Webmaster News – Page 15

Infographic: 42% Of Us Check Our Emails In The Bathroom

Since the concept of emails has been around for such a long time it’s common to think that it may be a dying piece of technology – especially with today’s smart watches, push notifications & all the various messengers available out there. Boy would you be wrong. Email is far from dead. In-fact a recent […]

Did The Google Homepage Look A Bit Different To You Today?

Did the Google homepage look strange to you this morning – but you couldn’t place what was different? Sure there was a new animation for the logo – but we’ve all come to expect the Google Doodles. And yet something just felt different? That’s because Google has, quietly, made their search box larger. Take a […]

Google Chrome No Longer Displays Flash Ads

Starting right meow, Google Chrome will no longer happily support Flash based AdWords advertisements – and as such will no longer show them. Like at all. To help designers along Google made a post on Google+ yesterday showcasing some methods to migrate their Flash based ads over to HTML5. If you’re big on using Flash […]

Want To Keep That SSL Ranking Boost? Perfect Your SSL Setup

I’ve covered SSL several times now in post and video form – and if you’ve decided that there’s a benefit to converting your website to SSL I urge you to do it correctly. That means going through your website to make sure that all of the elements you are utilizing (all of your scripts, images, […]

Weebly Website Builder Now Offered With LunarPages Hosting Plans

LunarPages has launched a brand new website builder for all of their shared hosting customers – and if you think it resembles Weebly in almost every single way – you would be 100% correct. LunarPages shared hosting plans now directly integrate the Weebly drag & drop website builder – with the Pro and eCommerce plans […]

HostGator Has Increased Their Hosting Prices & I Fully Support It!

Earlier this week Host Gator announced a price increase on their Shared and WordPress hosting plans – and personally I am all for it. I fully understand that everyone wants to have a website on the internet and pay almost nothing for it – and for a long time this has been the case. However […]

Scam Alert: Internet Domain Name Services

Scams suck – and I absolutely hate them. One of the key things I have always built a business on was honesty and transparency; and as such it’s a personal pet peeve of mine when people attempt to trick people into becoming a client. It’s a sleazy tactic – unfortunately it happens very often in […]

Google Code Is Now Read Only – Move Your Projects To GitHub

Google Code, as of today, is in read-only mode. That means that developers and fellow project owners will no longer be able to modify their projects in any capacity. Data can still be downloaded – and best of all it can be exported to GitHub – which is basically where your project should be from […]

eUKhost Partners with SpamExperts

Any hosting company will inevitably have to battle spam – and eUKhost was no different. In their ongoing battle to filter spam from their network eUKhost has partnered with SpamExperts – helping eUKhost save almost 80% of their resources by filtering out spam, virus, malware and phishing attacks. We host over 34,000 clients world-wide who […]

Tweets Now Displaying In Google Search Results

Just a couple of months ago Google officially began showing Twitter Tweets as part of their search results – and I made a video stating that Twitter was going to becoming the quickest way to the top of a Google search result. Well while most of us were relaxing and enjoying our days off this weekend […]

Yahoo Finally Figures Out What To Do With Luminate

If anyone remembers – back in September of 2014 Yahoo bought Luminate – an advertising network – and then successfully shut it down. It seems almost a year later they finally decided what they were going to do with Luminate – at least in name form. In an email sent out this weekend to Yahoo […]

Google Confirms: We Will Probably Never Index All Your Website Pages

Have you been desperately trying to get Google to index all of your websites pages? Constantly revamping your sitemap, updating your content, and resubmitting only to find your stats in Google Search Console barely improving? In a tweet Google’s John Mueller confirmed that Google will never actually index all of your pages and there really […]

Need A Way To Easily Add Watermarks To Your Images?

Looking for a way to watermark your images before adding them to your eCommerce website? Or maybe you just don’t want your photographs spread about without some attribution to you? Easy Watermark Studio Lite is an awesome free Windows application which lets you …… easily add watermarks – and then some – to your images. Easy […]

DreamHost Websites Using HTTPS and DreamPress Aren’t Loading

As of late last night DreamHost clients who are on the DreamPress platform – DreamHost’s own managed WordPress hosting platform – are experiencing issues trying to view their SSL secure websites. Take note that this issue only affects DreamPress customers who are using HTTPS. All other DreamHost clients who are utilizing their shared hosting, VPS, or […]

Google Confirms User Actions Are NOT A Ranking Factor

Continuing with the Google confirmations we now have Google’s John Mueller stating that there are no Google algorithms that target user actions on your website. He further said, “I don’t think we even see what people are doing on your web site.” So comments, form submissions, and general user interactions don’t help your websites ranking. So […]