Instagram Account Pwned My Instagram account was been hijacked 3 times in less than 6 weeks. It was a running joke with my friends. They reckoned that I should take it as a compliment, as only the rich and famous get hacked that much. I still haven’t worked out why they did it, but I …

Using the Disavow Tool on Bad Back-links   Although my Current Residential Architectural website now occupies most of my attention I am still slowly overhauling   My old Architectural website .  My old website is now almost 10 years old and as such it was built with outdated technology.  It isn’t mobile friendly, has link …

User ID on Instagram: What is user_id & how do I Find it? EDITORS NOTE: MY INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT WAS HIJACKED  WITHIN 8 HOURS OF USING MY USER ID. I WOULD BE VARY WARY OF USING IT AS A  LINK FROM YOUR INSTAGRAM SOCIAL BUTTON. This may be coincidence but this is now the second time …

Does HTTPS Affect How Google Treats Websites? I converted my Residential Architecture website to HTTPS just over a month ago as common opinion is that a secure website (one with the HTTPS prefix) was trusted more by Google. This trust should flow down as a better performing website statistically. I collected  my website statistics on …

WHEN YOU SHOULD MANAGE YOUR OWN SEO Managing your own SEO is all about control. No-one knows your business like you. The downside is that can be time consuming. You also need to have a huge amount of knowledge of how SEO works….or so I thought. Why Manage Your Own SEO As a DIY kind …

Blogging has become more Science than Art: Ten years ago I just wrote a blog and didn’t bother about anything other than the content.  It quickly picked up readers and was a great help in boosting my website ranking. I was a year into it before I even found out about metadata and tags.  I …