Webmaster News – Page 39

List of 557 Pending New gTLDs

Webwork over on the WebmasterWorld forums put together a great list of new gTLD’s waiting to be released: [column size=”1-2″] 1).abogado 2).academy 3).accountant 4).accountants 5).active 6).actor 7).ads 8).adult 9).africa 10).agency 11).airforce 12).alsace 13).amsterdam 14).analytics 15).apartments 16).app 17).arab 18).archi 19).architect 20).army 21).art 22).associates 23).attorney 24).auction 25).audible 26).audio 27).auto 28).autos 29).baby 30).band 31).bank 32).banque 33).bar 34).barcelona 35).bargains […]

GoDaddy Finally Offers cPanel Linux Hosting

[frame align=”left”][/frame]For as long as I could remember one of my biggest gripes with GoDaddy has been their proprietary hosting control panel which seemed to turn everything that used to take a few clicks, into a mission. I touched base on it in my GoDaddy Hosting Review. It seems someone at GoDaddy may have read […]

Saying My Farewall to Winamp

Unfortunately Winamp has announced that, starting December 20 2013, the site and associated cloud services will no longer be available to the public. What is even worse is that the longstanding media player will also be pulled from winamp.com. For many of us – especially myself, this is quiet a sad moment. See I have loved Winamp […]

New TLD’s Coming to Namecheap

[frame align=”left”][/frame]Namecheap has joined the new TLD initiative, which will allow customers to buy hundreds of new top level domains. As such you will now be able to register TLDs such as .online, .music, .inc, and so much more through Namecheap – personally one of my favorite domain name providers. If you haven’t read up […]

Volusion Launches New eCommerce Features

[frame align=”right”][/frame]Volusion has always been great at making sure their merchants have everything they need to make the most of any holiday season. This time around is no different as they launch a series of enhanced selling features to further help drive a merchant’s success online. Their newest product enhancements simplify the ecommerce experience, empowering merchants […]

GoDaddy Announces Plans for 2014 Super Bowl Ads

As Super Bowl XLVIII comes around, GoDaddy is getting ready for their latest set of commercials. As has become tradition the last few years, GoDaddy runs 1 or more new commercials during the Super Bowl; last year focusing on the .co domain name. “The Super Bowl ad strategy allows us to have fun and be […]

New Google Manual Action for Image Mismatch

There is a new Google manual action that has came out recently, and one every webmaster should be fully aware of. This is Google’s new “image mismatch” manual action, which comes up when the images on your site don’t match up with what Google has indexed. Google has published a new help document on this […]

SiteGround Partners with CrazyEgg

Through a recent partnership with CrazyEgg, SiteGround has decided to assist clients in determining what’s working with their websites’ visitors and what’s not. They’re accomplishing this by offering a 90-day FREE Trial of CrazyEgg’s Original Heat-Mapping Technology, the best-selling website user behavior tool. A heatmap is an easy way to understand what users want, care about […]

Fasthosts Launches New Website Builder

[frame align=”left”][/frame]Available with any web hosting package from Fasthosts, the Website Builder is based upon a drag-and-drop user interface designed to make it simple for non-technical managers to create an effective business website. The new Fasthosts Website Builder comes with a complete customisation option for colour schemes, font styles, images, slideshows and embedded video feeds, […]

Bing Collaborates with Klout Creating Personal Snapshots

In an attempt to further help people manage their online presence, Bing has teamed up with Klout to allow for the creation of Bing Personal Snapshots. These act as an expansion to the People Snapshots that Bing had introduced this past March. Personal Snapshots are Klout verified, and pull in data from a person’s LinkedIn […]

Google Bringing Back Favicons to Adsense

Back in July Google had introduced fav icons to their text ads – thus helping to increase click-thru rates. Unfortunately when Google announced their new Adsense formats back in September – these favicons were now removed. On October 15th, Google quietly mentioned on Google+ that they are working on bringing back the favicons. They said the […]

Yahoo Launches New Mail Site

Last week, on October 8th 2013, marked Yahoo Mail’s sweet 16, and to celebrate Yahoo released a brand new Mail experience on desktop, iOS, and Android devices. The new Yahoo Mail brings about some great new features – one of my favorite being the introduction of conversations – allowing you to view emails grouped in threads – and something Google’s Gmail […]

New Yahoo Hosting Offers

Moving forward with the reworking of their network, Yahoo has launched completely new web hosting plans and services. First off Yahoo has joined the recent Website Builder craze and launched a new site builder of their own called Yahoo Site Solutions – which is packed with features such as photo and video galleries; customizable contact […]

Bing Gets A Redesign

I did say I will be mentioning Bing a-lot more often right? Right on time, and following close in the footsteps of the new Yahoo redesign Bing has went and ahead and launched a redesign of their own. The redesign brings about a brand new logo, dropping the curly blue Bing logo for a modern […]

iPage Launches VPS & Dedicated Hosting Solutions

[frame align=”left”][/frame]With the busy holiday shopping season just around the corner, iPage is taking note that offering simply shared hosting solutions isn’t going to cut it for many eCommerce related businesses. With that in mind, they have introduced two brand new hosting options for customer websites that demand the speed, performance, and capacity necessary to […]

WiredTree Announces New Pure SSD Servers

[frame align=”left”][/frame]WiredTree has announced the introduction of two new Pure SSD hosting platforms. WiredTree’s new low-cost Pure SSD Virtual Private Servers and Hybrid Servers take advantage of the incredible performance advantage of solid state technology to provide an outrageously fast hosting platform. Modern websites, online applications, and eCommerce stores rely heavily on fast file and database access […]

Webhosting UK Adds Additional Dedicated Server Offers

[frame align=”left”][/frame]Webhosting UK Com Ltd (WHUK) added two more new dedicated servers to their range of dedicated server offers. With these new dedicated server additions, the company believes that their users would be able to choose between a wider range of options, based on their technical requirements and budget. Ideal for SMBs, enterprises and large business […]

Get Your Free Dun & Bradstreet Credit Report

[frame align=”left”][/frame]I mentioned a while ago the importance of having your business registered with Dun & Bradstreet, and if you never read that article – you really should. Once you’re done, head on over to CreditSignal and get your totally free D&B business credit report. Find out exactly what’s listed about your business. Your business credit […]