Articles & Tips – Page 4

A Closer Look At Place Tips & The Facebook Bluetooth Beacon

Back in May I got my first look at the Facebook Bluetooth Beacon – and since then I have had several of them setup at various locations and have slowly been testing them out. While I was doing that – it seems more and more business owners and marketers out there were invited to try […]

Is Twitter Now The Easiest Way To Rank #1 on Google?

So Twitter tweets are now showing in real-time on Google mobile searches – and this got me to thinking. Is this now the easiest way to rank #1 on Google? I mean just think about it – let’s say that you make a post about Windows 10 – and you tweet about this post when […]

First Look at Facebook’s 2015 Bluetooth Beacon

Those of you that follow on Facebook & Instagram may already know that a handful of businesses I work with have been selected to test out the Facebook Bluetooth Beacon – a new program designed to showcase relevant information and tips about the places you walk by everyday. I decided to put together a quick […]

Can We Stop Hating On Google Please?

The webmaster community has quiet the love/hate relationship going on with Google. Unfortunately I think alot of the blame we throw on Google is quiet undeserved. I can understand, to a point, why so many webmasters can get upset with Google – however I also can see how many of the times everyone is putting […]

What’s Going On With Facebook Like Counts?

Noticed a change in your Facebook likes on your pages? Wondering whats going on? Let’s figure it out! See a few weeks ago Facebook announced that they will be updating the way they treat inactive accounts when it comes to your total page count. I mentioned that here however I wanted to make a dedicated […]

How To Deal With Negative Reviews?!

Negative reviews SUCK! We all know this. We hate getting them and the majority of us don’t enjoy writing them. However as a business owner, how do we deal with them? Do we ignore them? Do we respond to them all? Do we take it personally? In the latest video release over on our YouTube channel […]

Understanding Online Reviews as a Business Owner

Customer reviews are absolutely crucial when it comes to developing an online presence for your business – alas it’s an area that many business owners shy away from for a variety of reasons. Some simply do not believe in the importance of online reviews; others don’t know how to properly respond to their reviews or […]

2015 Social Media Keyboard Shortcuts Guide

SetupABlogToday launched an awesome infographic that’s been making the rounds across the interwebs today – and I felt it only appropriate to reblog is on here also. Check out the following infographic outlining the best social media keyboard shortcuts across Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Tumblr, and Google+.

Pinning Posts in Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus

Now that pretty much all the top social networks support pinned/featured posts in one way or another I wanted to make the following walk-through video to show you how to utilize pinned posts on your Facebook pages, Twitter profiles and Google+ Pages. Furthermore we’ll touch base on when these pinned posts reset and what happens […]

4 Basic Yet Critical Social Media Tactics

In another video release on the Rapid Purple channel I go over 4 basic yet extremely important social media tactics that unfortunately get overlooked way too often when new webmasters and business owners kick off their social media marketing campaigns.

Understanding SSL Basics – Pros, Cons, Misconceptions

Ever since Google started talking about giving an SEO boost to SSL-enabled websites there’s been plenty of questions going around about SSL from people who’ve never considered it in the past. This prompted me to record the following video to help explain some of the basics of SSL encryption, along with some of the misconceptions […]

eCommerce: What It Takes & What Often Gets Overlooked

eCommerce is a phenomenal business, and ofcourse the sheer concept of taking your product, putting it online, and selling millions of it and becoming rich is a phenomenal thing. Unfortunately there are a ton of things that I’ve noticed over the years get overlooked by most people. That being said I decided to record the […]

I Want A Website: Using A Website Builder

So you’ve made the decision to use a website builder for your website and now your sitting there wondering “now what”. Well now that you’ve made the decision to use a Website Builder, you need to pick one. Picking the right one for you is going to come down to what exactly you want to […]

I Want A Website: Building My Own Website

So you decided to bypass the website builder route and build your website yourself. This is definitely the harder way to go about building your website however you will learn alot more and hopefully have some fun along the way. First thing is first. Your going to need to get yourself a domain name and […]

I Want A Website: An Introduction

So the time has finally come when you’ve decided it’s time to get a website up – whether it be for your personal blog or your business you’ve made the decision to get yourself onto the world wide web. So now you’re probably sitting there wondering – What now? Do I call GoDaddy? Web.com? Wix? […]

Fixing Your Website After a base64 Attack

Website attacks are becoming more and more popular these days, and Base64 attacks are by far one of the most common. They focus on exploiting a PHP vulnerability within a website and injecting malicious, base64-encoded code. The main targets of such attacks are usually out-dated, poorly coded, or nulled plugins. With that said if you’ve […]

Webmasters Please Use Comments When Writing Your Code

The more times that I find myself helping somebody with a website that was originally built/designed by somebody else the more I have been running into a certain webmaster pet-peeve of mine. When your writing code – whether it’s for yourself or for someone else – comments/notes are pretty crucial alas they’re often overlooked by […]