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How Backlinks Can Actually Hurt Your Website’s SEO, Google PageRank, and Traffic

Imagine this: You hire a marketing company to boost your SEO and get your website onto the first page of Google. At first, things seem to be going great – your traffic grows, your site appears near the top for … Continue reading

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How much disk space do you need for your web hosting?

You might be enticed to choose a web hosting plan because it advertises “unlimited disk space”.  But how valuable is that disk space?  Read the fine print in the Terms of Service (TOS) and you will find that there are … Continue reading

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Should you get .com, .org, and .net domain names – all the tld’s?

If you ask GoDaddy, the answer is yes, right?  When you try to buy a domain name with GoDaddy you are repeatedly urged to purchase the other top level domain names (tld’s) available for purchase, your-name.com and your-name.org, and your-name.net …even your-name.biz and … Continue reading

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Why you don’t want your website to be in Flash!

Do you want your website to be found?  Do you want your website accessible from smartphones and tablets, besides the home computer or laptop?  Then you shouldn’t develop your website in Flash.  If you want your website to be big, … Continue reading

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Better to sell on your own e-commerce website or eBay?

You have things to sell.  Should you sell them on your own website – meaning you will have to buy a domain name, web hosting, create your website with shopping cart – or use an e-commerce social networking third party … Continue reading

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Why do WordPress websites and blogs get hacked so much?

The short answer? A system is only as strong as its weakest link. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use WordPress for any part of your website – it just means you need to use it carefully, correctly, and smartly (yes, … Continue reading

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Shared Hosting vs VPS vs Dedicated Hosting – which one should you choose for your website?

Every website needs web hosting to be online and the type of web hosting you choose is what determines if your website will stay online without any issues.  There are 3 main factors in play when choosing what type of web … Continue reading

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Are Alexa Site Rankings Accurate?

If you keep checking your website’s Alexa Ranking you might be wondering if they are accurate.  Your traffic statistics are improving, but then at the same time your Alexa Rank is getting lower.  And then when your traffic statistics shows … Continue reading

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Best web hosting control panel? cPanel

Different web hosting companies may offer different control panels to help you manage your files, database, create personal email accounts, make backups, and check on your traffic statistics.  While they all may do the same functions, how they do it … Continue reading

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How to protect your unwatermarked photos and still offer automatic downloads after purchase

You might have heard that you can’t really protect your unwatermarked, original photos online on your website and still offer automatic digital downloads after a customer purchases it.  The truth is that is a myth.  Photographers – you can protect … Continue reading

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