In January 2012, new Internet real estate will be introduced to allow for domain names to shift beyond the traditional .com to .anything. This dramatic shift will enable businesses, entrepreneurs and governments to apply for and acquire their own Top-Level Domain similar to .com, .net or .org. Known as the new Top-Level Domain Program, and [...] Read more – ‘New top-level domains’.
If you’ve set up your website so it’s easy for both customers and search engines to read but are still not happy with your search ranking, you might want to consider paying for advertising online. These days, the most common form of online advertising is known as pay per click (PPC) advertising. With pay per [...] Read more – ‘Pay Per Click advertising’.
The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in this third major iteration we’ve added significant [...] Read more – ‘WordPress releases version 3.3 “Sonny”’.
Search Engine Optimisation can be the ethical way or ‘spammy’ way. Even large corporations often don’t care, as long as they get their rankings up: Over the last few months, I’ve seen GoDaddy rise up in the rankings for a lot of hosting related terms. At first I suspected they were finally using their very [...] Read more – ‘GoDaddy’s spammy link building techniques • Yoast’.
via chartsbin.com Pando Networks, a company specializing in delivering large quantities of online information to other companies, has released its most recent Global Internet Speed Study, which ranks 224 countries on their internet speed and download completion rate. The findings are based on the data from 27 million downloads by 20 million computers between January [...] Read more – ‘Top 15 Countries with the Fastest Internet’.
WordPress is, perhaps, the most prolific Content Management System of all time and it’s always amazing to see how much it continues to grow year over year. According to recent metrics, WordPress powers an amazing 14.7% of the top million websites in the world.In this ‘State of the Word’ address, Matt Mullenweg talks about this, and [...] Read more – ‘The Incredible Growth of WordPress | CMS Critic’.
I’m wondering whether the following misconception is too common and what is possibly slowing business response to listing on Foster Community Online. I had a phone conversation on Wednesday with a business who wanted a listing but didn’t want to give us their email address for fear of spam. I wanted to reply “why have an [...] Read more – ‘Open letter to our local Community’.
