Help a Reporter Out

What’s HARO and How Does it Help?

January 22, 2020 John 0

HARO is a popular web platform for connecting journalists with sources – and it can be a big boost for your marketing and content creation efforts! Find out how HARO works and what it can do for you as a web publisher.

Raspberry Pi

What to do with a Raspberry Pi

January 2, 2020 John 0

What’s a Raspberry Pi? Well, a Raspberry Pi can be a lot of things depending on what you want and need! Costs may also ultimately become a factor. especially if you can’t resist adding even more Pi projects to the to-do list.

database

What’s a database and how do websites use them?

January 1, 2020 John 0

If you’re starting to look under the hood of your website or thinking about how to create custom web applications, one of the first things to learn about is what databases are – and how websites use them. This brief introduction will explain some of the basic concepts involved so that you can start understanding exactly how websites and content management systems work.

Bond yields are flattening and this only happens when investors expect recessions

Flattening Bond Yield Curve Threatens Inversion and Recession

September 9, 2018 John 0

Bond traders and market analysts are watching as short term interest rates rapidly rise to match long term rates. If this yield curve inverts and short term debt becomes more expensive than long term debt, it’s a pretty strong predictor that a recession is close behind. But that doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom – there are ways to navigate downturns with a web based business or career!

Articles of incorporation

Pros and Cons of Incorporating a Web Business

August 25, 2018 John 0

Having run web businesses as both a sole proprietor and as the owner of a small corporation, I’d like to share some of the pros and cons associated with each approach. What’s best for your business, however, will depend on your unique circumstances and legal needs.

Bears vs unicorns in the most epic investor battle of 2018

Market Bears go Unicorn Hunting

August 22, 2018 John 0

As the unicorn population grows, so too does the number of bearish investors who are skeptical of the current market’s sustainability. If MoviePass can become nearly worthless over the span of a few weeks, what does that tell us about the fate of Uber, Lyft, and other app-based disruptive services that have generated a lot of hype and investment – without turning any profits?

Google

A Cleaner Road to Ranking and SEO

July 16, 2017 John 2

Google has suggested that it is possible to rank for moderately competitive keywords with only on-site optimization, but is it really possible? Early results from an experiment for a local business suggest great results that could revolutionize what we know of SEO.

Google Cracks Down on Fake News

February 23, 2017 John 0

NaturalNews has been scrubbed from Google index and cache results. The site often peddled in pseudo-science and medical misinformation, and this likely signals a shift to exile fake news from the online zeitgeist.

Delivering the latest headlines

Confirmed: Publication Date Effects Search Standing

February 9, 2015 John 0

A quick experiment has confirmed what was already suspected – that the publication date on a piece of content can have a large influence on how that content ranks in the search engines. With no other changes, a one-year difference in publishing date seems to correlate with about two and a half pages worth of search ranks.