If you are using a shared webhosting services, there are pretty high chances that your hosting provider may be allowing several other sites to be hosted on the same server, not that hosting multiple sites on a single server is a problem, but having more than a specified number of websites hosted on a single [...]

You never know if your website is Digg Ready, until you actually hit the Digg frontpage once in a while, however a Load simulation service can help you determine, if you web server is actually ready to handle huge amount of traffic. Load Impact simulates a situation and runs a online load testing service, which [...]

Color combinations go a long way in the making of a website design, and there are several times when you come across websites that make use of pretty good colors. Users usually use a color picker tool to get the color codes for a color they like. However there is a much more easier way [...]

Having a popular website is definitely a delight, and many webmasters use several statistics programs and services to keep an eye on the number of visitors and page views they get each day. Google Analytics is by far one of the best analytics service we have come across, however it does not provide users with [...]

Google has been pretty serious about security of search results, so that users do not fall prey to malware or virus attacks. In order to make people aware of problematic sites, Google shows a message This site may harm your computermessage in the search results for problematic websites. Related: Online Security Tips How to keep [...]

There are literally hundreds of services that allow you to monitor the website for uptime, but the common problem is that they are either too costly or the free ones do not run at regular intervals. Prior to few days ago we relied heavily on montastic and monit for monitoring our website for downtimes. The [...]

The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced the availability of a 404 Widget for websites, that would add more value to the error page shown, when a page does not exist on a website. The widget adds a closest match URL based on the error page and the links available in the sitemap you upload to [...]

Google Webmasters is probably one of the best ways to track, view statistics and manage indexing of any given website for Google search engines. Webmasters often visit the Google Webmasters dashboard to check on various aspects of their websites, though this is recommended there is a much more easier way to do that. The Google [...]

AdSense for Feeds has been made available to all Google AdSense publishers today, this will allow publishers to display AdSense ads in your feeds allowing them to earn extra income from their RSS feeds. Adding AdSense to your feeds is not as simple as it seems though, you will first have to migrate your FeedBurner [...]

Feed subscribers have become a very important factor for webmasters to determine their success, and unlike website visitors, feed subscribers get regular updates in their feed readers or through email. The feed subscribers count changes everyday, and webmasters are always keen to see the number of subscribers and hits to their feeds, to do that [...]

There may be several webmasters who host their sites / blogs using either a VPS or dedicated hosting. With such kind of a setup you may not only get better performance, but may also have to deal with several headaches of maintaining the servers yourself. Traffic spikes to your websites can send the Apache server [...]