On December 15, SALT.agency held a fundraising event called #ShavingSanta. Our resident Santa, Dan Taylor, headed down to King Koby Chop Shop in the Corn Exchange, Leeds, kitted out in the classic red and white outfit, to have his long-standing beard removed. This was streamed live on Twitter. Following this event, I am delighted to […]
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The default SEO settings within the newest version of Magento provide a firm base from which online merchants can optimise their website for organic search. However, any SEO specialist who audits an ecommerce site which is on Magento 2 will soon identify important SEO features missing from the basic settings. This guide highlights some of […]
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TL;DR Read this post, it is important! Want to do a little hack your self, go here The Impact When your website is hacked, the long term effect on your SEO is probably not the first thing to spring to mind. At the time of an attack, your first priority, among other things, is likely […]
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In Russia there is an ongoing battle for the mobile internet, with roughly 46% of daily Russian internet usage occurring from smartphones. To put this into context, Russian web usage equates for approximately 3% of the global total, so that’s roughly 1.5% of the world’s internet enabled population online, on smartphones, every day. Today Yandex […]
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From the smallest local business through to the largest institution, companies and organisations throughout the country are currently undergoing what’s known as The Great Digital Transformation. What does a digital transformation mean to a business? For businesses or organisations that are over 10 years old, the chances are that right now, they are undergoing a […]
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Everyone targets keywords, from the loftiest websites down to the very smallest. Although some people consider it a rule of thumb to target a particular keyword across the breadth of a website, this can actually be counter beneficial without the correct strategic keyword mapping. Without careful planning and consideration you can end up getting multiple […]
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This festive season, SALT.agency has chosen to raise money for two important national charities – the Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK. Our goal is to raise a minimum of £1,000 by mid-January, which we will then split equally between the two charities. We are asking for donations for the opportunity to watch our resident Santa have his large beard removed on December 15 […]
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SALT.agency is proud to announce that it is teaming up with the Department for International Trade and Google with a half-day workshop at the Google Digital Garage in Sheffield on November 16. Discussing how to grow trade internationally, members of the SALT.agency team will advise businesses on how to identify potential countries and territories, technical […]
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Over the past six months, businesses across the UK have found themselves experiencing great surges in manufacturing and exports. The British Chambers of Commerce’s most recent quarterly survey has shown that 24 per cent of manufacturers said that their domestic sales were rising, and were at their strongest level since 2015. What’s more, export sales […]
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SALT.agency’s Dan Taylor is this Wednesday to speak at a government organised seminar to discuss e-commerce in Japan. Organised by the Department for International Trade, and held at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire and the Humber is in fact the eighth largest textile market and second highest non-EU market after China. Specifically designed for Y&H textile businesses, […]
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Security risks on social media can come from outside and inside the company; from outside they are usually malicious, but from inside the company they are often caused by human error. There are also security risks inherent to the platforms themselves, but aside from removing your business from social media altogether (which I certainly do […]
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Back in early January I wrote an article on the security of public Wi-Fi networks, which discussed and demonstrated how unsecure public Wi-Fis are. From it, we asked website owners move onto SSL/TSL protocols. As of yesterday this is now even more important as the major Wi-Fi security protocol, WPA2 has been found to have a severe flaw which […]
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