Another day and another somebody referring to an Alexa rank for one of my sites. Now this is a question that really gets me all warm and fuzzy inside (stopped getting irritated a long time ago). If you have a blog / site or recently started one, you have at some point stopped by alexa.com [...]
As I'm sitting here writing this, grin on my face and all; top right of my Google Chome browser I see the red stop sign with the white hand on it. AdBlock. This is my personal blog, PaperHedge. It's blocking my own ads. To be honest, I've used it for years. Blocking ads not only [...]
This is a little trick I learned after having trouble with another site of ours that simply was not getting crawled at the volume and rates as other similar sites as well as our pages not getting indexed fast enough after we published a post. The issue was that pages would sometimes take three weeks [...]
How many times do you find a gem of a thing in this world today? I can honestly tell you there are a few things other than my family that I really treasure in this world. One of the top 10 I have to say is the magical Unsplash.com. If I were religious and Unsplash [...]
In marketing, sales and advertising, getting down to the number one value proposition of your product or service is always the starting point. Your value proposition is what separates you from your competitors, makes your product better, and gives the customer the reason why they need to purchase your product. Sounds simple in theory, but [...]
This is the second time we have received an email from clients with instructions to please sort this ASAP. The below email (most are similiar) has probably caught many webmasters off guard as it seems very innocent at first but tricks you into buying domains for a hefty fee in a China (or Asia) where […]
There are two types of marketing for small business; free and paid. We all know which we prefer and ultimately if we can get more of the free stuff, the happier we are. So what is free marketing? Free marketing is right beneath your eyes. If you are a retailer and have a physical presence [...]
It's five minutes to five in the morning and I've been up since 02:30 am. To be honest, I am pretty under the weather and in between a house cold and general fatigue. It's times like this that you function on some sort of reserve energies and you quickly realise what a body is capable of [...]
UPDATE:I have recently started having issues with WooGang and some plugins coming through "dirty". I know that some folk in the comments below have been having similar issues as well. With this in mind I cannot recommend WooGang. I have left this post up as it has become popular. Any other recommendations? Please share in [...]
This post is about something that I have sort of seen work in my own life but simply had no way to really put it into words. I guess this post is about kicking ass in everything you do, a mantra of sorts, or a simple tool that lets you get that little bit of extra [...]