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Vancouver, Canada: The World’s Bitcoin Hub

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The City of Vancouver in Canada has been tagged as Canada’s Tech Capital. Gregor Robertson, Vancouver’s mayor, declared, “Technology is now a critical part o...

website speed

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Website speed is an often overlooked priority for search engine optimization (SEO). While it may be obvious that if your page takes a long time to load, that...

What would you trade for a website?

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As we head into the holidays, I realize that finances are tight for a lot of people, especially in this economy. Yet, many of us have some entrepreneurial id...

Adding ping services

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When you publish a new post, there is a “ping service” that will send a notification out to other services, notifying them of your new post. Adding ping serv...

Are you using responsive web design?

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We’re often asked by customers if we do websites for the ipad, iphone, tablet or mobiles phones. This is a great question, as the majority of website traffic...

Remove WordPress Version Numbers

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Every time you login to your WordPress Dashboard, you should install any updates it says are available (Dashboard -> Updates). There are automated program...

Change your WordPress table prefix

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This post is a bit more advanced, but important. One of the most common ways an intruder gets into your system is through what is called an SQL injection. In...

Change your admin username in WordPress

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One of the first security tips I can provide is to change your admin username in WordPress. One of the ways people break into WordPress, is by a brute force ...

What is a WordPress CMS?

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If you’re looking to create a website and you’re not a techy, you’re probably not yet that familiar with hypertext markup language (HTML) or cascading style ...

Add Meta Description tags for everything

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If you authored websites with HTML in the past you probably remember meta keywords tags; these have effectively been rendered useless, as so many people used...

Stop comment spam with Akismet

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If you’ve been using WordPress for some time, you’ve probably noticed comment spam — comments that sound really nice, but have really been setup to link back...

Changing your WordPress editor

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The default editor in WordPress is lacking, to say the least. If you’re looking to replace the default editor with a more powerful and accessible editor, you...

Google XML Sitemap

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Sitemaps are useful for both people, as well as search engine robots (spiders) in indexing all of your website for their search engines. To make this as easy...

SEO Slugs

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If you’re using WordPress and call your post something like “what can you do immediately for higher rankings”, WordPress will give it the URL:

SEO Permalinks

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When you’re looking at your WordPress dashboard for the first time, click on: