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How to Stop a WordPress Virus Infection From Coming Back
Recently I was vising one of my many WordPress sites when I received a warning from my virus scanner that it had blocked an attack. After seeing this I installed the plugin ‘Antivirus’ (a free WordPress plugin I strongly recommend) which showed strange code in 3 of the theme files, the index.php, footer.php, and header.php [...]
Read moreHow to Find Out Who’s Pinning You on Pinterest
If you have a website then you want to make sure that it’s being promoted with Pinterest. It’s a great way to tap into the social world and have them spread your content for you. As any marketer will tell you, it’s important to be able to track your progress on social media outlets like [...]
Read moreGoogles New Information Sharing Policies Between Services
Everyone’s complaining about Googles new policy which allows for data gathered about you to be shared accros their different services. Here’s what we have to say: People act as if Google owes us everything for free and will be malicious with their use of our data. The truth is that their goal is to provide [...]
Read moreAdditional Information in Google Search Results – Can Google Take Over the Web?
Google+ results are now showing up to the right of search results when there are relevant ones available. The image above shows a search for “Analytics” which generated the google plus results seen on the right. With the move towards social media and other non-traditional (website) forms of content it’s nice to have everything brought [...]
Read moreHow to Ban People From your Facebook Page
Facebook fan pages can be a great place to both bring together current customers, and attract new ones to your business or cause. Unfortunately sometimes, even if it’s for reasons beyond your control, you end up with unhappy customers. These unhappy customers can sometimes be very vocal about their displeasure and your Facebook fan page [...]
Read moreLearn with Google – Google’s New Site to Educate Website Owners about Marketing
“Learn with Google” is a new site by the search giant to help educate business owners about how they can promote and market their business online using Google’s wide array of tools such as Adwords. This is a great idea to reach out to small business owners who might be a little hesitant about purchasing [...]
Read moreFacebook Place Recommendations – How it works & How to use it
Facebook recommendations are a new way (implemented late July 2011) for people to help share experiences, or promote a fan page/business to their friends on Facebook. What are place recommendations? Facebook’s new place recomendations are a sidebar tool where you can review the Facebook page you’re on and that in turn gets shared with others. [...]
Read moreRip-Off Report Not Banned from Google
Revision It appears there was a third option here which I didn’t consider. It’s been reported by some reliable industry sources that Rip-Off report .com was de-listed through webmaster tools meaning that someone with access to their account requested to be de-listed. I’m not entirely sure why they would request this but I do know [...]
Read moreNew Google Link Position Below Title
You may have seen it already, but Google’s testing out a new search and adwords results layout which displays the page title first (as usual), but then shows the url below it, and then the page description. Google has been testing this new layout our with select users since the end of June but I [...]
Read moreThe +1 Button is added to Google Adwords
Google’s been pushing a new feature of theirs which you might have seen on various websites, the +1 button. It’s now going to be included in google adwords ads!
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