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Reducing Server Resource Usage

What to do when you get a notification that you are approaching, or exceeding, your resource usage limits.

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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.

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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.

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WordPress might not be the best choice for your business' website

A lot of people will tell you WordPress is the best choice to build your business website. But in this post, we’ll give you 5 reasons why it might not be (and why you should consider Inology’s The Internet Platform instead).

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Setting up Emails on your PC with Outlook

Clear and easy to follow instructions on how to setup your emails on your PC with Outlook.

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Setting up Emails on your Android

Clear and easy to follow instructions on how to setup your emails on Android the device's standard mail program.

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Setting up Emails on your iPhone

Clear and easy to follow instructions on how to setup your emails iPhone using the device's standard mail program.

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Fonts, Colours and Images

A library of highly recommended links at your disposal for you to choose your website's fonts, colours and images with ease. We have gone through all these links ourselves so that we could be sure that they were of the highest quality for our clients.

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How to Setup Your Emails on Multiple Devices

Clear and easy to follow instructions on how to setup your emails on PC, Mac, Android and iPhone using outlook and the standard device's mail program.

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Why You Should Have SSL on Your Site

Security, for a long time now, has been the world’s highest priority. Whether it’s the security of a nation’s economy, or the security of an individual’s home, we all want to feel safe. It’s no different when it comes to the web, we all want to know that the information we share is kept private. This is where SSL is important.

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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…

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An Awesome Start-Up Business!

Drop shipping is a low cost, hassle free, great start up business, especially for first timers wanting to jump into the big business world! With minimal start-up costs, time and energy literally anyone can do it. No skills are required. So what is this awesome idea and how do you do it?

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Website Advantages for Your Law Firm

Law firms predominantly rely on word-of-mouth referrals but does that bring in enough work alone? With the majority of people these days being internet savvy, the best way to ramp up business is with the best online marketing tool there is…a website! AND law firms with websites have distinct benefits in generating more business.

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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?

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Digital Goods and How to Make the Most of Them with Your Website!

Digital goods, also known as electronic goods, have hit the world by storm and that storm only looks to be increasing with time. Online is the new way so it’s not surprising that we now buy items that aren’t physical. So what are they and how can we make the most out of them?

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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.

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Website Advantages for Your Restaurant/Café

Do you own a restaurant or cafe and question how a website would benefit you? Restaurants and cafes aren’t online businesses; they’re based on location and predominantly word-of-mouth referrals, so I understand your hesitations. But every business benefits from a website and a restaurant or cafe with a website has bonus advantages to one that doesn’t.

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How to Create an Eye Catching Gallery on Your Website

Have you ever looked at a gallery on a website and used that as your deciding factor on whether to purchase with that company? Galleries either give us a good or bad impression within the first few seconds of viewing. It’s important to make sure that your gallery is eye-catching and consistent with the rest of your website and your business.

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Why is it Important to Regularly Update Your Website?

Have you spent a lot of time and effort creating a website and now you’re wondering why it’s important to spend more time and effort regularly updating it? Your website promotes you 24/7 in the online world. A website is like a living being, to keep it alive it needs regular updates to your content (words), design (look) and development (functionality).

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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.

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Selecting the Right Web Hosting Service Provider is Critical to Your Business

Websites and blogs are important elements of the client engagement policy of any business (especially small business). They also play a critical role in how the business reaches out to potential clients.

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Tips for Web Content Layout

Web design is the presentation of a company's content and marketing message in the best and most appropriate format. So, it is critical to give adequate time to designing the content layout of the website.

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Four Must Have Elements of a Business Website

There are a few key elements that every business website should have. This ensures that user experience is pleasant while also creating a certain impact on their mind. Ideally you should include these elements into your business website at the very beginning. However, if your website is already up and some of these elements are missing, it is never too late.

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Six Tools to Manage Your Social Media Content

Social media is an extremely useful platform for driving traffic to your business website and increasing the visibility of your brand amongst a your target market, but the exponential growth of this platform has made managing your activities on it quite complicated.

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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.

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Seven Best Practices for an Email Marketing Campaign

On any given day, multiple promotional emails throng our inbox. Among this clutter of emails only a few, if any, stand out and serve its desired purpose. From a company’s perspective, an email marketing campaign is a great way to keep in touch with their customers.

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Harnessing the Power of Online Marketing

Online marketing has numerous branches, and is most effective when businesses utilize each of its distinctive spheres. Online marketing is the amalgamation of web design and development, copywriting, photography, search engine marketing, social media marketing and email marketing. Online marketing serves as an extremely efficient medium of low-cost advertising.

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Don't Let Web Copywriting Stress You Out

You are a savvy business owner with no clue about writing copy. You cannot afford to hire a professional copywriter to sell your offerings through words. Don't worry, you don't need a Masters' Degree in English or be a skilled wordsmith to present your brand compellingly to visitors.

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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.

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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…

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Where to Find Content Ideas for Your Articles and Blogs

You know that good content will keep your target audience coming back for more. You have insights you'd like to share, you keep track of industry trends, and you – of course - have a good working knowledge of your product / service. But how do you get started?

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Email Blacklists - Are your emails getting bounced?

When you send an email to certain recipients (but not necessarily all), are they coming back as rejected? If so, one of the causes may be your IP address, a unique number sequence that identifies each computer attached to the Internet, is in one of the blacklist databases the recipient’s mail server checks.

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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.

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Benefits of Social Media on Your Website

Social media profiles work perfectly well with your website to promote your online business. Using links on your website plays a major part in its search engine rankings. Google for example will automatically associate your social media pages with your company when recognising the links on your website. There are a number of ways to integrate your social media presence onto your website.

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Mobile Website or Native App?

If you plan on having a mobile presence for your business, you should first consider whether you want to create a mobile application for users to download (native app) or a mobile website. Mobile websites and native apps can be very similar and the difference between the capabilities are narrowing rapidly. But which one should you choose?

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Responsive vs. Scalable Email Design

Email design can be very different from normal web design. Since every email client (i.e Outlook, Gmail, Apple Mail) you would come across is extremely different and do not have the same HTML standards as each other, unlike web browsers, it can be quite complex to design an email template to suit all clients across the board.

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Who’s Viewing my Website on a Mobile Phone?

If you’re finding it hard to decide on where to go next with your website, for example, making it mobile friendly, the obvious option is to do a little research.

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Responsive Website Design

Meet the next best thing to happen in website development, responsive web design. Say goodbye to paying for multiple templates to suit every different screen size and operating systems from smartphones to PC’s and say hello to just ONE adaptive design that works for all growing technology. Now why wouldn’t you want a website that works equally well across thousands of different screens?

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Why Every Business Needs a Mobile Website

Today people are using more and more mobile devices to stay connected whilst on the move. Although tablets and net-books have also contributed to the portability of the net, nothing has made more of a contribution than that of the smart phone. The smart phone has literally revolutionised mobile internet access for billions of uses that access email, social networks and more importantly to find your products and services.

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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.

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Include your phone number in your webpage desciption

Add your phone number to the description of your website page to increase your enquiries.

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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.

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Add a Facebook Like Button to your Web Pages

The Like button lets a visitor to your site share your content with their friends on Facebook. When the visitor clicks the Like button on your site, a story appears in the visitor's friends' News Feed with a link back to your website.

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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.

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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.

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Guide to Website Content

Website content is all the written text you see on each page of a website. This information serves two main purposes.

The first is to educate the user about the website they are viewing, as well as to inform then of the products and services available to them.

The second purpose is to provide text and paragraphs with substantial keywords that relate to your business product or services so that search engine crawlers can look for the user keywords when crawling your website.

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Guide to Copywriting

Copywriting is all the text you see written on websites, marketing brochures, letters and any other product. The use of copy varies from general information about products and services to attention grabbing advertising sales campaigns.

Basically, a copywriter is someone who is trained to write passages of text in a specific way that is designed to effectively communicate, captivate, educate, sell to or advise the reader about the product or service they are using.

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Guide to Email Accounts

At home or the office - There are a few different email receiver programs you can have set up on your computer to receive emails. The most common one is MS Outlook, and Outlook Express, where you can customise it to receive any personal emails as well as business email accounts. Most new computers and MS office programs come with the software for free.

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Guide to Website Hosting

Like with any product you buy, web hosting is no different. Choosing a good, reliable host with great features and support, is essential to your online business. Unfortunately, you can’t always tell a good thing just from the packaging. Choosing your web host is like choosing a business partner, the right relationship will grow your business, and the wrong one will crash it.

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Guide to Domain Registration

Choosing a good domain name is essential to any online business, but it is not as easy as it seems. There are many schools of thought as to what is the best method to name your domain, and one of the more popular ideas is Branding. This is where the domain name you give to your business (which may not or may not reflect the products you sell), develops a reputation overtime to which people come to know your business by.

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Beginner's Guide to Marketing Relevance Online

A beginner's guide to relevance - How relevant is your marketing? Are you targeting the right people at the right time? How do you know? Jonathan Crossfield provides some tips and ideas on marketing relevance.

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Guide to Photography

Professionals photographers have years of training and experience and often this comes with a price. Product shots and corporate portraits are costly and time consuming, but the advancement of digital photography and point and shoot cameras, has made taking good photos for the average user, easier than it used to be. So if hiring a professional photographer is not possible, and you want to have a go yourself, then follow the tips below, and you will be taking great useable photos in know time.

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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.

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Eight reasons to build a website for your small business

Creating a small business is the most valuable thing that you can do for your company. It can save you thousands of dollars, and could possibly make you millions of dollars of extra sales.

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How to rank high on search engines

Did you ever put up a web site, ignored SEO advice yet hoped - in vain - for a lot of visits and a high Google ranking ? Or have you ever placed an ad in some ineffective directories - yet no-one noticed your ad?

There could be many reasons why your web site wasn't attracting enough traffic. But the most likely reason is that it hasn't been Search Engine Optimized (or not well enough).

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Creating an effective landing page

The goal of a landing page is to convert potential patrons into customers quickly. Your landing page is simply a summary of all the pages associated with the product or service that you're offering. The page should be clear and concise, but also highly informative in nature.

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Getting listed in Google, Yahoo and Live(MSN)

Getting listed in Google and the other popular search engines is one of the most effective ways of directing free, targeted traffic to your web site.

In this article you'll discover what the search engines look for when determining your page rank so you can optimize your pages for best results.

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Ways to have a solid website promotion campaign

Using a website promotion campaign for your website or your business can mean the difference between a successful business and one that looks great but no one visits. When you use the Internet as your main business medium you have to be able to get people to go to your website in the first place. There is no point having a great website that doesn’t get any traffic to it.

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Use green in your design to represent trees, wealth and envy

Colour is important to design, particularly in designing web sites. multitude companies use a website as a sales tool & using the right colours can lead to increased sales, but picking the wrong colours can mean that less users & fewer sales.

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Social Network Websites

One of the biggest growth areas on the Internet are the Social Networks.

The top Social Network websites have between 60 and 110 million monthly users. New sign up's total over 250,000 per day. Up to 43 percent of Social Network website members have accounts with more than one site.

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Online Website Maintenance

Website maintenance means revising, editing and changing certain existing web pages to keep your website up-to-date. The additions of new pages also come within the purview of web maintenance. Website visitors, customers often need a response to their questions, comments or suggestions. It can be about your product, service or technical issues. All these customer care services and data management is also part of website maintenance.

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Keyword Basics

So you've done all your keyword research and you've found the best keywords for your website. How do you use these keywords to improve your website copywriting so that you rank well on the search engines and attract the type of customers that you are after?

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Eight tips to drive traffic to your website

Online marketing is much like offline marketing. Your campaigns need to be strategic to attract the right type of customer to your site.

While you need creative marketing to stand out from the crowd, the following are online marketing basics that need to be adhered to when creating your website:

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Website Design and Website Development Company

An engaging Website design and website development company is the one which is practically involved in every aspect of web. Whether it is web designing, or developing the backend applications of website such as payment gateway system or adding a shopping cart tool to the website, all are just individual entities of web development and web designing.