WebHostingUK has recently rolled out a bit of an overhaul to their website, and also their product services. With this overhaul also come new promotions, such as the 2x diskspace promotion that’s being run right now across the entire line of WHUK VPS servers! Thanks to this promotion a Linux VPS with 60GB of SSD […]
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Amazon S3 Outage Breaks The Internet
[box type=”success” align=”” class=”” width=”100%”]As of 5:08 PM EST Amazon reported that this issue has been resolved. So all services should be coming back to normal shortly. [/box] Amazon’s S3 service had a few hiccups today – and took down a big portion of the web during it. Have you noticed throughout today that your emails […]
Love Conquers Like When It Comes To Facebook Reactions
Remember when Facebook first introduced the new reaction emoji buttons to supplement the original ?? Turns out Facebook wants to use those reactions to gauge what topics should be displayed within your personal newsfeed. For example reacting with ??, ?, or ? emojis signifies that you feel strongly about a specific topic, more strongly than if […]
Facebook Videos Being Monetized With Ads
Facebook videos are extremely popular, extremely. By the end of 2016 Facebook users were watching 100 million hours of videos every single day! With this popularity it only made sense for Facebook to monetize their videos. What Facebook decided to do was integrate ads 20 seconds into their videos, and then share the revenues with […]
Customer Service on Twitter Just Got More Personal
Twitter is well aware of how popular their platform is for customer service. As such they have launched a new feature allowing customer service agents on Twitter to include their names and profile pictures inside Direct Messages. This gives the entire customer service interaction via Twitter a more personal approach. According to an internal Twitter […]
Google Confirms: Don’t Use URL Fragments
The SEO community has long known that URL fragments such as http://www.example.com/page.html#something cannot be properly crawled by Google. As such Googlebot will only see page.html, regardless of what content may be dynamically displayed via Ajax as part of the #something fragment. This was confirmed by Google’s John Mueller via a Twitter post early this morning: @ryansiddle […]
You’re Doing It Wrong: Social Media Happens Every Day
When I consult small business owners on their online marketing I often get asked the same question: “what am I doing wrong?” – which has led me to start up a new post-series which dissects the various different “You’re Doing It Wrong” situations and their answers. To kick things off we will focus what is […]
Facebook Videos Will Soon Auto-Play With Sound
Remember when it was a big deal that Facebook started auto-playing videos as you scrolled by them in your newsfeed? Facebook recently finished up testing auto-playing sound along with those videos – and apparently decided it was a good idea. So, coming soon, everyone gets auto-playing sound along with their auto-playing videos! People are watching […]
Twitter Growth Is Severly Behind It’s Competition
Twitter has many problems these days – and growth is one of the major ones. Over the course of a 2 year span (2015 – 2016) Twitter has gained only 31 million active monthly users. A recent study showed Instagram gaining 300 million and Facebook gaining 467 million during the same year. Check out the […]
Google Confirms: PageRank Is Still Being Used
Google’s PageRank came about, as we know it anyway, has been around for almost two decades – and Google’s Gary Illyes recently reminded us that it’s still very much alive. In a “DidYouKnow” tweet he states “DYK that after 18 years we’re still using PageRank (and 100s of other signals) in ranking?“. Check out the tweet […]
The Easiest Techno Dots Texture You’ll Ever Make
Polka Dots or Techno Dots as I like to call them are a great way to spice up any design – and I have an extremely easy way to quickly create them. As usual, start things off with a new file with a white background. Then open the Channels Panel via Window > Channels and […]
130 Million Ads Rejected Last Year by Bing
Bing recently released their Ad Quality Year in Review report for 2016 – reviewing the various different actions that Bing has taken towards malicious and misleading ads on their network. The stats are not pretty. Bing rejected 130 million ads and banned 175,000 advertisers – and even with numbers as impressive as these – online […]
Use The 1&1 Website Builder All Year Long for Less Than $25
Decided on building a new website for your business and figured you would go the route of using a website builder to do it? 1&1 is here to help with a promotion offering their own website builder for $1.99/mo only! The deal does have some specifics to be aware of. The offer is valid for […]
Save Up To 40% On Office 365 from GoDaddy
Unless you are a teacher or a student – you’re probably stuck paying for Microsoft Office – every single month. Those charges add up. Luckily GoDaddy has rolled out a new promotion on Microsoft Office 365 with discounts up to 40%! The basic Online Essentials plan which gives you all the Office apps and 1TB of […]
Pinterest is Getting Serious About PPC
After months of testing, and with a reach surpassing 150 million unique monthly users, Pinterest is finally ready to jump into the PPC world. Pinterest is common destination for those looking for products and ideas with roughly 2 billion searches each month. Capitalizing on these stats could prove extremely beneficial for Pinterest. The current plan […]
Malvertising Threats Grew 132% In 2016
I like keeping up to date on the latest industry reports, it’s a great way to stay on top of industry trends. The most recent report, however, has me a touch worried, or at least is forcing me to pay close attention. RiskIQ, a leading digital threat management company, has found that malvertising threats grew […]
EIG Announces Plans to Layoff 440 Bluehost Employees
Endurance International Group has an unfortunate track-record of ruining web hosting companies that they acquire – and the recent blow seems to be coming to Bluehost as EIG announces plans to lay off 440 Bluehost employees. That includes staff from accounting, customer support, human resources, and training staff – all of whom add up to […]
Buying Fake Twitter Followers Doesn’t Help Your Business
Reports have been going around that up to 500,000 fake Twitter profiles have recently been discovered by researchers – which frankly doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me. While Twitter may have strict policies in place regarding the use and creation of fake accounts – places like Fiverr are still full of gigs […]
Bing Makes It Extremely Easy To Sync Google Adwords With Bing Ads
Bing has just rolled out an amazing new tool that will help out everyone who has ever had to manage a PPC campaign across both search giants – Google & Bing. The new Automated Imports let Bing users easily import & synchronize campaigns from Google Adwords. One important thing to take note of is that Bing […]
Using Promotional Products To Boost Your Online Marketing Campaigns
We have spent years discussing various online marketing methods, and I have always preached about the importance of going outside the box when coming up with your marketing campaigns – and all of this outside the box thinking has led me to the introduction of promotional products into almost all of the marketing campaigns I […]