Why is it important to have a quality website? People use the internet on a daily basis. They search the internet for businesses, products, services, shopping and information. When they search for something you offer or specifically for your business, you want to show up and not just show up- but show up and...
Graphic Design Tips and how to Successfully Apply Them to Your Business
Have you ever found a lovely, professional design and thought “I could do that, it’s easy” and then wondered why your effort doesn’t look as good? For some reason, you’ve not quite managed to hit the nail on the head? It turns out, there’s quite a high level of skill involved in being a...
Tips to Help in Rebranding Your Business
Rebranding your company doesn’t come without risk. Yes, you (should) end up with a shiny new logo, new marketing material and maybe even a brand spanking new website, but you do run the risk of losing your already built-up audience. If you’ve done things correctly, your brand should be recognised within your industry and...
Tips and Tricks of the Trade for Helping you Build Better Websites
What’s a web design company doing giving out tips on how to build better websites out for I hear you ask? Well, it’s not because all websites need quality, authoritative content to stay relevant on all the top search engines. Anyway, back to the point! Here’s some tips and tricks to help you build...
Ways to Improve your Websites Search Engine Rankings in Five Easy Steps
If you’re looking to improve the basic search performance of your website, then this blog will be extremely useful! Follow our five suggestions to improve your search engine optimisation and watch your website rise to the top of the search engines. Keywords are Key The number one driver of visitors to your website is...
Does Your Business Need a Marketing Agency?
Marketing Agencies have the ability to prove ROI on your marketing activities. Proving ROI on marketing activity is not an easy thing. If specific measurement is what you require, become a true partner with your agency and the results will be magical. Marketing Agencies can present you in a better light than you could...
Working From Home? Make a daily plan!
Following Boris Johnsons announcement at 08:30pm last night, the UK and it’s people now face a 3-week lockdown with thousands of people likely to be working from home for the foreseeable future. Below are a few points to help you be a productive as possible over the coming weeks. Get up and dressed as...
This isn’t goodbye!
Helping us all stay safe Following the announcement from Boris Johnson last night, Give the Dog a Bone have made the decision to temporarily close our office until further notice to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus. For the foreseeable future, the GTDAB team will be working remotely. If you require our support, please...
Instagram to ‘hide’ fake likes and followers
Instagram hides ‘likes’: Instagram is hiding the ‘likes’ count on the app in several countries to remove social pressure on users. This update allows only the user to see the number of likes a post has received. The followers of the user won’t be able to see it. The photo and video-sharing social networking...
.UK Domains
Did you know that from 6th July anyone can register unclaimed .uk domains? Currently, if you own an existing .co.uk domain you automatically have the rights of registration to the .uk version of your domain. As of 6th July, you will no longer have sole right of registration to .uk version of the domain...