YouTube recently announced that later this year, YouTube mobile apps will be able to download and view videos on mobile devices, without the need for an internet connection. The videos, however, will not be stored permanently on mobile devices, and will have an expiration time of 48 hours (2 days). This is what they say on their official Partners & Creators blog: This upcoming feature will allow people to add videos to their device to watch for a short...
Have a facebook page but can't seem to generate a lot of likes and engagement? Not sure how to increase your number of page likes? How do all those other companies do it? You're not alone. Many businesses and people are stumped about how to increase popularity of their facebook page and get more likes. "How do those other companies do it??" or "How did they manage to get over 1000 likes on facebook??" are common questions...
If you use WordPress for your website, you'll know how convenient it is to add functionality with plugins. But, have you recently installed new plugins and noticed your WordPress website has slowed down drastically? Is your WordPress admin area super slow now as well? Chances are a plugin you've installed is the culprit. In this article, I'll explain how to determine if plugins are slowing down your WordPress website. The first thing to do is determine whether...
The reason for this article is because of the number of people I have spoken to recently about organic SEO, and the common mistakes people make when trying to optimize their websites themselves. More and more people think they can simply research organic SEO tactics on the internet, get an understanding and now think they can optimize their website themselves; without fully understanding what is required with organic SEO to actually help your website rank.
If you’ve been reading my blog about search engine optimization and search engine optimization tips, you’re probably familiar with some of the basics of search engine optimization. Keyword density, keyword to text size ratio and many other factors will affect how well your website ranks. However, another important factor to consider is what type of keywords you should use. There are 2 main types: ‘Head Terms’ and ‘Long Tail Keywords’ and in this article, I’ll discuss the difference between a head term and long tail keyword, and in particular, how long tail keywords can greatly help your rankings and boost traffic to your website.
If you have a blog that gets a decent amount of traffic, chances are at some point you’ve received an email from an advertiser asking to buy advertising space or back links to their website within your blog article content. This happened to us a couple of months ago, we got an email from a ‘marketing agency’ in England asking if they could pay us to insert back links to their advertising clients’ websites, within a particular article on our blog. I naturally thought this was spam, and we don’t sell back links on our website or blog for any amount of money anyways, so I simply trashed it. However, this is actually pretty common and some people make a decent amount of money selling links within their article content. Well, the fun’s over now, as Google is starting to crack down on this as well.
Recently, I’ve had a lot of clients ask me about promoting their business’ on social media platforms like facebook and twitter. It’s never too late to use social media to boost awareness of your brand, services or products and in fact, websites like facebook are now offering even more tools to help accomplish your marketing goals. facebook now offers ‘promoted posts’ , which allows you to reach new audiences like never before.
Everyone hates spam. The most annoying thing is when you wake up, you’ve taken your first sip of coffee in the morning and head over to your computer to begin planning your day. You open up your emails and voila; the spam gods have blessed you with a flood of spam emails while you slept so you can enjoy siphoning through your messages in the morning. We all hate spam, and in this article I’ll discuss some common sense measures you can take to help reduce the amount of spam you receive, or hopefully, stop spam from entering your inbox (well, as much as possible).
Wednesday, March 27th 2013 will go down in the history as one of the most important days in cyber history – the internet’s biggest cyber attack to date.
Most people are not even aware of what happened, why it happened and who was effected. This is mainly because most people around the world did not notice any real issues with their ability to send email, visit websites and conduct their daily online activity. However, something important did happen.. SpamHaus, which is a free service that helps filter out spam emails around the world (most mail servers are connected to services like SpamHaus to get updated lists of potential spam domains), was attacked by a group of hackers because they added a Dutch hosting company called Cyberbunker, to its list of spam domains. But before we get into the details of what happened and why, I’ll explain some of the background information first, so you’re clear on why this happened.
Many of you must have heard the term ‘responsive website’ recently, from either a friend or web design firm you may be speaking with, but there are still many people who don’t really understand what ‘responsive’ means when it comes to websites. In this article, we’ll discuss what a responsive website is, how a responsive website is a must have and why your website needs to responsive nowadays.