There was talk of a leak the past couple of weeks regarding IX Web Hosting and and some new secret developments. I didn’t want to make a big deal about it until the company shed some light on the talks themselves, and on Wednesday of last week IX Web Hosting announced that a top secret document […]
Category Archives: Webmaster News
Softaculous Releases 4.1.7, Introduces Admin Auto Update
For all those of you with a Linux/cPanel based hosting plan with Softaculous installed – take note that Softaculous has announced the launch of Softaculous 4.1.7 on 18th December. This version has several new features and a few bug fixes: 1) Added a feature for the admin to upgrade multiple applications from the admin panel. […]
Google SafeSearch Updates & How To Restore Your Image Traffic
At the end of November, Google changed their SafeSearch handling from three levels (SafeSearch could be “Off”, “Moderate” or “On”) to just “On” or “Off.” From what I have been hearing since then
Easyspace Newstart Launched to Help New UK Businesses
[frame align=”right”] [/frame]Easyspace is one of the UK’s leading providers of domain names, and web hosting; and as of late they have launched a new package for all new businesses that register with Companies House. This new package, called Easyspace NewStart, includes web hosting, a professional email service plus a .eu domain name. More than 400,000 […]
Dotregistry.org Launched
Dot Registry™ is a leader in online innovation dedicated to protecting the US Business Community. Recently, Dot Registry has applied for four new community based gTLD’s through the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN). DOT Registry’s extensions; .INC, .LLC, .LLP, and .CORP, will mark an unprecedented change in the online marketplace as […]
New Resources Added to Our Free Webmaster Resources Directory
I was doing some browsing around the web this morning and came upon a few more resources to add to our free webmaster resource directory. These consist of a few
90 Percent of People Don’t Know How CTRL+F Works
Dan Russel, a search anthropologist at Google recently uncovered a rather ridiculous statistic: As many as 90 per cent of people actually don’t know how to properly use the CTRL/Command+F search option on a website or word document. “I do these field studies and I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve sat in somebody’s house […]
Sharing Links on Twitter Gets Harder
As of February 20th, 2013, you’re going to have two fewer characters to send a message on Twitter when you’re sharing a link. The t.co wrapper that Twitter is using to shorten web addresses is lengthening from 20 to 22 reserved characters. This means that any link you share will now take up two more spaces that you […]
Google Ads New Clickable Arrow to Text Adsense Ads
Google has announced last week a few changes to their Adsense text ads. One change, rolling out already, will make the look and feel of text ads more consistent as consumers and advertisers use screens interchangeably, and distinctions between devices fade. You’ll notice a new clickable arrow icon, as well as slight optimizations to font size, […]
IX Hosting Announces Future cPanel Based Shared Plans
IX Web Hosting has sent their partners an email about their latest updates with their redesign of MyIX – their customized online control panel for their customers. Well all the way at the bottom of this email – they mentioned they are working on releasing a new cPanel solution for shared hosting. While IX does […]
Internet Marketing Ninja’s Launches Page Speed Analysis Tool
When your website takes a while to load up – this causes a series of traffic and SEO related consequences. No-one wants to wait a long time for your website to load up; and search engines such as Google and Bing always take your page’s load speed into account when generating your websites ranking. The […]
Syria Experiencing an Internet Blackout
Syria’s internet stability has been questionable in the recent past as-is – so the latest news from Internet Security firm Renesys that all 84 of Syria’s IP address blocks have become unreachable won’t help the situation any. This was originally reported at 10:26 UTC on Thursday, 29 November – 2012. As of the writing of this post […]
IE Sucks … Less
The new commercial from Microsoft’s latest “The Browser You Used to Hate” campaign is, honestly, quiet funny. It’s fairly true though – it will be hard for Internet Explorer to gain the trust back, especially after all the years of torture it has put us all through. There will be plenty of people that will […]
HootSuite Ranked #1 Twitter Client
A recent Brandwatch study found that HootSuite is the #1 Twitter client being used by businesses to manage their social media. This ranking is an great indicator of where social media for business is headed. Download or view the Brandwatch report here. In the meantime take a moment to check out HootSuite’s new video with their own social media coach to […]
Google Adsense Now Features 300×600 Sized Banners
Google has recently announced the addition of 300×600 units for their Adsense platform. “As screens grow and web content continues to become richer, the format and capabilities of ad units continue to evolve as well,” says AdSense UI engineer Omer Gimenez Llach, adding that one of the top requests from publishers has been for larger ad sizes. […]
SugarSync 2.0 Beta Launched
[frame align=”right”][/frame]SugarSync is proud to announce the release of their new 2.0 Beta product! This new and improved version takes all the features you loved from the original, and adds a number of improvements as well. The switch to SugarSync 2.0 Beta is quick and seamless, and files and folders you are currently syncing will not be affected […]
Does Google Take Action on Spammy Guest Blogging Activities?
As everyone makes themselves familiar with Google’s latest link scheme guidelines, more and more questions are coming up. The latest question coming in from Nandita B in India asks:
cPanel Releases Stable 11.34 Build
cPanel Inc. just recently spoke about the release of a Stable version 11.34, and a few short days later – it’s finally here. Announced yesterday the release of version 11.34 Stable of cPanel & WHM software brings many improvements and upgrades to the package. As per cPanel CEO, J. Nick Koston’s Keynote speech at the 7th […]
Volusion Introduces New All-Time Low Pricing!
[frame align=”left”][/frame]The team over at Volusion is excited to announce the launch of their newest ecommerce plan, the Mini! The Mini allows you to purchase their award-winning software at an all-time low price of $9 per month. Going hand-in-hand with the launch of Volusion Mini is a completely new pricing setup for all Volusion’s other […]
Adobe Changing Upgrade Policy
Beginning in 2013, Adobe is changing their upgrade pricing policy so that users with only the most recent product versions will qualify. Take advantage of this special introductory upgrade pricing on Creative Suite 6 for all customers who own CS3 and CS4 individual products and suite editions. This upgrade offer is valid through December 31, 2012. After […]