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Domain Names

Facebook Vanity URLs or is it SEO Friendly Web Address

Facebook calls it vanity URL, I call it search engine friendly (or is it user friendly?) web address. This is referring to the news that Facebook is making it possible for their users to choose a user name that is five characters or more long to be their Facebook user name/url for example Facebook.com/odurinde instead of the automatically generate url of this authors Facebook page, which was quite long and contain lot of parameters. The new Facebook vanity url is much easier to remember both for visitors and when giving it out on the phone or via email The vanity url kicked in on on Friday or to put it into Facebook exact words on the blog where it was announced “Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you’ll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer” . Keen facebook users were said to have sat by their computer to wait for the appointed time so that they can grab their new SEO friendly style facebook web address. Though Facebook does not allow the transfer of one Facebook accounts from one user to another (without permission from Facebook) it is well know that Facebook... [Read the full story]

Web Hosting

Virtual Private Server (VPS)

July 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

One choice of web hosting that has gained a lot of ground in recent times is the Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting. That is because it presents you with the flexibility, versatility and speeds of devoted and committed servers at a cost that is very much comparable to that of shared servers. This kind of web hosting is ideal for those who cannot afford the cost of a wholly committed server and are into the reseller hosting activity. They are also ideal for those who are owners of many websites and desire to provide each one with sufficient bandwidth so that they can be accessed speedily and without any of the problems associated with that of shared servers, notorious for slow speeds. VPS, all said and done is a very attractive option for most website owners. But what exactly is a VPS? This is a standalone server or mega computer, which is hosted on something called the VPS Node or another name for a physical server. The advantage with these VPS nodes is that they possess huge RAM and hard disk space which makes it possible to divide them into many VPS systems. As a consequence, every VPS has its own RAM along with sufficient hard disk space and can therefore function like... [Read the full story]

Search Engine Marketing

Long Tailed Keywords and the Textual Content

June 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The guys at Boss Cart have been doing an excellent job on long tail keywords in installments, the latest installment called Long Tail Keywords and textual content was posted to their blog today. You can find the full article on one long tail keywords and textual content here.Excerpt from the blog post follows: What to Write How do I know what to write about? How do I fill the pages of my website with the useful and unique content that will keep my visitors coming back for more? If you are selling products, then this might seem a moot topic to you, but pay attention, this affects all who wish to retain loyal customers as well as bring new visitors from the search engines. Textual Content Textual content is the written word. Textual content is one of the most important aspects of website marketing. Textual content is like bait on a fishhook. You wouldn’t throw an un-baited hook into the water and expect to catch anything. you might get lucky and pull in some debris, but you likely won’t be catching that trophy fish. The same is true for website content. It is very difficult to market a website that has little or no textual content. Read More →

Ecommerce

Protecting Customer Personal Data

June 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Businesses that accepts credit cards from their website are compelled to abide by The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) which is a set of comprehensive requirements for the protection of payment card data; developed by Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover and JCB. PCI DSS provides business best practice guidelines to establish a “minimum security standard” to ensure customer personal details and credit card information are secured from thief. There is an industry built around this to help ecommerce site owners achieve PCI Compliance. PC1 Compliance includes testing procedure put in place by site owner to ensure the way they handle data is safe and secure. Private companies that doe not sell online but collect sensitive personal details re required to collect such information over SSL and register with information commissioner office to ensure data in their possession are collected and stored safely and securely however there does not seem to be a rigorous data safety enforcement similar to PCI DSS which could partly explain what could have gone wrong with Parcelforce customer tracking system which was in the new recently. It was reported that personal... [Read the full story]

Internet

Wolfram Alpha a new way of searching the net

British physicist, Stephen Wolfram has unveil plans to launch a new search engine which provides search results radically differently from the way existing search engine does... [Read more]

Google.co.uk - Do not visit this site, it may harm your computer

Google search service was affected by technical problem yesterday and today (Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st Jan), with some users saying they are unable to access search results.... [Read more]

Web Master

Making money through blogging

Blogging is a recent phenomenon and thanks to the internet is becoming very popular with many people. The internet is a space where some of the money making avenues like freelancing;... [Read more]

Analogue TV spectrum to become mobile broadband

A radical new us has been proposed for the analogue TV channel to be freed up when UK goes completely digital in 2012 was put forward to the government by Kip Meek. The proposal... [Read more]

Website Marketing

Google pagerank algo change - Link currency devaluation

For quite sometime now, Google pagerank or PR as its called for short has been one of the main ways to evaluate the quality of a website page. Thought there tons of other factors... [Read more]

Text Links Marketplace

Without a doubt, one of the most cost effective ways to promote a website in search engines today is through text link advertisement. Apart from the fact that text link advertisement... [Read more]

Online Business

Online business and chargebacks

As usually webmaster and small business related discussions are going on at UK Webmaster forums. One of the post that caught my eyes was on that highlights one of the most serious... [Read more]

Fresh From The Blog

Virtual Private Server (VPS)

You can’t keep a good geek down - Steve Jobs back at work

Nothing can keep a good geek down, be it cancer, liver transplant or anything you can think of, Steve Jobs keeps coming back. Steve Jobs, 54, Apple’s co-founder and Chief executive is said to have returned to work six months after his medical leave. Jobs is said to have had a liver transplant which must have gone very well because he is said to be expected back at his desk at the end of June. Steve Jobs has had series of health issues over the years, In 2004, Mr Jobs was treated for pancreatic... [Read more]

Google challenged to make Gmail more secure

Recently and open letter was sent to Google CEO Eric Schmidt by security experts, lawyers, and privacy advocates asking why Gmail users are “needlessly” being put at risk.The 38 strong signatories want Google to start using the secure version of the HTTP protocol to protect Gmail users. Ben Edelman, one of the signatories to the letter argued that because more people use insecure Internet access - such as wi-fi in coffee shops, libraries, there’s a real risk of session hijacking,”... [Read more]

Making money through blogging

Blogging is a recent phenomenon and thanks to the internet is becoming very popular with many people. The internet is a space where some of the money making avenues like freelancing; affiliate marketing, online surveys have made their bow and have been well received by the masses. However, I am sure that people would want to know as to how they can generate income through blogging in particular and this article is an attempt to give you some suggestions on the same. It does take some time to make... [Read more]

Protecting Customer Personal Data

SEO for Google Local Business Listing & Google Maps

Google Business Listings For quite a while the holy grail of search engine optimistion was to have generic keywords associated with your site product or brand listed on the first page of Google result pages, this is still a desirable position for a keyword associate with your site to be, but there are many other ways to get into page one on Google with far less efforts and possible a better traffic that converts to sale than the old method of targeting generic keywords, this two ways are via Google... [Read more]

Long Tailed Keywords and the Textual Content

PCI Compliance - A must of ecommerce credit card processing

PCI DSS or Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a kind of a universal norm for security established by the PCI Security Standards Council. This norm or standard needs to be followed by any organization that utilizes processes or sends information pertaining to the credit cards issued by companies like MasterCard, American Express and Visa. How are you impacted? The main impact is on the security aspect. Close to 234 million credit card holder data were either leaked or hacked into... [Read more]