There has been a new campaign making its rounds across the internet lately called “Reset the Net” – and I personally fully support it. The campaign arose as a response to the shocking revelations of government surveillance exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in June last year. The Reset the Net event looks to commemorate the first anniversary […]
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StatCounter Browser Statistics for 2014 Released
StatCounter has been around for a while now, focused on offering in-depth traffic information about your website completely free of charge. Over the years StatCounter has developed quiet the network gathering data from over 2.5 million members with over 50 million page views each month. So naturally they have huge amounts of data about the different technologies used to access […]
GoDaddy Invades Europe
GoDaddy has announced yesterday its continued expansion into international markets. After beginning this international expansion fewer than two years ago and a recent successful release across Latin America, GoDaddy is now extending its offering more broadly across Europe. Not only will the company’s services become available in these European nations, but they’ll also come in 14 new […]
Audefy Disappears, Reminder How Important Backups Are
Yesterday I decided to recirculate a message across the Rapid Purple social networks reminding people to always maintain a personal backup of your files – whether that be your website, your NAS, your file server, or even just your home computer. This morning I found a perfect example to share with everyone of just how important […]
99% Of Guest Bloggers Today Can’t Write
There’s been quiet alot of talk going on lately about guest blogging and what’s to come of it. Google made a clear stance against the current state of guest blogging; and the recent hits on both MyBlogGuest, and more recently PostJoint are evidence of that. All this has created quiet the stir amongst the SEO […]
DynDNS No Longer Free
DynDNS used to be THE free DNS service everyone was always recommending. Unfortunately Dyn has recently announced that it’s free service will cease on May 7th, 2014. This means anyone using their free DNS hosting has to upgrade to a paid version or will get cut off. Their paid version costs $25 per year just for […]
SiteGround Launches V2.0 of their Staging Tool
[frame align=”right”][/frame]SiteGround has always done a great job at making themselves stand out from the crowd by offering a very unique set of tools built upon a very unique infrastructure. Starting from multiple data-centers spread across multiple geographical locations, down to their innovative shared hosting server security setup which isolates shared hosting accounts from each […]
Bing Introduces The Bing Knowledge Widget for Webmasters
Bing has been, quietly, hard at work at expanding the Bing knowledge repository to currently feature hundreds of millions of people, places, things – and their relationships between each-other.
World Backup Day 2014 Is Here
World Backup Day is amongst us once again, and today – it is our duty as webmasters, business owners, cellphone users, and well – data owners – to backup all our files. Granted you should already be maintaining backups on a regular basis – however if you’re not today is the perfect day to start […]
hostsController – Make Managing Your Hosts File Less Annoying
As most webmasters will tell you – changing around your hosts file can be a pain in the ass. Now the average user, or browser, probably will never have to deal with modifying their machines hosts file …
Happy Early Birthday SiteGround!
If you haven’t heard yet, SiteGround turns 10 years old this month! In 2 days (March 22, 2014)! As a SiteGround affiliate; and a webmaster; this is some pretty awesome news. See you have to realize just how small SiteGround is – and I don’t mean this in a negative way at all. They DO host over […]
Apparently HTML Is Really An STD; Oh & An MP3 Is A Star Wars Robot
So I was driving into the office this morning, standing in horrible traffic on the BQE when I overheard the following amongst the chatter on the radio: 11% of Americans think HTML is an STD.
Rackspace Launches One-Stop Digital Services Practice
Our partner, Rackspace Hosting, is launching a new practice focusing on digital marketing infrastructure needs. The service reflects the growing role of chief marketing officers in corporate infrastructure decisions. “We’ve created a dedicated team with project management, sales, and more,” said Gerardo Dada, Product Marketing Leader, Rackspace. “This is a discrete team that takes advantage […]
Matt Cutts Discusses Content Clarity, Almost Mentions Grammar
A couple of days ago I had written a post titled Grammar Matters, Atleast to Bing; a post discussing Duane Forrester’s own post on the Bing Webmaster Blog that having poorly written content …
Google Pokes Fun at BLINK & MARQUEE HTML
The <blink> and <marquee> tags are probably at the top of every single list of what to not do when building your website – and yet somehow you’ll still find sites making use of these functions. Granted there are a few times when marquee’s still come in useful – however these days you get more control […]
Grammar Matters, Atleast to Bing
I don’t want it to sound like I am picking on Bing with the post title of Grammar Matters, Atleast to Bing – fact is it should matter to all of us webmasters. After-all our jobs is to create and display online content in the best way possible for our visitors and grammar should play a […]
JaguarPC Redesigns Website & Hosting Plan Upgrades
[frame align=”right”][/frame]JaguarPC, a hosting provider of shared, VPS, cloud, reseller and dedicated plans, has announced the release of a new website along with free web hosting plan upgrades for all of its current clients. JaguarPC’s newest presence on the web offers a refreshing presentation of information that even those new to web hosting will find easy […]
Social Signals Checker Tool Launched
Social signals as we know them have been all the rage in the SEO sphere in the past couple of years. In fact ever since Danny Sullivan first wrote a thought-provoking article on social signals and their impact on SEO way back in December of 2010 social signals have been at the tip of every […]
SiteGround Completes Integration with ManageWP
I know many of you utilizing SiteGround Hosting do so for your WordPress sites – so here’s some news I’m sure you’ll love. SiteGround has rolled out an integration with ManageWP across their entire server infrastructure. With this integration, SiteGround is able to offer its customers a one click ManageWP account activation as well as an intuitive […]
.Guru, .Bike, .Singles And 4 Other Domain Names Have Launched
If you are looking for a good domain name, your choices are about to get alot more interesting. Starting today you can register a .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles and .ventures domain name through numerous domain name registrars worldwide. Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) already made four new gTLDs in Arabic, Chinese and […]