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Four Ways to Protect Your Assets From Being Hacked
May 25, 2013 | DrewBeing 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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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!
Is Your Design Representing You? (Exclusive Infographic)
May 12, 2013 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | Sheldon Armstrong
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | Drew
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 | THE Tech ScoopIn 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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech ScoopWeb 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 | DrewThough 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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | DrewThis 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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech ScoopOne 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 | THE Tech ScoopDetermining 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.
Content Creation for your Business Online
February 8, 2013 | THE Tech ScoopHaving 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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 Tech ScoopThe 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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | James Hicks
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | James Hicks
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 | Missy Diaz
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | James Duval
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | THE Tech Scoop
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 | James Hicks
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 | James Hicks
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.
JetPack Plugin Adds Mobile Theme Support
September 27, 2012 | James Hicks
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
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