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Website maintenance - WordPress Maintenance Maintaining a WordPress site can be time consuming, scary and frustrating if you're new to website maintenance, or you are simply tech challenged. Hire me to do this for you so you can concentrate on your business! Website maintenance is $125.00 per … Read more about Website maintenance – WordPress Maintenance

Keyword stuffing,  in the world of seo, is a no no. Here is a prime example of what not to do. First, I went to a site, looked around and scrolled down, and down, and down... As you can see in the image: blue. Keywords are hidden in this sea of blue. On my monitor, I could just barely see … Read more about Classic Keyword Stuffing

Found a cool social networking tool today. I'm fond of the url shortener is.gd for tweeting, for some reason. I generally use it thru the MarketmeSuite app. Today I didn't feel like opening Marketmesuite, so I decided to see if is.gd had a webpage. And they do. Not only can you shorten your urls … Read more about Twitter – Social Networking Tools

World of Warcraft Annual Pass I was trying to get the World of Warcraft Annual Pass. I’ve tried for two days. Why do I want the annual pass? Well because of Tyrael's Charger of course! So, I sent a support ticket in to WOW. In less than 24 hours I got a response that said something was up … Read more about World of Warcraft Annual Pass

Hostgator Cyber Monday – Get 50% off webhosting Hostgator is running a sale tomorrow - Monday Nov. 27, 2011 – only. It starts at midnight. Get 50% off any webhosting package – not including domain names. The sale applies to shared and reseller hosting, as well as VPS hosting and dedicated … Read more about Hostgator Cyber Monday – Get 50% off webhosting

I have a website scraper and content thief. What is a website scraper? It's a program that steals content from another site. A website scraper does have it's legitimate uses. In the case of my thief, it's not legit. He or she is using it on his site, with Adsense hoping someone clicks and he … Read more about Website Scraper and Content Thief

Ten Reasons to Not Choose A Free Domain Name or Host Why do businesses, decide that they need to get a webhost, and a domain name, and they want it all for free? Someone gets a bright idea for a website, or worse, a website for their business. They decide they really don't want to have to pay … Read more about Ten Reasons You Should Not Choose A Free Domain Name Or Host

Keep your own backups This fella lost 7 years of data. http://consumerist.com/2011/07/google-deletes-last-7-years-of-users-digital-life-shrugs.html Why was he using free online programs for his supposedly important email? This I don’t get – my email is my life. I see absolutely no reason … Read more about Keep your own backups

Blog and Site Upgrades I am still working on upgrading blogs, and I am in the process of moving one site to Wordpress. When I first started blogging, tags and multiple categories were all the rage. In fact, I was told at the time that I didn’t use enough tags, and it made sense in some cases … Read more about Blog and Site Upgrades

One Good Reason to Keep Your Own Backups In my years of web hosting I’ve seen servers crash, hard drives fail, and backups corrupted. Working tech support, I’ve warned folks to always keep a backup of their site, locally, heck, keep a couple of copies; and to never keep mail on the server if it’s … Read more about One Good Reason to Keep Your Own Backups