Online advertising skyrockets
Industry watchers predict that overall online ad spending will increase by about 3 percent for the next two years, for a total of about $29.1 billion in 2010. The growth is being driven by search engine advertising (especially pay-per-click), which is expected to jump 13 percent by 2010. Also growing rapidly is “Web 2.0? advertising […]
3 Tips to increase your E commerce sales in 2022
In 2016, eMarketer and Forrester predict U.S. eCommerce companies will sell between $355 and $393 billion worth of product. Their estimates also suggest American eCommerce revenues will reach upwards to $500 billion by 2018. For businesses to stay relevant and get a share it is very important for theme to keep up with the changes in business, […]
Another site of mine got hacked
This time one of my sites that makes me money got hacked. It is a pretty large site with hundreds of products. Gets only natural traffic. Yesterday I went to check on the site and found my index file had been defaced. These are the steps I took I logged in to my FTP program […]
Internet User Numbers Up
I read this news today. “One third of the world’s population will be online by the end of the year, according to United Nations statistics. The number of people online has doubled to two billion in the last five years, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said. The ITU believes that broadband is a “transformational technology” […]
Make search work well
Once you have fixed your navigation, the next one you need to focus on is the search function on your site. When you get a visitor looking for a specific product & lands on your site make sure you have your search function working properly. If the results do not come up on search you […]
Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft has celebrated the imminent demise of version 6 of its Internet Explorer browser by baking a cake. The software giant held the light-hearted celebration as it revealed that the program was used by less than 1% of US internet surfers. It is keen to kill off the old version of the browser and persuade […]
Do I have to be a local designer?
I see a lot of searches in my stats with names of cities other than where I live (wellington). I have local clients and clients all over New Zealand. With email and skype or phone it is so easy to get what you want these days. I have not met most of my customers face-to-face. […]
Google Instant
Google has released a new search facility known as Google instant. In the normal Google search when you type in a search phrase Google will give you a few suggests – related Google searches. You had to pick what you want in the search box and click enter. With Google instant as you type the […]
Free Vacation Scams
They almost got me today on the phone! This is how it goes. Ma’ am you have been selected with four others for a free vacation in Florida. (of course – where else). Oh by the way Visa International has selected me. The sponsors are canpakvacation.com I did a bit of digging & found out […]
DIY
I am in the process of updating a WordPress manual I created a while ago. Hopefully I will finish it in a week or so. The manual is a couple of versions behind now. The purpose of the manual is to help people quickly put up a simple self hosted wordpress site. This can be […]