Here are my rough notes from the second day at MozCon. You can check out my notes from day 1 here. Forgive me for the abrupt nature of the content, I just wrote down the things I found notable, useful or actionable from my own perspective, so this isn’t intended as an overview of the …
Here are my rough notes from the first day at MozCon. Forgive me for the abrupt nature of the content, I just wrote down the things I found notable, useful or actionable from my own perspective, so this isn’t intended as an overview of the whole day. Thanks a ton to all the excellent presenters, …
I had pretty much just accepted that the dowloads folder was just slow to open ’cause it hates me… It doesn’t even need to have much in it. A couple small files and you may find that the default Windows 7 Downloads folder takes several seconds longer than every other folder to open up. Well, …
Downloads folder opening slow on Windows 7? Easy fix… Read More »
Your followed-by/following ratio matters. It’s a reality of Twitter, particularly if you’re trying to build authority for your account. People often will just follow you so that you follow them back, and then they’ll ditch and hope you don’t notice, leaving them with a bigger number of followers and you with a bigger number of …
Keep tabs of people who un-follow you on Twitter Read More »
Are you ever annoyed by the teeny tiny height of Gmail’s compose/reply box? For all I love about Gmail, this is certainly something I don’t. Even when you use the “pop out” window, especially when on a smaller screen (like a laptop), you can’t seem to get a tall enough compose box to facilitate crafting …
Get a Bigger Compose/Reply Box in Gmail (when using Chrome) Read More »
How do the words (not provided) make you feel? No strong reaction? Good! You’ll be happy to know Google is rolling out the https protocol (as it did recently on Google.com) to the rest of the world. This increases the security of the web, or something… If (not provided) does strike a cord however, then …
For the average searcher, popping a query into google and hitting enter is as natural as brushing our teeth. But sometimes the results aren’t what we were looking for. You know the information is out there, but there’s a bunch of noise in the way. Don’t despair. You too can Google like a pro and …
At the very foundation of all SEO is your selection of words and phrases to target. Keyword research is vital in determining the ideal terms to try to rank on which will expose your site to the people looking for your specific product or service. No matter how well your website ranks in search engines, …
At the moment of writing this, the top link on the front page of Reddit (a popular social news site) is a thread condemning GoDaddy (a major domain registrar) for their apparent support of SOPA. With over 10,000 “up-votes” and 1126 comments (and counting), GoDaddy’s statement seems to have struck a serious cord with the …
Possible mass exodus from GoDaddy as their statement supporting SOPA makes the rounds Read More »
Screenshots are very useful, but it can be somewhat annoying to get them quickly. Most often, folks will press Print Screen, open MS Paint, paste the image in, crop out the part of the image they need, add their annotations (arrows, underlines, text), save it somewhere.. blah, blah. Are you exhausted yet? Make quick work …