Mantis Technologies Blog

Spring clean your website

Why not breathe new life into your website now and give your website a ‘spring clean’?
In this blog post we discuss ways to give your website a breath of fresh air and increase traffic, sales and enquiries...

September 22, 2013 by Dave Mason

Should I use Paypal or Credit Card as my payment gateway?

One of the most common questions we get asked when building an ecommerce site is whether they should use Paypal or Credit Card as the payment gateway for their website.

When setting up a credit card payment gateway, you first need a merchant account with your bank as this then allows you to accept credit card payments and have them deposited into your bank account. You also need a payment gateway such as Egateway, SecurePay or Eway to then accept the credit card payments on your site.

September 22, 2013 by Dave Mason

Why is Google ignoring my Title tag and meta description?

Since late 2011 we have noticed ever increasing examples around the internet of Google ignoring site title and/or meta tags and instead displaying their own ones. This is happening to many sites around the internet and seems to becoming more and more common.

Some of our clients and other website owners on discussion forums have reported one or the following things happening to their Google listings...

September 16, 2013 by Dave Mason