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Were you hit by the Google outage on August17, 2013? Internet traffic around the world was reduced by about 40% when Google had a complete blackout for up to 5 minutes. The fact that world-wide internet traffic was so significantly impacted just goes to show how much we depend on Google to stay up and […]

If you see the message “Your computer has been blocked” from Department of Homeland Security’s ICE Cyber Crime Center, your computer is infected with a virus known as Trojan Reveton. This virus can infect your computer through a variety of methods, such as hacked websites, spam email, or by tricking you into thinking you are

Using Joomla content management system for your website? Check out the version you have to see if you need a security patch ASAP! It’s crucial to ensure you have the latest update that was recently released. Without this patch, your website is vulnerable to hackers’ exploits. This patch is for versions 2.5.x to 2.5.13 and

Are you keeping up with the latest trends in website design, Austin? If not, you could be missing out on some valuable tools. Today, we’re addressing 3 website design trends: Responsive Design, Mobile Design, and Social Media. Responsive Design: Have you ever heard of responsive design? It’s a simple concept. Responsive design is a way

  You expect truth in advertising from any company whose products you use. But we all know that marketing departments bend the truth. How much is too much? Companies pay people to endorse products that wouldn’t be on their typical shopping list. However, what you don’t expect is a company publishing a blatant lie and

Facebook Announces Video on Instagram! You heard it right! Did you know that Instagram has 10 times more users than Twitter’s Vine? Finally, Vine has some direct competition. According to Instagram CEO, Kevin Systrom, “Video on Instagram is the same Instagram we all know and love … but it moves.” By offering a beautiful and

Join every social network that you can find. If you try to remain active on every social network, you probably won’t have time for your actual work load. It’s a good idea to research the audience on each site. By doing so, you will be able to identify the interest of each group. If the

You’ve taken every security measure that you can possibly think of so you’re confident that your site is secure. Is it really? Hackers are becoming more skilled every day and they enjoy cracking passwords and installing malware and/or key stroke loggers on “secure” sites. Let’s talk about passwords for a bit. The most common error

When you have a bias against a certain type of advertising, it’s always interesting to see the statistics behind the theory for concepts like “display advertising is a thing of the past”. But these points below really illustrate that concept well. You are more likely to complete NAVY SEAL training than click a banner ad. (Source:

  No time for maintaining a blog? Well try to make time, because using a blog the smarter way you can help move your website’s ranking up in search engines. Google LOVES unique and fresh content. Website Design Austin Texas are SEO Austin experts and we want to share with you some really great techniques

They’ve started popping up everywhere! Little pictures of people next to the websites you’re searching for in Google. These folks are “authors” of the websites listed and the pictures are truly eye-catching. Google calls these “Author Snippets” and they are easy to install on your site, as long as you have a Google+ profile already

The smart folks at PostRocket have created an infographic to help explain how the elusive Facebook EdgeRank works. This is good to know because it is reported that “40% of the time spent on Facebook is in the News Feed — and only 12% is spent on profile and brand pages.” So showing up on

For many folks, the Google Places dashboard has been a frustrating platform to use. Its antiquated reporting features and lack of integration with Google+ Local has driven many to give up on trying to show up on Google Maps. However just a few days ago, Google announced that “over the coming weeks” it will offer

Facebook has been very strict when it comes to what could and could not be on the cover photo of a company page. But never fear! They have expanded the guidelines to now include a “Call to Action” which allows website addresses, coupons or discount text and contact information of any sort. This is all

The mobile search world is growing more and more each day. But how does a free-to-use search engine make money? The infographic below from Search Engine Land shows many ways that Google is making money off all its free products. Granted not all these products will be free for long. Most free services have special

Can we say…. we told you so?? 🙂 We knew this was coming…. the Google search for “videos” used to be under the “more” drop down menu. Just recently it moved out to have it’s own link in the main search menu – see below. We talk about this all the time …VIDEO IS BIG

Here we go again… another one of the never ending scams out there trying to steal your money. Below is a copy of an email some of our customers have recently received. It is titled “expiration notice”, implying that they already had been paying for this service. When you are talking about a domain name,

As we finish out the first month of 2013, we can take a look back at exactly what, according to HubSpot, 2012 had to offer: The acceleration of local search volumes due to unprecedented smartphone adoption The growing ubiquity of mobile payment devices The release of Google+ Local The release of Apple Maps (and inclusion