First off, Happy Halloween. It’s not every year any holiday falls on a Friday – so make the best of it this year. To help you get into the spirit some of your favorite websites have dressed up:
Category Archives: Webmaster News
Warning! Every Drupal 7 Website was Compromised Unless Patched
A few weeks ago Drupal released an update to a critical SQL Injection vulnerability and urged all their users to update or patch their sites immediately. Initially the scope of the vulnerability wasn’t known however today the Drupal team released a public service announcement that really hit home how important that update was. You should […]
Facebook Up To 1.35 Billion Monthly Users
Facebook’s 3rd quarter earnings report came out a couple of days ago – and as expected Facebook brought in a substantial amount of revenue and generated quiet the income raise. However the important numbers within that report to us webmasters is the current user base. Based on this report Facebook currently has 1.35 billion monthly […]
Google Lets Business Owners Respond To Reviews Directly From My Business Mobile App
Google announced a new update rolling out to the Google My Business mobile application which intends to keep a business owners attention on their reviews and allow for an easy way to respond to reviews and complaints.
Lysol Buys The Top Ad Spot For Ebola Searches
As spotted on Tuesday, October 28th, Lysol seems to have spent some serious cash and bought themselves the top ad spot on Google for ebola searches. I’m not seeing the ad appear much as of today already (October 30th) – however this was interesting while it lasted. Google searches for ebola have sky rocketed, understandably – and […]
W3C Brings HTML5 to Recommendation Status
HTML5 has been around for a couple of years now – slowly growing as more and more websites transition from HTML4; and more and more browsers start to fully support all of HTML5’s features. As of right now almost all devices out there fully support HTML5. Computer browsers such as Chrome, Opera and Firefox support […]
HostGator Running Emergency Maintenance for Resellers
Stop Blocking Your CSS/JS from Googlebot
In the past Google has always crawled your site in much the same fashion as the Lynx browser would display it – no CSS, no Javascript – just text and links. Over the years this has caused many webmasters to specifically block the crawling of CSS and JS files by Googlebot in an attempt to […]
GoDaddy Wants To Become Developer Friendly – Launches GoDaddy Pro
GoDaddy has never really had a great standing amongst the developer community, and since GoDaddy has traditionally focused on the needs of the small business owner and not the developer …
Google Announces Partnership with PwC
Google has partnered with PricewaterhouseCoopers in an effort to “bring new and innovative services to companies around the world.” “For our clients, acquiring the knowledge most important to their operations, securing that information and using it optimally are critical-now more than ever before,” stated PwC Vice Chairman Mike Burwell. “PwC is teaming with Google to offer […]
Bing Now Understands Emoticons
Most of us use emoticons to some extent in our daily communication. Whether it be in our text messages, or in our emails – they’ve become a pretty crucial part to setting a tone in a text based communication. Well Bing now fully supports emoticons in all English markets – and from the playing around […]
Google’s New Meta Tag for Disabling Sitelinks Search
Chances are that you’ve already seen the Google Sitelinks search box in-action already. Google has put it into motion around the same time they announced the retirement of the Google Web Search API. The Sitelinks search box allows you to search through your site of choice without actually visiting the site – which may be […]
More Free Google Domains Invites!
Google was nice enough to hook me up with a handful more invite codes for their Google Domains beta – and as usual I’m giving them out for free here! If you want to see some screenshots about the clean awesome UI within Google Domains check out my review here. Otherwise ask for a free […]
TwitPic Gets Snatched Up By Twitter
Veteran TwitPic users have been on one hell of a rollercoaster ride as TwitPic was shutting down, wasn’t, was again – and then it finally seemed to have shut down as it reached it’s last remaining day – and Twitter snatched it up. So this means that unfortunately Twitpic will no longer be taking on […]
Google Rolls Out A Quick-Post Button In It’s Navbar
While doing my daily rounds of email checking I had noticed a new icon in the top of my Google navigation bar. The new icon, a square with a plus in it, can be clicked to open a pop-up that will allow you to quickly post or share something onto Google+. You have the […]
Bing Ads Introduces Universal Event Tracking
Bing Ads has announced the launch of Universal Event Tracking – a new way to define and track your goals. The new tracking capability replaces the current Campaign Analytics conversion tracking functionality. The current conversion tracking will continue to work, however – any new tags will have to be created with the new tool starting […]
Happy Birthday Namecheap!
One of my first domain names was registered with Namecheap – many, many years back. So it’s only appropriate that I give them a shout out today and wish them a happy birthday! Namecheap turns 14 years young today – and boy how far they’ve come. What I absolutely must commend them on is consistently sticking […]
SingleHop Launches VMware-Based Virtual Private Cloud
SingleHop announced on Tuesday that it has launched its new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) infrastructure service. The offering leverages enterprise technologies …
Google Updating Their DMCA Algorithm
Back in August of 2012 Google introduced the original DMCA algorithm – a policy designed to demote sites which have an unusually high number of DMCA takedown requests. On Friday of last week Google announced that they will be updating the DMCA algorithm as a global roll-out. An improved DMCA demotion signal in Search. In August […]
Apple Spotlight Search Data Shared With Bing
If you’re an avid Apple fan chances are you’ve already heard about the new and improved Spotlight Search within the new Yosemite Apple operating system for Mac. Spotlight Search gives the company access to people’s search queries, but also to the location of their computers by tracking your IP address to a geographic region. You’re […]