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How do I show .htaccess / .htpasswd files in Core FTP

May 19th, 2010 | Posted in SEO, Web

The .htaccess file and .htpasswd files are present on *NIX webservers, and server a variety of purposes, the most common of which is for MOD_Rewrite for SEO friendly URLs.
However, most FTP programs do not show these files by default, making it difficult to amend them!
If like me you use the great FTP program Core FTP, [...]

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FastHosts Foolishness

May 8th, 2009 | Posted in Web

FastHosts lay claim to the title of ‘The UK’s number one webhost’ based on data that shows they host more sites in the UK than any other web hosting provider.
How they achieved this when they are quite frankly, Rubbish (that’s right, with a capital ‘R’) is beyond me, and so I’m sharing some of my [...]

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I see clicks in Adwords but they don’t show in Analytics

April 21st, 2009 | Posted in Web

If you are using Google Adwords to advertise and generate traffic to your website, then you ought to be using Google Analytics to track this traffic (and more importantly, how this traffic converts in to leads/sales so that you know how cost-effective your Adwords spend is - for example, how to track phone calls generated [...]

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Google guilty of buying paid links…

February 19th, 2009 | Posted in SEO, Web

Matt Cutts has been forced to apologise on behalf of the big G, after it came to light that Google’s Japanese branch, google.co.jp, has been hiring paid bloggers to evaluate a new widget.
The pay-per-post service CyberBuzz was hired to take part in a promotional campaign by the Japanese, which is in direct contravention of Google’s [...]

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Happy Birthday Google!

September 5th, 2008 | Posted in Web

Google is 10 years old this weekend (Sunday 7th September to be exact), and how far they’ve come since Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated a company called ‘Google’ whilst attending Stanford University, California as undergraduates.
Today, Google employs over 17,000 employees and is still hiring at a rate of 100 new employees a week. They [...]

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