Recently the small business of a friend was featured on a TV show.  I was so happy for him.  I sent him a congratulatory email.  Then I looked at his website.  Yikes!  He was doing the one thing guaranteed to get him kicked off of Google.  He was using hidden text to try and get [...]

I may have mentioned that my friend and client, Karen Burns, has written a book.  It’s The Amazing Adventures of Working Girl: Real-Life Career Advice You Can Actually Use.  What I may have just hinted at, but now am saying boldly, is that you should read it.  Why?  It’s funny and practical all at once.  [...]

Darren Rows, of ProBlogger, has written three articles dealing with making money online using the Amazon.com Associates Program.  Some of Darren’s tips deal specifically with the Amazon program.  However most of the advice in this series applies to anyone trying to make money online. 11 Lessons I Learned Earning $119,725.45 from Amazon Associates Program 10 [...]

No, Google Caffeine isn’t the latest drink at Starbucks.  It’s the latest version of the Google search algorithm and it may affect your search engine standings. Google is always striving to bring people better search results.   So from time to time they change the way they calculate search results by changing their search algorithm.   It’s [...]

Would you believe that WordPress 2.8.4 has been released?  It has.  They found yet another security issue. I’m glad that these security issues are being found.  I’m glad that they’re being fixed.  I’m also very glad that WordPress is now so easy to upgrade as it seems like a new version is being released every [...]

The bad news is that there’s another recommended WordPress upgrade.  The latest and greatest version is now WordPress 2.8.3. The good news is that the folks at WordPress don’t give up.  They found a few more security issues and they’re not going to stop the updates until they’ve got all the issues fixed.  It’s nice [...]

I received this email from one of my customers yesterday.  “My customers say when they click to pay they are going to a dead page.  Is there a PayPal problem?” Indeed there was a problem over at PayPal. At about 1:30 EDT the entire PayPal system crashed.  It was down for about an hour.  After [...]