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  • Contact Form 7 and Google Conversion Tracking

    The process for getting the worlds most popular Analytics kit (Google Analytics) to play nicely with the World’s most popular WordPress email plugin (Contact Form 7)has changed. Here’s what you need to do (assuming you are not yet using Google’s tag Manager) to get Analytics to record a hit when your form’s submit button is…

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  • I was fooled by a headline

    Every morning my email inbox has about 30 new bits of junk to delete. This morning I kept one and opened it because of the headline. it read “New Beers for Chilly Evenings”. I like beer so they got the target audience right, but I get loads of beer related emails and most get dumped…

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  • Gotta love your website… for profit

    Nicola and I were doing a bit of market research for a client the other day, talking to event managers about their process for choosing suppliers. One comment we heard about a major company went like this. “Oh, them, yes I remember them. I visited their website last year but thought it looked old and…

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  • Why write when you can dictate?

    If you want to try a new approach to creating articles for your website why not dictate them rather than type them? I have been doing this for a few weeks now and I’m finding the process fun and surprisingly easy. I’ve got an iPhone and I downloaded the WordPress iPhone app expecting to have…

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  • Drupal vs Joomla vs WordPress

    In comparing the latest versions of all three of the leading open source Content Management Systems (CMS) for a client recently I was struck by just how similar Drupal, Joomla and WordPress are in terms of delivering the end user experience. Each can definitely deliver high performing, beautiful websites to the end user. The differences…

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  • 1and1 php emails

    I have had quite a few calls this week from clients who are a little concerned about emails from web hosts 1and1.co.uk which talk about upgrading their PHP. The most common question is ‘can I ignore this’ and for once, the answer is ‘NO’. PHP is a programming language which runs most websites.  If you…

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  • Five great tips to get to the top on Google

    Five great tips to get to the top on Google

    People are always asking us for tips on how to perform better in the search engines. Sadly there are no guaranteed methods. After all, we don’t own Google, Bing or Yahoo (more’s the pity) and we cannot control whether they index a site or how high a particular page appears for a particular search phrase.…

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  • Search results are different for PCs vs Smartphones

    Here’s a great ‘Did You Know’ statistic: Sixty-two percent of organic searches today show different results depending on whether you type in the search on a desktop or a smartphone. If you google ‘widgets’ from your old PC, your old www.widgetsforsale.com website may well appear in the top ten. But if someone does the same…

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  • Card Flip Effect

    Want a funky effect for pictures on your website? How about a flip? Rollover or touch the card and it will flip over. We would love to take credit, but the code for this comes from the very talented Dave Walsh If you want us to do something similar for your site… pick up the…

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  • Article Marketing- How not to do it.

    The following waste of computer power arrived in our inbox this morning.  At least it gave us a bit of a laugh. Hello,  I am really satisfied with your blog content, your posts are really good and you are keeping it well. I would like to publish my post on your blog (as guest post)…

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