Should You Worry About Your Bounce Rate?
Should You Worry About Your Bounce Rate? A low bounce rate is often cited as a hallmark of a good website – 40% or lower is typically heralded as the goal. But does it really matter that much? The answer…
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Facebook Features To Help Your Marketing
Using some of Facebook’s native features will help you organically grow your audience whether using a personal profile or business Page. 1) Hyper target your status updates (personal profile) When you post any type of status update you now have…
SVN Remove Added File From Repository and Keep Local File – Subversion
This is quick SVN (Subversion) tip, howto remove added file from SVN repository without deleting file from local filesystem. Remove File From SVN Repository and Keep Local File svn delete –keep-local path/to/file.example Real example: svn delete –keep-local css/test.css Real world usage example Adding a whole directory add a file that was not intended to SVN…
In Life and SEO – There Are No Guarantees!
Business owners are often asking how they can be ranked #1 on Google, or if they should trust the company that told them they would guarantee a first place ranking. A common turn of phrase is that a company told…
Notes and Resources from OC Wordcamp Marketing Presentation
This past weekend I gave a presentation at OC Wordcamp, discussing using a WordPress site for marketing your business, service or product. As promised, here are the some of the key points, along with links and tools that were mentioned.…
Speaking at OC Wordcamp – WordPress for Marketing
I’ve been given the opportunity to speak this weekend at OC Wordcamp (thanks Brandon!) on the topic: WordPress for Marketing. I will be discussing ways to optimize your blog to market yourself, your business or service. I’ll be covering things…
PostgreSQL Sleep Function pg_sleep – Postgres Delay Execution
One day, I was looking for PostgreSQL database function, which could delay the execution of queries. At first I thought that I will do one myself, because I do not remember ever seen this kind function. But then I found pg_sleep Postgres function which directly delay execution of the server process. pg_sleep makes the current…
Get Focused With Your Website Marketing – A Reader Example
Sometimes I give some freebie advice to my subscribers and readers by way of a blog post. I received an email from Becky at Classy Sassy Couture who is looking for more ways to market her website and improve her…
Recharge and Refine Your Marketing Strategy
I frequently come across frustrated business owners who are still of the “build it and they will come” mentality. They don’t understand why they are not getting more web traffic, or why their marketing efforts are not having the desired…
Turn Web Browsing From Time Suck to Social Media Time Saver
The folks over at BitRebels.com have been kind enough to publish an article by yours truly. They just launched a Visitor Submissions section and apparently mine was the very first to be published – woo! The article is titled “How…
Drive Traffic Using Q&A Sites To Show Your Expertise
Demonstrating expertise in your field using Q&A sites is a budget-friendly marketing strategy that can drive traffic to your website. Such sites allow the general public to tap the knowledge of the community to get answers to their questions. You…
9 Reasons Why Hootsuite Is The Best Twitter Tool
I continue to recommend Hootsuite as the go-to Twitter application. With more features and a better interface than Tweetdeck, and more features always being added, Hootsuite will make managing your social media much easier. Here’s a few of my favorite…
Howto Install Gnome Shell with YUM on Fedora 12 Linux
What is Gnome Shell? GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 desktop user experience. It provides following core interface functions: Launching applications Opening files Switching between open windows Adding and deleting workspaces Moving windows between workspaces Dynamic system-related information display (including transient notifications) Providing a flat list of user-account related actions Logging…
How To Choose A WordPress Theme – Design & Functionality Considerations
This post follows on from – How To Choose A WordPress Theme -Free, Premium or Custom When choosing a theme you must consider design, layout and functionality. When considering these, keep in mind the general type of theme you are…
How To Choose A WordPress Theme – Free, Paid or Custom?
One of the biggest sources of frustrations I hear from clients when using WordPress is choosing a theme that looks good and does what they want it to do. The next couple of posts will attempt to provide some guidelines…
Rebuilding/Restarting Exim Mail Server
When troubleshooting the Exim log file: tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog If you need to restart or rebuild Exim, you can dump your databases * /etc/exim.conf * /var/spool/exim/db Read moreKali Linux 2021.2 Release (Kaboxer, Kali-Tweaks, Bleeding-Edge & Privileged Ports) | Kali Linux BlogWhich Exim just rebuilds automatically by issuing the following command via SSH: rm -fv /var/spool/exim/db/*…
cPanel Server : Restoring MySQL SimLink.
If you’re unable to restart mysqld and troubleshooting the cause: if u log into SSH and go to /tmp you may see that there is no simlink To create a simlink you can do the following: cd /var/lib/mysql/ touch mysql.sock chmod 1777 mysql.sock chown mysql.mysql mysql.sock Read moreHow can I repair corrupt MySQL tables?Create a…
Mobile Blogging With WordPress
Mobile networks are finally getting fast enough, and smartphones nimble enough to enable you to do some real stuff on the go. WordPress now has apps for the major players so you can have ready access to your blog away…
Do You Know What Your Site Visitors Really Want?
One way to find out is to analyze what they are searching for on your website. To track this, make sure to add site search to your Google Analytics. This will track what visitors are typing into the search box…
Social Media For Psychologists And Therapists
I presented to a group of psychologists the other week about getting started with online marketing and some interesting issues were raised around how they can use social media. Most social media strategists for business advocate being open, connecting with…