We all know how important it is for our websites to maintain a constant flow of traffic. With many websites now monetised and functioning as income earners for their webmasters, it is vital that traffic continues to flow in a positive direction. What many webmasters fail to accomplish with their c... Read more...
Over the years, reciprocal links have been crucial to building web traffic among like-minded websites and have often been “traded” as a way to increase mutual exposure to visitors, clients and customers alike. While reciprocal links can be useful when it comes to driving traffic to your site, ... Read more...
The Pingler HTML Encrypter is a free, web based tool that is used to encrypt and obfuscate your website’s source code so visitors to your site cannot easily view and read it. Normally, viewing HTML coding that makes up web sites is very easy to do. What this means is that anyone visiting your ... Read more...
Invented in 1994 by Martijn Koster, the robots.txt protocol, also known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol or the Robot Exclusion Standard is used to prevent the web crawlers from search engines as well as other types of web robots from being able to access and index parts of or the entirety of a webs... Read more...
We’ve spoken a lot on this blog about how it is important for your website to be fully searchable by the search engine spiders so now it’s time to get some in depth knowledge about what a search engine spider actually is. A spider isn’t a cute little arachnid like you may have been led to be... Read more...
The Whois system (pronounced “who is”) began as a way for system administrators to be able to find contact information for other administrators via an IP address or domain name. When Whois first became standardised in the 1980s, only one organisation existed to handle all domain name registrat... Read more...
In 2005, in order to combat link spam appearing on blog comments as a way to manipulate search engine page rankings, the no-follow html tag was created. Links that have been tagged with no-follow tell search engines that the link with the tag applied to it does not carry the same weight as a norma... Read more...
As competition for search engine rankings increases and more and more websites see the light of day, search engine optimisation has become more important than ever in the last few years. Many business owners rely on organic traffic (traffic based on search engine positions) to generate traffic whi... Read more...
An .edu domain can’t just be bought outright by anyone. These domains are reserved primarily for educational institutions located throughout the world. In order to buy an .edu domain the owner of the website has to be accredited by an agency working for the Department of Education in the US, a... Read more...
If you have a website, whatever its purpose, you want it to be seen. Whether it’s a blog you write for fun, an affiliate marketing site you use to make money, or a commercial site for your business, it’s not doing you any good if nobody knows about it. In the bad old days, people used to rem... Read more...