If you have an ecommerce site, chances are you regularly provide special offers, discounts or promotions for your clients. Just having the special is not enough though. It’s important for you to make it easy for users to qualify for these discounts, or to be aware of whatever special offers you have available. Below, you’ll […]
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On March 12th 2019, Google released their latest update to the search engine algorithm. originally dubbed “Florida 2” by SEO’s, Google took the unusual (but not unprecedented) step of interrupting discussion to rename the update “Google Core Update – March 2019.” As is usual these days, Google was reticent about what this update would effect, […]
With the continuing proliferation of so-called Fake News, it is becoming more and more important to ensure that we can differentiate between them. And while on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, fake news is often spotted and called out, it has proven a little more difficult to do on platforms which are not […]
According to a report earlier this month, Facebook, and more specifically its Instagram division, are suing 4 companies based in China for promoting the sale of fake accounts, followers and likes that, as we well know, can be used for illegal and / or unethical purposes. Fake accounts, likes and followers have ben known to […]
According to the Global State Of Digital In 2019 report by Hootsuite, South African’s spend among the most time online of any country, with an average of nearly 8.5 hours a day spent online, compared to a bit over 6.5 hours a day for US users. This is despite the fact that we still have […]
In the unlikely event that you ever needed more evidence that we’re in the digital information age, it turns out the emoji’s the little pictures (or emoticons, the little symbols) we use in digital / online communication to express emotion are being used more and more frequently as evidence to support arguments in court. A […]
It has long been the case that the law lags behind our social and technological development, sometimes by a considerable margin. However, it looks like the law is finally getting ready to catch up when it comes to digital platforms like Facebook, as regulators in several countries are in the process of proposing a range […]
The concept of business intelligence has been becoming more and more popular these days, but it’s important to understand the underlying principle in order to start making Business Intelligence (or BI) work for you. According to Techopedia, Business Intelligence involves the use of computing technologies for the discovery, identification, and analysis of business data to […]
A 301 Redirect is an instruction to both Google, and to anybody who visits the site, that the content they are looking for has permanently moved to a new location, and it will redirect any visitors to the old URL to the new location. This is in contrast to a 302 redirect, which is an […]
Following on from recent scandals surrounding the live-streaming of suicides on Facebook, the company last year launched an ambitious project to use artificial intelligence to detect when users might be likely to commit suicide, or otherwise self-harm. The algorithm analyses almost all posts made on Facebook, and rates each one with according to the probability […]
