I came across this report and enjoyed reading it. It has short paragraphs that will make reading it over multiple sessions educational and without wasting a lot of time.

This 23 page report has useful short paragraph information on how to better impress your online visitors and this way create a better experience for them. It 77 tips that will help your site gain more accceptance into the online world.

Here is a little (fill in the blank) quiz for you from the report:

Come up with a creative ______. This will stand out in peoples’ minds. (Tip #2)

______ ______. Don’t ever let you website get dull (Tip #5)

______ entice buyers to make a purchase. (Tip #20)

It’s all about ____. Customers are asking, “____ should I buy. (Tip #26 this is one of my favorite tips)

Create a _______. Don’t just be the judge when it comes to your business (Tip #39)

Have you figured out all the answers? If not, why not get yourself a copy?

Even if you think you know a lot about branding your online business, I am sure you’ll find some good tips here that you were not aware of. Or maybe you will come across a point or tip that you knew, but didn’t think to consider…
That’s why I liked this report and am sure you will like it too.

Report format:

It is a 23-page PDF file, and you can download it immediately.

Who is this report for:

If you are looking at creating a brand to your online site, or better chances of selling your product or service, and want to learn more about it, this will be a good addition to your resources. It includes 77 proven tips.

Delivery:

Upon a payment of $1.99, click on return to merchant which will redirect you to a download page. If you have any issues, please contact me. I will email you a copy.

The WOW Effect.  77 Ways to Give Your Business the WOW Factor and Make Your Competitors Wish They Were You!

A recent study by Experian shows that Google searches rose about 1% based on a 4 week period of September compared to August 09.

Despite advertising campains and competition set by Bing, both Yahoo and Bing searches experienced a decline -3% and -5% respectively during the same period.

The study is based on a sample of 10 million US Internet users, also showed that Yahoo Search and Bing fell compared to the same period.

To learn more about the study, go here.

Regards.

I first started with a Yahoo email and then added Gmail, but still keep my Yahoo email, which started to collect emails that I don’t really like to read..

Gmail offers a lot of features. My favorite one is being able to send email using “Send mail as” feature. This feature allows me to send email appearing from multiple accounts, and is a great way to organize my emails and respond to all of them from one single account.

To read more check it out here.

Regards.

Setting up SSL on the server requires a certificate to be installed. I usually buy the certificate from godaddy. 

On some sites, you will see only certain pages redirect the page (URL) from http to https. I personally prefer to have https on the entire website and the best way to set it is on the server’s .htaccess file for the following reasons:

1- You don’t have to deal with changing your scripts or adding extra html or php redirect.

2- If you have to test the script on your local machine or on a server that isn’t SSL enabled, you don’t need to make changes to it.

3- It more secure.

Adding the following server redirects should do it. Just save the following in .htaccess under your root directory:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

You can learn more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https. Wikipedia explains the process in simple “plain english”.

Regards.

Instead of saving all your photos in one page, why don’t you try an album were it shows only one photo and viewers click the “next/previous” link to see other photos.
This looks more elegant than scrolling, will make the page load faster, and help you better organize your photos.
I like a photo script by Trent Foley which is using jquery and loaded it on my personal computer to test. It works fine:  http://www.twospy.com/galleriffic/

If you want to dedicate a site for photos you can use a php based script like Coppermine or Gallery, which are both offered free within cpanel and fantastico.
Do you know about or recommend an image gallery plugin. If so let me know.

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The riskiest keywords were the most popular ones such as: word unscrambler, lyrics, myspace, free music downloads….
By looking at the riskiest keywords, they concluded that scammers keep targeting popular keywords to gain more traffic and target a larger pool of victims.

This study was used mainly with the McAfee SiteAdvisor tool. SiteAdvisor rates sites with color codes, green being safe, yellow minor risk, and red high risk. SiteAdvisor is a plugin that you can use with you explorer and firefox browser and allows you to see the risk of a site before using it. In this study Mcfee gathered the first five pages of search results for each keyword and counted the number of red and yellow rated sites on each page. Risk was assessed as a ratio of the red and yellow sites to the green sites. Both sponsored and organic links are counted in the study.

The good news is that this study shows that the web is safer than previously thought. The average risk level according to this study fell from 4% to 1.7%.

To learn more about the report click here.

Regards.

This will make it easier for Facebook users to bookmark their profiles. You can also find your friends easier.

Instead of having accessing someone this way:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456

Your profile address can look like this:

http://www.facebook.com/yourname

If you are a Facebook user, like many that I personally know, then grab your favorite name before it is gone.

Facebook will suggest some names based on your first name and last name. You can also pick something that is similar to your email, nickname, or other usernames you have used in the past.

Regards.

“EPP is a flexible protocol designed for allocating objects within registries over the Internet.”

In other words, it is a uniform way to handle domain transactions and thus making it a lot easier to transfer domain names between registrars. It is also safer making the chance of your domain being stolen or hijacked minimal.
Different registrars use different names for EPP. I keep my domains at Godaddy.com and there, they call it Authorization Code. Other names also used are: EPP code, EPP authentication code, or EPP authorization code… They all mean the same.

To access your EPP or Authorization code at Godaddy, login to you account. Go to domain management, and click on the domain in question. A domain detail page will show all the options available to your domain.

For Security reasons, Godaddy doesn’t let account holders get the EPP code online. Godaddy.com will send the code to the administrative email on the account. All what you need to do is double check that you email is up-to-date before initiating a transfer.

Also note: Your domain has to be unlocked prior to transferring it. Also there are ICANN restrictions that will not allow you to transfer your domain, if it was registered or previously transferred within the last 60 days.

Regards.

I personally favor women’s choices here, as I think usability can add a lot of value to a site and bring repeat visitors. A while ago, I mentioned easy steps that I think every site owner and specially WordPress site owner should consider. Check it out and let me know what you think. (7-key-features-your-wordpress-blog-should-never miss)

So, what is your wishlist?

To read more about the recent study, click here.

Regards.

In the story they mentioned that high visibility sites like USA Today, ABC News, and Wal-Mart were affected.

This happened to one of my sites not long ago. Thanks to avast, I found about it quickly. I have outsourced a site for one of my customers, and asked the freelancer to load the site. After he was done, I went to take a look. Suddenly the popular avast alarm sound started and a panel showed a warning me about the web page.

I was surprised, specially that other pages of the same site were fine for avast.
I quickly went back to look at the site source, and sure enough…, I found the iframe tag in the page source close to the bottom of the web page.
It had code referencing another site, that could have caused damage to my laptop without even me noticing where it came from. I quickly removed it and that was it.
I guess what happened is that the freelancer had a malware or spyware on his laptop, and it inserted the iframe tag in the page while ftp’ing the files to the server. Lesson learned: Don’t let anyone update your files for you.

iframe tags are legitimate html tags that allows you see other site’s content in your own web pages. Unfortunately, they could be used to harm you in many other ways.

To minimize the risk to your laptop, make sure you always have your antivirus software running and up-to-date on your computer. To learn more, click here to read the entire story from avast.

Stay safe.