How to make a SEO Website and Promote it!

Did your website’s traffic from Google suddenly make a big, unexplained drop at some point during 2011?You might be a victim of Panda!  [Read the rest of this entry...]

This morning I discovered that another website was loading one of my websites inside a frame. This means that my website was showing up inside theirs in a way that attempts to make it look like my website is a part of that website. It looked like this.

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This past Saturday I visited my Google Webmaster Tools account to do a few checks on my own websites, as well the handful of client websites that I manage. There was a message from Google, “Notice of Suspected Hacking on…” The Google message contained one or two suspicious URLs from the website.

This set off all kinds of alarm bells in my head, so I immediately went to the site’s hosting account, looking for the file that Google mentioned in the suspicious URL. And there it was!

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For quite some time, I’ve had a problem with my own productivity. Some days I would spend half of it surfing the web and not really do much. Other days I’d be busy, but I’d be busy with the wrong things, with the result that important stuff stayed behind, often leaving me with a semi-crisis on my hands. Here’s how I fixed it…

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The other day, while working my way through this tutorial on WordPress theme creation, I came across a really smart idea on how to use headings in WordPress themes that makes great sense from a SEO point of view.

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Have you ever heard of website cookies? Some people have, and others haven’t. To start off, it isn’t something you can eat, but if you visit websites from time to time, it is something you want to know about.  [Read the rest of this entry...]

You’ve probably heard a story or two on how people got into trouble for something they posted on Facebook, right?

I once read a story about how somebody got fired from their job because of something bad they said about their boss on Facebook, forgetting that the boss was one of their Facebook friends! To make it all more embarrassing, the boss fired the person in a comment on the post! [Read the rest of this entry...]

It’s frightening how many people don’t do any computer backup at all. If their computer crashes, they lose it all.

This happened to a friend of mine a while ago. He spent months working on an e-book that he wanted to market, his computer crashed, and the e-book was gone!

Having a “backup and restore” system in place is absolutely crucial if you have files that you really don’t want to lose, like a school project or music or photos of the kids, or an e-book… Who of us don’t have such files?

I am a happy user of a free online backup service that is saving me a lot of trouble! Let me tell you about it… [Read the rest of this entry...]

Personally, I run Ubuntu Linux on my desktop and laptop computers, but my wife runs Windows XP (SP3) on her desktop. Thanks to XP, over the past 7 days, I had the distinct (dis)pleasure of having to deal with the FakeRean trojan and the TDL3 rootkit that it installs.

This whole exercise was an incredibly frustrating experience, but I eventually managed to get the problem solved. So I decided to document my experiences here to hopefully prevent you from also damning those virus writers to hell! [Read the rest of this entry...]

I had a recent conversation with a friend about Twitter followers, how to gain followers, and how to handle new followers.

Is it important to have lots of followers? How do you go about getting more followers on Twitter? Do you follow back all your new followers?

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