Curious

02/05/2025

Is Google is about to break the internet (or at least the bit of it we all rely on for traffic?).

Google's new “AI mode” is now in beta (available in their labs) and it's a bit different.

No more scrolling to find the best answer, no page of links. Just AI-generated answers from the outset.

Whilst it's not the future of search just yet, it asks a lot of questions about the relationship between Google and content creators - and how search engine optimisation will need to evolve in the future.

We explore what this new shift could mean for businesses and how to stay ahead.

Google’s AI-powered search is rewriting the rules of SEO. If users stop clicking, what happens to your content? Here’s what marketers need to know

18/10/2024

Social media has become a powerful tool for marketing your business and interacting with your customers.

This one day course is ideal for business owners who want to harness the power of social media to finding and engaging new customers, showcasing your products or expertise, and building trust. It's full of examples and ideas to help you get more for your business from social media.

This course is fully funded by the Multiply project via Carmarthenshire County Council and delivered by Certified Digital Marketing professionals.

The following dates are currently available (and hopefully more to come):
24th October - Dafen, Llanelli
31st October - Carmarthen
7th November: Dafen, Llanelli
14th November - Carmarthen
21st November: Dafen, Llanelli
28th November - Carmarthen
5th December - Dafen, Llanelli

To book, or find out more, visit https://www.iamcurious.co.uk/training/making-social-media-work-for-your-business-training-course where you'll find booking links at the bottom of the page.

17/10/2024

Get to grips with what your marketing is REALLY doing with this funded Google Analytics course.

Understand how to set up and use Google Analytics GA4 to get real answers about what your website is doing, and how your marketing drives business.

This full day course is fully funded by the Multiply project via Carmarthenshire County Council and delivered by Google Certified Digital Marketing professionals. The following dates are currently available (and hopefully more to come):

22nd October – Dafen, Llanelli
5th November – Carmarthen
12th November: Dafen, Llanelli
19th November – Carmarthen
26th November: Dafen, Llanelli
3rd December – Carmarthen

To book, or find out more, visit https://www.iamcurious.co.uk/training/using-google-analytics-training-course/
Where you'll find booking links at the bottom of the page.

12/07/2024

Busy week, but made it to . Looking forward to a great night. Good luck all.

05/06/2024

Thanks so much. Delighted to be a finalist.

💫Meet the first finalists of the year! Here are the nominees for Creative and Digital Business of the Year💫 Curious, Libera Agency, Stori 👏🏻

07/12/2022

Google's rolled out it's latest algorithm change - primarily aimed at rewarding what it describes as 'helpful content'.

If your content strategy is still focussed on playing to search engines and not to real people, you're likely to start seeing drops in traffic as this comes into effect.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content

Looking for an effective SEO strategy that works for the long term? Drop us a line.

02/02/2022

Google's new Partner Programme kicks off today, and we're really chuffed that Curious has been approved as one of Google's partners from the start.

It means we've now got access to even better offers, greater insights and more resources to deliver for our customers.

https://www.google.com/partners/agency?id=4581009388

23/11/2021

GoDaddy announced today a security breach on their hosted website offering that affected 1.2m of their customers.

We want to reassure customers that host their website with Curious, YOU ARE NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ATTACK. We do not use GoDaddy's services, and all passwords are always encrypted on our servers, so they cannot be read or exploited by hackers.

If you do you host your WordPress website on GoDaddy (or one of the following companies that resell it's services: tsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe), it's likely that your website has been compromised. If this occured, the hackers have also accessed your passwords which, it appears, GoDaddy were storing as plain text.

If you think you might have been affected, its important that you chance the passwords for all of your WordPress administrator accounts on your website, and check to make sure there are no unexpected admin accounts set up on your site. You should also run a malware scan and check for unexpected plugins.

If you've use the website password, for accounts on other services/sites - make sure you change it on all of those too.

If you need assistance with your website, please get in touch, and we'll do what we can to help.

15/07/2021

Run a website using Woocommerce?

A major security alert was sent out early this morning identifying a critical vulnerability with all previous versions of WooCommerce (up to 5.5).

All of our customers have already had their websites patched with the fix, but if you run an ecommerce store that uses Woocommerce and look after your own updates, please make sure you upgrade your site to the latest patched version.

09/10/2020

Thinking about renewing your website or improving the way your business uses the web to trade online?
New Welsh Gov funding will shortly become available, but probably for a very short time.

Speak to us ASAP to explore how your business can benefit - and get a quote and specification so you can make the most of the opportunity. Call us on 0330 010 9000.

22/04/2020

22/04/2020

When your “we don’t do e-commerce” strategy backfires...