In a recent blog post, Google announced that it has made several improvements to Google Webmaster Tools (GWT), Google’s tool suite for site administrators. Though the changes might not be enough to help webmasters unlock the Da Vinci Code that is Google, it can certainly help them track and understand what is working and what [...]
Everyone who has ever had a bad hosting account knows that it is a rough ride. No one likes being uncertain whether their site is up or down or wondering how long it will take to load. However, many wonder what the big deal is, especially for sites that aren’t particularly well-trafficked. A few hours [...]
It might seem to be a small thing, but virtually every webmaster knows that verifying your site can be a tremendous pain. In an age with largely-automated CMSes and sites that practical run themselves, adding meta tags, hiding special HTML files or even editing DNS entries can be a confusing pain. However, for many different [...]
At Google’s IO Conference earlier this month, the company announced its new Google Storage for Developers service, a cloud-based storage solution designed to directly compete with Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud. With Google, the largest Web host in terms of the number of servers, getting into the cloud hosting game, it certainly is a major [...]
It has been a busy year and a half for Google’s browser. Since its release Google Chrome has worked its way up to version 5, has gone from being Windows-only to being available for all three major operating systems and has become the third most-popular browser, raking in over 6% of the total browser market [...]
A recent infographic on Intect shines a bright light on a statistic many hosts would like to keep secret: the number of servers they operate. Whether they fear they might be seen as too small or too large, many hosts keep this information buried. However, Intec was able to compile numbers on 15 of the [...]
GoDaddy, the largest shared hosting provider in North America, has launched a grid hosting service in an effort to win business from Media Temple and other companies already established in that market. Enticingly, during the beta phase, the service is being priced at a very competitive $4.99 for the first three months. That is 75% [...]
Online dating is a massive industry that has been responsible for quite a few millionaires over the past few years. Online dating has always been at the forefront of the online marketing world, always trying out new technologies and tactics and bringing in the big bucks even now, when most business are struggling. Dating companies [...]
Google just announced on their official blog a new ad program that looks at both the content on a page AND the sites the user has recently visited. Google says they are “making ads more interesting.” The good news is that ads should be more relevant as Google tries to understand the categories of sites [...]
An interesting post and discussion titled “Ranking, SERPs, SEO Dead in 2009?” at Sitepoint got me thinking… Once upon a time, you could build a site about “foo”, fill it with invisible text containing the word “foo” and get in the top 10 results in the SE’s. Years later, if you could find enough pages [...]