Top 10 article directories you should submit to
Directories have long been the primary target for link buiding and getting a website noticed. Backlinks are what drives our search rank and is essential to any search engine optimization (SEO) campaign. Article directories have been around for ages and it still remains a viable option for anyone wanting to submit content with links back …
Read more …Network Maintenance on 2/8/2010
On Feb 8th from 6:00am EST to 7:00am, we will be performing an upgrade to the network infrastructure that will improve the performance of all servers. This maintenance event will require a brief amount of downtime while servers are rebooted. While the maintenance window is one hour, we anticipate that the total amount of downtime …
Read more …Validating a Credit Card
This little function helps validating a given credit card number is legit.
Read more …Happy New Year!
Ashworth Consulting wants to wish you a happy and prosperous new year in 2010. Party safe and we look forward to serving you in 2010. As always, thank you for being a valued customer. If you ever need assistance, just email us and we’ll do what we can to help in terms of support or …
Read more …2010 Upgrades Coming Soon!
To ring in the new year, Ashworth Consulting is upgrading its hosting infrastructure to support a highly stable cloud architecture for hosting your websites and applications. In short, this will allow us to scale up your storage and bandwidth needs indefinitely. More importantly, without any downtime for hardware changes during upgrades. This new platform is …
Read more …Don’t Be Hacker Bait With a Bad Password
When you set your password, including on cPanel, or email accounts, be sure to select one that is hard to guess. But what does “hard to guess” mean? Take a look at The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time: From the moment people started using passwords, it didn’t take long to realize how many …
Read more …Adobe BrowserLab
When developing a website, we don’t always see the same thing in all browsers. Things may shift slightly in each browser and certain features may not work if an older browser doesn’t support the feature you’re trying to use (ie., transparent PNG support or certain positioning elements). Adobe BrowerLab gives you the ability to preview …
Read more …Kuler color palette creator
We’ve had a few customers starting out designing looking for some tools to help them get going. They may be taking some design courses or just looking for a suite of online tools to assist them in a design they have already started. Kuler is a community driven web app that lets you browse color …
Read more …Simplify your email marketing
Ashworth Consulting realizes that outsourced email marketing isn’t for everybody. With recent economy changes, it’s not always reasonable to pay high fees to an agency when you could handle the sending of your email campaigns in minutes yourself. Enter our email campaign manager tool. It covers every aspect of sending your campaign from importing subscribers …
Read more …Google Now Supports Cross-Domain ‘Canonical Tag’
Many webmasters will be happy to know that Google has announced its support for using the rel=”canonical” link element across different domains. When the “canonical” tag was introduced by all three search engines during the SMX West Conference in February earlier this year, they only supported its use inside a single domain. You could use …
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