These days most website’s out there have a little link at the very bottom with a credit to the agency or designer who created the website. It’s a practice that has been around forever among website designers – and it’s something that has been quiet the topic of debate among the SEO community. The question […]
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Upcoming gTLD Domains for March 2015
March brings about some great new domain name extensions. As usual you can register these new domain names at either Namecheap, 1&1 or GoDaddy. March 11th: .coach, .legal, .memorial, .money March 24th: .green
NYC Gets Hit With DDOS Attack
For the duration of last week and up until yesterday a series of hackers have taken down New York City government’s email system. That included basically all government agencies, including the FBI and NYPD, who were unable to send or receive email messages. Commenting on this, Lancope CTO, TK Keanini, said: “Anything connected to the […]
Get 27% Off 1 Year of Yola Silver for March 2015
We often mention Yola’s sales and promotions around here – and as such I’ve never seen Yola give anything past a 20% discount before. Sure they’ve done specific monetary values of $40 and $50 before – but their percentage discounts usually hit the peak at 20%. With that said I’m extremely excited to announce Yola’s […]
Figure Out What Kind Of File That Is With HexBrowser
As a webmaster there’ll be times when you download something without an explicit file extension, or with an extension you’ve never seen before, or with the wrong extension assigned to it. Now you’re left to figure out what kind of file you really have – which is where HexBrowser.NET comes in. A freeware tool that identifies […]
Google To Make Mobile Friendliness A Ranking Signal
Having a mobile friendly website has always been a good idea. You want your mobile visitors to be able to comfortably view your website and browse through your data. That said Google also wants to make sure you don’t forget about your mobile viewers – so as of April 21st Google plans to make mobile-friendliness […]
Before You Get Excited About The FCC’s Net Neutrality Decision
February 26th started off as a great day. The US Federal Communications Commission voted in favor of net neutrality. Woot! Right? FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler commented that “no one – whether government or corporate – should control free open access” to the net. Big cable companies (Comcast, for example) cannot charge users more to access a so-called […]
Google Wins Auction for .APP gTLD
Earlier this week on 25 February 2015, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN’s authorized auction service provider, kicked off an auction for a new gTLD: .APP. Twelve applicants participated in the auction for the new .APP domain name with Google Registry (Charleston Road Registry Inc) prevailing with a winning price of $25,001,000. I have attached the auction results […]
Facebook Launches Dedicated App For Advertisers
Facebook always let you manage ads in some way via their existing applications – however with two million active advertisers now Facebook has decided to go ahead and launch a brand new app dedicated to advertisers which should make it easier to manage ads on the go. Using the app, marketers can: Track ad performance Edit […]
Order Your Food from Bing
Bing has launched yet another new feature to their search results – this time making ordering your lunch online that much easier. Simply run a search for your favorite restaurant and if they support online ordering Bing will link directly to their order page.
Find The Best iPhone Apps on Pinterest!
Getting an App noticed is pretty difficult if you’re just relying on the App Store. Luckily Pinterest has not introduced app pins – so that when your browsing on your iPhone or iPad you’ll be able to download the app without ever leaving the Pinterest app.
Facebook Launches Product Advertising
Facebook today announced the launch of product advertisements allowing advertisers to showcase specific products and/or their entire product catalog. Marketers can upload their product catalog and create campaigns targeting certain products to specific audiences, or let Facebook automatically deliver the most relevant products to people. Products can be shown in single- or multi-product ad units. Facebook […]
Bluehost Kicks Off Their Valentines Day Sale Early
Bluehost has decided to beat the market this year around and kick-off their Valentines day sale right now. They’ve dropped their hosting rates down to as low as $3.49/month, a 42% discount from their usual pricing. This sale is live right now and will run through February 16th, 2015. There’s no need for any coupon code […]
NYC Public School Students & Teachers Get Free Access to Microsoft Office
Students in New York City’s public schools are joining the ranks of NYC’s college students who have gotten free access to Microsoft’s Office 365. During the “State of the City” address made by New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito it was announced that every student and teacher will get full access to Microsoft Office 365 for free. You’ll […]
Imgur Pro For Everyone!
When it comes to uploading and sharing photos online Imgur has been “the home to the web’s most popular image content” since roughly 2009 when Alan Schaaf founded the site. Since then Imgur has ran two monetization models: the free membership allowed you to utilize the site while viewing ads; while the premium version offered […]
Easily Get Image Aspect Ratios With Arti
With more and more of the worlds population browsing the Internet on more and more different devices responsive design and image aspect ratios have began playing a much more prominent role in the life of the average webmaster. Luckily Arti is here to help! A new listing for our free webmaster resources directory – Arti […]
New gTLDs Coming Out February 2015
February has some great new gTLDs coming out. As usual you can register these new domain names at either Namecheap, 1&1 or GoDaddy. February 10: .work February 11: .delivery, .energy February 17: .yoga, .party, .cricket, .science
1 Free Month Of VPS Hosting from GoDaddy
GoDaddy has just launched an awesome new sale on their VPS line giving you 1 month of service completely free when you pre-pay for 3 months. That makes 4 months worth of hosting with a self-managed VPS running 1GB of RAM; 40GB of storage and with 1TB of bandwidth cost just under $60! There’s no […]
Twitter Tweets Will Start Showing In Real Time Within Google Results
Twitter and Google have closed on a deal to allow tweets to show up within Google’s search results as soon as they’re posted by any of Twitter’s 284 million plus users. Where exactly the tweets …
New ICANN Transfer Policy For Top Level Domains
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has added a new transfer policy for generic domain names which will now request the registrant who initiates a transfer from one registrar to another to receive and confirm an email from the present registrar regarding their transfer to the new company. In the past you would only […]