A new email scam has surfaced over the past couple of weeks, telling people that their WordPress Database needs to be updated, and providing a link. This is no different than other phishing email scams that are out there, hoping to catch some of the millions of...
Techsmith claims that I have to buy new software in order to be able to “share to Twitter” from my licensed Snaggit Version 11, but I found their original add-in file, and it works just fine. When old software stops working on new versions of Windows,...
Have you ever been buried in spam emails for a short time, maybe a couple of hours, or overnight? Do you know why the happened? What you see below is spam e-mail arriving at a rate of about 25 per minute, or a new one every couple of seconds. Obviously this is...
As of May 25th, 2018, visitors to this website arriving from EU countries began receiving this cookie notice upon entry… Showing this notice in the United States is not (yet) required by law, so we’re not forcing it upon anyone else*. It’s only...
We’ve all been hearing for a long time now about the mobile first index from Google and they announced in March that it was going to begin. “Mobile-first indexing” means that when it kicks in for your website, then Googlebot will use the mobile...
If you’ve had your website for more than three years, Google is taking away a major ability to do analysis, if you don’t check a certain box, by the end of the day TODAY. Those aren’t my words, they come from a video I just watched by Jeff Sauer...
In the past week, not just one, but two of my clients pointed out things they’ve read online, which say that Google cannot index the text in tabbed or expandable elements. The first client phoned me last Friday concerning an FAQ page that we had built for his...
There seems to be a brand new Google feature for local businesses that I just ran across, called an “Offer Post”, that should be available in most accounts now. For those who are bored, they can Google search games such as w88oaz.com. To access it, log...
Just like you, all this time, I’ve always assumed that posting on a Facebook business page would “reach” a certain number of people. Over the years we’ve seen that number decline, and there are are variety of reasons people have long been...
Yesterday I learned that if you want your ads to appear in Google Maps, then you have to choose to advertise in the Google Search Partners network. Did you know that? I didn’t. When advertising in a Google Adwords search campaign, you’re given a choice...
