Author Archives: Michael Boguslavskiy

Backup Your Files on March 31st, World Backup Day

I have mentioned backups in a previous article on here, and if you haven’t done a backup of your files in a while – there is no better day to do it on than March 31st, also known as World Backup Day! World Backup Day is a day for people to learn about the increasing role […]

Running A Reciprocal Linking Campaign

Reciprocal linking means forming partnerships with other sites who place a link from their Web pages to yours. You then give them a similar link in return. When you look for people to swap links with, make sure that you don’t reduce the quality or content of your own site. You don’t want users to […]

1&1 Discontinues MySQL 4 Databases

[frame align=”right”][/frame]Hosting provider 1&1 is “deactivating” MySQL 4 databases starting on May 1st, 2013. All WordPress sites hosted with 1&1 that have not migrated their databases from the old database to the new MySQL 5 databases may have their sites go offline, however 1&1 doesn’t explicitly say the sites will go down. If you host […]

Understanding Keyword Density for SEO

Keyword density is an indicator of the number of times the selected keyword appears in the web page. But mind you, keywords shouldn’t be over used, but should be just sufficient enough to appear at important places. If you repeat your keywords with every other word on every line, then your site will probably be rejected […]

Keep Track of Your Marketing Campaigns with the Google URL Builder

Keeping track of your marketing campaigns, and what kind of traffic they are generating for you is essential in order to properly maintain your campaigns and manage your marketing budget. The Google URL Builder is a great tool for such purposes – even more so for those of us who make use of Google Analytics. […]

Bing Launches the Bing Site Move Tool

Bing has recently announced the launch of the Bing Site Move Tool which can be found under the Diagnostics & Tools section within Bing Webmaster Tools can be used to tell Bing that you have moved and permanently redirected your site, or a section of your site, to a new location. Now, before you mention it, yes 301 redirects accomplish the […]

Deadline Coming Up for the GoDaddy .ME Scholarship

With the deadline for the GoDaddy .ME Scholarship coming up (March 30th, 2013) – I just wanted to remind everyone interested in participating to go ahead and apply for the company’s .ME scholarship. Up to ten winners will receive $10,000 scholarships each after composing 500-word essays centered around “how the Internet or Internet technology has helped them […]

Special TLD Auction at GoDaddy on .ORG Domain Names

The .ORG registry, PIR, has partnered with GoDaddy.com and ENOM to auction and sell 87 one and two-character .ORG domain names in the coming year. Go Daddy has secured 43 of those 87 domain names and offered them up for public auction. This is the first time PIR has released such rare, valuable .ORG domain […]

Adobe BrowserLab is Shut Down

Some sad news was brought to me attention early this morning as I checked my emails and noticed some mentions regarding the shutting down of Adobe’s BrowserLab. So I headed over to the Adobe blog, and lo-and-behold the top post read BrowserLab is Shutting Down. To be honest – it’s probably a smart move for Adobe. […]

Google Images Layout Gets More Updates

At the end of January Google released their first big change to the layout of Google Images providing a more streamlined process – changing their Google Images layout to now display the a preview of the image directly inline with the image you clicked on. However this morning when I went to run a search on […]

New Webmaster Tools Added

[frame align=”right”][/frame]I have launched a few more webmaster tools which have been added to the Rapid Purple collection of Online Webmaster Tools & Generators. The one I’m most excited about is a great new online generator for a fancy css and javascript based navigation menu with onMouseover hover features to both highlight the selected item, […]

$20 Off 1YR of Yola Online Store

[frame align=”right”][/frame]Since the 15% Off Yola Silver deal has now expired, the team at Yola has introduced another new coupon which gives you $20 off a 1yr subscription of the Yola Online Store – a package that allows you to create sophisticated online stores from within your Yola website. With advanced features like tax and shipping integration, […]

$1.50 Domain Names from Register.com

I recently came upon a great offer for domain names from Register.com – offering a .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, or a .US domain name for just $1.50 for the first year! Offer valid for new customers in the US and Canada only, limited to a total of three domains. Upon expiration, all products will be […]

Bing Launches Bing Ads Intelligence

Having trouble building your keyword list for your website? Then try using Bing Ads Intelligence. This tool will build lists from suggested keywords, which in turn will help you develop strategies. The tool uses Bing’s extensive network data to assist you with the various tasks. To quote straight from the Bing Ads Intelligence website, the […]

4 Great Tips for Creating Free Backlinks

One of the best ways to earn some Google reputation for your website or blog is by having a good number of inbound links to your blog. As I discussed in a previous article, backlinks are vital in raising the profile of your website as up to 75% of Google’s ranking factors are attributed to […]

Namecheap Announces The Acceptance of Bitcoins

Domain name giant and hosting company Namecheap recently announced the acceptance of Bitcoins for its services. “We’re delighted to inform you that we now accept the Bitcoin payment method, in addition to PayPal, Google CheckOut, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express,” stated the company via its homepage. Namecheap is a customer-focused domain name registrar and web […]

ONEighty Automotive Image Hosting Beta Launched

I have been working with ONEighty lately to develop an automotive image hosting website for them. Finally the initial public beta has been launched with the majority of all functionality complete. The design still has some fine tuning to go through – however that is exactly what the slide-out recommendations tab is for on the […]

Alternative Social Media Marketing Tactics

“Social Media Marketing”, a very important, yet very broad phrase. Social Media Marketing (SMM) gets a blog more targeted traffic, in fact if handled properly it generates more traffic than all other tactics combined. However in recent times, some webmasters have overused and abused social network websites. As a result, white-hat webmasters have a hard […]

Why Am I Not Earning Much From My Google Adsense Ads?

I have spoken to plenty of webmasters and online marketers who utilize Google Adsense over my years working with the Internet, and I have noticed that a common question amongst many of them is “Why am I not earning much from my Google Adsense ads?” This is far from a simple question to answer, and […]