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If you are a subject matter expert, it’s time to fire up your favorite editing application and write an eBook.  eBooks are a great incentive to get visitors to your site to subscribe to your blog, newsletter, etc. in exchange for a free informative eBook. Trouble is, if you don’t have Adobe Acrobat (the full version not [...]

Monika at Easy WordPress wrote the other day about the risks of shared hosting. I thought I’d clarify and write a little more about the issue here. Using a shared hosting plan for your Websites or blogs can be problematic if you are sharing your IP address with other domains not under your control. Yesterday’s [...]

I’m not afraid of technology and damn it, I’m a cheap bastard.  Unfortunately, that arrogance and frugality came back to bite me this morning.  I learned a hard lesson about why you need to use a professional email campaign management solution when you are managing large email campaigns. Yesterday, I triggered an email campaign distributed [...]

Yeah, I’m a geek, but understanding the technology behind your Internet venture is a must in order to be successful. Name based virtual hosts is a sweet way to host more than one domain name on a single IP address/hosting account.  This is especially handy if you have a large number of domains with micro-sites [...]

Look in your browser’s address bar.  See that “C”?  That’s a favicon.  The purpose of the favicon is to replace the default icon displayed by your browser of choice in the address bar, tabs and in your bookmarks.  The advantage of having a favicon is that it is a good way to highlight your site.  [...]

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always found .htaccess files a bit confusing.  What with their regular expressions and all they can be a pain to research, create or edit.  Well, not anymore. The folks over at htaccesseditor.com have made it much easier for the uninitiated to create and edit .htaccess files.  Common uses of [...]

Aaron over at SEO Book.com released a free Firefox extension to check your keyword rankings on Google, international Google search results, Yahoo! and Microsoft.  I have to say after giving it a test spin, it’s pretty slick! The extension offers lots of configuration options and you can even export your report to CSV.  Check one [...]

About a year ago I stumbled upon LinkedIn.  I thought it was an interesting resource and decided to sign up.  At first, I didn’t think it was all that great.   That is, until I had about 50 connections. You see, LinkedIn can serve simply as a business curiosity or become a powerful way to maintain [...]

Let’s face it, we’ve all been taken in by a practical joke or two.  Me?  I love dishing them out.  However, no one does it better than the Interwebs on April Fool’s Day.  Here’s what I’ve found so far: Yahoo! Confirms MS Merger, Name Change Announcing Project Virgle – Virgin Group and Google team up [...]

Last year I was looking for a quality live chat feature to add to one of my sites. Mostly, this would be used for customer service. I looked at a number of commercial products such as LivePerson. LivePerson is very robust and complete. It’s also crazy expensive. After running it through the evaluation period, we [...]