Thanks to new research published by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, a study has concluded that Spotify is helping win the battle against digital piracy. After examining the effects of legal streaming on torrent downloads, researchers were able to conclude that for every 47 streams, the number of illegal downloads decreases by one. Launched […]
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Last week, writing on a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) interview, Professor Stephen Hawking was asked whether he thought that technological advancement could one day lead to large-scale unemployment – something that we have discussed before in an earlier blog. In reply, Hawking said that: If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on […]
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‘That’ time of year is slowly creeping up on us again (I know, I know – I’m still recovering from the last one too!) So, with Christmas comes a nation of shoppers looking for gifts for loved ones. Not to mention people desperate to spend their Christmas money in the post-Christmas sales. If you own […]
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Last Thursday, Apple rolled out the iOS 9 operating system – the very first to accommodate ad blocking technology. Within hours, ad blockers were at the very top of the App Store and media sites faced a new, and all the more destructive enemy. Many sites including The Independent, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The […]
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The following is specifically written for business owners, marketing managers/directors, and others who engage with SEO in some form or another, but who don’t actually do the work themselves. It could be that you have an internal SEO team, and/or external suppliers such as SEO companies, or consultants. Ignoring Google’s warnings could destroy your business’s […]
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In this study we look at how to protect your SEO rankings from dropping when moving onto CloudFlare while having your website protected by the advanced features and protection that the CloudFlare platform offers.
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A few months ago, I discovered a security loophole in Facebook that allows hackers to decrypt and sniff out Facebook user IDs using one of Facebook’s APIs in bulk – therefore allowing them to gather millions of users’ personal data (name, telephone number, location, images, and more). This post is an attempt to catch Facebook’s attention to get this issue […]
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As part of a Google roadshow to help over 10,000 people keep safe online, the search giant will be offering free training and guidance in five UK cities throughout August, September and October. According to new insights released by Google, “change my password” searches have risen by 300 per cent over the last three years, alongside “Email been […]
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Bradley Horowitz stated last week: We want to formally retire the notion that a Google+ membership is required for anything at Google… other than using Google+ itself. With Google+ being broken down into just 3 components (Hangouts, Photos & Streams), and the rest of it’s features being binned, it really feels like this is the […]
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In conversation with Search Engine Land, Google has confirmed that it rolled out a Panda refresh over the weekend. As usual, the update is expected to take months to complete and will take some time to fully affect sites. Google said that the changes will impact around two to three per cent of English language […]
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Typically, as part of a technical SEO audit or troubleshooting session, it is extremely important to analyse server logs. These logs generally contain all requests made to the web server and contain important information such as: Host name Date and Time of access URL they have accessed User Agent Method used HTTP status code Below is an example of a […]
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With the recent news of unemployment rising for the first time in two years, and the fact that a robot has just passed a self-awareness test, we thought we’d take a look into the issue, and separate fact from fiction. Of course, people have been concerned about machines taking their jobs for hundreds of years. The […]
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