Bing has updated the Bing Ads mobile app to support bulk editing of your campaigns – making it much easier to roll out a change across a collection of campaigns simultaneously. Check out the video below to see how to use the new bulk editing features: The new bulk editing functionality is just the tip […]
Category Archives: Service Updates
Google AdWords Call-Only Ads Now Display Business Name
Call-only ads in Google AdWords have been extremely popular since their launch – however one constant complaint from advertisers has been the lack of business name display. This finally appears to be changing as Josh Leibner of Red Ventures pointed out on Twitter a few days ago: Google .@AdWords Call-Only Ads are now pulling Business […]
Instagram Starts Rolling Out Business Profiles
It seems that the rollout for Instagram Business Profiles has began today as several of my client businesses have been issued a notification to switch their Instagram accounts to a new business account. The initial notification should appear at the top of your profile page in a blue box, looking a bit like the following: […]
Verify Your Google My Business Listing Via Email
It seems that Google is experimenting with a new method to verify businesses for the Google My Business program. Rather than waiting weeks for a post card, users who have an auto-receptionist setup on their phone will be able to verify their business listing using a company email address. This was first spotted by Kiran Kumar […]
Google AdWords Gets Price Extensions
Google has announced the rollout of price extensions for Google Adwords – a brand new ad extension that lets you showcase the price of your various products and services within your ads. Price extensions will currently show across multiple rows, featuring a different product/service on each row and showcasing it’s description and price. Price extensions can be used […]
Bing Ads Now Support Keyword & Ad Copy/Paste
When it comes down to managing a successful PPC campaign you will eventually find yourself with a series of keywords or ad-copy that you know works, and that you tend to use as the basis of your new campaigns. As such having the ability to copy/paste keywords and ads across different campaigns is an amazingly […]
CloudFlare Now Offering Free HTTP/2 Server Push Support
Website speeds are everything – and these day developers are always looking for a way to squeeze more performance out of their websites and applications. HTTP/2 Server Push is one such technology – allowing web servers to send content to website visitors without receiving requests for it – essentially pre-loading various images, font files, or […]
Google AdWords Will Only Support Internet Explorer 11
Now that Microsoft has given up on supporting older versions of Internet Explorer – Google is starting to filter out the older versions of IE from it’s various services. To start off – Google AdWords is dropping support for all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer except for IE 11. Google announced the news via a […]
Pingdom Launches Page Speed Monitoring Tool
Pingdom has rolled out Page Speed Monitoring – a brand new service which automates full page performance tests which you can use to analyze and optimize you’re websites performance. Website load times are extremely important, for both user experience and SEO purposes – and this type of check let’s you identify if you’re website is […]
Amazon Offers Free SSL/TLS Certificates
Speaking of SSL certificates, Amazon has rolled out the Amazon Certificate Manager – a free service that lets you deploy SSL certificates which you can utilize with AWS services. Oh, did I mention – it’s free! The downside being that ACM (Amazon Certificate Manager) is currently only available in the Northern Virginia region – however Amazon […]
Hivelocity Launches Rapid Restore to Speed Data Backup
Hivelocity has launched a new service designed to make life better when it comes to recovering you’re website. The new service, called Rapid Restore, is designed to make data restorations up to 20x faster than a typical data recovery effort. The service can restore server data from up to 200GB per hour, providing protection from hard […]
HostGator Hits The Cloud
HostGator has launched a brand new cloud hosting platform – a move that’s frankly a few years behind the rest of their competition but hey – better late than never! The new platform offers up to 4x the resources that the current HostGator shared hosting plans offer, and claim a 2x improvement in website load times. […]
GoDaddy Launches Logo Design Service for Small Businesses
GoDaddy has rolled out a new service, offering logo design for small businesses. The new GoDaddy logo design service kicks off at $199.99 – which in 3-5 business days gets you a new logo for your business. This sounds like a great deal – considering that the average professionally designed logo kicks off around $399 […]
UK2 Group Launches New Website SEO Guru Tool
UK2 Group, which runs various hosting brands such as Midphase, WestHost, and VPS.net, have recently launched a new SEO tool called the Website SEO Guru. The Website SEO Guru is an automated tool which analyses ones website performance and suggests content tweaks that would make the website more discoverable online. Website SEO Guru is the simple online […]
Eleven2 Launches SSD Shared Hosting – 50% Off Coupon Code
Slowly but surely the whole world is recognizing the benefit of SSD use – and as that happens we’re seeing more and more hosting companies make use of SSD’s throughout their product lines. Eleven2 has recently joined the ranks of SSD-powered hosting companies as they roll out their brand new 100% SSD shared hosting product line. […]
SiteGround Overhauls Their Shared Hosting Infrastructure
SiteGround just recently announced some huge upgrades to their shared hosting infrastructure – integrating Linux Containers, SSD drives, PHP7, HVVM, and Opcache. Excited yet? First up – SiteGround’s entire shared hosting environment is moving over to Linux containers (LXC). What does this all mean for clients? 2x the CPU power. 2x the memory. 2x the read […]
Media Temple Launches CloudTech Security Powered By SiteLock
SiteLock is by far the most popular website security solution out there today – catering to roughly 5 million customers around the world. Thanks to the recent partnership with Media Temple the SiteLock suite of services will now be activated across the 1.5 million websites managed by Media Temple! The new service is called CloudTech […]
Pingdom Upgrades Their Starter Plan
Pingdom has long been a staple in the web hosting community – offering webmasters the ability to track their websites and/or servers downtime, uptime, and performance. A large portion of these you could do for free, however Pingdom does offer some extremely valuable premium plans. In the past you would have to upgrade to the […]
GoDaddy Launches 3 New Services for Canadian Small Businesses
Following up on GoDaddy’s report showcasing that the majority of small businesses do not have a website – GoDaddy has launched three new services in their Canadian market geared towards helping small businesses create and manage their online presence. The new additions are: Personal Domains – which let you easily point domains to 16+ social […]
GoDaddy Partners With Dropmysite To Offer Cloud Backup Solutions For Small Business Owners
GoDaddy has joined forces with cloud backup provider Dropmysite to offer cloud-based website backup solutions for small and medium sized businesses. Dropmysite will automatically back up a customers website daily and securely using 256 bit military grade Advance encryption standards (AES) encryption. If any issue arises Dropmysite will allow the customer to easily and quickly get their […]