It’s as exciting as it is from time to time nerve-wracking – setting up and launching your own website is a bit like watching your own baby walk for the first time…sort of. The thing is though, where so many newbies end up selling themselves short is by failing to give sufficient thought to the … Read more
So you’ve probably heard a ton about the new ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ initiative laid out by the European Union, which for the most part simply means that anyone now has the right to request Google to remove anything they choose that concerns them or is their property. It sounds like a pretty colossal and … Read more
There are dozens of content management systems on the market right now, though it’s probably fair to say that WordPress remains not only the most popular, but something of a yardstick by which all others are measured. Technically a blogging platform by rights, WordPress has over the years evolved into a world-dominating force the likes … Read more
Two of the most important words in the world of Internet marketing right now are KitKat and Hummingbird. Just in case you don’t know, the latter is Google’s latest and most significant algorithm update in its history, while KitKat is the most recent build of Android – the OS that appears on 80% of all … Read more
Joomla is one of the world’s favourite platforms for building eCommerce websites and all manner of other online business ventures. However, there are certain common mistakes made particularly by newcomers that have the potential to put a serious dent in the outfit’s potential for success. Here at Pivotal Hosting, we’re always being asked to advise … Read more
It’s both interesting and alarming to think that even if your website has a thousand pages of world-class content, it all comes down to the single landing page as to whether or not a visitor will be converted. Research has proved that from the moment a visitor hits your landing page for the first time, … Read more
It’s rare to find Joomla being assessed on its own merit these days as each and every time a CMS is brought into conversation, comparisons with WordPress are bound to follow. This is the same with every content management system on the market right now as there’s no denying that WordPress sets the bar as … Read more
WordPress is considered the global standard for anyone on the market for an open-source CMS. Despite its rather humble origins as a blogging tool with little scope for expansion…at least at the time…WordPress has grown into one of the web’s most important site development tools the likes of which tens of millions have become dependent … Read more
There isn’t a website in the world today that can be left to its own devices for years on end and not end up stagnating or rotting – that’s just not how the web works. Updating is everything and if it becomes apparent to your audience that you’re sitting idly by and allowing your rivals … Read more
Open up your blog or your site as a whole to comments and you open yourself up to crooks – it’s as simple as that. We’ve all seen millions of examples of bogus comments by now – as in those annoying responses where the party behind it is clearly trying to sell something or infect … Read more