Google Search Guidelines
Know the Purpose of Your Pages Google’s guidelines stress over and over again is the importance of matching your content to the user intent. The main purpose of your website should be to have relevant information for which the user is searching for. Google wants to you to ask What brings visitors to your site? […]
Identity theft
I was talking to a friend of mine a couple of days ago. She has been running up high phone bills over the weekend. The reason – She entered the green card lottery online. Before she paid by credit card she checked out the website thoroughly made sure it looked legit. The site was well […]
Password security
Do you do affiliate marketing? Do you drive pay-per-click traffic to your websites or landing pages? Then you have to read the following story. I belong to a private forum where most of the members are affiliate marketers. They drive PPC traffic specifically Google Adwords traffic. Of late a few of them had their Adwords […]
Olympics
As you are watching the Olympics this year and marvel at the likes of Phelps or Bolt Or any medallist some on that stand will inspire you. When an event leaves you with a tear or your heart swell in pride think about what these athlets have put into to get to that stand. The […]
Password Managers
I wanted to write about password managers after reading about IE vulnerability. The news item on TV said – if you click a link in the email you receive or even click a link in an infected website the hacker can hijack your hard drive and steal your passwords. This sows the seed for identity […]
How secure is your password?
I know I have written about this topic many times before. A story I read today reminded me not to take this subject lightly. I was just now reading a blogger’s post about ” How he fell for a phishing attack and the response or no response from Google. Mark Gosh is a blogger and […]
Increase Traffic to Your Website with a Blog
A Blog is one of the best ways to drive traffic to a website; whether it be a corporate website, small business, or online shop. By adding great content to your blog regularly, you will provide useful resources to visitors and publish more pages for search engines to index. High quality articles will also generate […]
Hacked problem resolved
Continuing from my post yesterday, the hacking problem has been resolved by Hostagator. This is one of the reasons I love Hostgator. They are so quick to resolve problems. There were two spamming scripts installed on the website server. Even after deleting all the files these spamming scripts could not be deleted. It was finally […]
Scam awareness week
This week is scam awareness week. According to statistics New Zealand loses up to $450 million in scams every year. Online scams are a large portion of that. Demography wise the elderly are most vulnerable ( I think it is because they are more trusting & not very tech savvy) The biggest portion seems to […]
Malware sites
Yesterday I was searching the net for a Rotary Club logo. I need it for a project I am doing at present. There a few sites that had good images. I clicked on one on of them on Google. And the next thing I knew what some sort of scan was going on of my […]