[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Most businesses with any online presence, along with bloggers and webmasters, are aware of the benefits that Twitter can have on your business. There are SEO benefits, marketing and promotional benefits, and customer relationship benefits to name just a few. Fact is that you’re business or website has probably been mentioned on Twitter […]
Category Archives: Webmaster News
Google Reworks Internal and External Site Links
Most of you by now probably utilize Google Webmaster Tools, and if not you really should be. For those who do use Webmaster Tools, chances are you have noticed that Webmaster Tools will only recognize internal links to your site if they exactly match your setup domain. For example http://www.rapidpurple.com links will not be displayed […]
Webmaster Central Hangout on Google Plus
Google has been quietly hosting weekly hangouts for webmasters allowing them to ask Google engineers various questions related to a specific topic chosen for each hangout. The next hangout is scheduled for Wednesday 31 Aug 2011 at 11:30am PDT for 1 hour, announced by Jenny Murphy earlier this morning. The topic for this hangout will be […]
GoDaddy Integration With Google Tools Broken
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]A post by mcarter88 on the Google Webmaster Forums has brought to light an issue with the integration of Google Webmaster Tools and GoDaddy Hosting. Back in 2007 Google and GoDaddy formed an integration deal where Go Daddy users will see the Google Webmaster Tools link right in their hosting control center, and can […]
Google Adds Inline Friend Annotations to the Plus Button
Many of you who are using the Google +1 buttons on your site may have noticed that as of last week you can now see faces and names of friends and contacts who have +1’d you’re page. Their new addition to the code now allows these annotations to be displayed inline rather than in a […]
Learn About Business With Google!
Whether you are just starting your own business, taking over the management of one, or have been running a business for many years – there is always something new out there to learn about, and often times the biggest challenge is to find all that new information in a place comfortable enough to read through. […]
How Do I Get Listed By Ask.com
[frame align=”left”][/frame]We often focus on Google, Bing and Yahoo and forget about some of the other great search engines out there – like Ask.com – the Q&A search engine. However while the ‘Big 3’ have their own set of webmaster tools which allow you to easily submit your website and manage it – Ask.com doesn’t […]
Introducing HTML11
That’s right ladies and gentleman – if you thought HTML5 was the latest and greatest – Say hello to the <taste> tag, the <religion>, <touch>, <xray> and a whole set of new tags being introduced with HTML11. The mission of the HTML11 is to fulfill the promise of XML for applying HTML11 to a wide variety of […]
Internet Explorer 9 Becomes The Most Secure Browser
To be honest I had to read the report twice before I could believe it. Internet Explorer has always had it’s share of security flaws (amongst many others) – and this is what made room for Firefox, Opera and Chrome to step in and give browser security the attention that IE wasn’t. The recent study […]
Adobe Muse Available As Free Public Beta
Yesterday Adobe moved Muse from the private beta and launched it as a free public beta. The new app (built by InDesign veterans) promises to let graphic designers “create websites as easily as you create layouts for print.” Key features for Muse include: Planning — Use easy-to-use sitemaps, master pages, and flexible, site-wide tools. Design — Combine imagery, graphics and text […]
Using The Right Words On Your Website = More Traffic
[frame align=”left”][/frame]There’s no doubt that having a website for your brick and mortar business is crucial, and even necessary these days. However it’s not enough just to have any old website. You need a website that will draw traffic, aka visitors, who are surfing the web. These are visitors you wouldn’t otherwise have and they can […]
Online Marketing – What’s This Lingo?!
[frame align=”left”][/frame]So you’ve purchased hosting, built and got your website up and running, and now you have started looking into online marketing methods and ways to increase the exposure your site gets. Adwords, Adsense, Analytics, Buying Cycle, Contextual Advertising, Monetize, Long Tails, Squeeze Pages – what does this all mean?! I agree jumping into online […]
Hello Heello!
[frame align=”left”][/frame]No, it’s not a typo. I really am saying hello to a ‘brand-new’ social network launched today called Heello (pronounced he-low), created by Noah Everett, the founder of TwitPic. Interestingly enough the launch of Heello came the day after Twitter launched it’s own photo-sharing service as a direct competitor to TwitPic – which ofcourse brings up […]
BigCommerce Updates to 7.1
Around the end of July BigCommerce, the #1 rated all-in-one ecommerce service for selling products online, has started to update all shops to version 7.1 – which brings about some long anticipated new features. Custom URLs can now be setup for all products, categories, web pages and news items in your store. As seen in the screenshot below, […]
Beta620 Launched by NYTimes
[frame align=”left”][/frame]This past weekend the New York Times has launched Beta620, a public beta site for all of the NYTimes experimental projects. The purpose of these is to provide ample community testing and feedback to new features and functions which may later be implemented into the main NYT website. The beta site seems to be a […]
Wix Launches Mobile Site Builder
Seemingly following in the footsteps of Google who has launched their own mobile website builder, Wix has done the same. Wix websites used to be the worst when it comes to the mobile web. The problem is that Apple does not support Flash on the iPhone and/or iPad due to some questionable policy. However we can […]
Randi Zuckerberg Leaves Facebook, Starts RtoZ Media
Facebook Director of Marketing Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of founder Mark Zuckerberg, has decided to leave Facebook to start her own company, R to Z Media. RtoZ Media, will focus on helping companies become more social. “My goal is to launch my own innovative programming and work with media companies to develop their programming in new, and […]
Web.com Buys Network Solutions for $561 Million
Web.com announced yesterday their purchase of Network Solutions at roughly $561 million. Network Solutions was the original domain name registry for the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency, controlling the .com, .org. and .net top-level domain names. Until ICANN was formed in 1998, Network Solutions was also the only place that users could buy a domain name. What […]
Google Plus One ‘async’ Code Minified
Earlier on last week I had told you about the recent changes made to the Google +1 button and the launch of the new asynchronous button snippet. Thomas over at Web2.0Hub has taken the new ‘async’ snippet and minified it to make it even smaller. Not sure what that means? Essentially minification is the practice of removing […]
Schema.org Workshop Announced
[frame align=”left”][/frame]Almost 2 months ago I wrote to tell you about the launch of Schema.org – a project aimed at creating and supporting a common set of schemas for structured data markup. Microsoft recently announced the first Schema.org workshop to be held in Silicon Valley on September 21st, 2011. Bing describes the event as a “working session” […]