Google offers 15GB of cloud storage to those who use Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos. Whilst this is undoubtedly generous, you may find yourself running out of space at one point. Even if you do not store many images and video files, if you use Gmail actively, the amount …
The “Referral Traffic” stat in Google Analytics is a great way of seeing which websites have been sending visitors to your websites. I check the page every couple of weeks to see if an article of mine has been referenced in a forum or blog post. If an article of …
Anyone who owns a content based website, such as a blog or discussion forum, understands the problems that spam generates. WordPress owners have to tackle spam on a daily basis. Over the last few months spam has increased significantly on this blog to the point where 90% of the comments …
It seems like every day you hear news about how print books are going by the wayside to make room for eBooks. In fact, there were over 14 million eReaders sold in 2011, and that number is only growing. As an author, or anyone who wants to sell books, how …
I have watched the evolution of Facebook pages closely over the last two years; mainly because I have a dog in the fight. I spent a lot of money on promoting Facebook pages for my websites; spurred on by the promotional nudge of Facebook themselves. Sadly, page reach has decreased …
Whilst viewing Webmaster Tools last night, I came across a new section under Search Traffic entitled “Manual Actions”. As you may know, my Martial Arts Videos website currently does not receive much traffic from Google. To be more precise: It receives less than five visits per day. Google already responded …
Every WordPress user has had to face comment spam at one point or another. It is a frustrating and time-consuming thing to deal with. In order to combat spam, many WordPress users install multiple anti-spam plugins. This normally removes the majority of spam. The problem is that it sometimes works …
Facebook is always encouraging Facebook page owners to spend money with them, whether it is boosting posts or increasing page likes. A few weeks ago I looked at the effectiveness of Facebook Page Promotion. You will recall that my overall impression of the promotional technique was that it was misleading. …
An unprotected WordPress website is like sticking a big poster up and asking every spammer in the world to drop by. It is unfortunate but the truth is, the core version of WordPress is terrible at stopping comment spam. I was reviewing one of my WordPress websites the other day. …
After having a well earned holiday of 5 days in the amazingly beautiful Valencia (Spain), I came back to 2 of my forums being attacked by a host of spammer bots. On Electric Bandits, which is a very new forum, they had managed to post about 50 posts advertising drugs, …