WSI Corporate was recently nominated for Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies Award Program. Every year, hundreds of entrepreneurial companies across Canada compete for this recognition, undergoing a meticulous selection process that evaluates the calibre of their management abilities and practices. This year, WSI has been selected to compete among Canada’s top companies for this designation.

Since its inception in 1993, Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies has become the country’s leading business awards program, recognizing excellence in Canadian-owned and -managed companies with revenues over $10 million. Through a rigorous selection process, the organization awards 50 Canadian companies with this designation based on the development of their strategies, their demonstration of corporate strengths and their level of excellence in the marketplace.

To learn more, please read this press release.

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One of WSI’s leading UK offices is located here in Holmfirth Yorkshire, near Huudersfield, where we design and develop websites and manage online marketing campaigns for both local and national companies,

Alongside Facebook and Digg, Twitter has become the digital marketer’s platform of choice when it comes to reaching an increasingly content-hungry audience. In its simplest terms – recycling (or re-tweeting as it is now known) your Twitter content is a cost efficient and incredibly powerful way of pushing your content to a wider audience.
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The last ten years have seen the internet flourish, expanding exponentially with the growth in business websites and personalised blog-centric content. Previously the domain of web designers with programming expertise, it’s never been easier to create and manage your own content online.
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In this age of affordable web design and local business directories, getting online is no longer an issue for even the smallest of businesses. Being seen, however, is an entirely different ball game. By virtue of the fact that every man (or woman) and their dog are now able to establish at least a basic web presence with ease – for those businesses dependent on local trade staying ahead of the pack has never been more important.
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Link building, or ‘link baiting’ is really about one thing – creating quality content. Quality content in turn attracts non-directed traffic and is more likely to encourage external links. Acquiring genuine inbound links to your website has a direct impact on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
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Priceless Cinema is a portal for all of MasterCard movie related offers and promotions. Our development team and in-house designers worked together to build the Website Development which we managed to go live in just 12 days. Search Engine Optimisation has been built into the site for the large amounts of traffic that you’d expect on such a high profile site.  We are also working on an Email Marketing Campaign for Priceless Cinema.

We’ve put together a list of the top 5 tips for keeping hackers out of your site.

1. Keep your software and scripts up to date. Websites run on top of a surprisingly large number of layers of software, all of which need to be kept up to date in order to keep the site protected. The server operating system, the web server and database software, programming environments and any content management systems or scripts all need to be kept up to date with patches and security fixes to ensure any exploits are closed as soon as possible.
2. Install Anti-Virus and Anti-malware software on any computer you will be using to update the website. The number one cause of website security breaches is a malicious user gaining access to a website via malware on a users home or work computer. It’s important to have up to date anti-virus and anti-malware software installed on all machines and scans should be completed regularly.
3. Always use secure passwords. You should always use best practices when selecting passwords for your site.Passwords should be at least 8 characters long and should contain a mixture of upper and lower case characters, numbers and punctuation.Use a different password for every location.Only give you password to the people that absolutely must have it.If you ever do give you password to somebody else, be sure to change it to something else as soon as they are finished.
4. Use a reliable, secure hosting provider. You wouldn’t want to run a brick and mortar shop in the dodgy part of town would you? You need to be confident that your hosting provider takes all of the necessary steps to protect their network and the machines hosted on it. They should also have friendly, helpful and knowledgeable staff available to help should you ever run into any problems.
5. Keep server logs and regular backups! No matter what you do to protect your site it can never be 100% safe from the new exploits appearing all of the time. It’s important that you’re prepared for the worst by taking regular backups of all site files and databases so that you can restore the site to the safe version as soon as possible. Keeping server logs can help you close security holes by showing you exactly how a malicious user managed to gain access and which files in particular they used.

At WSI Yorkshire we take website security very seriously and can advise you on the best course of action to protect your site.

Get in touch with Lisa today on 01484 690 430 or email info@wsi-ebizsolutions.biz

Lately it has occurred to me that many of the websites I have managed content for do not have one page that seemed to be standard on the World Wide Web – the FAQ or Frequently Asked Questions page.

But this may not be a bad thing as long as the content of the website provides the answers your visitors need. Ask yourself if you really need that page – or if the information that is parked there would be better on more relevant pages.

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The benefits of successfully engaging customers through social media marketing has prompted much to be written on the subject. In fact, you might be forgiven for thinking everyone has an opinion on how best to market your business using platforms such as Facebook and Twitter – the list of do’s and don’ts is literally endless.

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There are virtually no rules in the world of blogging – from political commentary to personal diaries – the scope is literally endless. Recent years have seen an explosion in the use of blogs as an effective internet marketing tool, but for many the most challenging aspect of business blogging remains knowing what to use as content.

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