WordPress Security and the #1 Way to Stay Protected
I am not generally a rule-follower in real life, which is why it is super-ironic that I got myself all messed up in computers. Because if there is one thing that computers love, it is rules. So people in this industry talk a lot about rules. A. Lot. Today's thoughts...
How to Pick a Domain Name (and other impossible tasks)
If I know you - and I do, dear big-idea-thinker - you have a dream about where your new business will take you. So much planning goes into the business plan (right?!?), the product and the riches that will undoubtably ensue. You likely spent time at the kitchen table,...
Picking (and using) Your Business Email Address
As a small business owner, it goes without saying (but I'm still going to say it) that you want to use every available opportunity to promote your business and make it easy for people to find you online. Your email address can be like the picquic tool of your online...
Oh CRAP. (Designing your website)
If you Google 'how to design things for a website' (go ahead, we'll wait...), you will see such lists as '24 Things to Consider When Designing and Developing a...' (who knows what they are designing or developing because their title was too long for the search result...
This is how you start again
If you are the kind of person to notice these kinds of things, you might notice that my last post was dated 2011. There. I said it. My website has always had a 'the-cobbler's-children-have-no-shoes' kind of flavour and I'm okay with that. I have spent my time working...
Oh Google, you DO care!
A lot of the work that has been flowing through CarricDesign lately revolves around improving ranking results in ‘search engines’ (by which clients usually mean ‘Google’).
So when an article comes across my desk about an algorithm update, I sit up and took notice. The article du jour is from Website Magazine and talks about Google’s so-called ‘Farm Update’.
Google is finally ready to penalize content farms. (Official Google blog post – they call the sites ‘low-quality’)