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Imagine this… You wake-up one morning and discover the unthinkable has happened… …your website is gone! That’s exactly what happened to me a few years ago. My hosting account was hacked and sending phising emails out by the hundreds. Needless to say, the webhost closed my account. They did allow me to download a recent [...]

One of the few drawbacks to WordPress is adding HTML or scripts to posts. Especially if you use the WYSIWWYG editor. But I found a great plugin to solve this issue called Artiss Code Embed. You can download it by clicking here or by searching in your WordPress control plugins for Artiss Code Embed. Garrie

Don’t Let Your Link Get Lost In The Sea Of Bookmarks Someone visits your site and they actually bookmark it but only for it to get lost in their sea of bookmarks. Never to return. It doesn’t have to be like this though. You just need to make your icon stand out from the othes [...]

If you do any graphics or webdesign work, you know that it can be a pain to get the exact color of something. Well, not any more thanks to a great little program called EyeDropper. EyeDropper will tell you the hex and RGB value of any color you can see on the screen. You can [...]

As I told you yesterday, YouTube is banning accounts and almost all marketers are at risk. So if you don’t have backup copies of your YouTube videos, you need to download them now. You may think all your videos are safe only to find them gone one day. Plus it’s simple to download them. Simple [...]

You may not have noticed this but in IE 7 & 8, sites load a tad slower. It’s only a second or two but even that gets on my nerves so I went looking for a solution. After a little research I found that having the phishing filter turned on was causing the delay. Basically, [...]

PhotoShop is the pimp daddy graphics program used by 10 of 1,000s of graphic artists, web designers and even marketers. It’s also the most expensive graphics program on the market and most people can’t afford it or don’t need something that powerful for simple tasks. Luckily, there are some great alternatives and and while they [...]

I’ve always used URL redirection services like TinyURL to reduce and “hide” affiliate links in emails and for other “one off” purposes. It just seemed quicker than using the one on my server. However, a few weeks ago, I was using the TinyURL redirection service to shrink affiliate URLs in a promo email and had [...]

In order to have an effective PPC campain and a few things I wont mention, you need a keyword list. A good one. Yet it can be hard to generate them manually. Luckily, there are sites and programs that will help you generate great keyword lists. Below are some of the sites that you can [...]

If you want a simple yet effective way to increase your website traffic, you should add a “Tell-A-Friend” link to your site. I know you are thinking that this doesn’t generate traffic, that no one uses them. Well, you would be wrong. In my studies, I have found that 20-60% of the people referred by [...]