I thought the flu virus was bad news.  It is, of course, but 2013 is turning into the year of the viruses for our computers — that an ‘malware’, ‘trojans’ and who knows what.  I haven’t been able to find the perfect vaccination for computers yet, but got a few suggestions from the nerds. The strongest suggestion was...

It used to be necessary to submit each and every page of a site manually to each search engine, that happily is no longer the case.  Search engines follow links to find other pages which they then import into their databases. A new site or webpage will eventually be discovered and indexed if there is at least one link from an indexed page that leads to it. A page or...

The unexpected damage or destruction to a business website is a serious problem.  It is not only the cost of restoration or re-creation of what was an expensive  site, but the loss of search engine position and the loss of potential customers/clients and the business they bring to your company.   That’s an OUCH! Until about 2004 backup was simply...

Facebook just removed everyone’s email address from their Timeline profiles (that means if you updated your Facebook to a Timeline profile (that’s the one with the big picture) your email on Facebook is now @facebook.com. My understanding was that Facebook provide the means for us to communicate easily with one another but this makes it much more difficult.  And...

Everyone has an opinion on how to 'optimize' a site but what is really important? The answer might surprise you!

When a user visits your site and leaves it without going to another page on the site it is called a “bounce”.  The ratio of such bounces to the total number of visitors to the page is called the ‘bounce rate’.  For instance if 1000 users land on a page and then either hit the back button or leave the page for another site, they’ve...

So many times at Silk Shorts, Inc, we are asked to use pictures, graphics, even text/content from other websites or other sources when creating a new site for our clients.  First of all, we don’t do that —- someone else developed/paid for that material and we have no right to use it. Secondly, you might be surprised how simple it is to find copyrighted...