Back in the Day… Nathan Sivapatham: “How Things Have Changed”
( Post 21 of 25 ) Following on from a couple of posts earlier in the month looking back at how IT has evolved over the last 25 years (the first one from our friend David Jones; the second one from us),...
View ArticleWhat Do 8 South Wales IT Employees Look For in an Employer?
( Post 22 of 25 ) Last week, we published this: What Do 16 South Wales IT Employers Look For in an Employee? Now it’s time to turn the tables… “What do you look for in an employer?” We asked this...
View Article5 IT Jobs that May Not Exist in 10 Years’ Time
( Post 23 of 25 ) This is a post by Holly, who sometimes writes for us at Computer Recruiter. If you think that your IT job is future-proof, you may be in for an unpleasant surprise. Don’t believe us?...
View ArticleComparing 25 IT CVs in 1990 to 25 in 2014 – a ‘Dissected’ Infographic
( Post 24 of 25 ) For the penultimate post of our CR 25 campaign, we came up with the idea to compare 25 of our CVs from 1990 – when we first opened shop as an IT recruitment agency – to 25 from more...
View ArticleThe CR 25 IT Acronym Quiz
( Post 25 of 25 ) For the final post of CR 25, we wanted to have a little fun… Over the years, across two separate stints, we have previously tweeted a weekly IT acronym on our Twitter page...
View ArticleA Directory of Welsh Apps – An Interview with Applingua
( Post 26 – * Bonus Post * ) Remember that time we published 25 posts in one month? We decided that we’d return with another one-off post (not another 25 – don’t worry!) for January 2016, marking...
View ArticleIntroducing… TechEvents.Wales
( Post 27 – * Bonus Post * ) Three years on from CR 25 – when we published 25 posts in one month – and we’re back with another new post to mark our business’ anniversary… Inspired by one of CR 25’s...
View ArticleGoogle Reviews are Broken (and Google Local Guides Aren’t Helping)
Google has a review problem. When I help clients with SEO, if they already have – or could benefit from having – a Google Map listing (a.k.a. a Google My Business listing), I help them with the...
View ArticleThe Launch of TechEvents.Wales
Back in 2015, I created a side-project website for my parents’ IT recruitment agency (Computer Recruiter) called CR 25, where we published 25 blog posts in one month to coincide with their 25th...
View ArticleDon’t Panic, SEOs! The Whisky-related Zero Result SERPs are a Bug
Update: Google have since put this experiment on hold (source). Zero-result SERPs have caused a bit of a stir in the SEO industry this past fortnight. For time-related searches, instead of showing a...
View ArticleCardiff SEO Meet is Going on a Temporary (& Hopefully Brief) Hiatus
I love running Cardiff SEO Meet – but it’s a lot of hard work. Each time I run one of the events, I think to myself “enh, it’s just 2 speakers, and they’re 3 months apart – it’ll take no time to sort...
View ArticleCardiff SEO Meet is Back (Already)
Well that really was a brief hiatus… Less than a month ago I blogged saying that Cardiff SEO Meet was going on hiatus until after my son’s operation. Well between then and now he’s had updated scans...
View ArticleRoger MozBot & the Time Machine – My MozCon 2018 Competition Submission
Update: I actually won!!! For years and years, it’s been a dream of mine to attend MozCon, Moz‘s annual SEO conference. Just over a week ago, Moz published a blog post announcing that they would offer...
View ArticleMOM Turns 5 – A List of Thank You’s
My freelance business – Morgan Online Marketing (or MOM for short) – turned 5-years-old on Monday, as I officially took the plunge and went full-time freelance on Tuesday 7th May 2013, having left my...
View ArticleBecome Cardiff SEO Meet’s Site Review Sponsor and Have Your Software Demoed...
Cardiff SEO Meet has some fantastic sponsors, including food sponsors and – as of the next event (our 8th one) – a website sponsor (website coming soon!) and a photo/video sponsor. Recently however I...
View ArticleMy Trip to MozCon 2018 in Seattle!
What a month July was! On Sunday 8th July I flew to Seattle to attend MozCon 2018, having won a VIP ticket in a competition by Moz. My submission was a short story about Roger MozBot (Moz’s brand...
View ArticleCaught Out by Canonicals – A Quick Tip When Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS
It’s been a while since my last post on here (over 4 months – yikes!) but I thought I’d quickly put this out there based on a recent private Facebook group interaction. A few people said it was a good...
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