Webmaster News – Page 16

Ad Blocking Is Killing Your Favorite Websites

Websites that offer free resources, be it services or simply news, rely on advertising to stay alive. However a recent report from Adobe & PageFair shows that ad blocking will cost publishers nearly $22 billion throughout 2015, and $41.4 billion by 2016. As an avid Internet user I can understand how advertisements can be annoying […]

Top 300 Freeware Software by winAddons.com

Back in 2007 winAddons.com published an awesome list of 300 freeware software, organized by category. There’s some great software listed here – and the majority of them are still around and functioning perfectly in 2015. Unfortunately somewhere between the end of 2014 and now the winAddons.com domain name began to point to a default GoDaddy parked domain […]

UK Businesses Can Get A Free VMware vSphere Health Check

VMhosts has launched a free VMware health check service open to all UK businesses. The free health check is offered via a remote installation of Veeam ONE, a free tool intended to identify performance issues with your VMware setup. Furthermore VMhosts will look over your storage and your network configurations. All tests are done by […]

Infographic: We Like 4,166,667 Posts Per Minute On Facebook

DOMO, a business management platform in the cloud, has compiled an infographic showcasing how much Internet activity happens every minute across sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, Netflix, Snapchat, Vine, Uber, and more. The infographic embedded below shows some staggering info that says two things. There is absolutely no excuse for a business to NOT […]

Create A Fake Profile In Seconds

These days almost every place you visit asks you to register and create a profile to get access to something, and these days with online security the way it is – not everyone is comfortable using their own name or email address to create these profiles. This is where fakena.me comes into play. Fakena.me generates […]

Google Confirms You Can Use Pipes & Commas In Title Tags

I always say that I get pretty excited at anything that gets confirmed by Google. Well Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed on Twitter that it makes no difference if you decide to use pipes ( | ) or simple commas within your title tags. @osandacooray doesn't matter @Buddhini5 — Gary Illyes (@methode) August 10, 2015 Personally […]

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter & Yahoo Join Together To Fight Child Pornography

Earlier this week Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter & Yahoo officially joined forces with the Internet Watch Foundation to help fight child pornography online. Utilizing a hash-based platform the companies hope to prevent the ability to upload and share any child pornography online. Microsoft already utilizes this technology within PhotoDNA – a standalone tool which has […]

Bing Doesn’t Want You Buying Fake Drugs Online

As our way of life changes, and we start to rely more and more on the Internet there will always be people out there trying to anonymously scam you out of your hard earned money by selling you fake products/services behind a shady website name. Over the years we’ve all seen those emails advertising cheap prescription […]

.ORG Domain Name Prices Increased At Most Registrars

Are you shopping for a new .ORG domain name and noticing that the prices seem to be changing everywhere? That’s because the Public Interest Registry, the registry responsible for the .ORG domain name has raised it’s annual costs for new .ORG domain name registrations, renewals, and transfers – and most registrars will be passing that […]

InMotion Hosting Updates Dedicated Server Specs

InMotion Hosting has announced a refresh of their dedicated servers aimed at bringing things up to speed a bit. This refresh had a huge focus on integrating solid-state drives (SSDs) into InMotion’s dedicated servers – and as such all Advanced, Elite and Commercial class servers now have the option of going SSD. Our top of […]

Google Now Displays Only 3 Local Results

I have some rather unfortunate news to report guys. Google has changed their search layout once more – getting rid of the seven local results they used to show for appropriate queries and displaying only 3 local listings now. I first noticed this around August 6th/7th, and Barry Schwartz over at SearchEngine Roundtable reported on […]

YouTube Videos Will No Longer Get Stuck At 301 Views

YouTube has always had an issue when it came down to video view counts – how did they determine whether or not the views that a video was getting actually came from real people? In the past YouTube would essentially freeze view counts once they hit 301 and then verify the incoming traffic. Once they […]

YouTube Transparent Player Officially Launched

A few months ago YouTube began testing out a new transparent video player and personally I was always such a huge fan of it that I’ve been using it on a daily basis since April 2015 while it was in it’s beta stages. Today I am happy to say that YouTube has officially launched the new transparent […]

jQuery Powers Almost 30% Of All Websites

Recently I have been working on a custom dashboard for a local car rental company, writing it in PHP & MySQL with a jQuery-powered interface – and I started to wonder just how many websites out there were using jQuery these days. See I remember the Internet when jQuery wasn’t even around, and since 2006 […]

Almost 50% Of The Internet Population Visits Facebook Once A Month

Facebook has released their Q2 2015 statistics, and apart from a 39% growth in revenue, there are some very interesting numbers in there that webmasters and marketers should take note of. First off 1.49 billion people access Facebook at least once a month, and considering that the global online population is currently estimated at 3 […]

Rackspace Launches VMware Powered Private Cloud Services

VMware fans will love the new private cloud offering from Rackspace built entirely with VMware’s virtualization software vCloud. Called Rackspace Private Cloud – the new service is aimed at offering greater control and security as opposed to multi-tenant clouds, while retaining much of the scalability and flexibility of shared cloud services. Rackspace CTO John Engates said […]