3.5 Commandments For Good Google Ranking

Over the course of my 13-year career as a website developer, I’ve seen massive changes in the sophistication levels of the search engines and I have taken many different approaches to getting good rankings for my clients’ sites. Google in particular changes their methods and algorithms regularly to stay on top of the tide of…

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10 Questions To Inspire Business Bloggers

Are you drawing a blank looking for blog topics? Try these out and see where they take you: What recently-completed project are you really excited about? Is there something another business did recently that inspired you in some way? What has your company done to better the planet lately? Are you celebrating any milestones or…

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Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Website Developer

The following is a list of helpful interview questions that can help you determine whether your potential website developer is an experienced professional. Your website is essentially a collection of graphics plus files that contain programming code of one type or another, and ideally you will hire someone who has experience with both design and…

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A Site We Loved: Web2PDFConvert.com

This past month AloeRoot was required to find an easy way to turn a webpage into a PDF document – at speed, and without any external branding appearing on the finished document. There are lots of sites which offer this service, but after test-driving a handful of different ones we settled on Web2PDFConvert, paid the…

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KeepVid: Save Videos from YouTube

Sometimes we come across a tool so incredibly useful that we just want to hug the person who created it. Keepvid.com is one of those; you paste in the URL of a video you happen to be streaming online, and the KeepVid service will return some download links you can use to grab your own…

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