Web Developers
Surviving Google Algorithm Changes
Whether you’re reading this the year this was published or a few years later on, the fact is that living exclusively on SEO is a deadly game to be played. I know of many folks who’ve been hit hard when Google makes a change to the way they do things. Worse is for eCommerce Web sites [...]
YouTube Cuts Content Creators out of the Value Chain with Move to Creative Commons Licensing
YouTube is adopting a Creative Commons License and encouraging users to opt-in to the most liberal CC License so that their content can be used in mashups. Why does YouTube want mashups? Is it out of the goodness of its heart? Is it because it really enjoys all those talking animal videos? Nope. It’s because [...]
Simple Web Site Builder for Windows
For most people, the idea of creating a Web site of their very own is rather daunting. Understandably so, considering the sheer amount of design considerations and skill required to create a new Web site; most people are left to the entry level services provided over the Internet that often leave them with regrets. I believe the best approach [...]
Understanding CSS Background Properties
Unlike the days of being able to cobble something together with font colors and tables, these days we have the dynamics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to keep things neat and tidy on our Web sites. And as fantastic as CSS is with organizing placement of elements, colors for spaces, and fonts, there is still a bit [...]
Gaming Web Site Metrics: Ortsbo.com Brings Back the Dot Com Pump and Dump
Ortsbo.com is sometimes referred to as the “Star Trek Universal Translator” of the Internet. Ortsbo offers “real time” translation of chat and instant messaging, but to access these services you have to agree to a pretty scary privacy policy and terms of service that say the company can market to you based on the contents [...]
Many WordPress Plugins to Stop Working as Google Drops Numerous APIs in Effort to Improve Search Results
On May 26th, Google announced it was end of life-ing or deprecating several of its previously free to use APIs. The APIs that are being dropped are: Code Search API, Diacritize API, Feedburner APIs, Finance API, Power Meter API, Sidewiki API, Wave API, Blog Search API, Books Data API and Books JavaScript API (not the [...]
Email Reputation Causes Penalties in Google Search Results
A number of Web sites hit with falling search rankings in April had several things in common. These sites publish original articles, frequently in the 500+ word range, which is supposed to be a quality benchmark in the way Google values content. They are authored by writers generally considered to be among the leading experts [...]
Mobile Phone Web Browsers
Usage of mobile phones for browsing the Web while on the go is becoming increasingly popular. This means we’ve grown to rely on mobile browsers that are able to offer both performance and security. Some mobile browsers are better than others, so I’ll be highlighting a few mobile browsers so you can draw your own [...]
How to Sync Firefox with Chrome
It’s bound to come up. At some point you’re likely going to find that you use both Firefox and Chrome browsers. This has certainly happened to me as I need to see how different Web sites look in different browsers. So logically, having all of my bookmarks available in my browser(s) is a must. Now [...]
Google Correlate: Lies, Dirty Lies, and Statistics
Google Correlate is the latest keyword tool from Google. The promise is that Correlate will find topics that trend at the same time as a given keyword. Usually these correlations are obvious; often they are wrong. Not so much “wrong” as just not helpful. Knowing that ‘mittens’ trend when it is cold doesn’t really help [...]
