by Mike Brogan | Jul 20, 2015 | All, Business Tips, Uncategorized, Websites & Blogs
Many of my clients are small businesses, micro businesses and sole traders. One of the characteristics of such businesses, especially at start-up time, is that they see the need for a website but tend to regard it as an expense rather than an investment.This kind of...
by Mike Brogan | Jun 12, 2015 | All, Business Tips, Uncategorized, Website Promotion, Websites & Blogs
One of the things I’m frequently asked by clients when developing websites is to optimize the pages for search engine ranking. Unfortunately, whilst search engine optimization may lead to a first page position on Google, and additional traffic to the site, it won’t...
by Mike Brogan | Apr 29, 2015 | All, Business Tips, Uncategorized, Website Promotion
I thought I would post my views on the relationship between search engines, specifically Google, and social media platforms, such Facebook and Twitter, because it seems that many people are misinformed about it. Recently I had a discussion with a delegate at a...
by Mike Brogan | Apr 15, 2015 | All, Business Tips, Uncategorized, Website Promotion
Urgent, for all businesses that currently have websites. “Starting April 21, we [Google] will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal”. I’ve written previously, about the requirement for websites, these days, to be designed to be...
by Mike Brogan | Feb 23, 2015 | All, Teach Me About..., Uncategorized
I run email services for my website clients. Despite my recommendations against setting Out of Office Replies on email accounts, some still do so. Judging by the number of Out of Office Replies that I get from other people, it seems that this practise is still...