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How to check if your server is vulnerable to Heartbleed
How do you know if your server and/or SSL is vulnerable to the heartbleed OpenSSL flaw, and more importantly, how do you check if your server is vulnerable to h
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Flaw Found in Key Method for Protecting Data on the Internet
By NICOLE PERLROTH, New York Times. April 8, 2014 The tiny padlock next to web addresses that promised to protect our most sensitive information — passwords
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Windows XP Support Ends Today
Today’s the last day that Microsoft will support Windows XP. What does this mean for you?
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iPhone Email Problem
iPhone email problems have been around for a long time. It seems that with every new release/update for iOS, nothing seems to really improve the reliability of
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Preparing to Develop an App
Preparing to develop your own app? App development has become big business. More people are looking to develop their own apps, but aren’t sure where to st
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Google Stops Keyword Tracking with Secure Connections
If you have a website, chances are you are tracking how your visitors found you online by using Google Analytics or another statistics program on your server. H
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What are Negative Keywords?
The term negative keywords can be misleading. Usually when you think of keywords, you’re talking about search engine optimization. Keywords are the terms
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What is Google’s Hummingbird Update?
Google’s Hummingbird update was officially announced on September 26th, which sparked off a series of worried blog activity from search engine optimizatio
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Improve customers’ shopping experience with custom profiles
Improving customers’ shopping experiences on ecommerce websites can be difficult to achieve. Most ecommerce websites follow a standard flow in terms of na
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Offline YouTube Videos Coming Soon!
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 interne
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How do I get more Likes on facebook?
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
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Slow WordPress Website? Tip to help speed up WordPress
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 an
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SEO Mistakes: common mistakes when optimizing your website
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 o
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What are Long Tail Keywords?
If you’ve been reading my blog about search engine optimization and search engine optimization tips, you’re probably familiar with some of the basic
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Google Warns to Disclose Paid Content Properly
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 s
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What are facebook Promoted Posts?
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
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How to Reduce Spam Emails
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 b
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The Biggest Cyber Attack in History
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
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What is a Responsive Website?
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
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Windows 8 email issues
Now that the holidays are over, everyone’s playing with their new toys. Many people have received new Windows 8 devices, like smart phones, tablets or com
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Tips for starting an Ecommerce Website
So you’re ready to start an ecommerce website.. you know what you’re selling, where you’ll ship to, and have purchased a domain name, but don&
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Search Engine Optimization Tips
So after posting a couple of recent posts on what’s going on in the SEO world, and some general tips and explanations about email set up, I have decided t
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Facebook Like Program
Need to get more ‘likes’ on your facebook page? Not sure how? Many facebook pages are created as part of a social media marketing campaign, but then
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Google update: Improved diversity of domains in searches
Matt Cutts recently tweeted about a new algorithm update to Google that will apparently improve the diversity of of domains returned in Google searches. What do
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Copyright Removal Notices to Affect Google Rankings
Google announced yet another change to its search algorithm which is supposed to take effect next week (yes, another change, again!). The change/update is basic
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Google Search by Handwriting on Screen
Google recently released a new feature for mobile browsers, which let’s you write on the screen to search for something, instead of typing! if you use a s
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What are Meta Tags?
Search Engine Optimization requires a couple of things to be successful: an understanding of how search engines work, how to direct and guide them through your
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What is POP3 and IMAP?
As a hosting provider, the first question I am asked is ‘What is the difference between POP3 and IMAP email settings?’. When setting up Microsoft Ou
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Set Up E-mail in Outlook 2010
When you get a hosting package for your website, it usually includes email hosting as well, which means you can now use [email protected] instead of yourn
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5 Tips to re-design your website
Every couple of years, it’s a good idea to evaluate how much of an impact your website makes, in terms of design, information, ease of use and visibility
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What is an Editable Website?
Editable websites, or Content Management Systems (CMS) are tools that allow the client to keep their websites up to date themselves, without having to know we
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Four Means of Monetizing Your Blogs Content
As an online marketing expert, I’m perpetually exploring marketing trends and various aspects of the industry in order to best understand the current busi
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How do I rank my Website on Google?
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is one of the most popular and competitive web based services available. As business becomes more competitive, so does web
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Website templates- good or bad?
Website templates can save you some money when designing a new website, but are the savings equal to or greater than the actual cost?
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Submitting your website to search engines
Submitting your website to search engines is just as important as (organic) search engine optimization itself. Most people think that by sticking a few meta tag
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WordPress Security Tips
WordPress security should be a top priority for all developers. Many clients have come to me with a WordPress blog that was set up by a friend or cheap freelanc
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What is WordPress?
WordPress blogs have become extremely popular as cost effective website solutions. I started receiving more inquiries this year about setting up WordPress to us
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What is Google Instant?
It seems Google is changing the way it works- yet again. Last week, Google.com changed the new way which it returns search results: Google Instant. Many people
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Social Media Marketing Explained
Social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn have been popular for a long time, but have recently become extremely popular as more people are
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Website Statistics Explained
When reading your website statistics (or traffic report if you will), you need to first understand what you're looking at. Most website statistics programmes of
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How to rank your blog on Google
Ranking your blog on Google is not as complicated as you may think. As blogs have become popular as a medium to drive traffic to your website, more people are n
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Starting a Blog
Simply creating a blog and writing your everyday thoughts may be fun (if you have the time), but that does not help your website, or your website rankings on se
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Open Source CMS
When deciding on whether to get an CMS based website, or content management system based website, there are a couple of things that need to be considered. In th
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What is an RSS Feed?
an RSS feed allows you to literally broadcast your information across millions of web portals, websites, blogs, directories and more. An RSS feed will also help
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What is PPC or Pay Per Click Advertising?
PPC, or "Pay-Per-Click" is a very common type of online marketing. You have seen PPC in action many times before without realizing what it is! Have you searched
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What Type of Website is Best for My Needs?
When contacting a website design firm, be careful not to be drawn in for the most expensive options with fancy bells and whistles- chances are you will never us
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Starting an E-Commerce Website
So you’re ready to develop an e-commerce site for your business. How do you start? What questions do you ask developers and firms? We’ll cover some
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How to choose the right hosting package
Many people who are having a website developed for the first time do not realize there is more involved than just getting a website- you need hosting.