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How to Receive Email from Google Forms

The forms built into Google Docs are handy devices. We’ve talked before about how easy it is to create a form and have the resultant data stored in a Google Docs spreadsheet for later use but many people are looking for more immediate gratification. It is a little buried, but Google does make it fairy …

Top 10 Wordpress Plugins

Martin Sejas just posted an article on SiteProNews about “The Top 10 WordPress Plugins You Can’t Do WIthout” and not being a WordPress kinda guy, what do you guys think? Here they are in numerical order: Askimet – This is sometihing that I’ve toyed with on BE.Net sites and it seems to be a fairly …

Where Has All My Traffic Gone?

Have you found yourself in a situation where you’re experiencing a large drop in traffic from search engines to your website? SitePronews offers up a nine point path to diagnosing this particular problem. In short, they are: Determine what type of traffic you’ve lost. How deep is the decline?  Are your comparisons accurate? . Review …

Secure Your Contact Page

One of our clients uses McAfee Secure to monitor their website for vulnerabilities and just recently the Contact Us page on their ASPDotNetStorefront site has started being flagged as having a high severity when it comes to security vulnerabilities. Here is what McAfee has to say about this alleged vulnerability: The remote host appears to …

Google Voice For Everyone… In the US

Invites, we don’t need no stinkin’ Invites! Well, Google Voice has FINALLY launched to the general public! No longer will my friends and family be begging me for invites to this great program. And you won’t either ‘cause if you jump over to http://voice.google.com/ right now, you’ll be able to sign in with your Google …

Is Your Google Sites Sitemap Empty?

If you’ve followed the directions that we posted in our previous posting on Sitemaps for Google Sites and you find that the sitemap is empty (not missing but actually empty) then you’ll need to follow these steps to get your sitemap completed: Go to Google Webmaster Tools (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/) and create an account if you don’t …