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Choosing Ideal Web Hosting

Choosing Ideal Web Hosting

It’s as easy to stumble across a hosting package these days as it is to purchase a loaf of bread. It seems that wherever you look you are besieged with offers from various hosting organizations, from your email inbox to the back of your favorite magazine. While this means a lot of healthy competition, it… Continue Reading

Keeping Abreast Of Blogging Trends

Keeping Abreast Of Blogging Trends

Technology is moving along at a rapid pace, as it always has. You only need to pop in to the Google official blog, or check out the new offerings and versions that WordPress issue to see that the world of online business moves faster than most other industries. In a competitive environment, where every organization… Continue Reading

Return Of Membership Site Mastermind

Well, I’m back from a short break and BlogWorldExpo in Las Vegas. As always with these type of things, my head is buzzing full of ideas, I just need time to implement them! If you’re on my email list you will have already heard it, but as we know, Membership sites are a popular way… Continue Reading

WordPress Template Tags Cheat Sheet

For those of you who might be like me and need to regularly edit WordPress themes/templates, add custom code, change things around and edit them, then WordPress Template tags are our friend. Ekin Ertac has produced a WordPress Template Tag Cheatsheet that lists the available template tags and what they do. You can download it… Continue Reading

7 Killer YouTube Traffic Tips

This video is part of the highly recommended Become A Blogger Premium. It shows you, step-by-step, how to optimize your YouTube videos to help you drive an insane amount of traffic back to your website. Gideon used these exact same strategies on one of his own YouTube channels, and received over 67,400 views in just… Continue Reading

What Are Nameservers?

I’ve had a few queries in the last couple of weeks about nameservers, or Domain Name Servers, or DNS. So I thought I’d explain, but not in the dictionary definition way, but in what it means to you. – You buy a domain. – You buy (or already have) web hosting. – Now how does… Continue Reading

How The World Has Shifted

I’ve seen this presentation in various forms, a Sony conference and here from Slideshare. Take 5 minutes to look at it and then take a long time to think about the consequences… [Note: I prefer to manually skip through presentations, but it depends how fast you read]… Continue Reading

Free Screencast Tool – Jing!

As recommended to me by a client, David Congreave, via Twitter, there is a great free screen capture and screencast tool called Jing. Created by the makers of the paid-for Camstasia (TechSmith) Jing is a simple free application that lets you easily capture screenshots or videos on your desktop. Its simplicity is brilliant, simply select… Continue Reading

Help! My Website Is Down!

I hear that familiar cry a couple of times a week. Sometimes followed by “what have you done?!”. Normally, nothing – it’s just your server, your connection or local server, or the internet itself. There are a couple of great tools you can use to see what is happening with your site. Down For Everyone… Continue Reading

Host Gator is My Recommended Host

Host Gator (or Hostgator as some people call them) is the host I recommend the most. I use them many times per day on behalf of my clients, and find them great to work with. I get asked which webhost I recommend a few times a week, and it is usually a choice based on… Continue Reading