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17/09/2021

Some companies use their web sites to collect email addresses by offering to give you some information provided you provide your email address. One example of this is comparethemarket but i am sure there are thousands of others. There are companies who offer a completely free SEO assessment of your web site provided you share your email adresses

It is of course your right to decide if you wish to share your contact details with others but I do not because I am not happy at the thought of my own contact details being given / added to large industrial databases without my being absolutely sure thay my entry will be deleted at my request.

13/08/2021

Recently, I have been bombarded by companies all wanting to sell me their services for web site Search Engine Optimisation ( SEO ). When developing my web sites I go to considerable effort to ensure all of my sites have a good SEO score. In doing this I follow strict Google guidelines because much of the SEO covers the actual software I develop for you all. These companies offer services which are quite expensive. While they may have a role to play, they never offer a money back guarantee if their efforts fail to bring about the promises they make. Personally, I will never use such companies because of my own experience and knowledge – in short, I do not need them.

These days, Google has made it clear that web sites which contain quality useful public information will receive a higher ranking. This information could be useful links to other web sites, technical specifications , blogs or hints and tips, local history and so on. This you can do for yourself using the content management software provided for your web site. It is fair to say that improving SEO is an ongoing process and can take many months, even years, to achieve. Please feel free to give me a call to discuss this subject if you are interested

18/05/2021

Some people say that a better term for a cookie is a tracker. When visiting a web site the question asked is if you accept or manage cookies. Many people accept all cookies. This may be fine but it does mean that trackers will be employed.

Some tracking cookies will go with you all across the Internet and relay your personal information and data back to a website when you revisit it. This is commonly used for retargeting advertising purposes. I am sure you have lookd for products across the internet and then seen advertising for such products appear on your social media accounts.

This leads us to ask if tracking is a good or bad thing and I guess it is a matter of personal choice but I would prefer not to be remnded about a product through social media. Perhaps we should all be more dilligent before accepting all cookies when visiting a web site.

30/11/2020

Unwanted emails continue to be the bain of our lives. Recent scammers send perfectly clean email so they bypass spam filters. Many of these emails originate from what are known and marked as abusive servers which can be collectively bocked. To help reduce the quantity of spam received by my clients, I blacklist unwanted emails such that the senders IP can no longer transmit to my server. Its a tedious task but one that has become the norm I am afraid. This does seem to reduce the quantity and frequency of such emails but it has now become a weekly task

26/11/2020

This week amazon web services stopped working on the eastern side of America. The impact was to smart hoovers and ring doorbell services. Aws is a significant part of amazon business and the outage was an embarrassment. Perhaps I am old school but I just don’t trust the cloud services and that is why I use my own dedicated server for all my services. I am in no rush to review my strategy and the aws outage only confirms to me that I am right

27/10/2020

Today I was browsing for technical information using Chrome. I found a company that published some useful information to help my research. Later on I checked my Facebook account and noticed sponsored adverts from the company whose web site I was reading. I find it disturbing that my private internet browsing is being shared with Facebook. My next step will be to establish how this happens and determine how this can be stopped

19/05/2020

Today easyJet confirmed that 9 million customer personal records had been hacked. The hack was said to have been highly sophisticated but financial details were not accessed. This may come as a relief but it shows the importance we should all take to change our password details with banks, social media and any details held by others eg Amazon, Facebook, Twitter etc

10/05/2020

The covid pandemic has caused many businesses to sell their products and services online. I have seen considerable growth in web sites including shopping carts. Of course budgets for such initiatives are very tight and so I looked for inexpensive solutions . My response has been to make use of Wordpress combined with an excellent and proven shopping cart. I was very impressed with the support available to answer detailed technical questions. In the last two weeks I have installed 4 such Wordpress sites. Clients have enjoyed the training and have been able to add their own products in days before opening for business. I imagine this trend will continue for many months

20/11/2019

Recently I have noticed many companies offering to optimise Social Media Sites. The hope is that this will increase the business that you will earn. I took the trouble to speak to 5 people each of whom had tried to optimise their social media accounts to ask them what benefits they recieved. The overwhelming consensus what that is was not worth the bother . The effort they put in bore no relation to the financial gain they received ( if any ).. It is true that large companies employ their own staff to do this work but this is purely to obtain awareness throughout the Web about what they do. It had nothing to do with winning new business. The cost of asking companies to do this for you is quite frankly not worth it and so I have concluded that Social media has many benefits but winning new business is not one of them. Personally I only use Facebook etc to raise awareness about IT matters that may be relevant to you all and not to seek any financial gain from doing so.

17/10/2019

Recently I purchased products online from a reputable company. A couple of weeks later my Facebook account displayed other products from the same company. Coincidence ? I think not. Quite how companies share information is a mystery to me but I am reminded of the enquiry into Cambridge Analytica using what is called Big Data and how this influenced election results in America. I had hoped that the enquiry into Cambridge Analytica would bring an end to potential misuse of information. I guess we all need to be careful how we share our information and diligent how it is used

08/09/2019

Today I met someone who was completely lacking in any form of computer confidence. I showed them how to set up their own Facebook account. Within 15 minutes they knew what they were doing and left full of confidence. I can’t tell you just how rewarding it is to share knowledge with others and see them grow as a result

02/09/2019

Spammers are using relatively new domain names to create nuisance by using unusual domain names ending in icu pro and xyz as opposed to uk or com. I simply banned any emails ending in icu pro and xyz. I wish there was strict legislation to hurt spammers and guess I am not alone in thinking that way

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