How To Get Ready For The EU Cookie Directive (Deadline May 25th 2012)

ICO news release with cookie notice

Your website is probably already in breach of EU law because of regulations that came into force on 25th May 2011, but don’t panic. The new regulations are not yet being enforced, so you still have until 25th May 2012 to comply. This post explains what you need to do.

You will almost certainly . . . → Read More: How To Get Ready For The EU Cookie Directive (Deadline May 25th 2012)

How To Install WordPress Using Softaculous – The Easy Way

WordPress Logo

I provide a full WordPress set-up and hosting service, but for those who like to do things themselves there is the option to install WordPress and set it up from scratch yourself. This is not as difficult as you might think, as I will explain.

On most hosting services these days you can use . . . → Read More: How To Install WordPress Using Softaculous – The Easy Way

How To Format Google+ Posts Using Bold Or Italic Text

Google+ Text Formatting

A great way to help your posts stand out and at the same time make them easier to read, is to use bold and italic text styles.

A heading in bold makes it easier for someone to spot what your post is about when it arrives in their feed, and using italics for quotations . . . → Read More: How To Format Google+ Posts Using Bold Or Italic Text

How To Create A Google+ Business Page

Google+ Business Page Setup

Google has launched Google+ Business Pages, which are Google’s answer to Facebook Pages.

If you want a chance to get ahead of your competition you’ll want to know how to create a Google+ Business Page for your business. You can do this in just a few minutes.

What Is A Google+ Page?

Until 7th . . . → Read More: How To Create A Google+ Business Page

Diaspora* Tips: How To Make Friends On Diaspora*

Diaspora Social Network

Do you want to know how to make friends on Diaspora*? New to Diaspora* and want to connect to more people? This post shows three simple things that will get you lots of new friends on Diaspora*. Its especially for newbies, but also for anyone who wants to hook up with new people on this fast growing, . . . → Read More: Diaspora* Tips: How To Make Friends On Diaspora*

How To Submit WordPress Sitemap Updates – Automatically

WordPress, Google, Bing and Yahoo!

Publishing a sitemap is important for SEO and getting all your website pages indexed rapidly, and particularly when you add new content and you want it to be discovered fast, while it is still fresh and most interesting.

I’ll show you how with a small about of setting up, WordPress will generate, auto-update, and . . . → Read More: How To Submit WordPress Sitemap Updates – Automatically

How To Create A WordPress Sitemap

Global Business WordPress Website

WordPress has some great built in features to help your SEO, and one is that it can be set-up to create a WordPress sitemap, and automatically update and submit it whenever you add or update a page or blog post. This saves a lot of  effort, and ensures that the search engines will . . . → Read More: How To Create A WordPress Sitemap

How To Publicise Your Blog: Configure A “Ping List” Of RPC Update Services In WordPress

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Marketing your blog, in the first instance, means making sure that people can find your posts easily. The major search engines will help with this once they’ve indexed your content, as sharing links manually on such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Diaspora, your newsletter and so on.

But these are not the only things that . . . → Read More: How To Publicise Your Blog: Configure A “Ping List” Of RPC Update Services In WordPress

New Window Visible – My First Chrome Browser Extension/Addon

screenshot of chrome browser window cascade

For some time I’ve been annoyed by a feature of Google’s Chrome web browser. You may have noticed that when you open a new window in Chrome, each window is staggered, a little below and to the right of the last, as shown in the image.

This “cascade” is all very well, but means . . . → Read More: New Window Visible – My First Chrome Browser Extension/Addon

How To Get An Invite To Diaspora

Diaspora Social Network

Fed up of waiting for an invite from joindiaspora.com?

Lots of folks signed up at joindiaspora.com and have been patiently waiting for an invite to try the beta of this exciting new type of social network—one where individuals control their data and not the service provider. Unlike Facebook and Google+ there is no commercial provider, . . . → Read More: How To Get An Invite To Diaspora