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New Study Shows Fake Googlebots Used for DDOS Attacks

Googlebots are an essential part of the Google search engine. Constantly crawling the world wide web looking for new links and websites to ensure that you get the latest …

Google Adds Sitelinks to Adwords

Google announced over the weekend the introduction of dynamic sitelinks that appear below a Google Adwords advertisement. These dynamic sitelinks are automatically generated and can send customers to a page on your website that’s highly relevant based on recent search activities. They look like this on desktop and mobile: Often times when people are searching on […]

Google Updates Local Search Algorithm

Google has released yet another new algorithm, this one attempts to provide more useful, relevant, and accurate local search results. The new algorithm changes will be visible within the Google Maps search results and Google Web search results. The main set of changes are primarily behind the scenes, but it does impact local search results rankings and […]

YucatecHost Disappears Without Warning

Part of my job in looking for the latest and best new hosting and domain name deals for everyone is to also keep a look out for failing hosting companies and as such avoid advertising or recommending their services. YucatecHost seems to have only been around since 2013, with the original domain name registration date […]

Happy Sysadmin Day 2014

Alas sometimes the life of a sysadmin runs significantly later than the usual 9-5 of some people – and as such I almost missed this post myself. So, without further ado, Happy Sysadmin Day to all the IT guys and system administrators out there. Enjoy what is left of the one day a year when you […]

Forums & Google Search Results

A forum administrator, Basak Kayik, posted a few questions in the Google Webmaster Help forum wondering how to improve his forum in the eyes of Google. Luckily the topic was picked up by Google’s John Mueller who responded to it in great detail. Now I have touched upon managing forums before in a slew of articles such […]

3 New Bing Ads Geotargeting Features Now Available

Bing has announced some great new targeting features which have been implemented into Bing Ads. These new features allow you much more control over your visibility and target radius for your Bing Ads. First, new map features give advertisers a way to visualize where they are targeting on the map. “You can also add/remove targets […]

Google Alerts Get A Fresh Redesign

Google Alerts always seemed to have a rather primitive design to it – and that may very well have been the cause behind it never really gaining the popularity that it should have. Google has taken note of this and this past weekend have released a brand new design for the Google Alerts site. The […]

Google’s Latest Additions to Webmaster Tools

Over the course of the last week, July 13th – July 19th Google has announced some awesome new features they have introduced to Google’s Webmaster Tools. The first is the introduction of a new reporting feature designed to help marketers troubleshoot rel-alternate-hreflang annotations (an attribute that communicates with Google if there are requirements for alternate languages on […]

Wix Launches ShoutOut – An Email Newsletter Tool

[frame align=”left”][/frame]Website builder Wix.com has launched a new tool to allow users to create and send email newsletters from within their Wix dashboard. The new tool, called Wix ShoutOut, attempts to replace a few of the previously available Wix Apps for setting up mailing lists and sending out newsletters by offering all the same functionality from […]

Google Lets You Know When Pages May Not Work On Your Device

Earlier this week Google announced a change to their mobile search results bringing in notifications to let a user know when results include pages that may not work on their devices. For …

Say Hello To Icecream Apps!

I usually don’t showcase new software developers on here however Icecream Apps is a freeware developer whos goal is to provide free replacements for popular paid applications. Currently their focus lies on Windows based applications, however Mac versions are said to be available “soon”. In the meantime Icecream Apps opened their doors with three freeware Windows […]

New Domain Names for July 2014

Hot on the tail of my last announcement regarding SiteGround’s introduction into the world of the new domain name extensions comes my list of the next set of domain name extensions being released throughout the month of July and the first week of August. As usual you can register these new domain names at either Namecheap, 1&1 or GoDaddy. July 08: […]

SiteGround Begins Offering New Domain Names

With all of the new gTLD domain names coming out I’m you’ve probably noticed that I generally refer to a small handful of registrars where these new domain name extensions are actually available for registration. SiteGround has just joined that group offering 31 of the more popular new extensions. As with the introduction of most […]

GoDaddy Partners with PayPal, Launches Get Paid

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]GoDaddy has launched a new service, called Get Paid, for small businesses to accept payment from anywhere, and has partnered with PayPal, Dwolla, and Stripe to ensure customers can accept all types of payment, including credit and debit cards, electronic checks and mobile payments. According to GoDaddy’s Monday announcement, Get Paid allows users to […]

cPanel & WHM Announce New Browser Compatibility

Following in the footsteps of Bing & Google who have recently announced their own browser compatibility changes which drop support for IE8 on behalf of Bing, and IE9 on behalf of Google. cPanel has acknowledged that continuing to test for, and develop against, older browsers slows down the entire development process – and in an […]

Google Helps You Play With Cookies

No, not those kind of cookies. Although now I really want a white chocolate macadamia nut cookie … Anyway – Google is helping webmasters who use cookies on their websites or mobile applications to meet their European legal obligations to get user consent regarding the use of cookies. So a couple of days ago Google […]

Goodbye Google Authorship Images

In a post on G+ yesterday Google’s John Mueller announced the removal of authorship avatars and circle counts from Google’s search results. The reason behind it is to improve the visual display of search results and maintaining a more “consistent design across devices”. Now granted John did mention that Google’s own experiments have shown the […]

New Canadian Anti-Spam Law

Being based out of New York City I don’t often mention my Northern brothers up in Canada – however the new Candian Anti-Spam Law which goes into effect on July 1, 2014 is something I definitely needed to mention – if only because I wish it was something we put into effect here within the United States […]