Step by Step Embedding Pinterest Feeds First decide what you are going to embed for example a board or a profile etc Once you have decided this copy the url from the address bar of the board or profile Then go to Pinterest’s Widget Builder and select either ‘Profile Widget’ or ‘Board Widget.’ (I’m going to add a […]
19 SEO Tools all in one place
Search Engine Reports has a very useful suite of paid tools but it also has 19 free SEO tools which cover areas such as Search Engine Placement Results, IP checkers to image optmization tools which everyone wanting the best results from their SEO will find useful. I haven’t tried them all but the ones I […]
Local SEO Business directories for 2017
How often when you do a Google search does Google return a web directory such as local search or similar site? You may not have noticed but the answer is quite frequently. Google’s users (and your potential customers) are constantly searching for local businesses and Google knows this and gives a higher ranking to businesses that […]
What is web hosting?
In this post we’ll go through from the basics of web hosting to the more complex issues and look at what you need to find in your web host to suit your requirements. If you want the rest of the world to see your website you need someone else to ‘host’ your website so it […]
The Quickest Facebook Marketing Tips You’ll Ever Get !!
If Facebook is where your target market is then it is amazing the reach you can get by spending $10 on boosting a post in Facebook. (Key point is -is Facebook where your target market is? You can get tips on defining your target market here) But below are a couple of very quick tips […]
6 Things Google hates (and will ban your website for!!)
The things below are not in any particular order of “naughtiness” but all are techniques/activities that should be avoided at all costs as they can get you banned from Googles index!! Link Exchanges and Bad Neighborhoods Linking ordinarily would make you a good neighbor and a good citizen of the internet. However, just because someone links […]
3 Quick Ways To Validate If Your New App, Business, Product Idea Is The Go
So you or your client have come up with what you feel in your gut is a great product, business or app idea but you need to validate the idea to ensure that you are on the right track. Building confidence to keep your momentum and to get others on-board requires you to do some initial analyse […]
Trophies online
Trophies are a good example of products that you can sell online. They are not to heavy and consistent in weight so you calculate the shipping reliably which is always important in an online environment- for many eCommerce store owners shipping can be a killer to calculate and if too high can put off buyers. As […]
How to leverage browser caching
Googles PageSpeed Insights tool often reports that you should consider fixing levering browser caching . This is often one of the easiest options to increase your score on the insights tool. Below is an explanation of what Brower caching exactly is and how to leverage brower caching. What is browser caching? Browser caching stores […]
Example media query breakpoints 2016- updated for 2018
Media Queries are elements that control a webpages presentation over different window/devices that work with the viewport tag that goes in the head of an .html document. Google developer docs has a great article on setting breakpoints (the point at which you want different css rules to kick in) which for those that interested is worth […]
How to spot a phishing or scam email
When you register a domain name it is common to start receiving scam phishing and unsolicited emails and phone calls. This is because the personal details you are required to be provided during the registration process, along with other technical domain information such as details of nameservers, domain registration and renewal dates becomes public data on the WHOIS […]
Standard website ad sizes
Standard Web Banners (in pixels) (explanation of what are banners ads at the bottom of this page) Size Style Target File Size 468 x 60 Full Banner 20 KB 728 x 90 Leaderboard 25 KB 336 x 280 Square 25 KB 300 x 250 Square 25 KB 250 x 250 Square 25 KB 160 x […]
html Colours
HTML color codes Colour codes are ways of representing the colours we see everyday in a format that a computer can interpret and display. There are a variety of formats, including Hex color codes, RGB and HSL values, and HTML color names, amongst others. HEX COLOR CODES The most popular are Hex color codes; three […]
CSS Reference sheet
CSS Properties Properties are listed in alphabetical order below. Each property has examples of possible values beneath it. Properties are not listed if they are not widely supported or if they are only supported by Internet Explorer. The properties are followed by some common values that properties may contain. CSS3 properties are not listed below […]
Free images and videos from Pixabay
All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CCO. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required. Pixabay does have some premium images in their results but these are clearly marked with the shutterstock watermark […]
Free image resource stocksnap.io
stocksnap.io is another awesome website which you can download free images from and you don’t need to attribute where they come from or the photographer (although I think it would be nice if you did 🙂 and they are copyright free. All their photos that are uploaded to the site are released under Creative Commons […]
HTML5 Tag list
Below is a list of the tags (or elements) supported in HTML5. This list is generally based on the W3C HTML5 specification, but may also include elements that are only in the WHATWG HTML Living Standard. For an explanation of the differences between the WHATWG and the W3C versions of HTML, Many tag also are in […]
Onpage SEO quick checklist
Before you begin make sure that you have identified the “key phrase” (2-5 word phrase you want the page to rank highly in the search engines for) for each page then follow this onpage SEO quick checklist. The identification of the key phrases for your pages I think should be done quite early in the […]
3 Elevator Pitch Templates
If you aren’t a natural salesman then the thought of having to deliver an elevator pitch of less than 30 seconds can take you a life time to prepare but the 3 templates below from the Shopify blog and specifically Braveen Kumar a “content crafter” (don’t you just love the names new jobs are being […]
8 website factors that Google loves- (updated from 6 to 8)
No 1: Web site is responsive and mobile friendly These days the majority of users access website via a smart phone or tablet and Google keeps separate search rankings depending on whether you’re searching with a smartphone or not? The May update to Google’s algorithm identified that mobile friendly pages would get higher rankings. Google even has […]
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