Twitter account was temporarily breached. The culprit of the

Posted by Alan Littler

So you’ve got social media accounts for your business. You’ve created your Twitter account, your Facebook Page and whatever else you’ve decided to set up to help promote your

Posted by Darren Jamieson

An investigation has shown that over 400 UK councils and local authorities are sharing information about their websites’ visitors, prompting its authors to call for greater enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The ‘Surveillance on UK council websites’ report was compiled by browser and software company Brave, and claims that councils are allowing

Posted by John Murray

Search giant Google is in the process of updating its Removals report within its Search Console, giving users the ability to take their sites out of the search results for a

Posted by Alan Littler

Earlier in the month, Google revealed which search engines it would be using as part of the default search engine options for Android users. After successfully bidding to be one of the options for each country currently in

Posted by Alan Littler

Last week, Google announced a huge change to the way Featured Snippets were handled in its search results. For the first time I can remember, this is a change I don’t actually agree with. When Google makes changes to

Posted by Darren Jamieson

Of all the fun and novelty days on the calendar, Data Privacy Day may not be one to set the pulse racing, but with cybercrime growing by the year and a recent report making some damning conclusions about the general public’s online security practices, it might well be one of the most important. Marked every […]

Posted by John Murray

Following a lukewarm reception, Google is rethinking its plans to move desktop search results in line with mobile. The search giant announced the move on January 13, including the introduction of favicons alongside organic search results, with ads to be indicated by the word ‘Ad’ in bold, black letters instead of the previous green box […]

Posted by John Murray

Google has updated its policy when it comes to rankings for sites with Featured Snippets, after confirming that sites will no longer hold both a snippet and a

Posted by Alan Littler