Posted at 11:11h in Web Design, WordPress

If a website visitor will only give your content three seconds to evaluate if it meets their needs how long do you think they will wait for it to load? Internet connections are better than ever but the device of choice has changed from computers to phones and connections can be patchy. If you want happy website users then you want your website to be fast to load.   PageSpeed Insights   Fortunately, the kindly folks at Google have provided us with a simple tool that evaluates your site from a desktop and mobile perspective and provides guidelines on how to optimise for speed....

Posted at 16:10h in Web Design, WordPress

This is a Step by Step Guide to implementing goal tracking with Contact Form 7.  Step 1: Configure Contact Form 7   Once you have Contact Form 7 installed and have created a form to suit your needs, you will be ready to add the tracking code. To do this you need to access the specific form you want to track by going into the Contact Form 7 dashboard and selecting the form. You should then see a tab called ‘Additional Settings’. Click the tab and you will be shown an empty text box which is where you need to enter the tracking...

Posted at 11:40h in Web Design, WordPress

Yoast has recently launched a new update for the Yoast SEO plugin, now on version 3.0. Many people have spotted the warning message in the Wordpress dashboard saying 'Your Homepage can not be indexed by search engines'. Now this is a very scary warning message to have but what does not help, is the link that Yoast provide as a solution just leads you to a generic page on the Yoast website. So with no solution in sight, what should you do?     Solution!   Simply head to the Wordpress Dashboard Scroll down till you see the 'Yoast SEO Post Overview' section Then...

Posted at 12:30h in WordPress

Nobody cares about your website. No one gives a flying fig about your website! They don't care if your website cost £300, £3,000 or £30,000. They don't care if it took you all weekend to write the content and they certainly don't care if you're using the latest version of WordPress (although, for security reasons, they should). But they just don't care.   Why not?   Well because every visitor to every website is there for a specific objective, whether it is to find the hottest travel destinations, to find out what the funny mole on their arm is or whether it is to...

Posted at 06:13h in WordPress

Hey folks, there is a recently announced vulnerability affecting the popular All in One SEO Plugin. The vulnerability allows a site user of any level to escalate privileges to admin level and from there on in they pretty much have an open book.   Hey, I'm over here, hack me! Frustratingly the All in One SEO plugin issues a generator tag that announces the version number. So, before long, some enterprising asshole hacker will likely frig together a scanner to identify target sites and we will see infection rates rocket.   SEO Implications The SEO implications are stark - depending on what the attacker decides to do...