Yes, another large online service shutting down! We’ve been hearing rumours for a while that Google Plus will be flicking the off switch and in December 2018 it became official. With its launch in 2011 it was Google’s answer to Social Networking but it was up against Facebook from the start and although it gained some traction in the first few years it seemed to drop off and hear we ar ..

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Google Analytics has recently introduced new Cross Device Tracking features called Google Signals to help gain a better understanding of the journey customers take across multiple devices as they interact with your website from Desktop Computer to Laptop, iPad and Smartphone. These new features in Google Analytics allow you to access an Acquisition Device report as well as other Cross Dev ..

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Important changes to your MYeWAY password In the coming weeks, eWAY will be making a change to our password policies for logging into MYeWAY/Partner Portal. eWAY will be enforcing stricter password requirements and will need users to change their password every 60 days. These requirements exceed those of PCI-DSS compliance to ensure that your payment portal remains secure. A s ..

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Online security is proving to be a hot topic and more important to consumers than ever before, which is why the https protocol has quickly become the new website security standard around the world. This means that the data on your site or any data entered into your site via a webform is fully encrypted and classed as secure. There are some major benefits in transitioning your website to t ..

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Local conversion actions are counted whenever people complete an action that’s specific to an advertiser’s physical location (like a store), during or after interacting with an ad for that advertiser. Since local conversion actions happen on Google’s products and services (for example, Google Maps), local conversion actions are automatically defined by Google Ads. Local conversion action data  ..

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Google is attempting to delete any of the Google+ page listings that have not been recently utilised. Each of these pages are a social media profile for your business and up until recently there were posts added to most of these accounts like you would for Facebook or Instagram. In the past when a business map was setup it would automatically create a Google + page for the business too. Y ..

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With the upcoming site transfers away from Adobe Business Catalyst, one key area to consider now is setting up third party Analytics for your website. All Business Catalyst sites use built-in Adobe Analytics and much of this can be exported to excel if you want to keep copies of the historical data. What we recommend would be to have Google Analytics installed (if you aren’t currently util ..

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Google Analytics has recently implemented new data retention periods whereby after a set period of time, user-level and event-level data stored by the program is automatically deleted from your Google Analytics account. These settings take effect on May 25, 2018. By default this new setting is 26 months but we do have the option to change this to ‘Do not automatically expire’ so the i ..

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Up until now the Google Maps Platform APIs has been a free service based on basic usage of their maps within your website design. A recent announcement has seen changes to pricing, support and products now available within the Platform - https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/user-guide/ In addition, Google Maps API now requires all customers to enable billing on their maps accounts so if ..

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Google's new Consumer Barometer provides insights into how consumers use online and offline information sources in their purchase process - http://www.consumerbarometer.com ..

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The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules that take effect on 25th May 2018 have implications for Australian businesses that have an establishment in the EU or offer goods and services or monitor the behaviour of individuals in the EU. This new data protection regulation includes ensuring that your Privacy Policy, Disclaimer and Cookie notices on your website are GDPR comp ..

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How do you SEO a Website? Use our proven SEO Strategy Step-by-Step to increase your rankings, conversions and traffic- 1. Keyword Research Research, analyse and generate a list of Keywords to implement on your website, helping attract the right customers, traffic and conversions. Start your Keyword Research (/websites/keyword-research) 2. Advanced Website Ranking Get a detailed in ..

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Want to setup Remarketing to your Adwords Campaign? Ask us to setup a remarketing campaign (/contact-sirocco-web-design) for your Business ..

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The reason we verify your website with Google Webmaster Tools if providing Organic Website SEO and Maintenance is so that Google can show us more confidential information to the actual owners of the site. They also give us more privileges to adjust targeting settings like audience, country and search queries. It does not change your sites performance in Google but it does give us more ..

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By refining landing pages and using split testing of different Ads, Kapitall Inc was able to drive a 44% Conversion increase from their Adwords Campaign. Using a clever landing page with a gaming-style interface that broke the mould of traditional online investing, Kapitall took the time to optimise their ads and landing pages, tracking and targeting visitors, leading to more conversions.  ..

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Google supplies information about Search Query impressions, average position in the SERPs, CTR and qualified queries in the Google Webmaster tools. When choosing and investigating Search Queries and Keyword Strategy, you need to look at - What are the goals of your website and your business? What groups are you targeting? Where are they locations? What devices are they using? ..

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With rumors that Google is switching to their ‘Mobile First Index’ this year, there are some website updates you’ll want to have in place to maintain your search results. So what is the ‘Mobile First Index’? Firstly, a ‘mobile-friendly’ or ‘responsive’ site means that your website will automatically resize to the device it is viewed on. So ‘mobile first’ is where Google determines you ..

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Ever considered the implications of Organic Search Rank Positions and their related click-thru rates (the % of customers that see your website Snippet and click-thru to your website)? Obviously, being near the top of Search Results is important but did you realise just how much? Of course there is a big difference between the types of searches that are performed and the relativ ..

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The Open Graph Protocol is a snippet controller when adding your url to social media. It basically terms your page into a rich object that can then be used on Facebook. The Open Graph Protocol is RDFa-formatted metadata that can be added to the head of your page html which controls the snippet that is shown in Facebook when you 'like' a page or add a URL to your post feed. The Basic Me ..

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"50% of people said that even if they like a business, they will use them less often if the website isn't mobile-friendly" (Google, "What users want most from mobile sites today"). There is nothing more frustrating as a user then to view a mobile site that has 404 errors, homepage redirects or infinite looped pages. It is really important to facilitate a great user experience on mob ..

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One of the best ways to improve your site usability is to increase speed. Simply speaking, users prefer fast sites which in turn give lower bounce rates and higher customer satisfaction. It is so vital in fact that Amazon report a 1%+ revenue increase (http://www.strangeloopnetworks.com/resources/infographics/web-performance-and-ecommerce/amazon-100ms-faster-1-revenue-increase/) for every 100m ..

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Submitting Articles to high quality directories and PR sites can be a good way to show authority in your industry and share information about your business. Using Article Directories for link building however, is not a great option due to the lack of control you have over article re-use and the low quality results it often produces. Google also sees this practice as being fairly in ..

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Negative SEO on a website can take many forms and cause varying degrees of damage, when applied to a competitors website. Negative SEO methods are used to convince search engines that they should punish a site for using Black Hat SEO techniques when they have not. Perpetrators found to be employing these risky Negative SEO methods would potentially be black listed by Google, not to mention pur ..

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Your Browser keeps a list and snapshot of every page you’ve visited and when you visited it in its cache. The goal is to help you locate pages you have viewed in the past and this saved history can be helpful when you want to revisit a site quickly. Unfortunately Browser cache can cause issues when trying to view the latest version of a webpage. As cache retains a copy of a previously view ..

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Small sites can often do a better job at providing quality, niche content. All sites, big or small have started at the beginning at one point so being small does not mean that you can't either become large or authoritative. It is more important than to have quality content that is well shared on a small site than have a large site with lower quality content, just for the sake of mo ..

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