Category: internet
What is going on with the brand Platform?
UPDATE 7/14/2014: NSA Drops the Platform Name, via MichaelHyatt.com —– original blog post below —— Michael Hyatt’s book “Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World” was published in May 2012. And his landing page, Why You Need a Platform to Succeed, ranks near the top of Google searches for “platform” and the book was a New York Times…
How to use non-www URL with a TypePad blog
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@ internetTypePad supports Domain Mapping for a domain name that has a custom DNS service to set its CNAME record. However, typically a domain name’s DNS requires an A record with an IP address. But, TypePad doesn’t easily support the non-WWW URL for a domain name, and relies on the registrar’s DNS manager to do a redirect — from TypePad’s help…
Not all web hosting servers are alike, some are faster
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@ internetAs Internet adoption continues to ramp up at a brisk pace around the world, people want faster websites and search engines do too. With WordPress running nearly 22.4% of the Internet (at the time of this post n 2014; in 2021, over 42% – check wordpress.org for current statistics), having a compatible and speedy web hosting…
No more sexually explicit Google AdWords soon
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@ internetPolicy changes are being made to Google AdWords some time between late June 2014 and around September 2014 to prohibit sexually explicit content, aka “adult content.” Very few in mainstream media and tech blogs have drawn attention to this (yet?), except for: Google Basically Shutting Down Adwords On Adult Starting Later This Month (thedomains.com – June…
How to get the new gTLD domain names you want
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@ internetWith new gTLDs (generic top-level domains) launching every week this year and the next, there’s quite a feeding frenzy for potentially popular domain names. There are domain investors (aka domainers or cybersquatters, cf. domain name speculation) as well as individuals and organizations that want to get certain domain names. The thing is: only one entity…
Why ads now after 15 years without
short version: this website needs an upgrade, and that means extra monthly costs for web hosting. long version: I’ve been blogging since June 1999, having started journaling online before it was blogging. I’m an early adopter like that, love experimenting with new things that are free. I think it’s, at least in part, inspired by…
List of the Best Blogs on New gTLDs
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@ internetBest way to answer the question “What’s going on with new gtlds? I’m finding it very difficult to get any decent information about the new gtlds that are being released” is to keep up with the bloggers that are good about posting frequent updates with current news and information about new gTLDs, aka the Internet…
Where to get free photos: Creative Commons + stock photography
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@ internetPhoto Credit: Brandon Christopher Warren via Compfight cc List of popular free photo websites Flickr Creative Commons — also searchable via Compfight or photopin [photo count: 85M+] freeimages [407k+] (was sxc.hu or Stock.Xchng) morgueFile [225k+] stockvault [46k+] openphoto [est. 20k+] picjumbo [##] freerangestock [##] imagebase [##] Oversimplified explanation of photo use licensing — Creative Commons = use photo with link to photo credit for…
When will more new gTLD websites go live?
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@ internetThousands upon thousands of domain names are being registered with new gTLD extensions, 746,000+ new domain names at the time of this post, with endings like: .guru .berlin .club .photography .email .link .today .tips .company (gTLD stands for generic top level domain) – but I’m finding less than 1% (guesstimate) of them have real websites up-and-running…
What’s a good CTR? Click through rate benchmarks.
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@ internetShort answer = it depends. Click-through rates (CTR) may be different depending on what kind of an online ad is being used, whether a banner ad, text ad, video ad, animated ad, email links, or whatever else. For managers and executives that don’t mind having an simplistic inaccurate answer, an overgeneralized good CTR is ~…
unblink launching: starting with the why
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@ internetThe internet is changing. In case you didn’t know it. Most people don’t. That’s okay. The namespace is getting 100s of new domain extensions, like the one used here at unb.link and as the dust settles and more websites and blogs use this, a lot of things will change. Where it goes, nobody knows for…
Which Kindles Have Text to Speech?
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@ internetQuickly find the Amazon Kindle & Fire eReaders that have text-to-speech (because not all of them do), includes current and previous versions – this list is maintained and updated by DJ Chuang