Why We Are Moving to Two-Factor Authentication
August 12, 2026
Website security is never a finished job. The bad guys change their tactics constantly, and the measures we use to protect the websites we manage
Website security is never a finished job. The bad guys change their tactics constantly, and the measures we use to protect the websites we manage
Most WordPress security advice is pretty straightforward: keep the website, its theme and plugins up to date; use strong passwords; limit administrator access; and keep
How much does professional website maintenance cost in the UK? Let’s look at the factors involved and see what drives the price.
Over the past few years, we’ve spoken with a surprising number of business owners who share the same story: they signed up for a website
Can deactivating a plugin in your WordPress site increase your security risks? Actually, in some cases it can.
Today, Dotwise celebrates an incredible milestone—25 years of helping people make the most of the web. Since our formation in January 2000, the digital world
Discover the key steps to keep your website in top condition in 2025 and learn how to make this crucial task manageable. Don’t let your site fall behind; give it the care it deserves!
Why would you use Reviews.co.uk instead of Google Reviews? We look at the two and unearth some surprising differences!
Did you know you can host a website on the web without paying anything for it? Here are 10 ways to do that, ranging from the easy to the very techie indeed.
Now there’s a new layer of security for your email which can reduce the risk of bad guys spoofing your email address and sending phishing emails. It’s easy and free to set up. Here’s how.
Our upcoming changes to your email provision will make your email faster, more reliable and more secure. Read more about these improvements.
Yoast makes generating sitemaps really easy. But sometimes we want to generate a sitemap of WooCommerce products which excludes certain categories. This can be done using a few lines of code.
Implementing 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) in WordPress is vital to bolster your security. Fortunately it is easy and free. Follow our guide to 2FA and lock down your WordPress!
Your WordPress site is at the heart of your customer relationship. You can’t afford to let it become insecure. Here are Dotwise’s top 5 ways to keep your WordPress site secure in 2023.
Website updating companies help you to keep your website secure, with new fresh content, and can also help adding new technical features. Find out what else website updating companies do.
You’ve heard of Umbraco. But how good is Umbraco for SEO? And how can you maximise your SEO with Umbraco?
Before you make a penny in business you need to ensure your customers’ personal data is secure and protected. Here are some basic security tips for your business and your website.
Small businesses and startups struggle to find effective, experienced website support companies. They often try to build and maintain their own websites, wasting time and energy. Here’s the solution.
There are several companies offering to keep your website updated. What do website update services actually do and should you hire one?
We hear a lot of talk of website development and a lot about website maintenance and then there’s website design. But is there any difference and if so what? And as a website owner, should you have to care?
A lot has changed this year, so what’s new in the world of website support in 2021?
Google Lighthouse is a tool offered by Google to help website owners understand more about how Google views your site. So if you have one minute, you can now run off a report which will tell you exactly what Google thinks of your site!
Ransomware is on the rise and it can be a very nasty and disruptive experience. Don’t fall victim to ransomware. Don’t click links in emails from people you don’t trust.
The Dotwise Keyword Combiner is a handy tool for SEO people and anybody who needs to combine two lists.
Is it possible to speed up your website in just a few clicks? And free of charge? In many cases it can be done quickly and easily. We look at web caching, something all website owners need but not all know about.
How to calculate profit and ROI on your digital advertising spend. Download our PowerPoint presentation.
There are four main ways to get more customers in digital marketing: SEO, PPC, social media and email. Let’s look at each of these ways and weigh up their pros and cons.
Many websites have dropped the “www” from their domain names. But is having “www” better or worse for SEO? Let’s find out!
It’s the service of using social networks to maximise your brand’s exposure to your target audience. Find out about what social media management includes.
Throw away those trophy keywords and get focussed on the hidden gems that will actually drive traffic and conversions.
Umbraco is a Content Management System used to build websites that are fast-loading, easy to manage and great for SEO.
Digital marketing and SEO expert Gordon Smith discusses 20 years of founding and running websites.
Dotsafe is a service from Dotwise which keeps your website secure and fully up to date.
If you use WordPress, there’s a strong chance you also use Contact Form 7 for your online forms. But did you know that you can add some useful marketing information to Contact Form 7 emails without any programming?
Websites which are improving their rankings are the ones which are proactively keeping their websites and offsite information up-to-date and current.
Here are the most effective ways to communicate what your business is doing during the lock-down period:
Dotwise’s services are unaffected by the current Coronavirus outbreak. Please ring on 020 8399 4920 with any queries.
Get a free SEO quotation instantly by entering three simple pieces of information into our SEO quote form.
Don’t hire an SEO company in 2020 before you have read our 10 tips on how to ensure you don’t get ripped off.
The homepage is one of the most important pages of any company website, but many businesses struggle to get it right. Without the right elements in place, a company’s homepage will fail to engage visitors and damage conversions.
After 7 weeks working with the Year 9 students from Hinchley Wood School, we announced which of four teams were the winners of the Web Design and SEO Competition at Hinchley Wood School today.
As Google Ads experts, we are often asked how to get started on the Google Ads platform. So we wrote this article to answer some of our most frequently asked questions.
The competition at Hinchley Wood School to make the best baked goods website (and maybe get ranked in Google!) continues to heat up!
Dotwise office opening times over Christmas and the New Year 2019.
Content marketing means creating content (which could be blog posts, LinkedIn posts, videos, podcasts, infographics and more) containing information useful to your potential marketplaces. Here are the trends for 2020.
The Dotwise team has been working with local schoolkids, delivering workshops in digital marketing including website building and SEO.
10 Takeaways From SMX East, NYC in November 2019 | Dotwise Digital Marketing
Dotwise has been awarded the accolade of Finalist for Best Small/Medium Enterprise in the Kingston Business Excellence Awards. The ceremony was hosted on 10th October 2019 and compered by TV personality Mike Underwood.
Commerce-as-a-Service is a natural development in the e-commerce world. It allows you to move your e-commerce data and computing into the cloud, making it portable and scalable whilst choosing the front-end of your choice.
Without feedback, practice is like playing golf in the dark. You can practice as many hours as you like, but you’ll hardly improve at all. You need to switch the lights on.
Here are our top 10 tips for finding and hiring an SEO agency.
Dotdash brings data from multiple disparate sources and blending it together in easy-to-read, at-a-glance charts, graphs, tables and scorecards.
Never launch your new website or campaign on a Friday! Here are the best and worst days of the week to launch – complete with the best day to launch.
If you’ve received a keyword position report from Dotwise or anybody else, you may wondering how to interpret it. Here’s how:
Here’s a classic fake trademark domain registration scam that a customer received today. Read more about fake domain registration trademark protection scams.
You may have come across a situation when your search rankings for your favourite just tank. You go from being the authority website in your area to nowhere. Here’s what to do.
Blogging can boost your SEO and increase sales leads. We look at how to create a blog strategy, what to measure and how to amplify your blog’s reach.
The search landscape is constantly changing and evolving. Sometimes it can feel as though you’ve mastered one SEO trend, only to find it’s outdated and been replaced by another.
Voice search is no exception. How will it shape the future and what do we need to start thinking about when it comes to SEO for business?
Contact form emails can potentially be incredibly valuable, so it is crucial to ensure your system is ultra-reliable and those emails reach you.
Timeline of major Google updates. We don’t go into detail about the rollout of the Panda update which has been ongoing for several years.
We’re chuffed to bits to have won the Kingston Business Excellence Awards Customer Service Excellence category.
We beat off stiff competition from 10 other very deserving and excellent companies, to win the category outright.
Website maintenance services take the worry and hassle out of keeping your business website online and up to date. Make sure you purchase professional website maintenance.
Going through GDPR for ourselves and our customers was an eye-opening experience. Apart from the technical implementation aspects, here are some general learnings – some of which really surprised us.
The GDPR deadline is only a matter of weeks away, so now is the time to get compliant.
Let’s look at how Instagram has become a very important marketing channel and how it can work for all kinds of business.
GDPR legislation will be enforced from 28/5/2018. It affects many digital marketing technologies.
From 1-Jan-2018 we will be delivering Spotlight digital marketing services through our new brand name – Dotwise.
Link Networks: How They Can Kill Your SEO
Case Study: Improve Local Search Rankings Against Competitors
Many websites which are currently encrypted will no longer be trusted by the Google Chrome web browser family. Chrome will issue security warnings when you visit a website encrypted with such a certificate.
Case Study: How one business owner gets 80% of his sales leads from just 2 minutes of marketing per day.
Don’t get caught out by GDPR. We’ve compiled a list of need-to-know tips to help clarify what your responsibilities will be.
It’s easy to rank in local search results, but you need to follow a few rules. Search expert Gordon Smith shares 10 easy ways to be found in local search.
What are featured snippets? We find out how to get that elusive paragraph of text just above the other search results.
10 Simple Trust Signals Your Website Should Always Have
What do the next few years hold in store for SEO? We look at new directions in voice search, user experience and AI and assess their impact.
We have been providing SEO in vertical markets for several years. These include surveying, legal services, estate agency and e-commerce.
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Why does my website say it is not secure and give a warning not to continue? What this problem means and how to solve it.
Your company’s online presence is so important. Choose the right domain name for your business and make a great first impression.
Should you outsource website updates and maintenance? What are the pros and cons of hiring experts to manage and update your website?
Google AdWords is one of the best tools for driving traffic to a website quickly. But it can be a money-pit. We want to find the perfect balance between getting traffic and not spending too much money.
We look at 5 important things your business should not ignore, including SEO, PPC, local advertising and social media.
Local search ads, expanded text ads and call-only ads. We look at three things that will be big news in the world of PPC and AdWords in the near future.
Add HTTPS to Your Website to Help Search Rankings
The two main tools that help businesses get ahead of their online competitors are Pay Per Click advertising (PPC) and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). So often, companies will ask, ‘which is better?’
How Much Should I Bid for a Click on AdWords?
When people hear, ‘online marketing’ they imagine the entire internet – terrifying for a small business. This shows you how local PPC marketing is effective
Website accessibility is the process of designing websites which have no barriers to access for people with disabilities.
A system to produce a PDF product catalogue in five different currencies automatically from product data held in our clients’ database using ASP.NET
Creating dynamic web graphics is much easier now using HTML5.
HTML5 is the new web standard for delivering web content to browsers, mobiles, tablets, smartphones. It’s adoption is now mushrooming rapidly, so all web developers should have a clear idea of its capabilities and new features.
WordPress is a fantastic blogging platform that is powering thousands of sites all around the world. Now you can have a WordPress-based web site on your domain for just a few pounds a month.