Fergus Weir

Why your website will rank poorly in Google’s mobile search!

  Before we commence with any dire warnings and start scaring you about imminent Google ranking disasters let us first discuss some facts. A recent ComCore report shows that around 60% of all web traffic is from mobile devices. We have passed the tipping point now. Mobile traffic is now greater in volume than desktop …

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SSL certificates are mandatory for Google Adwords, Google Shopping & Google Remarketing

Regular followers of teclan’s blog posts over the years will have previously noted our recommendation back in 2012 that Google required your checkout pages to be encrypted by an SSL certificate (golden padlock). Well the non-SSL website pigeons are now coming home to roost. We have now seen Google starting to enforce this policy by …

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Google Trends – how “Big Data” can help your business grow

What is Big Data? A term that is being bandied about more frequently online these days is “Big Data.” Big data is an all-encompassing term for any collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using traditional data processing applications. Whilst more and more information is being gathered and …

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Are you making the most of available digital marketing channels?

So, does your online business do the following? Email marketing, Google Adwords, Bing Adwords, Google Shopping, Google remarketing, Facebook advertising, Facebook posts, Twitter updates, Pinterest boards, Polyvore sets, Sitemaps, SEO, link building, content marketing, blog writing, mobile/responsive designs, page speed optimisation, disavow bad link checking, competitor analysis, press releases, Amazon/eBay selling, e-commerce conversion rates etc? …

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