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Delay in Google Indexing of Google Sites?

Been in touch with a couple of friends that have converted over to Google Sites from their old websites and we’ve added them to Google Webmaster Tools (so we can generate a sitemap) and submitted that sitemap back to Google Webmaster Tools. In the past this has always been a pretty quick route to get …

AspDotNetStorefront Acquired by Vortx

Wow, just when you think certainly areas of your life are pretty stable… Vortx, a leading integrator of AspDotNetStorefront software in Ashland, OR,  announced yesterday that they had acquired the Ohio-based ecommerce company. One interesting tidbit that can be found on the press release is that they are planning a marketplace of plug-ins. Hopefully this …

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 …