Lollipop Local

It is quite natural for any webmaster or small business owner monitoring their own website to want to know how their site is performing.  However, Google’s own terms of service state that they will penalize you if you are being over-zealous in terms of how often you are ‘scraping’ information Read more [...]

There is nothing worse than going into one of your WordPress blogs and discovering that you have 10,000 pending comments! The spammers have found you. That’s what happened to me this morning when I was checking on the blogs of two clients that we manage – one had over 10k, the other over 3,000 Read more [...]

I hate spammers. I hate them because they fill up my inbox with ridiculous and unnecessary comments that I have to trawl through to separate them out from the real people with something valuable to add to my posts. I hate them because I have to put captcha codes on my contact form to deter them Read more [...]

I know it may seem like a silly question but, working on my laptop, my screen suddenly decided to change its orientation from horizontal to vertical so that I had to lie on my side to see the screen and type or turn the laptop on its side to see what was going on. I have no idea how I achieved this, Read more [...]

I needed to cancel a letter.ly subscription via Amazon Payments but it took me a while to work out how to do it. First, yu need to log into your account at https://payments.amazon.com Then click on Your Account Click on Your Subscriptions Select the item you need to cancel and click Details You Read more [...]

I was sat in a client’s office today and, rather than give up his Google Account log in details – which would mean I also had access to his emails – I suggested that he just add me as a User or Admin on his existing account. From memory, I knew it was simple enough to do so, after he had logged in Read more [...]

I don’t do IT Support so I don’t need to log into customers’ computers. But what I do need is to be able to log into my own home computer when I’m away from home. So, the two big players who could provide this solution are Team Viewer and LogMeIn. I Googled TeamViewer vs LogMeIn and found that the Read more [...]

An inquiry has been made about your domain’s (lollipoplocal.co.uk) value through PanSee web application. You can see the report by visiting this link /index.php?domain=lollipoplocal.co.uk. If you think you’re not the right person for this kind of message please forward it to webmaster of lollipoplocal.co.uk. This Read more [...]

I spent a while today trying to show a new client how to import his domain based emails into his gmail account so that he could receive and respond from the separate email addresses in one place. I believe that you can also do this in Outlook but gmail is my preferred method – and with a simple gmail Read more [...]

You’re going to be away from the office for an extended period over Christmas and the New Year and you’re determined not to check your emails… but how to tell potential customers that you’re not just ignoring them… or that your email has not gone down…? Well, it really depends what type of email Read more [...]