Pingdom Upgrades Their Starter Plan

Pingdom has long been a staple in the web hosting community – offering webmasters the ability to track their websites and/or servers downtime, uptime, and performance. A large portion of these you could do for free, however Pingdom does offer some extremely valuable premium plans. In the past you would have to upgrade to the […]

HostGator Is Celebrating Snappy’s 13th Birthday

Today HostGator launches a 50% off sale in celebration of Snappy’s 13th birthday! The sale will run until Thursday, October 22nd and gives new users 50% off on new hosting packages – including WordPress specific plans. Simply use HostGator coupon code [coupon code=”HostGator-SNAPPY13TH” /] to get your 50% off savings! Take note that this offer […]

25% Off Orders Of $75+ At Network Solutions

Network Solutions has launched a new sale giving 25% off to all new customers for all orders of $75 or more. There is no coupon code needed for this sale. Network Solutions will automatically apply the discount to your shopping cart once you’re qualifying order totals $75 or more. The discount applies to all products […]

Get Instant SEO & Social Media Stats Via Our New, Free, Online Tool!

Back in 2012 I started offering free SEO analysis reports here on Rapid Purple in an effort to help small business owners and other webmasters have a way to get some basic SEO details and statistics regarding their website without ever paying a dime for it. When this first launched I would manually run these reports, […]

Get 35% Off All Hosting Plans From Dotster

Dotster has kicked off a brand new web hosting sale – giving all new customers 35% off the entire Dotster web hosting line-up. That applies to both the Windows & Linux server hosting line-ups. Do take note though that this coupon code cannot be applied with the current Dotster free domain name coupon code. To score you’re […]

Google Battles Spam From Hacked Websites

Google recently rolled out a new set of algorithms designed to help clean out their search results from spam induced via hacked websites. As a webmaster, if you didn’t notice the hack yourself than Google’s Webmaster Tools will often times send you a notification when it locates something suspicious – and often times these are […]

Bonanza Background Burner Lets You Easily Change Backgrounds On Any Image

Let’s say you want to create a new product gallery on you’re website – unfortunately all of the images you have of your products have some sort of background on them. You find yourself facing several options. You make do with what you have. You pay a graphic designer to remove the backgrounds from the […]

Alert: Stored XSS Vulnerability Found Within Akismet WP Plugin

Sucuri just released notice of a Stored XSS vulnerability within Akismet 3.1.4. Unfortunately for this scenario Akismet is installed by default across millions of WordPress websites – and not every webmaster keeps their website scripts updated (even though you all should!). The current vulnerability affects only those websites who are running Akismet v3.1.4 or lower, […]

GoDaddy Launches 3 New Services for Canadian Small Businesses

Following up on GoDaddy’s report showcasing that the majority of small businesses do not have a website – GoDaddy has launched three new services in their Canadian market geared towards helping small businesses create and manage their online presence. The new additions are: Personal Domains – which let you easily point domains to 16+ social […]

Yahoo Donates 200 Servers to Howard & UTEP Universities

A couple of weeks ago Yahoo decided that they must do their part to encourage more diverse populations to pursue careers within the computer science and technology fields – so they donated 200 servers to Howard University and The University of Texas at El Paso – two universities known for their diverse student makeup. This […]

Adobe & Dropbox Join Forces For Better PDF Management

Adobe & Dropbox have announced a new partnership this week allowing Dropbox & Adobe Acrobat to integrate together. In turn you get the ability to manage, edit, and share your PDF files anywhere and at anytime. Here’s a breakdown of what the Adobe & Dropbox integration make possible: Highlight, annotate, and edit your PDF documents […]

Facebook Begins Testing Integrated Shopping Section

There have been talks about Facebook looking for ways to integrate shopping into your newsfeeds – and as of this week we finally have something tangible to play with as Facebook starts live-testing a way for businesses to sell their products right within the Facebook app! On Facebook we’ve seen that people are coming to our […]

Facebook Begins Testing Reactions – The Extension To The Like Button

Remember when you started hearing all this hype about Facebook making an unlike button? Well this week Facebook started testing out what they actually meant when they mentioned an alternative action to the Like button: Reactions. A Reaction does alot more than just a like – it lets Facebook start to learn what you really like, and […]

Check Out Google’s Hour Long Discussion On Duplicate Content

Earlier this week Google’s John Mueller held a video hangout to discuss the SEO communities most popular topic: duplicate content. The hangout ended up lasting over an hour, featuring roughly 20 minutes worth of presentation and a 40 minute Q&A session. I won’t even attempt to summarize all the different questions and concepts that get […]

Twitter Starts Curating Itself Via The Launch of Twitter Moments

Earlier this week Twitter announced the launch of Moments – something that I think is a tremendous sign towards where Twitter is heading – and I love it! See Twitter Moments is basically the answer to any Twitter user who has ever sat back and thought to themselves that things were just way too fast paced. Twitter […]

Google Adwords Display Network Is Going 100% Viewable CPM

Google has recently announced a rather huge change towards what they consider a view when it comes to Google Adwords advertising. Subsequently that change for Adwords advertisers also applied a huge change in the income for Google Adsense publishers. In a nutshell Google has stated that they are working on making sure that advertisers only have to […]

Infographic: What Programming Language Do I Learn First?

Many people often ask me what programming language to learn when they get started – and that answer changes all the time depending on what the person asking me wants to actually be able to do. Generally I run through a series of questions to be able to make my recommendation – and luckily the […]

The USDS Publishes An Official Style Guide for US Government Websites

Earlier this weekend a team of developers and designers that makeup the U.S. Digital Service along with web design company 18F got together and published the U.S. Web Design Standards – a set of webdesign guides, style groups, and assets that serve as a guide for creating official U.S. federal government websites. The U.S. Web […]

GoDaddy Partners With Dropmysite To Offer Cloud Backup Solutions For Small Business Owners

GoDaddy has joined forces with cloud backup provider Dropmysite to offer cloud-based website backup solutions for small and medium sized businesses. Dropmysite will automatically back up a customers website daily and securely using 256 bit military grade Advance encryption standards (AES) encryption. If any issue arises Dropmysite will allow the customer to easily and quickly get their […]