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April 25, 2018October 19, 2019

Website Contact Form Spam Email – No.5

This one came through one of our websites contact us forms. Why do they keep bothering???

Are people really that vain that they pay strangers from unsolicited emails to get more likes on Instagram?

From: Jason <socialexpert15@yahoo.com>
Subject: Followers

Message Body:
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April 24, 2018

Spam Email – (NOT) Companies House

The below claims to be sent from companies house. But its not. It has a file attachment, which we presume includes some virus or something not very good. Continue reading “Spam Email – (NOT) Companies House”

April 23, 2018

Spam Email – Infected system?

This is one of a style that has been doing the rounds lately. The spelling in it is terrible.

On checking the bitcoin wallet on 23rd April 2018, it shows as empty, so hopefully no one has been duped by this one so far. Continue reading “Spam Email – Infected system?”

April 22, 2018

Spam Email (2)

Reply-To: <josephjones8743@gmail.com>
From: “Joseph Jones” <josephjones@brightedge.online>
To: *****
Subject: Get More Clicks, Leads & Calls.
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:13:26 +0530 Continue reading “Spam Email (2)”

April 22, 2018

Spam Email (1)

Spam email No.1

Received 21st April 2018

From: Mr. Kante Simone <info@dineshispat.com>
Reply to: Mr. Kante Simone <ka.simone556@yandex.com> Continue reading “Spam Email (1)”

June 4, 2013

Getting started with Social Networks

It seems to us, that almost every week, a new social network appears on the scene. They almost always claim to be the best, better, more SEO friendly than the last and easier to integrate. Whilst some of the claims may be true, many fall by the wayside, as they don’t have the two things that the established sites have – users and traffic. Continue reading “Getting started with Social Networks”

May 10, 2013

Renting a domain – Is it for you?

Recently, we have added a number of domains to our Domains For Sale page, and we included an option of renting a domain. This has lead to us having a few questions asked about the merits and advantages, together with the dis-advantages of using a domain in this way. All the questions were perfectly valid, and we’ll run over a few of the issues in this post, and explain in greater depth, what happens when you rent a domain. Continue reading “Renting a domain – Is it for you?”

February 20, 2013

Making Google Analytics More Accurate

If you have Google analytics installed on your site, you’ll know how useful it is for finding out about your visitors and their activity. You can see unique visitors, clicks, bounce rate, time spent on site etc. Like the vast majority of Google products, its not 100% accurate, and its quite easy to hide your browsing from and analytics software. Continue reading “Making Google Analytics More Accurate”

February 18, 2013

Monthly SEO Package

There are many advantages to signing up for an ongoing monthly SEO package, as opposed to buying links here and there at different times. There are also big benefits in using the same company to provide this service. Continue reading “Monthly SEO Package”

November 12, 2012

Black Hat SEO – What Not To Do

While there are many legitimate skills in SEO, there are also those that can work but if you get caught using them the results can be disastrous. When the internet became popular many techniques were employed to get websites to the top of the search results, because at that point the search engines used a much simpler algorithm. As these tricks were used to exploit the simpler algorithms, they were also used by the search engines to make the algorithms more advanced. Let’s look at a few tricks. Continue reading “Black Hat SEO – What Not To Do”