I ran into a question posted by another webmaster wondering why two of his web stores were banned by Google. These websites were running fine for at least one year. And another two of his stores remain indexed. Looking over his websites left me guessing as to the exact reason why Google removed them from their index.
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Apr
4
Mar
9
Google Malware Threat Detected #1
Who’s Watching the Watchdogs?
Has google.com become infected with malware itself? The same huge corporation that has taken it upon itself to preside over all matters to cleanse the internet of this trash. The same power that decides which websites are safe to view and which sites are not.
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Feb
24
FireFox's warning page
The review process is broke and we want our websites back.
Seems Google is no better than the hackers who go from website to website adding their iframes to your pages in order perform their dirty deeds.
I was contacted last week to clean one such site that fell victim to one of these iframe injection attacks. And as expected, I found this site had one of those scary “Reported Attack Site” warning pages blocking entry to the infected website.
Jan
16
Various Google Favicons
The old saying goes, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That is the quickest way to break something.
One week ago, Google seems to have done just that — again — with their latest change to their favicon. Something that went unchanged for 8.5 years with their classic “big G” icon.
Last Friday some people had thought they were at the wrong site, or even that their favorite search engine was hacked when a new icon began to appear in their browser.
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Mar
28
My Favorite Webmaster’s Trick
Whether you have one website or several dozens… their is one very handy piece of code that can save you tons of work when its time to update your site. Using the PHP include function will allow you to update design or content changes with one quick edit. No need to have to edit each specific page of your site, nor to learn a new programming language either.
Mar
6
If you ever use the float property… sometimes things just won’t align properly on your web pages. And no matter how hard you try to fix it with <br> tags and forced spaces… the problem still exists.
We ran into this very problem on this website as evident by the image posted above. Most of the headlines for each post were interfering with the way the first paragraph was being displayed. It looked crappy and I needed to figure out how to solve this issue.