GDPR and Cookie Consent – Do I need customer consent to track cookies?
As a development and SEO company we often get asked this question. You have all gone to a site and been asked “Do you accept the site tracking cookies” Although it may seem like all sites have this notification it is only required in certain countries one state in the...
Website design & development: What can you do to stop cyber thieves?
It was August 6 when authorities announced that a Russian Cyber ring had pulled off the largest online theft of private Internet information in history. The giant web haul includes 1.7 billion user names and password combinations and more than half a billion email...
Panda 4.0. What your website design & development company doesn’t know can hurt you.
Google’s infamous Panda algorithm has been the bane of website design & development companies (and SEO companies). They practice what we at Kirk like to call “SEO lite.” Using this method, they throw some keywords on the website, then hire low cost, third country...
Getting website design & development? Just say no to templates!
WordPress, the template-based website design & development software that got its start with people wanting to create blogs is now the latest rage when it comes to building entire sites. But, there can be some real drawbacks when it comes to building out a site in...
Ignorance is Bliss. Unless you’re hiring a website design & development company to do SEO.
In case you haven’t noticed it, the world of SEO has significantly changed. What was once easy is now hard. It takes technology, people and highly sophisticated analytics driven by well-coded software to do the job right. But, that hasn’t stopped thousands of website...
Why the timing is right for an SEO franchise.
Is the timing right to start an SEO franchise? There are thousands of sites out there proclaiming their expertise at SEO. When asked if they do SEO, almost every website design and development company quickly replies with something like, “Yeah…we’re experts at that.”...
A return to the golden age of branding. One website design and development company’s experience.
Think about branding powerhouses like Procter & Gamble, General Motors and IBM. They all have one thing in common: You know exactly what they sell and what they stand for. Among the modern, high-tech, business-at-the-speed-of-thought, search- driven, web-based...