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Opt in email subscriptions – GDPR

Expect to receive emails from businesses that hold your ‘personal data’

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How to search and stop other web users copying your content from your website

Probably one of the most dangerous games you can play – plagiarism! Get caught and the legal fees could run into £k’s. There is a modern myth on the internet that because it’s free you can use it? Images usually, stolen and used without written consent, but text content or ‘copy’ as we call it can also be stolen. Unlike an image, stolen text is a lot harder to trace so we recommend Copyscape. www.copyscape.com To check results simply enter the web page URL (address) and click search, if you match you’ll get see a list of websites using the same content. Try putting www.bbc.co.uk if you’re not sure. A...

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Legitimate emails going to junk folders

Just had a client complaining that here marketing emails to bulk and individual recipients are not being delivered, or going to the junk folder! The samples we looked at were OK but contained ‘trigger’ words (and attachments) that some spam detection software will pick up like ‘special offer’ for example. There are probably more reasons why a message shouldn’t reach its destination than you can imagine, a long list of tick boxes every message has to get through. Using a public email address is almost certain to get filtered (like a yahoo or hotmail acc). Some attachments are not accepted, email formatting comes into the equation as well. Government and...

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LinkedIn hack, press hype?

Having read the LinkedIn report about the alleged hacking recently it all appears to be an old storm in a tea cup. These days we must accept that everyone, right down to the sole trader with one email account, is likely to be hacked at some time. That is to say a malicious attack on their IT and web infrastructure.