Pixel Portal Blog

Pixel Portal Blog

Tips on Choosing a Registrar

Megan Bennett - Friday, May 10, 2013

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Just recently, I saw an event that almost took a very large and popular website to its knees.  Ben Hunt's Web Design from Scratch was down for two weeks due to issues with his domain registrar.  read more

Facebook Competitions

Megan Bennett - Thursday, April 11, 2013

If you're up and running with Facebook you may have considered running a competition on your Facebook Business page.  Competitions and Give-aways are a really easy way to attract new LIKES for your business page.  However... be warned that Facebook have quite strict guidelines for running competitions on your business page.  Failing to follow these can result in your page being totally removed from Facebook's site. read more

SEO Checklist for new websites - DIY guide

Megan Bennett - Thursday, February 21, 2013

SEO your website so it's visible in GoogleGot a new website and you need to know how to get it ranking? Or maybe your current website visibility needs improving? This DIY Check-list can help to get you started.  read more

Blogging regularly for your website

Megan Bennett - Sunday, February 03, 2013

In today's electronic world, we're all publishers – Facebook, Tumblr and Pinterest are some of our biggest free publishing platforms where anyone who’s connected can share text, photos and video. Whether you're an individual or a business on the web, if you want to attract traffic to your website, blog or social media today, you’ll need to be a publisher or what is often called an 'inbound marketer'. If you’re really good as an inbound marketer, your content will help you get found online, build trust and educate your readers and lead them into your website.  read more

Spammy guest blogging

Megan Bennett - Thursday, November 15, 2012

Watch this video for advice from Matt Cutts of Google on guest blogging.  Currently this tends to be one of the is the favourite activities of webmasters for link acquisition and as a result lots of spammy activities tend to follow like article spinning.  read more

Free Course Power Searching with Google

Megan Bennett - Saturday, August 18, 2012

Google Power Searching

Are you getting the best from your searches on Google?  Maybe your are just trying to understand how to get faster results  or interpret the page results? read more

Free website templates!

Megan Bennett - Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Business Catalyst gives you complete creative control over your design, with access to the HTML & CSS of every system feature. Upload your own JavaScript, or embed rich Flash content. With BC's range of powerful design and customization options, you can unleash your creativity and build beautiful websites, your way. To help you get started with the design process on your new website, we've loaded some simple templates for you to choose from through our online site builder.  These are FREE templates that help you get kick started with your web presence.  read more

Geeky tools to help with Registrar, DNS and IP's

Megan Bennett - Friday, July 20, 2012

Sometimes it's necessary to dig into the super nerdy areas of a website to get details like DNS (domain name system details), to understand who your registrar is or to check on IP numbers with your hoster. Here's a a few really easy to use tools to help you navigate this plethoria of numbers and names. These tools come from NIrSoft and are currently at writing of this post, free to download. read more

Google Personaling your search results

Megan Bennett - Wednesday, May 16, 2012

WHAT GOOGLE SAYS ABOUT SEARCH RESULTS

 

Google helps you find personal results that are relevant to you. With a single Google search, you can see regular search results, along with all sorts of results that are tailored to you — pages shared with you by your friends, Google+ posts from people you know, and content that’s only visible to you (like private photos from Google+ new window and Picasa new window albums). Personal results are part of Search plus Your World new window, Google’s search experience that blends personal results with universal results, and helps you connect with people you care about.

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1710607

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Have you over optimised web pages?

Megan Bennett - Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Google once again is on the hunt for sites that have not followed SEO recommendations.  Rand Fishkin of SEO Moz shares White board Friday "6 Changes Every SEO Should Make BEFORE the Over-Optimization Penalty Hits"  read more