Entries by Garry Pickles

Scothost WordPress Hosting for Scottish businesses

If you’re based in Scotland, your website needs to be fast, dependable and easy to maintain, because reputation travels quickly in local markets. That’s exactly what Scothost is built for. Scothost is our Scotland-focused WordPress hosting service, running on 20i’s next-generation WordPress cloud hosting platform, so you get serious performance and proper reliability without the […]

The Website Danger Zone Warning.

 Rankings dropping? One hidden setting can wipe your visibility  Leads disappearing? It might be tracking failure, not demand.  A speed regression can nuke leads – did your site just slow down?  Backlinks can trigger penalties – are yours a ticking bomb? If your Google rankings are dropping, you are already in the danger zone. The […]

Stop over-relying on Online travel agencies, grow direct bookings

Booking.com and Online Travel Agencies like Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Agoda, etc. can be valuable partners, but an over-reliance on any single source of bookings is not healthy for a hotel business. Direct bookings are the only channel you fully control, your own pricing, your own guest relationship and your own long-term value. Why direct bookings matter When […]

Quick warning for 2026 – WordPress Checklist

If your website is on WordPress, there’s a good chance you are running tracking you did not intentionally set up, and you will not notice until it hurts you. A plugin update can add a tag. A marketing tool can re-enable pixels. A new embed can drop third-party cookies. And suddenly you are “tracking by […]

Google Updates the previous 2 years.

Google has shipped repeated core + spam rollouts. If your leads depend on rankings, treat this as your warning. This is the uncomfortable email most business owners ignore until AFTER the damage is done. Google has been running back-to-back algorithm rollouts for two years. Not “a small tweak”. Not “a minor change”. A full re-score […]