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How to Make Your Website Load Faster: 5 Essential Tips

You want a fast website – you need a fast website if you want web traffic.  Chances are if your website doesn’t load in the first second, you lose that web visitor.  The AOL dial-up connection is no more, but … Continue reading

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Fun Trivia: What does CAPTCHA stand for?

If you’re familiar with web design, you probably heard of CAPTCHA and that it’s used to reduce spam on online forms.  As the capital letters denote, it does actually stand for something.  That is,  “completely automated public Turing test to tell … Continue reading

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Should you get SSL for your website? Top 5 Reasons to go HTTPS, and Top 5 Drawbacks

Top 5 reasons to purchase SSL for your website, in David Letterman style, without the jokes lol: 5) Increased Google Ranking Earlier we wrote about how adding SSL may give you a bump up in your Google search engine ranking, … Continue reading

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Google Uses HTTPS (SSL) as a Website Ranking Signal

Last year in August, Google announced that it would use “HTTPS” as a ranking signal.  HTTPS denotes that a website’s server has SSL installed, a security technology to encrypt the transfer of data, between the web server and user internet browser … Continue reading

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Google buys domain name Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com

Alphabet’s New Structure and Domain Strategy Google has officially become a subsidiary of Alphabet, its new holding company.  After U.S. markets closed last Friday, Alphabet replaced Google as the publicly traded company, consisting of Google search, Adsense, Google Maps, YouTube, and other … Continue reading

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Why use “WWW” for your website?

You have 2 options for the url display of your website – with the “www” in the beginning, or without the “www”, otherwise known as a “naked domain”.  That terminology itself might persuade you to lean towards the “www” version for your website, and … Continue reading

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Ultimate Web Builder Reviews: Customer Testimonial Videos

We are adding customer submitted video reviews of Ultimate Web Builder on our Testimonials page!  Check out the first one submitted by Georgia, who created her Listings Directory website using UltimateWB software: Hi, my name is Georgia Crawford, managing director … Continue reading

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Google’s new Parent Company, Alphabet, opts for new tld: abc.xyz

This week Google announced that it will now be operating under a newly created parent company, named Alphabet.  Alphabet will be run by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Page as CEO and Brin as president.  And Google’s … Continue reading

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UltimateWB Full Version 3.6 Upgrade Released!

We are proud to announce the UltimateWB Full Version 3.6 Upgrade Release!  It includes the addition of 3 major social networking apps – Photo Uploads, Video Uploads, File Uploads – and an added feature to the Listings App released in the previous … Continue reading

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