Reducing Server Resource Usage
What to do when you get a notification that you are approaching, or exceeding, your resource usage limits.
Reducing Image Size for your Website with Squoosh
A short tutorial on how to use the Squoosh web application to reduce image file sizes, improving your website's speed and efficiency.
How to find your Business PayPal Identity Token
The following steps outline how to generate the identity token required to link your business PayPal to your website.
Email Etiquette Basics to Look More Professional
As a job seeker or employee, email is used as a professional means of communication, but email etiquette isn’t exactly taught in school. It’s important…
Generating More Business with Widgets
Some people don’t realise that they interact with widgets every day. One of the most common places widgets appear is right on our smart phones and they are incredibly useful. So if they’re useful on a phone, could they be useful on a website for business?
Building Trust and Credibility with Testimonials
Why do you choose to buy products or services from certain businesses? It’s because you’ve built trust with them from different sources. We don’t just randomly pick a business by “Eenie Meenie Miney Mo” (OK maybe sometimes), but majority of the time we build a relationship with them through the information we receive from friends, family, social media, ads, or their website. Testimonials and other people’s experiences are the main force behind us trusting a business.
How to Find Relevant Popular Topics for Your Blog
Have you recently started a blog and are struggling to think of topics for it? Have you had a blog for a while that was going well but now you’re stuck with writer’s block or run out of inspiration? I know how you feel; the same thing has happened to me. Which is why I have done the research and written a simple and easy guide on where you can find great topics for your blog.
Three Quick Ways to Optimize Your Online Marketing Budget
As a small business owner, you are probably constantly keeping track of your expenses and costs, in search of the perfect way to market your business, services or products. Online marketing provides small business owners with fantastic opportunities to raise awareness about their products or services and develop client bases.
Why a Responsive Website is a Must
Over the past couple of years, the use of desktop PCs and even laptops has dropped drastically. More and more people now use tablets and smartphones. According to MagnaGlobal’s report “Unlocking the Power of Mobile”, 76 percent of Australians access the Internet on mobile devices – smartphones and tablets. In the same report, 57 percent of respondents stated that they expect websites to be tailor-made for mobile devices.
6 Tips For Writing A Traffic Generating Blog
Producing high quality, value rich Blogs on a regular basis will dramatically increase your website traffic and conversions, customer relationships and build your authority within your industry.
But to enjoy these types of results you need to follow a few simple guidelines, and here they are…
Do It Yourself Search Engine Optimisation
Having trouble getting your website ranking high up on the ladder? Here are a few simple steps that you yourself can do to help your websites SEO.
Creating a form to email submissions
Steps to create a form that when a visitor fills in and submits the results, the results are emailed to one or more recipients.
Add a YouTube Video to your Web Pages
Adding a YouTube video to your web page can be beneficial by saving you the cost of hosting that video and by drawing additional traffic to your website that self-hosted video could not do.
New to Blue Rock II - January 2011
We have worked extremely hard on Blue Rock II's Content Management System over the past months to make the generated content extremely friendly to the search engines.
By taking advantage of these new features, the blogging system mentioned in the last blog post along with the Site Map Generator and Search Engine Submission mention below, it should improve your website's search engine ranking, which basically means you will be found easier.
New to Blue Rock II - November 2010
It is a hugely improved platform that is more search engine friendly, allows posting articles to a blog, and has automatic updates which always keeps you up to date with the latest software.
How to build a Website that brings you business
Does your website attract new business for you? If you are like most businesses, you are probably missing the opportunities that a market focussed website would bring.
In this article there you'll find 4 keys that are essential for an effective website.