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hummingbird is the new algorithm update from google

Google has named this new algorithm as “hummingbird” because of being precise and fast”. This was announced on September 26th, but suggestions from Google indicated this came out a month earlier. This isn’t an update on the existing panda or penguin algorithms as they are older algorithms. Hummingbird is a new engine based on old parts of the previous algorithm and new...

16th of October 2013 By Simon

Image sizing issues in wordpress and woocommerce

I have written this post and included screenshots to help anyone who has a simlar issue with image sizing issues in wordpress. My customer was experiencing the issue whereby product thumbnail images were being cut off at the top and bottom in wordpress using WooCommerce. Step 1: CSS I naturally looked at tweaking the stylesheets, so I narrowed this down to the following classes, but nothing happened....

25th of September 2013 By

Social Media - What People Think

There’s no denying that Social Media has become a vital part of any modern SEO campaign, with recent research showing that 50% of those who felt they were ‘failing’ in their SEO campaigns were not integrating social media. How, then, should a company go about using social effectively? Well, we took to Facebook to ask that question of those on our friends list. The replies we note...

25th of July 2013 By

Web Accessibility Tips

When designing websites, it’s key to be aware of the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) which provides a guideline for how to implement web content for people with disabilities. If you are a designer, developer, content writer, then you will need to be aware of the WCAG guidelines. Tip 1: Accessible Images When adding images into your web content, standard code would be as per below,...

12th of June 2013 By