Archive for the 'Web Master' Category
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Finally, persistent storage for your Amazon EC2 instance. Amazon has released EBS, Amazon Elastic Block Store, which fixes the only stumbling block to using Amazon EC2. For a while now Amazon has been defending their computing cloud web services but the voices complaining against the lack of persistent storage has been growing louder and louder [...]
SEO Checklist For Your Website Redesign
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
All right, you’ve decided to redesign your website and you’ve found the perfect designer or design company to do so. Excellent, a site redesign is sometimes a necessary step as your business grows but what you should be careful of is to not lose the goodwill that you have built up with the search engines. [...]
SEO Tips For Geo Targeting
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
As an SEO, I often get requests to geo target a site for specific keywords. There are many many ways to let Google know that your site is specific to a particular area/region. The following are a few of my preferred options that I use when I go about geo targeting a website. Google Webmaster [...]
Are You Planning On Changing Your Web Hosting Company?
Friday, August 15th, 2008
So it’s that time again. You just realized your current web hosting provider just does not cut it. It’s time to move your hosting account with all your sites or site to another company. If you are doing this for the first time then you’re probably wondering what you need to be doing. Let’s take [...]
SEO For The Mobile World
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Mobile phones and internet applications for mobile phones are spreading like wild fire. We are at the beginning of the next cycle of internet phenomenons. There is no time like now to start preparing to climb on the next bandwagon. Soon we will have more and more sites looking to convert from their current clunky [...]
Busby SEO Challenge
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
August 21st Update Less than 10 days left for the contest to finish. Not much of a change in my ranking. Still hovering between the 7th and 8th position on the search engine results. By the way I rank number 1 for the term “Busby SEO Challenge” on the Indian data center. Actually I have [...]
Amazon Web Services Introduces EC2 High-CPU Instance
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Today Amazon web services has made available a fourth option in EC2 instances called EC2 High CPU instance. Amazon’s EC2 thus far had three standard instance options and clearly the computing resources offered were not enough. Read about the other three options in Amazon EC2 in here. The High CPU instances are different from the [...]
Do You Care For Browser Compatibility?
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Ensuring browser compatibility is something most of us strive to achieve. Yes, newbie designers often disregard the need for cross browser compatibility but this is getting to be lesser as more and more people start adopting alternate browsers such as firefox, opera and safari to name a few. A relatively new browser such as Flock [...]
Changing Hosting Companies? How To Move Your Blog Without Any Downtime
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
I spent some time yesterday moving one of my blogs (no, not this one) over to another Web Hosting company. I figured this would be a good topic to talk about on Web Hosting Plans and tips as I’m sure some of you might be contemplating the same thing and not sure how to go [...]
Using Amazon S3 To Host Your Media Files.
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Amazon Simple Storage Service or S3 as it is more popularly known is an extremely cost effective way to store and manage your data. Your data could be anything, from simple normal every day work related files to your hosting or database backups. The only limitation Amazon S3 has is that the file size should not exceed 5 GB. [...]
