Some of the most recurring questions among Internet newbies are: “What’s Google AdWords?”, and “How does it work?” There’s the easy answer in the lines of “AdWords is Google’s online advertising paltform, which offers pay-per-click advertising, among several other forms of advertising. You bid on keywords and…” That’s not a bad answer but it’s far [...]

Last month I showed you how to change nameservers, using GoDaddy as an example. Well I’m going to talk about GoDaddy again but for a different reason. In October 2011 Congressman Lamar Smith introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which is a bill that would make it quite easy to get court orders to [...]

When you register a domain name with a domain registrar like GoDaddy or NameCheap, the domain is set up on parked nameservers, which means it shows a temporary page to people who visit to the site. Once you have chosen your hosting provider, you need to point your domain name to your hosting, so your [...]

Most Internet users see Firefox as a Web browser but many people use it as a work tool. If you work online, you probably spend a lot of time reading your emails, doing some research, using all sorts of Web tools… Here is a list of Firefox add-ons that can help you increase your work [...]

If you own a site and want your pages to rank well in the search engines, chances are you are looking for ways to build backlinks to increase your search engine rankings. Backlinks are known to be a great way to improve rankings, but the number of places where you can easily build one-way, dofollow [...]

If you run an online business, you can work pretty much by yourself, and have an online staff that helps you with a variety of tasks ranging from research to customer support. Most online business owners started by themselves, and then hired freelancers and virtual assistants as their business developed. Having an online staff  has [...]

WordPress 3.2 was released earlier this month, and if like me your WordPress database was on MySQL 4.1, the following message popped up on your screen: ERROR: WordPress 3.2.1 requires MySQL 5.0 or higher. That’s right. The latest versions of WordPress require MySQL 5.0 or higher. This means that support for earlier versions of MySQL [...]

One of the main reasons why so many people love WordPress is the thousands of plugins you can use. Whatever you want to do on your WordPress site or blog, you should try to find a plugin that can do it for you. Why do it yourself when a plugin can do it for you? [...]

If you want your pages to rank well in the search engines, it is vital that you build backlinks to them. There are plenty of different ways to build backlinks to your pages but that’s not what this blog post is about. This blog post is about backlinks indexing, which is the process of getting [...]

If you work online, you know how important keeping your mailbox organized and under controls is, using features such as labels and filters. Well, there’s a new email service provider out there, and this solution was designed with Internet professionals like us in mind: ViralinBox (Email, List Building & Marketing Solution) One Account, Multiples Email [...]