Migration Complete: Advanced Web Ranking
Yesterday we successfully migrated all ranking data from our Advanced Web Ranking desktop server to…
Changes to ProActive Care
We are in the process of changing ProActive Care our main WordPress Maintenance service offering.…
Security & Maintenance Update: WordPress 4.7.3
WordPress today has issued a security release to WordPress core, which fixes a few known…
Site maintenance & activity reporting now live for all clients
Today sees the release of something that we have wanted to get out the door for…
Yoast premium bundle now live for all clients
At present we are rolling out the Yoast SEO Premium plugin bundle across all websites…
Security & Maintenance Update: WordPress 4.7.2
WordPress today has issued a security release to WordPress core, which fixes a few known…
Security & Maintenance Update: WordPress 4.7.1
WordPress today has issued a security release to WordPress core, which brings PHPMailer to it’s…
Automated Cache Warming Goes Live
Today sees the release a rather small feature which will make sure that your site is…
SSL activated for all clients!
We are absolutely delighted to inform all clients that, effective immediately, all websites managed and…
Helping you Learn WordPress: Introducing Video Manuals.
Today we are happy to announce the addition of a new menu item that I’m…
Hosting Improvements and other Upgrades
It’s been a while since we pushed out anything resembling an update, and the reason…
Referral Spam In Google Analytics
Spam. Not just for your inbox anymore. Over the last year or so we have…
Environment Upgrades: Google Pagespeed Insights + Change in Release Naming Convention
Google Pagespeed Insights This month, we will be upgrading and releasing to all client production…
Kanban Desktop Background / Wallpaper
We've all been there, you know, where your desktop becomes completely cluttered with icons from…
Flexibility and the Need to Overhaul What We Bill Clients for
Sometimes, in an effort to simplify things, we actually make things more complicated than what…
Security Improvements: Hardening your WordPress Site Against Malicious Attacks
[UPDATE 2016-05-09: these improvements have been deployed to all client sites] There are 3 things…
SMTP Relay: SPF & DKIM records
Today we were made aware of an issue with the SMTP relay that we have…
Integrated Dashboarding: From Free to Paid Service
A while back we decided to invest in a dedicated dashboard service which we could…
Relevance & Quality in google.co.za
I was watching a presentation recently by Paul Haahr, who is a senior Google Rankings…
The Growing Irrelevance of Organic Search Results in the SERPs
I try to not be a doom-sayer etc, especially when it comes to search engine…
Complimentary Search Engine Keyword Tracking
Starting Monday the 7th of March we will be deploying complimentary search engine keyword tracking…
Assumptions, they suck: time to automate reporting.
One of the things we try to do here at The Crowd is to be…
When Data Came to Town
2015 was a very interesting year for us here at the crowd, and as with…
Monthly Site Upgrades + Dedicated Maintenance Days
Code Upgrades Starting in 2016 we are going to be doing all monthly website upgrades on…
Foundations: Our Newly Introduced Fully Managed Entry Level Hosting Pricing Tier
Our New Fully Managed Base Plan: for those who want to to set and forget…
Pingdom + Wistia + Integrated Dashboard Reporting
Brief Overview The changes we will be implementing: Upgrading our uptime monitoring software and integrating the results…
Web Analytics 101: the foundation for success online
Measure Performance to be Successful Online It’s a question that all website owners and webmasters…
4 things to consider to build a better website
How aligning conversion goals, user experience and search makes for a better site. Try to…
Perplexed by the Googleplex Zoo?
Complement Your SEO Strategy I think the Mayans were on to something. 2012 was and…