WordPress Options: WordPress.com If you are going with WordPress, and that decision is worth at least one post of its own, one option is WordPress.com which gives you the basic features of WordPress without the additional flexibility of plugins. I’m not up to date on other limitations but, in the past, they allowed you to...Read More
No, you’re not alone. Trying to get your business found online is indeed dark magic. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has always been difficult for most businesses, particular smaller ones like mine. Just about every client I know is trying to find the silver bullet of search: the secret way to get your company listed on...Read More
Alas, poor Google barge. We hardly knew you. Google confirmed Friday that it’s scrapping at least one of the mysterious floating tech showrooms that drew headlines, speculation and some ridicule last fall. The giant Internet company wouldn’t comment on the fate of a second barge, now sitting idle at the Port of Stockton. But plans...Read More
New research from 34SP.com has found that more than half of UK small businesses are using WordPress as a content management system (CMS) thereby “finally blowing away its image as just a blogging platformâ€, according to a deck prepared by the domain provider. The vast majority of companies who said they used the open source...Read More
Search engine optimization (SEO) has historically been a tricky game filled with speculation and increasingly abstract tactics to keep up with Google’s ever-more-sophisticated algorithmic changes. While Google always keeps the exact details of its updates under tight wraps, experts in the industry can make reasonable assumptions about the nature of each change based on information...Read More
Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images Google has revealed which countries have made the most requests for links to be removed from search results under Europe’s new “right to be forgotten”. The European Union in May enshrined in law the individual’s “right to be forgotten” with a ruling that anyone could request to have themselves removed from search...Read More
Back in early 2012, when the TechCrunch developer team (Nicolas Vincent, Alex Khadiwala, Eric Mann, and John Bloch) started working on the TechCrunch redesign, one of the main goals was to improve site performance. During the development process, we implemented several tools to help achieve that goal. One of the approaches we took was to offload time-consuming...Read More
The Essential Guide to IT Transformation Former hacker and US extradition target Gary McKinnon has found a new career as a search engine optimisation expert. McKinnon – who successfully fought a 10-year campaign against extradition to the US over charges he hacked into Pentagon systems – has launched Small SEO, which specialises in making sure...Read More
Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system has a security flaw that could allow hackers to impersonate trusted applications and potentially hijack your phone or tablet, according to research released today. The basic issue is the way in which Android checks—or rather, does not check—that certain applications are what they say they are, according to Bluebox Security, the...Read More
If you run a blog directly through WordPress.com, rather than a self-hosted site using the free software from WordPress.org, you’ll soon have access to an upgraded dashboard and set of editing tools. The most notable addition is a fixed toolbar for the Post Editor. Now, instead of scrolling to the top of the page to add...Read More
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