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Four Ways to Protect Your Assets From Being Hacked

May 25, 2013 | Comments

Being proactive about account security can make a world of difference for those who bank, trade, and manage finances online. Everyone hears about nightmare scenarios where large banks are hacked, with financial information being leaked to potential identity … Read More

Understanding the Basics of Domain Registration

May 17, 2013 | Comments

Your Internet business doesn’t start until you have a functional, professional-looking, and attractive website. This is the shop where all your customers come to interact with you. The first step in creating your website is domain registration. Your domain name … Read More

Blogs and mortar – How the humble blog is helping put real estate on the map

May 17, 2013 | Comments

With the Australian property market static and displaying signs of a continued recession, sellers are in a more difficult position to put their property on the market during fiscal financial times. Nonetheless, there have been success stories that have emerged … Read More

Cpanel or Fantastico? Let’s Compare These Two Web Hosting Control Panels

May 15, 2013 | Comments

If you’re a webmaster, or if you are thinking of starting your own website, a web hosting control panel is going to be an important element in your backend admin system. Web hosting control panels provide a convenient GUI-based platform … Read More

An A-Z Guide about Web Hosting

May 14, 2013 |

Looking to know all of your basics about web hosting? We have it all right here for you. In just a few minutes, you’ll know all you need to know about web hosting, from A to Z. Let’s get started!

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Is Your Design Representing You? (Exclusive Infographic)

May 12, 2013 |

Fonts and colors chosen for a website indicate the perception of the user, which affects the message being conveyed. Meanings of fonts and colors in the context of web design are briefly explained below.

Meanings of font … Read More

Benefits of Geo targeted PPC Adverts

May 3, 2013 | Comments

Pay per click, synonymously known as cost per click advertisement is an online form of advertisement that mainly focuses on driving traffic to websites. However, just as the name suggests, this mode of advertisement requires the advertiser, usually the owner … Read More

5 Unique Features in Web Design Templates

May 1, 2013 |

It seems like pretty much everyone has to have a website these days, yet how many people actually know how to create one? Although it’s not terribly difficult to create a basic website, getting professional quality design requires either large … Read More

4 Basic Tips Obtainable in Affiliate Marketing

April 16, 2013 |

Unlike the imagination of many, affiliate marketing is neither so simple nor avenues for get rich quick. Rather, it is one of those marketing models that require time, perseverance, hardworking as well as consistent learning process, particularly with the understanding … Read More

Habits of Successful Bloggers

April 9, 2013 |

Running a successful blog is not just about being in the right place at the right time though many of your competitors will try and drag you into the mud and down to their level by claiming just that. The … Read More

Write Blog Content that Markets Itself

April 4, 2013 | Comments

Marketing your blog posts could probably be as big of a job as you wanted it to be. In fact, there’s enough ways and methods of marketing content that someone could spent a full work day doing nothing … Read More

PSD to HTML5 Service – A Trend in the modern web world

April 3, 2013 |

What is PSD to HTML5 Service?

The service provided on the process of converting the basic input formats into the latest version of the markup language to get identification on the World Wide Web. This fifth provided version of … Read More

Effective Optimization Methods and Processes of SEO Service Providers

March 26, 2013 |

When trying to optimize one’s website or pages, it is a must that a website owner hires the most effective and reliable SEO and link building services. Effective SEO and link building methods and techniques can only be assured if … Read More

4 Ways to Combat Blogging Boredom

March 17, 2013 |

Writing about the same topic over and over again, regardless of your enthusiasm for that topic can become extremely boring.

Even if you have a tremendous amount of passion for the subject-matter you’ve chosen, … Read More

5 Tools Every Webmaster Should Consider

March 16, 2013 |

Running a website requires a very broad skillset. Web developers must understand the backend of business websites and storefronts, and they must translate data into actions that influence traffic and conversion rates. From keeping data secure to monitoring visitor … Read More

Avoid These Biggest Blunders in Website Design

March 13, 2013 |

In this fast paced world, the modern consumers like to buy things online as it is easy, time saving and can be done sitting at home or in office. This trend is influencing so many businesses to get converted into … Read More

Best ways to kick start your SEO plan

March 12, 2013 | Comments

Introduction: Why you need an SEO plan

Every online company, and basically every company has its website, that is serious about its business operations needs to have an SEO plan. Search engine optimization, simply put, is how those who own … Read More

The Changes Brought About In 2013 In Web Design

March 9, 2013 |

Web designs are always changing and newer and better ones are always showing up, almost without effort. But it is only the web developer himself who can … Read More

5 Web Design Trends That Are Dead

March 1, 2013 |

Though the internet may still be a young technology, it has been around long enough for huge advances in the area of coding and web development. As a result of these advances and shifting trends, the types of webpages … Read More

What Is Quality Score And Why Is It Important for Your Adwords Campaign Success?

February 27, 2013 |

If you run your own online marketing campaigns, or do any sort of Google AdWords management, it’s important that you understand what quality score is and why it’s so important.  Quality score has a direct impact on how much you’ll … Read More

Five Steps to Turning a Blog into a Professional Looking Website

February 26, 2013 | Comments

This is a digital age. More and more people are turning to sites like About.Me and LinkedIn to represent themselves in the professional world. Anyone who is looking to get a job that is somehow related to technology and the … Read More

How to Bring Buyers Traffic to Your Website

February 22, 2013 |

Since you are keen in reading this post, most probably you are at that stage of blogging, where you have set up an eye catchy website or blog with some compelling content, and you are anticipating some good traffic show … Read More

Optimizing your On-Page Images

February 16, 2013 |

One of the most challenging struggles faced by webmasters today is providing the proper diversity to their sites SEO value. Far too many players in the SEO game focus solely on backlinks, when taking the time to manage your on … Read More

Google Ranking Factors to Exploit and Improve SEO Performance

February 8, 2013 | Comments

Determining Google ranking factors is a powerful step towards getting higher rankings on the search engine results page. If you can determine what these SEO factors are, you will be able to determine how to tweak it to your advantage.

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Content Creation for your Business Online

February 8, 2013 | Comments

Having an attractive website is an important step to getting visitors to return to the site, but it will usually need to have good written content too in order to retain the attention of visitors to the website.  Although writing interesting content is … Read More

Five Great WP Tools for Your Travel Site

January 27, 2013 |

WordPress provides a long list of useful plugins for websites about every topic imaginable, and their list of options for travel sites can definitely greatly enhance your site’s content. Although there are both free and premium tools and plugins available, … Read More

Must-Haves for a Commercial Website

January 23, 2013 |

It’s not good enough for your business to simply have a website. Your site must be as easy and convenient to use as customers expect, and you have to make sure your website gets exposure to bring those clicks in … Read More

Tips on Hiring a Guest Blogger for Your Site

January 20, 2013 |

The following article provides site owners with tips on hiring and working with guest bloggers.

If you are a site owner looking for ways to gain more exposure for your website, a great way is to achieve this is … Read More

Content Creation: Why Skipping the Easy Road Doesn’t Have to Be Hard

January 17, 2013 |

One of the most important aspects of your website or blog is the content that you offer to your visitors. For a lot of people, though, creating this content can be extremely intimidating. It is important to remember that there … Read More

WordPress 3.5 (Elvin) is Available

December 11, 2012 | Comments

Honoring legendary drummer Elvin Jones, we now have WordPress 3.5!

Per Matt’s update on the WordPress Blog this morning, the primary updates are subtle and effective, but there is some dramatic significance to a key component – that being the … Read More

Common Mistakes to Avoid When Designing Your Company Website

December 2, 2012 | Comments

The design of your company website plays an important role in keeping customers on your site, encouraging them to explore further and ultimately making conversions. Consequently, it’s necessary to implement effective design techniques and avoid ones that will turn visitors … Read More

PressNomics 2012

November 4, 2012 |

PressNomics 2012: The Economics of WordPress Conference is officially in the books and to say it was a success would be an understatement.

Sally and Joshua Strebel, and the entire Page.ly team exceeded anyone’s expectations and we, the attendees, are … Read More

How Finance Professionals Can Use Google Plus

October 31, 2012 |

There isn’t a profession in today’s economy that can’t benefit from engaging with and using social media. Whether you own a restaurant, an auto repair shop or are a finance professional – you too can benefit from this new marketing … Read More

WordPress hack: Automatic “Nofollow” for external links in post content

October 22, 2012 |

Paste the following code snippet in your functions.php file. Once you saved the file, all external links in your post content will be changed to nofollow.

add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘auto_nofollow’); function auto_nofollow($content) { //return stripslashes(wp_rel_nofollow($content)); return preg_replace_callback(‘/<a>]+/’, ‘auto_nofollow_callback’, $content); } function auto_nofollow_callback($matches) … Read More

The 5 Most Important Programming Languages For Bloggers

October 19, 2012 |

There is plenty of software out there to makes bloggers’ lives a lot easier, making it simple to design a site with not even basic html knowledge. Yet some people just want to have full control.

Unless you’ve worked at … Read More

6 Tool Recommendations for Bloggers

October 18, 2012 | Comments

Blogging can become a tedious hobby when you consider everything involved; coming up with content ideas, keeping track of what you’ve done thus far, marketing, advertising, etc. There are certain tools that bloggers prefer to use to increase their productivity … Read More

Guidelines for Selecting Blogging Software

October 12, 2012 | Comments

There is a wide range of blogging software applications available in the market today, including Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad and WordPress. For most people, making a choice among these options can be very confusing and frustrating process.

The following … Read More

PressNomics: The Economics of WordPress

October 10, 2012 | Comments

WordPress has evolved into much more than a blogging platform. Over the years thousands of individuals and businesses have leveraged the open-source code to do everything from publish a family website to serve as the digital home for multi-national enterprise … Read More

WordPress Plugin Review: HashTraffic

September 29, 2012 | Comments

The team behind the #SOBCON conference have partnered with a new social curation team, HashTraffic.

I’m always scouring the web for new, unique and ultimately effective tools to use to share relative social content with our readers/viewers.

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JetPack Plugin Adds Mobile Theme Support

September 27, 2012 | Comments

JetPack is the jack-of-all-trades plugin from the creators of WordPress.

JetPack has been around for a while now, it started out rather rough, unpolished and somewhat bloated (from a performance perspective). That criticism being said (and heard … Read More