Posts by Ian Scott
Solving Mail Poet & Mandrill Problem
We have a client that has a WordPress website and who had installed a great little plugin for sending newsletters called “MailPoet.” MailPoet is pretty nifty as it’s pretty simple to create email newsletters that are HTML based and look very professional that website owners can send out to subscribers. In addition to sending out…
Read MoreHealthy Design, Happy SEO, Beautiful Content
Healthy, Happy, Beautiful! Case Study: Creation of a website aimed at those interested in health and increase traffic with SEO. Business Name: Healthy, Happy Beautiful Area Serviced: World Wide (English Speaking) Products & Services: Health information and content. When someone mentioned the idea of having us help to create a website that was entirely about…
Read MoreBing To Roll Out Mobile Friendly Algorithm
We told you back on March 23, 2015 that Google was planning a major update to their search algorithm to favour mobile friendly websites. The new algorithm rolled out on April 21st and since then, many websites that did not implement mobile friendly design elements found themselves having lost a lot of ground in Google’s…
Read MoreSafe In A Storm – Lightning Detectors
Up until about 4 years ago, I didn’t even know that there were such things as lightning detectors. Now, I want one! It was about four years ago that I received a phone call from SkyScan Canada, who wanted some help with their website. Working with this company has been a wonderful experience and we’ve…
Read MoreVictoria Day Weekend 2015 – Our Availability
In Canada, we celebrate the Monday before May 25th as “Victoria Day,” a holiday that honours Queen Victoria and is sometimes known as “The Queen’s Birthday.” Additionally, it’s also fondly called the “May Two-Four Weekend.” Canadians often look forward to this holiday as the first one of the warmer weather and many will open their…
Read MorePassword Safe – Manage Your Passwords
Recently, one of our clients was bemoaning the fact that he had to keep track of so many passwords that it was “overtaking his life” as he put it. He wasn’t sure how to manage them all, and of course, using the same password for all your websites, email accounts and banking information is not…
Read MoreAre You Mobile Ready?
We’ve been advising our clients for some time now, that they need to think about having their websites “mobile enabled.” And now it’s official: Google has announced that websites that are not mobile friendly by April 21st, 2015, will likely see their rankings in the search results affected. How significant will the search result changes…
Read MoreHelping The Family
Back in late 2014, David Scott, the 12 year old son of one of the principal’s of The Ian Scott Group, completed a Minecraft themed adventure novel. Both his parents were quite impressed with the work and talent David showed – and both thought the book was quite good. Especially considering David’s youthful age! After…
Read MoreLocal Search Problems – A Quick Analysis of Two Businesses
Today, I came across two different and interesting scenarios in regard to local business and what they were doing with regard to ranking in local searches for their particular businesses. Both are quite different and provide completely separate types of services. One business, a home services provider, is trying to get ranked for a variety…
Read MoreDomain Notification Scam
Some of our clients recently have been receiving emails from an email address which usually ends with .domainnoticesxxxx.com where xxxx is a four digit number. Sometimes, the four digit number right before the .com is 5501 and today we noticed one of these emails where the domain name ended with the number 2233.com. The emails…
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