There are many factors into what makes a website load quickly. One of the big factors is the physical proximity of the server to visitor. Think of it this way; If my hosting server is in Northern Virginia (which it is) and a visitor to my site is located in London, that means that the file literally needs to travel more than 3,000 miles. While most of the internet is built on fiber optics that travel at the speed of light, there it still takes time to be sent to a web browser. This is commonly … [Read more...]
Google Plus Rolls Out Custom URLs
Google has finally released the ability to have custom URLs for Google+ Pages. This applies to individual pages, verified local business pages and verified nonlocal business pages. Now instead of using unnecessarily long URLs to access Google+ Pages, they are now accessed right at the Google domain, google.com/+ProTechIG, for example. Current profile owners should expect to get emails of the new custom URLs that are available. Unfortunately, the original URL given has weird capitalization. … [Read more...]
Announcing the Advanced Search Query Generator
I'm proud to announce the first mash-up of a tool between ProTech Internet Group and Greenlane SEO; the advanced search query generator. This is a tool, aimed towards beginners to learn how to use search operators. Search operators are instructions that can be added to search queries to refine them to get more specific results. Google Guide has a good overview of search operators. Please not that this tool is still in beta, but it is still extremely functional. In the long-term we plan to … [Read more...]
10 Android Apps for Online Marketers
Android has quickly shot up to becoming the most popular mobile operating system with an estimated 800 Million devices running the OS as of December of this year. With this amount of usage, there are tons of apps that online marketers can use on a daily basis. This is a list of ten that can help anyone get through their day a bit easier. 1. Google Analytics Google Analytics for Android is one of the best apps for getting quick analytics data on the go. It has features such as real time … [Read more...]
Add Premise Support to CPTs
Premise landing pages is a really neat tool made by Copyblogger media and offers a bunch of neat features. Not only do they offer basic landing pages, but they offer things like membership creation (restrict content to members) as well as integration with BBPress and vBulletin to create users & login to the forums via oAuth. They now also support a bunch of different payment gateways so you can accept payments right through the plugin. Before the release of version 2.4 it was a challenge to … [Read more...]
9 Easy Steps to a More Secure WordPress Site
WordPress is the most popular publishing platform on the web powering more than 60,000,000 websites according to Automatic. WordPress powers everything from TechCrunch to an eCommerce site selling LED Traffic Wands. With great usage comes great vulnerability. There is no such thing as a 100% secure site, but by taking the following steps you can make your WordPress site more secure. 1. Choosing the right Web Host At ProTech, we take a bottom-up approach to securing our websites. It always … [Read more...]
WP Engine Review
WP Engine is one of the most popular and most respected premium WordPress hosting services around. Founded by Jason Cohen it was hailed for making reaching sales of $1 Million in less than a year. Along with their hosting, WP Engine provides world-class tech support, managed migrations, managed upgrades, a free CDN on most plans, and an assortment of other features. If you are looking for concierge hosting for your WordPress site and a Secure WordPress Hosting, WP Engine is the way to … [Read more...]
Search Love Boston 2012 Takeaways
Among most popular and most praised Inbound Marketing conferences on the east coast, Search Love Boston has been an enlightening experience. I’m confident that it was the best conference experience that one can have for their first national conference. There is always something that I took away from each session, and it was well rounded going from technical SEO to content creation and aggregation. My favorite sessions were by a local seo consultant called Local Brand Advisor and Annie Cushing’s … [Read more...]
Five Questions When Choosing a Web Designer
The truth is, web design isn't easy for those who don't understand the creativity and technicality that goes into website design. With the explosion of the Internet, companies are using website more than ever to get their business' in front of the public, but many don't know what goes into creating a website from the ground up. It can be a daunting task for people who aren't technical-types. Understanding HTML codes takes patience and study. Most people with an interest in website design go to … [Read more...]