HubSpot is a terrific platform which is designed with the purpose of driving people to your website, generating leads and converting those leads into paying customers. It has been wildly successful for people such as Marcus Sheridan of the Sales Lion and my friends over at Goodbye Crutches, but it isn’t perfect (nothing is) and...Read More
Tweet Buffer SEO may no longer be the answer to your traffic-related prayers, as Google’s algorithms move away from rewarding SEO principles and toward featuring sites with the best content. What are you hoping for when you search for something on Google? Are you looking for a site that deployed every SEO tip and trick...Read More
Just as Google presented the world with their vision of a modern mobile operating system in Android, the Mountain View based company has delivered a vision of wearable computing. In Android Wear Google is again doing the hard work for companies by dealing with the operating system, helping with hardware integration, and creating a name and...Read More
Those who run or write for WordPress-based blogs may have heard some exciting news: version 4.0 is coming very soon and is currently in a public beta. While WordPress sees major updates every 6 months or so, the 3.0 version is already four years old. WordPress is an open-source project hosted on WordPress.org and is...Read More
A high-priced escort accused of killing a Silicon Valley tech executive with an overdose of heroin on his yacht deliberately failed to help him because she’s “ice cold,” a Santa Cruz police official said. Alix Tichelman, 26, is accused of having an “ongoing prostitution relationship†with Forrest Hayes, 51, a former Apple, Google and Sun Microsystems...Read More
Credit: WordPress WordPress has announced the first beta of version 4.0, but despite the major version number, it’s an incremental upgrade. Changes to the left of the decimal point aren’t as major in WordPress as they are elsewhere, but the updates in the pipeline for 4.0 and beyond reflect how WordPress has become a platform,...Read More
While the days of the snake oil salesman are long behind us, we’re still plagued by people out to make a quick buck at our expense. As business owners, it’s sometimes not apparent when a charlatan is trying to wheedle money from us, especially when it relates to something we don’t know much about. Take...Read More
Undated screenshot of an image of Forrest Timothy Hayes, as viewed on a memorial website.(Photo: Screenshot from forresthayesmemorial.files.wordpress.com) SAN FRANCISCO — The Santa Cruz police officer put it simply in announcing the arrest of a call girl accused of killing a Google executive on his yacht last fall with an overdose of heroin. “It’s an...Read More
Websites that run WordPress and MailPoet, a plugin with more than 1.7 million downloads, are susceptible to hacks that give attackers almost complete control, researchers have warned. “If you have this plugin activated on your website, the odds are not in your favor,” Daniel Cid, CTO of security firm Sucuri, warned in a blog post...Read More
As a small business owner you need to consider one simple but very important fact. When people perform a search in a major search engine for your products or services only one of two outcomes is possible: they will find your website, or they will find your competitors. With around 45,000 Google searches performed per...Read More
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