Good Link Building Techniques

If you want to increase the pagerank and traffic to your site there are many SEO options available but one of the most crucial methods is by gaining relevant backlinks to your website. Backlinks are vital in raising the profile of your website as up to 75% of Google’s ranking factors are attributed to off […]

Twitter Removed as a Friend Source on Tumblr

Tumblr was forced to remove Twitter as a source of finding friends for its users on Wednesday. The news came after the microblogging service debuted stricter API rules that negatively impact third-party app developers. Both Tumblr and Twitter later confirmed the removal. Now, Tumblr users are left with Facebook and Gmail to find friends when signing […]

Change The Top Google Search Result For Your Name

Norton has introduced a new tool called Norton Top Search that lets you control the top search result for your name, for free. To change your top search result, all you need to do is pick a URL that you would like to pop up first when people search your name. The form to do so, […]

How Small Businesses Can Use Social Media to Connect With Customers

It’s been a little while since I have checked in with the Blackberry for Small Business blog – and it’s a good thing I did when I did. Dan Sloshberg, Regional Manager for Small Medium Business Marketing in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and his team have put together a video showcasing some examples of how smart […]

Generating Traffic & Sales from Forums

Message boards, discussion forums and newsgroups can all produce very profitable results for you and your business. Most of us already participate in one or more of these and the more you participate the bigger the benefits to you, your business and your website will be. So let’s find out how to make this a […]

Is Your Domain Name Hurting Your Traffic?

You visited a great website some time ago that had some fantastic information on it. It is not easily found in search engines results so you decide to head over to your favorite browser and try to remember the domain name. The problem is that the domain spells out something like keyword-keyword-keyword-keyword-keyword.com. Does that sound normal, […]

Summers End Sales Roundup

There’s been quite alot of different Summers End sales going on, and it could get confusing going through it all. This roundup should help clear it up. I’ll list the coupons, by vendor, with brief descriptions and a link to the full post in case you need any more information.

SugarSync Summers End Sale

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]I said the Summers End sales are pouring in didn’t I? Well SugarSync just sent us their promotions – perfect for college students and right on time for the start of the upcoming semester. For a limited time you can save 10% OFF the first year of secure online file sync and backup for […]

Hawk Host Summers End Sale

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Hawk Host has released their Summers End promotions – and boy did they outdo themselves on this one. Sales across the entire hosting product line, from shared – to their brand new semi dedicated plans. All of these coupons will stay active until 11:18 am Sep 1, 2012 EST. We’ll start it off […]

Yola Summers End Sale

Summer’s winding down slowly, and the Summer’s End sales are pouring in. Through the end of the month, Yola is letting you take advantage of two great deals. First off they are offering 15% off 1 year of Yola Silver with coupon code [coupon code=”yola-silver15″ /]. Furthermore, you are able to get 10% off of any […]

Yola Launches Yola Gold Hosting Package

Yola’s newest hosting package, Yola Gold, is jumping into the game offering all the great hosting features you normally get with Yola, plus 10GB of space, and two new traffic generating tools: Traffic Builder and Local Boost. For any small business owner asking “How do I get found online?” – Yola Gold aims to be the answer. [frame […]

Upcoming Free Webinars from HubSpot

HubSpot, the pioneer of inbound marketing offers all-in-one marketing software that has aided more than 7,500 companies in 45 countries attract leads and convert them into customers. Additionally, Hubspot’s focus on educating their clients has helped many companies navigate the always-evolving web of internet growth and change; as the free e-book on the left should […]

HTACCESS Tutorials

Welcome to the .htaccess tutorials section of the Rapid Purple blog. The following tutorials are aimed to give you an introduction to creating and working with an .htaccess file; along with a few useful tips and tricks every webmaster should be familiar with. Creating An .HTACCESS File First things first. Before you can start using […]

Denying Site Access

Denying and allowing access to your website can be accomplished very easily with .htaccess. In order to block an IP address you would use the following command within your .htaccess file: deny from 000.000.000.000 Replace 000.000.000.000 with the IP address you wish to block. If you only specify one or two groups of the numbers you […]

Namecheap Summers End Sale

Summer isn’t quite over yet and Namecheap has got some hot summer deals to help you enjoy these last few weeks. [frame align=”left”]  [/frame]For starters for the rest of August only, new .ME registrations are available for $5.99 with code [coupon code=”namecheap-just4me” /]! Get a .ME today and enjoy the benefits of this unique TLD plus […]

Email Marketing Tips for Mobile Devices

More than ever, people get their email on their mobile device. For email marketers, this has game changing implications for how your messages are delivered and received. Not only is mobile marketing on the rise, every day brings new developments in technology and user behavior. Smartphones and other mobile devices should always be included in […]

50% Off 50GB at SOS Online Backup

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]The team over at SOS Online Backup has launched a new promotion for the month of August offering their 50GB plan at 50% off. If you count it all up, it comes up to be an amazing savings in the end. You start with a free 30-day trial, then upgrade in 30 days […]

NYCCCBA & Fastcase Integration Complete

The New York Criminal & Civil Courts Bar Association came to me requiring a members portal to be setup on their site and for Fastcase to be integrated within this system. Fastcase is the leading next-generation legal research service that puts a comprehensive national law library and smarter and more powerful searching, sorting, and visualization tools […]

Google+ Pages now open to all HootSuite users!

HootSuite is pleased to announce that Google+ Pages is now available to nearly 5 million users worldwide! Whether you’re on a Free, a Pro or an Enterprise plan, you’ll be able to efficiently manage Google+ Pages alongside other social channels, providing you with an even better way to capitalize on the social power of this rapidly […]