Mixed Media Marketing

05/07/2023

Universal Google Analytics if officially no more. While some accounts still appear to be collecting data, this will stop in the days and weeks to come.

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-analytics-ua-3-still-collecting-data-35649.html

If you need help transitioning to Google Analytics 4 or an open source alternative then send over a message.

01/06/2023

🎉 20 years of WordPress 🎉

Proud to have been developing sites with WordPress for 15 of those 💻

May 27, 2023, marks exactly 20 years since Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked b2/cafelog to create WordPress Version 0.70. Quite a bit has taken place in the past 20 years, and imagine how much …

07/10/2020

Exploring the new Business Suite for Facebook. It links with Instagram at a deeper level and allows you to manage multiple aspects including your pages, profiles, ads and more.

Today, we announced Facebook Business Suite, a single destination for businesses to access the tools you need to thrive across Facebook and Instagram.

06/10/2019

There will be updates coming to WordPress soon including improved content editing functionality and accessibility features. Learn more here...

WordPress 5.3 is coming soon with new features and improvements. Here is a list of all the features that are coming in WordPress 5.3 with screenshots.

14/07/2019

Over 50% of businesses are missing structured data that could help them to stand out in the search engines.

Even worse 2% contain hidden code that means they have *zero* chance of showing up in search.

If terms like "noindex", "meta tags", "robots.txt" and "schema" sound like a foreign language you should probably get an SEO Audit.

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28/06/2019

Great to see the startup ecosystem growing from multiple angles in Queenstown.

Startup Queenstown Lakes today received confirmation through QLDC’s 2019-20 Annual Plan, that a grant of $220,000 annually for the next two years has been approved.

19/06/2019

WordPress is a powerful tool for building websites and one of our primary tools. Clearly we are not alone with that choice, here are some interesting stats about the scale or WordPress usage.

Stats Via Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-statistics/

11/05/2019

Happy to take part in this international event this morning!

Is your website ready for an international audience?

Spent the morning preparing a WordPress plugin for international translation at this months QT WP Meetup.

Thanks to all WordPress translators around the world taking part and helping to democratise publishing.

05/05/2019

Warning: If you are relying on Google Search Console data for marketing decisions, you should know that April won't be accurate due to a bug in Google's systems.

Google alerted site owners that nearly all of last month's reports in Search Console were affected by a data outage.

25/03/2019

Did you know Facebook Messenger is the most popular chat app in New Zealand with 56% of the population using it?

WhatsApp for Business will soon be rolling out in New Zealand but barely 22% of the population actually use WhatsApp even though it is the most popular messenger worldwide.

07/03/2019

Are you using Google My Business?

This is the tool that can help your business to get more out of Google Maps and it just got an upgrade for service based businesses.

If you don't have a fixed address, it is now easier to add your service area, for example Queenstown, and services offered, e.g. on location beauty services.

Sound good? You can register here:

https://business.google.com/

If you need help getting started, then get in touch.

13/02/2019

It was good to catch up with some familiar faces at this months Queenstown WordPress Meetup.

http://meetu.ps/c/49KkW/1pQyx/a