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Back Up Your Servers!

I’ve talked about this before, but, it would seem a timely reminder is on hand.
Some malicious hacker attacked WebHostingTalk, one of the oldest and most popular webmaster discussion forums. He deleted the offsite backups, the onsite backups, and then deleted the database. The attacked seemed to be purely malicious.
WHT is now having to rely on [...]

Copyright Clearance Center, Not a Scam

When you start officially registering various forms of intellectual property, be they copyrights or trademarks, you’ll get a lot of junk mail. Not unlike the junk mail anyone who registers a domain name gets where some unscrupulous companies try to confuse you into thinking that you owe them money to renew your domain membership, you [...]

Deepen your site for fun and profit

The depth of your site refers to how many clicks it takes to get from your homepage to the furthest reaches of your site. With each click representing, of course, another page, another level of organization, for your site.
I think, with that definition, having a deep site means having a site with many pages. Since [...]

Ode to a Forum

I love forums, they are excellent tools for website publishers with almost no downside and tremendous upside. If you have a site that you think would benefit from a forum, wait not another day, and get it done now.
Why are forums good? Well, there are many reasons, lets start first with how they provide a [...]

Behind the Scenes at Google, the Human Reviewer Playbook

You can optimize your site for search engine algorithms perfectly, but if a human working for a search engine comes in and makes a snap judgement that your site looks spammy or isn’t useful, and you’ll suffer.
I think, many of the unexplained rankings we see are a result of these human reviews and it [...]

Video Production, The Wave of the Future

Video is becoming a larger and larger part of the Internet and I’m getting my feet wet with producing my own.
But, this is virgin territory for me and I need some help. I’m hoping to get advice and recommendations from those of you who have already done this.
The first thing I need is the technology. [...]

To our hosts and registrars, may they never meet

This post, I’m sure, will have many of you saying “Duh!” and rightfully so, most of you, I hope, know this, or realize it is common sense, but many people out there don’t and they get misled, confused, and screwed because of it.
I speak of course, of bundled services where your registrar is your host [...]

My New Nutrition Site

I finally have something to blog about, after awhile of not getting any inspiration. I’ve finally launched a new site (more or less).
Nutriquiz.com a nutrition quiz site.
I am really into nutrition, both as I like to cook and I like to look good naked. So I’ve been “into” nutrition for awhile and was hit with [...]

Using Google Alerts to Monitor Your Business

Google has a very nice, yet I think unsung feature, called Google Alerts which makes it very easy to monitor aspects of your web business. It isn’t a new service, and if you’re a dedicated reader of this site and forum you’ve undoubtedly heard it mentioned before, but I don’t think I’ve ever spotlighted it [...]

Been Getting Hosting Company Forum Spam

Over the last couple months seemingly innocent posts have been appeared in the Website Publisher Forums that taken individually would look normal, but as a group they are very suspicious.
One new member would first post in the introduction folder, and then in the web hosting reviews area (the right forum, so they aren’t dumb spammers) [...]

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