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6 Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank

Alexa rank is important if you plan on monetizing your website. Often advertisers and ad networks use the Alexa rank to determine the value of a link or ad spot on a particular website. So it may be to...

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How To Improve and Maintain Your Google Pagerank

Being indexed by Google is a big success for any website because it gives access to billions of potential visitors. However, with all of the millions of websites in Google's databases, your website...

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Can Too Much Traffic Be Bad For Your Website?

Most website owners spend considerable time and money trying to generate traffic. After all, for the majority of websites, increased visitors translates directly into increased profits.However, one...

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Is Your Website Doing Its Job?

In this sputtering economy, it has become more important than ever to find effective ways to generate leads for your business. A website can do just. And given the relatively low costs to build and...

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PHP vs. ASP – Which Is Best For Your Application?

PHP and ASP are the two most popular means for building web applications. Many people believe that these two programming languages could be used interchangeably. And while they are each capable of...

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32 Ways To Speed Up Your Website

Slow-loading websites are one of the main reasons that visitors may leave a site. In this article, we list 32 ways you can speed up your website.

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How To Compress Your Pages With GZIP And PHP

Recently, we wrote an article which outlined several methods to speed up a websites. One item, in particular, was the use of GZIP compression to speed up the delivery of web pages. Most people,...

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How To Minimize Bandwidth Usage

If you have a large, high traffic website, you might have noticed that you are either nearing or exceeding the bandwidth allotment of your hosting plan. To avoid any costly overage fees or downtime, we...

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Why You NEED To Update Your CMS Software

Those of us who use, create, or manage websites with content management systems are sometimes annoyed when new versions are released because of the pesky upgrade messages and the implied need to...

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25 Ways To Improve Your Website

There are always ways to improve a website. Below, we’ve included a list of 25 ways that you might be able to improve yours.

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Is Alexa a True Measure of Success?

Alexa is one of the most popular website ranking statistics. But how accurate is it?

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Google vs. Yahoo – Alexa Traffic Rankings

According to Alexa, Yahoo has always outranked Google. However, in the last couple of years, the rankings have gotten very close. Yahoo has been number 1. And Google is dead on its heels at number 2....

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How To Make Your WordPress Website Load Faster

There is nothing more annoying than a slow-loading website. So it is important to make sure that your website is fast, regardless of the internet connection speed that is used to view it. Here are 8...

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Why The Alexa Widget Is BAD For Your Website

You are probably familiar with Alexa, the company which maintains website traffic rankings. But are you aware of the potential problems that the Alexa traffic widget can cause for your website?

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How Slow (or Fast) Is Your Website on Dial Up?

The other day, Gary Conn discovered that a lot of his visitors used a dial up internet connection to access his website. He also admitted that he had recently tested his site on dial up and was...

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Are Plugins Ruining Your WordPress Website?

Plugins have helped transform WordPress from a simple blog-publishing application to a versatile content management system. But the very plugins that have made WordPress so great, could also be ruining...

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Can Your Website Handle A Traffic Surge?

The problem with traffic surges is that you never know what to expect. So how do you prepare for a sudden increase in traffic and make sure that your website does not become inaccessible?

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Grade Your Website: Free Online Evaluation Tools

Why pay a professional for a basic website evaluation when you can do it yourself for free? Here is a list free online tools that will help you grade your website.

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Useful Insights From WordCamp Chicago 2011

WordCamp Chicago 2011 was a success! Not only was it the biggest that Chicago had seen, it was jam-packed with useful information about all aspects of WordPress. Here are some tips for improving your...

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