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California Repealed Its Affiliate Nexus Tax Law
Update: September 23, 2011 CALIFORNIA REPEALS THE AFFILIATE NEXUS TAX LAW See this Press Release by the Performance Marketing Association. PMA executive director, Rebecca Madigan stated, “The signing...
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Nonverbal Website Intelligence
I just read an article on how the WordPress community has labeled - ThemeForest as its red headed stepchild, and somewhere near the end of that article they started doing comparisons to other theme...
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A Comparison of Location Search in Google
As Google continues to refine its algorithms to return relevant results - I sometimes don’t want to see results based on where Google thinks I am, my past search history or what Google Plus circle I’m...
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Will WordAds From WordPress Succeed?
Performance Marketing Insider ran an article earlier this month - about the launch of WordAds by WordPress, wondering whether it could compete with Google’s AdSense. While I don’t think that’s going to...
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YouTube Publishes a Creator Playbook
YouTube recently published a Creator Playbook – that delves (extensively) into how to BEST create and optimize your videos. Included are recommendations for metadata optimization,...
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Trust in Know, Like and Trust
Know, like and trust are terms relative to - sales, not just face-to-face with a sales representative, but also the Internet. Billions of dollars are spent online every year, much of that with...
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How to Get a Gravatar and Why?
This is my Gravatar as the Editor for WDTalk. Gravatar stands for Globally Recognized Avatar, which is simply the small square image which appears alongside comments you leave when blog commenting....
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Understanding Tradition to Stay Connected With Your Visitors
When you speak about the tradition of Internet technologies - you need only go back a couple of decades, but there is value to understanding the culture of your niche as a tool to connect with visitors...
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A Brief Look at KVM Switches
A KVM switch (keyboard, video, mouse switch) essentially allows - a user(s) to access multiple CPUs from a single monitor, keyboard and mouse. KVM switches are found in virtually every data center,...
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Online Videos Drive Business
I’m constantly amazed at how technically advanced my grandchildren have become - I think because of their early exposure to TV and other visual medias. We’ve evolved into a visually rich society –...
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Type In “Let It Snow” on Google (Break Out Your Mittens!)
I just typed in “Let It Snow” on Google – as recommended by a story in the Los Angeles Times. Instantly, my screen started filling with snowflakes and in just a matter of moments, it fogged over....
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Software versus Hardware RAID Solutions
First, RAID is not a backup solution – always employ disaster recovery options. I field queries about – RAID 1 (mirror) software versus hardware solutions from time to time. Both have their advantages...
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Keyword Research Guidelines
Just this morning, I read an article on a web hosting forum about Keyword Research Guidelines - and was so impressed I considered asking the OP (original poster) for permission to use it on this blog....
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FREE Anti-Phishing Tools
I read an article a few days ago describing in-depth comparisons – of the major search engines ability to recognize and combat phishing. To my surprise, IE ranked much higher than Google, but since...
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Intrinsic Web Design
Updated Dec 27 2011 Web design is about perception (by the visitor) - so user-centric designs lead to more successful & profitable websites. The key here is to approach your design from your...
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Minimize Shopping Cart Abandonment
With shopping cart abandonment hovering - between 50-70%, understanding WHY could help you refine your checkout process and improve conversions. Whereas getting from Point Query to - Point Buy...
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Custom 404 Error Pages in WordPress
What are 404 error pages anyway? From time to time, one of your links on WordPress may become broke. When this happens, WordPress looks for a 404.php web page, and presents that page to the visitor....
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Hostirian is named Best VPS Host by Best Free Web Space
Hostirian is named Best VPS Host by Best Free Web Space because of the quality of service and the best virtual private server (VPS) technology they use. In this Hostirian review we will take a look...
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New Website? Some Tips To Get Indexed
When you publish your website - there are things you can do to get found and accelerate inbound traffic. I’ve seen a lot of SEO practitioners recommend submitting your site to Google and so on, but...
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Five Nines – What Does This Mean?
Five nines or 99.999% relates to - the up time availability of data centers. Prospective clients look for uninterruptable uptime as a prerequisite to constitute reliability of a data center, but what...
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Web Hosting Niche?
Every successful business has its niche - (a place, employment, status, or activity for which a person or thing is best fit). Marketing materials are carefully written to emphasize a business’s...
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Screen Capture Programs
I remember when I first learned how to use print screen - to capture screen images. I thought to myself, “Wow, imagine the possibilities!” Technology has advanced so rapidly, it’s impossible for one...
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Xen™ Virtualization Explained
Xen™ – is a virtual machine environment that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with outstanding levels of performance and resource isolation. Xen is Open Source software, released...
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Basic Website Design Tips
Center Your Pages – Pages that are left or right aligned don’t work well with larger PC monitors, and often look out of place due to the large amount of space left to one side. Use Ample White Space –...
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Do Follow or No Follow (SEO Tips)
Revised January 18 2012 By default, WordPress blogs use a rel=”nofollow” attribute - so when you read of Do Follow Blogs, these are blogs that have used a plugin that removes the nofollow attribute....
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YouTube AutoStart Tip
YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world - which is owned by none other than the largest search engine, Google. Volumes have been written about video optimization, but your core...
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Domain Name Insights
Just today, I was asked for a recommendation in coming up with a name for a new forum - in a custom niche. I know this sounds easy, but it seems that every conceivable combination of English words has...
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A Few Very Interesting / Successful Blogs
With so much information out there - it’s hard to narrow down any search query to the relevant few you’re truly interested in. I recently found a great list of blogs that are both interesting and...
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Social Media Connection – Ex4.me
Exchange4Me is one of a number of social media Exchange systems, and our first to review on WDTalk. Basically, the site is designed to help you increase your site traffic and popularity “FAST and FREE”...
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Where People Will Do Stuff for 5, 10, 20 or Up to 100 Dollars
I watch and participate in a ton of webinars, but the latest one I tuned into talked about automating stuff like distributing your YouTube videos to different video sites, and the same with PodCasts...
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Link Farms – Farmed Out by Google?
Google has changed its algorithms – over 200 times recently, in an effort to return the most relevant results to search queries. Link farms are in their cross-hairs now. In the headlines, J.C. Penny...
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What Are Google Raters Looking For?
What is Google looking for – pretty simply, results that are helpful (in the user’s locale or their peer groups). When their raters are researching queries and landing pages, they want to find useful...
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Ping Services and MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
Have you ever wondered why Google loves WordPress sites, and why they seem to get indexed faster than other sites? Even Alexa shows greater movement in traffic trends for new WordPress sites. New sites...
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How are River City Internet Group and Hostirian related?
River City Internet Group River City Internet Group (RCIG) is an Internet delivery ‘holding company.’ RCIG (http://www.rcig.net) is a Missouri Corporation founded in 2001 that owns or invests in...
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More Smartphones Than Humans on the Planet?
I read some predictions this morning that really opened my mind to the possibility of mobile, and the most significant was that 2/3 of mobile traffic would be consumed by video. Here’s the predictions:...
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Protect Your Websites
Unfortunately, a ton of websites get hacked or defaced everyday around the Globe. I’ve seen statistics that state up to 90% of all hacked websites are related to (CMS) – Joomla or WordPress, at least...
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Brief Look At QR Codes
WHAT’S A QR CODE? A QR Code (“Quick Response”) is a cell phone readable bar code that can store website URL’s, plain text, phone numbers, email addresses and pretty much any other alphanumeric data....
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Researching Hosting Providers
If you’re in the market for hosting, the following links will give you an assortment of invaluable info. Simply plug in the hosting providers URL on each of these services. Google Safe Browsing McAfee...
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Hostirian is Now Offering FREE Uptime Monitoring For Everyone
Hostirian is now offering FREE Uptime Monitoring For Everyone Sign Up Now Overview We monitor server availability, performance and security externally from our monitoring stations located in...
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Examining Google Search Updates
Google makes over 400 changes to their algorithms each year, and this year is no different. If you’re performing SEO for your own site or as a professional service for your clients, it’s essential that...
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Why consider colocation versus in-house?
In-house versus colocation? With in-house infrastructure (compared to colocation) you’ll most likely need: Physical space Rack Servers UPS Switch Router Diesel Fuel Generator Firewall Appliance...
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Is your mission critical data backed up and protected?
Is your mission critical data backed up and protected? A quick Google search for remote backup software returned 6,810,000 results. I’d say that’s significant. I think everyone agrees that mission...
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You cannot manage what you cannot measure
You cannot manage what you cannot measure I stumbled across this phrase as I was reading about managing power consumption in data centers, and it occurred to me that this applies to all facets of...
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Social Media – The Shift to Peer Recommendations
Does it surprise anyone that over one-fourth of search results – for the world’s largest brands are links to USER generated content? Peer recommendations are the know, like and trust factors that have...
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Increasing the quality of your marketing campaigns
How do you measure quality? Is it measured in new sales? More traffic to your website or blog? Controversy Can you use controversy to increase your sales? This is actually used quite frequently,...
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The Squeeze Page Strategy
As you search the Internet for squeeze page strategies, remember that the rules (Google algorithms) were changed recently, and many once successful one page squeeze pages fell by the wayside. But...
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Landing Pages Tips
How many of you use landing pages - or do you simply use anchor text hyperlinks that point an existing order page on your site? The goal of a landing page is - to convert prospects into clients, and...
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Want LOTS of FREE Traffic from Google?
I read a ton of articles, threads and posts from SEO experts everyday. Why? Because just like everyone else, I want to increase sales online. For years, SEO practitioners preached a mix of link this...
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What Is Reverse SEO?
Reverse SEO? Does it mean – trying to get listed lower in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS)? Of course not! Reverse SEO is interpreted in a couple of ways though. Some say it’s about – researching...
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