When you’ve got a website, like any other product or service, it needs to be high quality as well as fast! This is especially true in the world we live in now where we can have packages shipped to us in less than a day and websites that load in less than a second. If your website is taking 5+ seconds to load though, you might have more issues than you can imagine.
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Accessibility and your Website
Making a website is never easy. You might find it difficult to find the theme you’re looking for or maybe it’s just tough filtering out content on a daily basis. There are always going to be updates needed, too. If you plan on having a website that remains relevant, then you also need to make sure it’s accessible to both the majority and the minority. One part of that is making it as user-friendly as possible.
Continue reading “Accessibility and your Website”New Directive in EU Changing Copyright Rules
If you’ve every created something like, oh, I don’t know a website, you’ve likely dealt with copyrighting. This is true for most things, in fact. That novel on your nightstand, the show you’ve got queued for streaming, and even that song you’ve got set as your ringtone, all of these are likely copyrighted and, if you plan on using copyrighted material on your website, the rules may be changing for us all soon.
Continue reading “New Directive in EU Changing Copyright Rules”Why do I keep getting spam comments?
If you’ve had a website for more than a month, chances are you’ve gotten some comments on posts that… well, they’re very obvious spam. Things like “Great post! Check out our products at *insert site name*” or sometimes just a long list of different products. Spam is everywhere nowadays and, don’t worry, it’s not just you that’s affected. It’s everyone.
Continue reading “Why do I keep getting spam comments?”How to: Avoid emails being marked as “spam”.
When you send out an email, there’s always a chance of it being marked as spam. Some people just listed you guys as spam and presto, all your emails go there, anyway. Others, however, might never even see your emails at all, without any input from them whatsoever. So, how can you avoid being marked as spam?
Continue reading “How to: Avoid emails being marked as “spam”.”How to: Write Good, Attractive Posts
One of the hardest things in getting a website not only high up in search engine rankings but also interesting to users is writing posts. It’s hard to know what users want just as much as it’s hard to know what search engines like. Luckily, there are a few good tips that’ll help you write the best posts you can!
Continue reading “How to: Write Good, Attractive Posts”SEO: Improve your Google Rankings
Making your website more visible is a difficult task. You’re not only fighting a war against already-well-known competitors, but new ones like yourself as well. Luckily, there are a lot of ways you can improve your ranking without going to alternative methods like paying upwards of thousands of dollars.
Continue reading “SEO: Improve your Google Rankings”Google and You: Getting your website on Google
I’m going to go ahead and preface this by saying that the minute you start a website, you will not have that website in Google. Sometimes it takes days or even weeks for Google and other search engines to find your site and no, that doesn’t mean you need to email Google and tell them about it. There are, however, plenty of things you *can* do to make Google not only find your website but also classify it properly and make it higher in the Google rankings.
Continue reading “Google and You: Getting your website on Google”How to Build a Strong Consumer Base
No matter if you’re trying to start a commercial website for selling products or services or if you’re just building something as simple as a social site, both mean nothing without having people coming to it. And let me tell you that getting a reliable following for a website is the hardest thing to do. People are fickle and will move on to bigger and better alternatives with the smallest of issues. Luckily, there is a way to help you build your website, and that is through a strong foundation.
Continue reading “How to Build a Strong Consumer Base”Backing Up Your Website
Websites are fragile. Sure, they can be the most stable thing in the world for months at a time, but that won’t last forever. It doesn’t happen often but hardware can fail, databases can crash or hackers could hack your website — and that’s when you need your back-up.