AI has revolutionized the way we approach website design and SEO (search engine optimization), taking user experience (UX) to a whole new level.

The integration of Artificial Intelligence tools in web development has rapidly become a prevailing trend in the industry. In today’s digital age, where online searches drive business success, having an optimized website design that captivates visitors and reduces bounce rates is crucial.

By providing a seamless and enjoyable user experience, your website can foster positive associations with your brand, ultimately boosting your business.

The launch of tools like ChatGPT has gotten people really excited about the possibilities of using artificial intelligence in creating online content. Ever since the release of ChatGPT internet forums have been active with conversations about the possibility of AI web design tools having the ability to create website content and suggest ideas for imagery as a way to streamline processes and free up developers to spend more time on the coding and creative parts of their job.

ChatGPT is a text-to-text tool, meaning that it accepts text as input, and generates the output based on it. You can ask ChatGPT something like “Suggest ideas for a products or landing page that sells stainless steel products” and you will see a list of ideas generated for you. ChatGPT can be used for various tasks you’d rather not do yourself, such as writing marketing copy, product descriptions, and even the entire copy for the web page. I’ve used AI to generate content for our apps and personalized photo stamps, as artificial intelligence is now integrated into the Divi Theme Builder.

SEO Plugins creating keyword content using AI

Artificial Intelligence is making a significant impact on the SEO industry. There are already excellent AI SEO tools available for use to improve your SEO rankings without much effort.

With the availability of plugins that leverage artificial intelligence to create SEO keyword content, your website’s listing on search engines can be enhanced.

In conclusion, the integration of Artificial Intelligence in website design and SEO has revolutionized the way businesses approach online presence. By providing a seamless and enjoyable user experience, AI-powered websites can foster positive associations with brands and ultimately boost business success. Additionally, AI SEO plugins have made it easier to improve SEO rankings by creating keyword-rich content. Embracing AI in website design and SEO is no longer just a trend but a necessity in today’s digital age.

You can stay ahead of the competition by harnessing the power of AI to take your website user experience and SEO to a whole new level.

 

 

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Australia will be the newest country with an international domain name (IDN), .au!

As advised by auDA (the organisation that develops and administers the rules for domain names in the .au country code Top Level Domain), the .au direct domain will launch on 24 March 2022.

The new .au domain extension will be available to Australian internet users who wish to register a shorter and simpler web address.

.au direct names are accessible to anyone with a verified relationship to Australia who wants to create a web presence for themselves or their business/organisation.

If you already have a domain ending in any .au namespace (com.au, net.au, id.au, org.au, asn.au, edu.au and gov.au etc.), you will be able to apply for Priority Status from 24 March 2022 to 20 September 2022 to obtain its exact .au direct match.

If the name doesn’t already exist in the .au namespace, then the .au direct name can be purchased from 24 March 2022.

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Article appeared in the March Edition of the NZ Printer Magazine about our book: Takeaway – The Sale of the Government Printing Office.

The aftermath following the sale of this New Zealand Crown asset in the early 1990s saw a Commission of Inquiry conducted due to the poorly conceived sale process. The inquiry found poor judgement on the part of the Labour Government Ministers of the day, incompetence from the departments and consultants that were responsible that resulted in massive costs being incurred from a process that was drawn out over two years.

Takeaway – The Sale of the Government Printing Office revisits the GPO in the 1980s and examines what went wrong that led to a profitable printing, publishing and stationery business being sold for much less than it was worth.

WAIRARAPA TIMES AGE

This year marks 30 years since the sale of the New Zealand Government Printing Office. It also marks the end of another era of printing in Masterton, with a proposal made this week to axe 44 jobs at what is now Webstar, Masterton.

Following the sale of the GPO to Graeme Hart’s Rank Group in 1990 the Masterton factory survived intact for a further five years before the business was sold to Blue Star. The follow-on from that was the closure of the sheetfed printing factory which left only the web offset printing plant in the Wairarapa which was renamed Webstar.

Takeaway – the Sale of the Government Printing Office looks at the Masterton printing facility prior to the sale that not only produced general printing, forms and stationery but also produced over three million phone books per year.

At the time the annual sales revenue from this business alone was more than the Crown received from the sale process.

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This month we published the ebook version of Takeaway – the Sale of the Government Printing Office which coincides with the 30th anniversary of the first Government Asset Sale in New Zealand when on January 24, 1990, the Crown and Graeme Hart of the Rank Group signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement for the Government Printing Office that was to come into effect on January 31, 1990.

The signing of the Sale and Purchase Agreement was the beginning of the end of a poorly conceived sale process that was drawn out over two years. But even following the signing of the agreement it took a further 10 months before the Crown were able to fully complete their obligations which would allow Rank full management of the business. But the Agreement signed on January 24 allowed for the Rank Group to take all the profits of the business even though they had only paid a small deposit and during that time the GPO sales turnover was more than the profit the Government made on the sale of this business asset.

To make matters worse for the Crown, Rank managed to get out of paying any interest on the balance of the money owing when they offered to help finalise issues that the government departments and consultants responsible were having. This amounted to Rank saving a further $1.5 million. Rank also were able to save over $2 million off their original bid for the business following an audit after the sale. The purchase of this Government asset was the springboard that was to launch Rank into the country’s wealthiest investment business that 30 years on is worth more than the national debt reduction the assets sales programme was supposed to achieve.

Takeaway – The sale of The Government Printing Office revisits the GPO in the 1980s of change and looks at what went wrong with the sale process and the effects and aftermath the sale created for the business, that years later triggered a Commission of Inquiry due to the very poor sale result that was less than the cost of the sale process itself and led to a profitable printing, publishing and stationery business being sold for much less than it was worth.

Available now as an ebook. Paperback version available soon.

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Download and read on your phone, tablet or computer.

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• Hello, I am a notorious hacker.
• I have infected your computer with malware, and I have used this to get embarrassing footage of you via your webcam.
• For proof, this is your password: *password here*
• For further proof, I have sent this email from your own email account which I have also hacked. Check the sender address.
• Deposit $xxx.xx amount of dollars into my Bitcoin wallet, or I will send the footage of you to everyone you know on social media and all the email addresses in your mailbox and ruin your life forever.

Without a doubt, the contents of the email are very disturbing when taken at face value. To the layperson it understandably sounds convincing. How could they know my password and send an email from my own account if what they were saying isn’t true?

How is an email sent from my own email address if they don’t really have access to the account?

This is due to a technique called ‘spoofing’, and it’s surprisingly easy to do. Spoofing is when somebody forges the from address of an email. This is one of the most common tactics used in phishing and spam emails. It’s very successful, and even if you know what to look out for, it may still catch you out on occasion.
You can confirm whether an email has been spoofed or not by checking the email’s “header”. If you’re not sure how to check the header of an email, MxToolBox have some great guides you can check out. You can then run the headers through their very useful ‘Email Header Analyzer’.

Here is a real life example header of a spoofed scam email. Please note that certain sections have been altered or removed for the privacy of the original recipient:

Delivered-To: joe@example.com
Received: from b1s3-1b-syd.hosting-services.net.au
by b1s3-1b-syd.hosting-services.net.au with LMTP id KJgNBTmM1FvU3TcAM3NUgg
for < joe@example.com >;
Received: from out06.smtpout.orange.fr ([193.252.22.215]:46953 helo=out.smtpout.orange.fr) < (This is a French IP address)
by b1s3-1b-syd.hosting-services.net.au with esmtps (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128)
(envelope-from < joe@example.com >)
for joe@example.com;
Received: from ([113.172.60.79]) < (This is a Vietnamese IP address)

I have made bold the parts of the email header which shows it to be spoofed. What we’re looking for here is the IP address (the numbers in brackets). Once you have the IP address the email was sent from, you can then check it using a geolocation IP tool to identify the origin. Our servers are all based in Australia, so if it’s an IP address from a foreign country then it wasn’t sent from your own mail server.

What we’re trying to illustrate in the example header is that the email was first sent by someone with a Vietnamese IP address, which was then sent from a mail service in France into the inbox. In conclusion, the email was originally sent from someone else’s email address and not from the account it claims to be from.

Now, on to the other convincing aspect of this type of scam email.

How do they know my password?

The password may look familiar because of the frequent data breaches that large companies experience on an ongoing basis. These breaches can sometimes result in the leak of millions of user’s passwords to the public.

When you receive a scam email and it includes a familiar password that you have used before or still use, it’s likely that the scammer has just grabbed it from a data leak of passwords.

One of the best websites for checking whether you have been part of a data leak over the years is ‘Have I Been Pwned’. All you need to do is enter your email address. The tool will then return a list of sites and services that your email address has been leaked from (and potentially other information such as your password).

If your email shows up and you have not recently updated your password, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible. Anytime your password, or a password that you have used before, is emailed to you, you should immediately update that password wherever you use it.

Hopefully you can rest a little easier, knowing that these scam emails are usually nothing but a cheap trick. If you’re still in any doubt however, we are always here to put your mind at ease and investigate further for you. Please feel free to give us a call on 0426 998 755. And whatever you do, never deposit your hard-earned money into a scammer’s bitcoin wallet!

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What Callbacks Are (And How They Can Help You Increase Conversions)

When it comes to communicating with your site’s visitors, most people rely on email campaigns (EDMs). However, this is far from the only possible approach. For example, you could also use push notifications and even phone calls.

When it comes to phone calls, you have the benefit of speaking directly to the user. Many prefer this type of communication and find them more personal than emails or live chats. The problem is that you may not always be available to take a call, and some users could be hesitant about being the ones to initiate contact in this way.

One way to get around these issues is to implement a way for users to request a callback. This works by them giving you their phone number, at which point you can call them at a time that suits you. This feature can be highly effective for the following reasons:

• The customer gives you their explicit permission to call them, which means the communication won’t feel like an intrusion.
• People that request callbacks are often more primed to convert and may just need a little push to get there.
• Speaking directly to someone can be much more effective from a marketing standpoint than emails.

Adding a feature that enables people to request a callback means you get a chance to land a client that you might not have secured otherwise. It also ensures that you’re in control of your communications at all times.

Conclusion:

Getting visitors to share their phone numbers with you can be complicated. However, there are plugins available that add this option for them to request a callback. Once this option is used by your website visitor they know they’re in control of when you’ll contact them and why. That, in turn, can help assuage any privacy concerns they might have.

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The Registry Operator Is Changing
After more than 15 years of championing Australia’s online space, AusRegistry will be passing the digital flame over to one of the largest registry operators in the world, Afilias.

Afilias is the world’s second-largest domain name registry, managing more than 20 million domains across dozens of different extensions.

More Flexible Billing Periods
As a part of this transition, multi-year registration periods will be made available for all Australian country code top-level domains giving you the freedom to register or renew any domain name that ends in ‘.au’ for your choice of 1-5 years.

Your Website Won’t Be Affected
We imagine the process involved in transitioning the data of Australia’s 3+ million active domain names will be fairly complex and require a lot of double, triple, and quadruple checking…

As such, downtime at the registry level has been scheduled to begin at 8:00am on Saturday the 30th of June and is expected to be complete at approximately 8:00pm on Sunday, the 1st of July.

During this time, pending transfers, renewals, and change of registrants may be affected and the new registration of any Australian ccTLDs will be unavailable. There will also be a 14-day period where domain purges will not take place, giving registrars the chance to verify data integrity and help mitigate any potential issues after the transition is complete.

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There is no requirement to have a privacy policy on a site but most businesses decide that it is a simple way to comply with the requirements of Australian Privacy Principle No. 1.

Basically, the purpose of a privacy policy is to simply explain to customers and potential customers how you manage their personal information. There is no template for a privacy policy that you must follow.

We have a basic privacy policy on our website that can be used as a guide – see this link: https://dande1st.com/privacy-policy/

With the EU’s new data privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect this month, addressing the protection of information that is collected and stored on a website, some Australian website owners are being asked by their customers to make sure that they’re going to meet the GDPR, because it’s simply seen as almost a de facto, new global standard.

If you think you should have a privacy policy on your website we would be happy to assist in creating one on your behalf.

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Bandwidth

Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be transferred over the internet from your website to the person visiting your site. The more people visiting your website, the more bandwidth your website requires. dande1st don’t put any caps on the amount of bandwidth that your website needs.

Storage

You can think of storage as the physical space where your website is held. Just like your home computer’s hard drive can fill up when more files are placed on it, so too will your hosting account fill up the more you add to it.

Tip: Be wary of hosting companies who promote “Unlimited Storage” plans as these are generally too good to be true. Often there will be an acceptable usage clause that if exceeded, could see your hosting account shut down.

Database

Your database is where all the dynamic content of your website is stored and is essentially a number of tables made up of rows and columns which hold information.

For example, when you write a blog post, that content is stored in the database to be served up anytime someone requests that page. Along with your website’s content, databases often store login details, form enquiries, and visitors comments.

CPU

Just as your home computer has CPU Core’s (usually 2 to 4), the server where your website is housed will have dozens of CPU’s. A CPU is essentially the brains of the server and executes programs and runs scripts.

The larger the CPU’s capacity, the more information your server can process at any one time. dande1st provides hosting plans that allocated different numbers of CPU cores to your service, with 100% CPU allowance representing 1 CPU core, 200% CPU allowance representing 2 CPU cores and so on.

Memory

In hosting terms, Memory is the amount of temporary data that a server can hold when running multiple processes at once. The more processes that are being run concurrently means the more ram your website will need to run. If you have a high traffic website, opting for a plan with more ram will ensure your website is running optimally around the clock.

Web Server

A web server is a program that uses HTTP to serve files that are requested from your server to the person requesting them. When a browser sends a request, the server searches for the files and sends them back to the browser over HTTP.
Operating System

All computers need an operating system to run their software and your hosting hardware is no different. The operating system interacts with the underlying hardware and allows other programs to run on top of it.

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