Category: Internet

Google is Breaking the Internet

May 19, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I received an interesting email the other day from a company we linked to from one of our websites. In short, the email was a request to remove links from our site to their site. We linked to this company on our own accord, with no prior solicitation, because we felt it would be useful to our site visitors, which is generally why people link to things on the Internet. Apparently Google convinced them, via their Webmaster Tools portal, that the link looked “unnatural”, and that they should use the Link Disavow Tool to discredit the link. Furthermore, they thought it necessary to contact us to manually remove the link, which is something I’m not going to do (out of principle).

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Google is Breaking the Internet

5 Alternatives to Default WordPress Comments

May 18, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Whether you’re an artist, a business owner or just a person with lots of thoughts on lots of subjects, odds are you have a blog. And you very well might have that blog hosted on WordPress, as recent statistics point out that 41.6 million new blog posts are made on the site each month. While the blog-hosting site provides users with a myriad of benefits, the fact of the matter remains that there are some areas where improvements could be made. One such area is that of commenting. Since WordPress was launched in 2003’s more than a decade ago, the site has boasted commenting functionality. The problem? That functionality hasn’t been updated since it was first introduced 11 years ago. If one year is seven years…

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5 Alternatives to Default WordPress Comments

Emory Accidentally Sends Reformat Request to All Windows PCs

May 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Have you ever reformatted a computer and then immediately realized you shouldn’t have? Well, an “accident” at Emory University this week will make your mistake look like a brilliant, carefully considered decision. Here’s the crux of what happened: A Windows 7 deployment image was accidentally sent to all Windows machines, including laptops, desktops, and even servers. This image started with a repartition/reformat set of tasks. As soon as the accident was discovered, the SCCM server was powered off – however, by that time, the SCCM server itself had been repartitioned and reformatted. What did we learn today? Always backup. Backup everything. Everything always.

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Emory Accidentally Sends Reformat Request to All Windows PCs

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Going Google with WordPress Plugins

May 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

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Going Google with WordPress Plugins

6 Nonverbal Hacks for Your Website So it Captures Attention and Converts

May 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

You have 0.05 seconds to make a good first impression online. That’s only 50 milliseconds to hook someone, according to researchers at Carleton University. Most important, this happens before a user reads any of your content. So, you have to capture their attention with your website’s nonverbal cues. Do you have any of the following? Low conversions, High bounce rate, Short average visit duration, Low sales, Slow traffic, Then you need to optimize your website’s nonverbal first impression. I’m a human behavior hacker, and I’m going to show you how to use science to optimize your website. Why human behavior science? Let me be blunt: If you don’t understand online human behavior your website will fail. Sure, you can produce killer content…

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6 Nonverbal Hacks for Your Website So it Captures Attention and Converts