Google Helps You Play With Cookies

No, not those kind of cookies. Although now I really want a white chocolate macadamia nut cookie … Anyway – Google is helping webmasters who use cookies on their websites or mobile applications to meet their European legal obligations to get user consent regarding the use of cookies. So a couple of days ago Google […]

20% Off Yola Gold for July 4th

[frame align=”left”][/frame]In celebration of July 4th, BBQ’s, beach trips, and all things that attract us about summer Yola has launched a brand new coupon code in hopes of helping businesses attract some people to their doors. Their latest coupon code gives you 20% off a 1-year subscription to Yola Gold and is active starting right now […]

July 2014 Coupon Codes for Hawk Host

Amongst names such as GoDaddy, Mediatemple, & Host Gator it’s easy to miss the smaller hosting companies out there who often times provide exceptional service and support. Hawk Host is one of those hosting providers – around since 2004 now and currently provides shared hosting, reseller hosting, semi-dedicated and virtual hosting in Dallas, Seattle, Washington DC, San Jose, Amsterdam and Singapore. For […]

Eleven2 Starts Their July 4th Sale Early

Well today marks the last day of June, and that means that July 4th is right around the corner. Eleven2 has decided to launch their 4th of July sale a bit early this year, and boy it’s a big one. All web hosting and reseller hosting packages from Eleven2 are now discounted by 60% on any billing […]

Goodbye Google Authorship Images

In a post on G+ yesterday Google’s John Mueller announced the removal of authorship avatars and circle counts from Google’s search results. The reason behind it is to improve the visual display of search results and maintaining a more “consistent design across devices”. Now granted John did mention that Google’s own experiments have shown the […]

Rackspace Redesigns Dedicated Cloud Servers

It’s been a while since I became an official Rackspace partner, and it has been absolutely amazing working with the Rackspace team over the course of these past months. They truly have some amazing ideas and one of those ideas has finally come to fruition. Last week Rackspace announced the launch of their OnMetal Cloud […]

Google Launches Invite-Only Domain Name Service

Around 3pm yesterday afternoon Google quietly launched an invite-only beta of a domain name registration service called Google Domains. Following up with the concepts of Google My Business, Google Domains plans to extend upon that initiative of getting small businesses online. Google’s goal during the beta of Google Domains is to collect some input on […]

45% Off Soccer Sale at Host Gator

Just in-case you’ve been living under a rock this month the World Cup is currently going on in Brazil. In celebration of the current festivities Snappy over at HostGator decided to run a sale and offer 45%off all new hosting packages plus $8 domains! The sale starts right now, Tuesday, June 24th at 12am CST and will continue through the day, ending at 11:59pm […]

Google Updates Products Feed Attributes

If you run an eCommerce website than chances are you’ve had some experience with getting a feed generated to add your products to Google Shopping. Depending on the platform you have this may or may not have been a huge pain in the ass. I’m looking at you ONEighty & SMY Performance. Anyway Google has announced that […]

New Domain Names on Sale at 123-Reg

[frame align=”right”][/frame]With all of the new domain name extensions that are coming out we’re bound to start seeing sales on these gTLD’s more and more. 123-Reg seems to be in the lead right now however as they’ve already ran sales on .UK, .GURU & .PHOTOGRAPHY domain name extensions. Adding atop their existing June 2014 coupon […]

Yandex Joins The “Not Provided” Club

Joining in with Google, Yahoo & recently Bing, Yandex has decided to also strip search query data from the referrer meaning that Yandex is now 100% not provided. The announcement roughly translated from Russian reads as follows: In December last year we started an experiment to encrypt text query in the Referrer , which gradually […]

Bing Announces Plans To Make Things Faster

Microsoft researchers and colleagues from Bing have been collaborating with others from industry and academia to examine datacenter hardware alternatives, and their work, a project known as Catapult, was presented in Minneapolis on June 16 during the 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). Confused yet? Hold on. Their paper, titled A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services, describes an […]

Rapid Purple Donates Website for AFPO

The Association for Police Officers is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization who promote officer safety through superior training. It is their goal to offer Law Enforcement Officers additional training which their current employer may not. Having a few close friends on the force here in New York, and seeing the original table-based layout that was built back in […]

WHUK Upgrades VMware Based Cloud Hosting Plans

[frame align=”right”][/frame]Webhosting UK (or WHUK for short) has announced some serious performance upgrades to their line of VMware based cloud hosting plans. The new plans sport new processor performance with double the amount of RAM and storage space than the previous-generation VMware cloud hosting plans offered, at the exact same great low price. So that means that now, […]

1&1 Launches WordPress Optimized Hosting

[frame align=”left”][/frame]With competitors like GoDaddy, MediaTemple, Viper Hosted and more jumping into the WordPress dedicated hosting scene 1&1 wasn’t about to be left out – and so yesterday 1&1 announced the launch of their WordPress optimized hosting solutions. 1&1’s WordPress solution offers a custom dashboard allowing quick and easy WordPress site installation along with a […]

25% Off on Media Temple Premium WordPress Hosting

Media Temple has been working hard at making their hosted WordPress solution the best out there – and you don’t become the best by not giving something back. So with that in mind Media Temple has launched yet another 25% off sale on their Premium Wordpess Hosting from now through June 30, 2014. we are offering 25% […]

Bing Supports Up To 125 Trillion URLs In Sitemaps

Fabrice Canel, the Principal Program Manager of the Bing Index Generation team, posted their Sitemaps best practices guide for large web sites which shows off some pretty awesome numbers. For starters Bing can support up to 125 trillion links through multiple XML sitemap files. If you’re really curious with one sitemap file, Bing allows you to list 50,000 x […]

Google Launched Yet Another Spam Algorithm Yesterday

A couple weeks ago we saw the launch of version 2.0 of the Google Spam Algorithm, also known as the PayDay Loan algorithm; and surprisingly yesterday Google launched version 3.0. Matt Cutts previously explained that 2.0 was targeting specifically spammy sites, and so 3.0 moves the target over to spammy queries specifically. Looks like the […]

InMotion Upgrades Shared Hosting Plans

[frame align=”left”][/frame]InMotion Hosting has secretly been hard at work upgrading all of their shared hosting plans with a whole slew of awesome new features and I wanted to take a moment and outline those changes here. SSDs Solid-state drives are now available for new customers. SSDs can be used for databases, CMS applications, and static […]