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How To Fix and Remove network-teaser.ru – Website Hacked

DZ — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:57:37 +0000

A few hours ago one of my zencart e-commerce websites was hacked and a new re-directing virus code was added to the website. After a bit of research I found out that this little redirecting malicious code has been causing problems on numerous other websites around the internet, mainly e-commerce websites. So I thought I [...]

How to improve E-commerce cart sales – Traffic to customer conversion tips

DZ — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:56:47 +0000

I am a business consultant for e-commerce websites for over 7 years now. I can tell you with certainty that obtaining traffic to your website is easy to do, the hard part is converting that traffic into customers and clients. I would like to share some unique tips that can improve your website's conversion rate. [...]

How To Legally Protect Yourself As A Website Programmer Or Graphic Designer

DZ — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:28:33 +0000

This is a list of things to do to cover your own professional interests whilst ensuring smooth business operation with customers. I wish someone had given me these bullet points when I was starting out, it would have saved me a lot of time, frustration and money. Have a detailed contract, with all the work [...]

Thinking of buying backlinks? List of Tips to Assist

DZ — Tue, 31 May 2011 05:07:06 +0000

Don't buy large backlink packages, it is best to do backlink building in a steady manner. If a search engine sees 5000 or more new backlinks coming to a website, they will know these are unnatural backlink growth and will not give you a boost in ranking. Slow and steady link building and growth is [...]

Simple Tip for Speeding Up Windows 7 & Improving Stability

DZ — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:50:25 +0000

This is a very easy to do tip for getting a decent speed boost from windows 7 and to increase it's stability. In fact, if you keep getting random crashes it most likely a result of this service eating up memory and conflicting with everything else. The end result of this guide will turn off [...]

Simple Fixes for Stupid Windows Problems

DZ — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:39:24 +0000

Problem: DDE Server Window: Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point IsThreadDesktopComposited could not be located in the dynamic link library USER32.dll Fix: Go to your windows directory (typically c:\windows\ ) then find the system32 folder and in that folder rename this file – dwmapi.dll to dwmapi.old Problem: The instructions at "0×000000" referenced memory [...]

How To Get New or Updated Meta Tags In To Search Engines – Fast

DZ — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:35:18 +0000

It is well known in the seo world that if you change your meta tags two things can happen. Number 1, It can takes weeks for Google and other search engines to update your new titles and descriptions and during that time. Number 2, it is possible to lose all ranking until search engines update [...]

What is more important, Social Networking or Linkbuilding?

DZ — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:38:25 +0000

Thought I would share this email communication I had with one of my clients. It is an indicator of how confusing it is for people to understand exactly what social networking is, how it can perform for them and what it can do for them, in conjunction with other web marketing tools available today and [...]

Simple Blogging & Website Tips – Web Traffic To Customers Introduction

DZ — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:03:51 +0000

In the next coming weeks and months I will be writing up an article series called “How to Convert Web Traffic to Customers”. The main theme of the article series will focus on how to change web traffic into customers. I have learned it's easy to get traffic, but it's a whole different ball game [...]

How To Attributes in Zencart – Option Names, Values, Attribute Controller (Pic Guide)

DZ — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:54:38 +0000

Just a brief run down on how attributes work in Zencart. Note: I am going to be using a website that has multiple option name and values for the following examples. The website is Tastycravings.net which sales Gourmet Chocolates. You have an Option Name Manager, an Option value Manager and then the Attribute Controller. All these are [...]