A recent report out from the ISC (the ‘Internet Storm Center’, a program of the SANS Technology Institute) warns domain owners to check their DNS records. We offer a DNS Records tool on frag.co.uk/tools/ that may be some help to our customers. The report details around 50 organizations that have had new machine names added … Read more
Finding a good SEO agency is hard. But even once you’ve found your SEO company (even if it might not be frag.co.uk!), there are a few important points to remember. 1. Keep Informed! Remember your SEO agency is on your side! They want you success as much as you do. Many clients feel uncomfortable letting … Read more
Steve Jobs, co-founder and charismatic CEO of Apple passed away last night at the age of 56, following a decade-long struggle with cancer. Despite their rivalries on the business side of things, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have been great friends, so much so that once news of the Apple legend’s passing was announced, he … Read more
If you’re anything like us, at times you can be obsessive about the visitors on your site. As most of our customers know, we love the features that Google Analytics provides, and along with other tools can be a great asset to SEO. In the last few days, Google have updated their Analytics interface again, … Read more
More as more sites are moving away from Adobe Flash; for good reason. Announced today, Slideshare, an online tool for sharing presentations, have completely rewritten their site to use HTML instead of Adobe Flash. This has meant that their site is now functional not only without the Flash plugin, but also on iPhone, iPad, Android … Read more
DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority was recently the center of a significant hacking case. On the 19th July, the CA discovered that at least 531 rogue certificates has been issued. However, it was only in August that the attacked became public knowledge. Security firm, Fox-IT were hired to investigate the breach, and the compromise has … Read more
As an aside from the usual discussions, there is an interesting article on The Register discussing the trial of teaching programming to GCSE students. Having worked in a number of schools, I’ve seen a drift away from the early days of teaching computing. When I was at primary school, there were a handful of BBC … Read more
Without wanting to turn into a review site; we’ve taken a look at Microsoft’s new Operating System – Windows 8; and we’re genuinely impressed. The beta is available to all, and is valid until March 2012. You can download it directly from Microsoft. It’s not recommended that this is installed or upgraded on a live … Read more
The Register has today reported that the ASA are pursuing Microsoft on their claim of 99.9% reliability: The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) is checking out a complaint about claims from Microsoft that it can guarantee 99.9 per cent uptime on its cloud services. The Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) has been prone to outages. And … Read more
We see a lot of SEO techniques; some great (the best are great for both search and customers), and some awful. With every site we work on, we have to do a full review of the suitability for Search Engines. It’s always best to start from basics; given what we’ve seen from some previous developers … Read more