Five Ways to Secure Your Hosting Account
After dealing with some site/server security issues with one of our clients recently, 5 Ways to Secure Your Hosting Account is a very timely article we found that may help you avoid such a circumstance. The average webmaster probably needs to spend between 4 and 8 hours boosting the security of their websites, accounts, and servers. Hopefully…
Read MoreOnline Marketing Tools for Small Business Owners
We attended the Dallas SEO/SEM Meetup last night regarding Tips and Tools to Help Small Businesses Succeed. Christine Churchill from KeyRelevance was able to recommend several tools for online marketing that small business owners can use to gain more traction online. Here are just a few of them:
Read MoreFree Design Tools to help Ease Web Design Workflow
Finding material that can be used by graphic designers to help ease workflow is sometimes hard. According to a recent article by Template Monster, the best place to start looking, of course, is online. Anything from fonts and icons, to color schemes and custom forms can be found. These online tools, found on Adam’s post,…
Read MoreContent Curation and Re-Blogging Tips & Strategies
Content curation, often known as re-blogging, is the sharing and redistribution of blog posts, social media, and other forms of online publication to your network of users with your commentary, praise, or critique. Almost everyone has done it, just by sharing a Facebook picture or retweeting your favorite quote.
Read MoreGoogle Testing New Image Search Preview
It looks like Google is testing a new version of their image search preview function. Please note that you may not experience the same visual experience, as it appears they are only rolling this out to certain users (A/B Testing).
Read MoreAdding a Free Business Listing to CitySearch
If you are trying to add your business (or a client’s business) to CitySearch, you may notice that there is no visible option (at this time, at least). Luckily, Phil over at Local Visibility System got hold of a solution, which he details in this article, How to Add a Free CitySearch Business Listing. Basically,…
Read MoreMake Copyright the Current Year on PHP Website
We’ve got a quick tip today. If you are using WordPress or another PHP based platform, you can place the following code in your footer, next to a copyright ( © ) symbol and it will always display the current year. Note: The code in the snippets below needs to be in <? ?> php…
Read MoreRename WordPress Admin Menu Items in Custom Template or Theme
If you have purchased a theme from TemplateMonster or another WordPress theme site, it is likely that some of the custom post types used to create things like portfolio, client, or testimonial pages, as well as the URLs that those pages write to, may not be named optimally. Most recently for us, we had a…
Read MoreFind Your Facebook Personal or Page RSS Feed
Every Facebook personal or business page’s status feed has its own RSS feed that you can tap into for various purposes. You may want to see your friend’s feeds in your feed reader (rather than actually logging in to Facebook and dealing with the ever increasing clutter), or you may want to pull your own…
Read MoreShould You Update Online Business Profiles?
Online business profile services (directories) such as Google Places, Bing Local and Yahoo Local, among many more, are a great, free services that can bring you new customers, more traffic, and more interactivity with your clients. A properly optimized and complete profile gives your enterprise a better chance of being found in map and directory…
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