Is this real? I received the letter below in the mail. But because I develop websites and provide hosting I often get questions from clients about similar letters and emails. These offers are for real domain names that we own. Even though the domain names are immediately recognized, the fees and the name of the
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HTTPS: Do I need to switch from HTTP?
[social_share url="http://blogwrangler.net/jbs2" title="My Website"/]What are HTTPS and HTTP? HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP. Everyone on the web wants to be found. Search Marketers exist to help websites get found through a range of methods including better search rankings in Google. Image credit SearchEngineLand Many focus on the technical aspects of hunting down the hundreds of algorithm factors
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Distilled’s SearchLove Boston 2015
[social_share url="http://blogwrangler.net/jbs2" title="My Website"/]After five years, Distilled continues to bring interesting speakers and delegates to the Boston area to learn and share their love for search. I have been attending this conference since the days when it was called the Pro SEO Seminar and continue to find great value in attending. LinkLove was good as well, but that
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Logging in to WordPress and Getting Logged Out in a Minute
[social_share url="http://blogwrangler.net/jbs2" title="My Website"/]I was working with a new hosting client recently and everything was going pretty smoothly. Then I received an email saying that each time the client logged in to WordPress after less than a minute she got kicked out and had to log back in again. She emailed me this information after it had happened
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Boston WordPress Meetup in April
[social_share url="http://blogwrangler.net/jbs2" title="My Website"/]As a member of a recent WordPress Meetup panel, we were asked what new capabilities or solutions we were most looking forward to from WordPress. The question did not produce much in the way of a response as I recall. I circled back to this question later in the meeting with an answer. Possibly not
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Email-Required Sign-ups without Email?
[social_share url="http://blogwrangler.net/jbs2" title="My Website"/]Email Protection Your email address is a vital resource. That is why businesses all over the web are trying to get your email address. They want to sell you something. You value your ‘privacy’ and don’t like email spam any more than the next person. Create a New Email Account If you are handy that
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LaunchCamp Boston 2010 Search Presentation
[social_share url="http://blogwrangler.net/jbs2" title="My Website"/]February 5th, 2010 the following presentation was offered to an engaged audience of entrepreneurs at LaunchCamp Boston. The presentation covers four major areas Domain Names How to Choose How to Register How to Retain Why use WordPress for a website (even without a blog) SEO Key Word Research Local SEO Directories Citations and Links Website
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Google’s First Meetup in Boston – Cambridge really
[social_share url="http://blogwrangler.net/jbs2" title="My Website"/]If you are reading this to learn Google secrets, there aren’t any here. If you are interested in learning about the flavor of the March, 2009 Google Meetup in Cambridge and some of the people I ran across, read on. 567 Massachusetts Avenue – The Enormous Room Lovely space for a meetup. Long room with
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An Interview with Jim Spencer By Casey Yandle
[social_share url="http://blogwrangler.net/jbs2" title="My Website"/]A friend of mine on Twitter @cyandle sent me these questions to answer and post on my blog. He is also posting the same interview on his blog, Creative Daylight so check his answers out too. 1. How long have you been working in website design and marketing and what attracted you to it? JBS
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Optimizing Your WebSite: Focus on Visitors or Google ?
[social_share url="http://blogwrangler.net/jbs2" title="My Website"/]Nick Gerner gave an enthusiastic presentation, Tuesday night at SEMNE in Providence RI, about the underpinnings of search technology and SEOMoz’s new LinkScape tool. Here is a simple example to illustrate a fundamental point: 1) Search Engineers – they create the search algorithms 2) Search Algorithms – are constructed to provide the searcher with relevant
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