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Google and other search engines use your site's loading speed as a measure to compute its ranking, meaning that the slower the site, the lower the ranking will be. That is because Google takes into consideration the usability of your website, how you code it and how its information is presented to the user and obviously the speed, all falls under the category quality.

 Adding social network buttons is great way to make sure users spread the links of your site, therefore, gaining tons of t…

Since we're living in the future now, it's likely that anyone reading this page has experienced the horror of catastrophic data loss, caused by a virus, theft, software error or hardware error. No matter what you use your computer for, backing up your files should be a key concern, as unique data is all too easily deleted or corrupted out of existence.

Fortunately, the ready availability of cheap storage hardware, combined with recent popularisation of remote storage thanks to innova…

Everyone knows by now how powerful social media really is to gain traffic to a website. Social Media helps to get attention from your readers and build up a better relationship with them. However, when it comes to SEO itself, how relevant it is the links you add in social network websites. Do they make any different to your SEO?

SEO is always in constant development, adapting itself to attack spammers and benefit good quality websites. Many of the SEO techniques in the past are no lo…

When creating websites you tend to think up domain names for them and have plenty of ideas of what to do, but sometimes you end up leaving them sitting there doing nothing.  You can sell them on if it’s a good name that people will want, you could also make quite a lot of money that way.  Until you find somebody interested in it though, it’s likely just going to sit there.

The fact is though, even if you don’t want to do much work on the website connected to the domain it can still…

As E-readers become more popular people find themselves wanting to read more and more, this can be a costly business especially for the bigger titles that are out there.  As companies like Amazon see the profitability of electronic versions of the books they sell they keep the prices at an attractive price for the reader and still manage to keep a profit.  The fact that publishing a book in electronic form is relatively cheap too it’s opened up the world of the independent book industr…

One of the forms of expression on the internet over the last few years has been “the blog” whether it’s politics, entertainment, the technology world or just about any other subject the world has woken up to the “bloggers”.  Some of the most important so called bloggers in the world have gained influence on the things they write about because they show a knowledge of what they are writing about and have the all important thing, an opinion.

The one thing that interests people is the…

When hosting a website you have a choice between using Windows or Linux.  Sometimes when hosting on a Windows server you want to use Wordpress on there.  It will work, but it’s not the easiest environment to work with, especially when it comes to URL rewriting rules.  “rewriting rules” are when the URL you see for a page has been made more “pretty” for not only Google but the users as well.  Instead of seeing a post number (for example www.yoursite.com/?page_id=3) this is not the most pr…

Smartphones whatever the make and whatever the operating system have one thing that they all have in common, they only have a finite amount of memory.  We take pictures, we store music we like to listen to and we download numerous apps that look fun to play with, help us with everyday tasks and keep our lives running just how we want.

The problem is though that word I used “finite”, we don’t have an infinite amount of space on our phones and if we just let it keep on filling up the…

When creating a website normally you build in a comments system to get feedback from your users, sometimes though you may wonder what it takes to make people post comments on the things that you are posting.  What you have to think about though is are you wording your articles in a way that you are looking for replies? Or are you ending what you have written just stating something.

The fact is you have to make your posts open ended, you have to understand who is writing your conten…

When we’ve discussed blogging for your business in the past it’s always been about the importance of SEO and keywords, how to get people to take notice and how to get more visibility to the search engines.  Sometimes though it’s good to actually take a step back from the technical side and think about the users of your website and the business you are trying to build.

Looking at the content of the blog entries that you post is also something that should be looked at with importance…