Shendur's Blog

Why Fast Server Speed is Important for SEO Rankings

As you may already know, Google (and other search engines) use page load speed as a ranking factor when deciding where to place your website in SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), meaning if you care about SEO and want to see your website appearing in Google for certain keywords you're targeting, you need to ensure your pages are loading fast for users. Users are demanding more and more from modern websites. I

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8 Web Design Trends on the Horizon for 2014?

Allowing for the dust to settle for the first month of the year, it's time for a few predictions on web design trends for 2014 based on today's current practices. These are a few predictions that may be worth considering for your existing site(s) that could potentially improve traffic, conversions and ideally build on the overall positive experience for your users. You will note there are a few familiar p

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How to secure your WordPress site against hacker attacks?

One of the easiest content management systems to set up and use is WordPress, the largest self-hosted blogging platform in the world, powering more than 60 million websites worldwide. That fact may be a key reason why WordPress is in the news right now as the subject of a large-scale attack from a huge number of computers from across the internet – known as an automated botnet attack – attempting to take

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Web Hosting Issues that Can Kill Your SEO

When I started out building websites around 1997 the Web was still pretty new. To create and publish online you needed a lot of knowledge and skills compared to now. While I knew HTML for example – I taught myself coding using Notepad, the minimalistic default Windows text editor, or how to use FTP and edit images pretty soon - I didn't know much about hosting sites. After all I got free hosting from m

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15 of the Scariest Things Hacked!

The issue of hacking is rarely out of the headlines, especially due to the recent spate of hackings targeting private photos of celebrities. The issue has become global news and sent the internet into a spin, whilst reminding us how vulnerable devices can be to hacking and that we can all become unsuspecting victims. Although hacking is generally associated with computers and phones, the number of Wi-Fi enabled devic

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