Webmaster News – Page 48

Google Adwords Business Credit Card Pilot Announced in UK

Back in July we first mentioned the Google Adwords Mastercard for Businesses – which was piloted to a select amount of U.S. based businesses. Today Google announced the launch of the AdWords Business Credit UK pilot, with more invites for U.S. businesses being promised next. There are a few key differences to take note of with the […]

Yola Changes Terms for Free Google Adwords Credits

As of October 1st, the Yola Bronze, Silver packages no longer include their respective $50 and $75 worth of free Google AdWords credit. Instead, users that spend $25 in Google AdWords credits will get an additional $100 worth of credits for free. Furthermore keep in mind that since Yola Gold includes all the features of […]

DataChambers Announces New Datacenter

DataChambers, a North Carolina-based technology firm, announced earlier this week that they are expanding with the purchase of a 50,000-square-foot facility on Garner Station Boulevard in Raleigh, N.C. The building and eight-acre property, formerly home of Qwest Communications, will house a new high-availability data center. A variety of outsourced information technology services will be offered at […]

Examine the Quality of Your Backlinks with LinkDiagnosis.com

Simply obtaining backlinks isn’t the only thing to worry about when improving the SEO status of your website. Quality is just as important as quantity, which is why it’s important to look at the status of your backlinks. With LinkDiagnosis, you can look at the Google PageRank along with various other ranks of your site’s […]

Google Webmaster Guidelines Have Been Updated

The official Google Webmaster Guidelines have long needed an overhaul in various areas. For starters the introduction of rich-snippets has brought with it a handful of new questions – which some clear documentation and guidelines would help. Luckily yesterday Google announced their new, updated guidelines – with a set of quality and technical guidelines for […]

Webmaster Tools Adds Critical Notification Emails

As of October 1st Google’s Webmaster Tools will send out an email notifying you of any critical changes/issues that may impact your search listings, and your websites overall health – oh, as long as Google knows how to fix that said issue. So, malware will be picked up, and a notification issued – but what […]

Nominet Proposes Shorter .UK Domain Names

Nominet, the non-profit body for overseeing all net addresses ending in .uk (ie .co.uk, .org.uk), have proposed a plan to offer UK-based companies a shorter, simpler, yourwebsite.uk domain name. This would run right along side the .co.uk service – and would require a company to prove they have an existing presence in the UK, and pay […]

HostGator Network Updates Now On Twitter

A Tweet a few hours ago let me know about @HGstatus – a new Twitter profile created specifically to keep HostGator’s customers up to date on the latest network status information – whether it be scheduled maintenance or

Upcoming Google Algorithm Change Focuses on Exact-Match Domains

Matt Cutts has recently announced that Google will be rolling out a “small” algorithm change that will “reduce low-quality ‘exact-match’ domains” from

Sanebox Restructures Pricing

[frame align=”left”][/frame]SaneBox is probably the only company out there right now that can benefit from making their prices higher, and lower – at the same time. Confused? I was too at first – but hopefully this will break it down. See when SaneBox first launched it didn’t have all of the fancy features it does […]

Intuit Websites, Now Powered by Homestead

[frame align=”left”][/frame]Inuit Websites and Homestead Technologies have always shared an integrated backend. Intuit Websites, which includes Homestead Technologies, was recently acquired by Endurance International Group, and we will be working to capitalize on the strength of both brands to increase sales and improve conversions over the next few months. So, instead of referring to their services […]

New Focus on Google Adwords Sitelinks Policy

Sitelinks give users a choice of destinations on your website that they can visit directly from your text ads. Hopefully you’ve already been using sitelinks to improve your Adwords campaign performance; and if so – make sure to pay close attention to Google’s Adwords Sitelinks policy so you do not run the risk of being penalized. […]

Google Announces New Keyword Meta Tag

A few days ago Google announced the introduction of a brand new meta tag to be used for news articles – the news_keywords meta tag. The goal of it is simple: empower news writers to express their stories freely while helping Google News to properly understand and classify that content so that it’s discoverable by our wide […]

Hostpapa Now Offers Softaculous Auto Installer

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]HostPapa has announced a partnership with Softaculous Ltd., developer of the Softaculous Auto Installer, which offers one-click installation for PHP, PERL and JavaScript applications. HostPapa’s partnership with Softaculous will allow their hosting clients to use the Auto Installer on their hosting accounts, and enjoy easy and quick installation of any of the 275+ […]

New Styles Available for Yola Users

Yola is pleased to announce the release of 19 brand new styles: 11 premium styles and 8 free styles, all to help you create even more striking websites! The new styles are more flexible and allow for much more customization than those in the past. The new collection includes more navigation styles, including the much […]

GoDaddy Outage Causes Downtime for Many Sites

This one is a bit surprising as I had always expected GoDaddy’s infrastructure to be rather secure and stable for the amount of websites they host. However, according to a few of my own clients, an update on GoDaddy’s twitter, and a post on TechCrunch – GoDaddy is down. This goes for both their hosted […]

Change The Top Google Search Result For Your Name

Norton has introduced a new tool called Norton Top Search that lets you control the top search result for your name, for free. To change your top search result, all you need to do is pick a URL that you would like to pop up first when people search your name. The form to do so, […]