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How to edit my business on Google
Continue reading: How to edit my business on GoogleHave you got a Google Business listing showing up in Maps or in the right hand side of Google searches, and you’re wondering how to make an edit? Maybe your… -
How Do I Turn Off the Pop-up Blocker in Google Chrome Browser?
Continue reading: How Do I Turn Off the Pop-up Blocker in Google Chrome Browser?Ever wondered how to turn off the popup blocker in Google Chrome? Perhaps you trust a site and you’re getting popups blocked? Maybe its happening on your own website!? Whatever…
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MySQL Innodb Tables Crashing on AWS EC2 Instance? Is Your Disk Full?
Continue reading: MySQL Innodb Tables Crashing on AWS EC2 Instance? Is Your Disk Full?We’ve been asked to troubleshoot Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) instances for a number of reasons. Recently, we took a look at an Amazon EC2 instance which… -
Linux & Apache Server – Set Local Time to London, UK, Europe
Continue reading: Linux & Apache Server – Set Local Time to London, UK, EuropeA quick and simple command you might need from time-to-time if you’re running apache webservers in one or other Linux flavour. We often grab EC2 instances on Amazon, for example,… -
Turn Off Voice (Text to Speech) on Samsung Galaxy SII (GT-I9100) Smart Phone
Continue reading: Turn Off Voice (Text to Speech) on Samsung Galaxy SII (GT-I9100) Smart PhoneAvoid that embarrassing robot voice from interrupting your day! Awkward… a text read out loud! At Silicon Dales, we use the Samsung Galaxy SII smartphone for our business mobile, currently,… -
How To Use Shortcodes in WordPress Widgets
Continue reading: How To Use Shortcodes in WordPress WidgetsShortcodes are great, and can be used for a variety of purposes within WordPress to cut out the hassle of adding code all over the place. Even better, shortcodes allow… -
What is Google Shopping and How Does it Work?
Continue reading: What is Google Shopping and How Does it Work?Google Shopping results are starting to spring up at the top, and at the right-hand side, of ordinary Google search results where product names (or related terms) are included in… -
E-Commerce tip: use Google Microformats to encourage searchers to open YOUR pages
Continue reading: E-Commerce tip: use Google Microformats to encourage searchers to open YOUR pagesYou can make your product listings stand out in Google’s organic search results by using Microformats top tell the search engine just what is in your page. AKA Rich Snippets… -
How to Customize Your PayPal Checkout with Your Logo
Continue reading: How to Customize Your PayPal Checkout with Your LogoIf you use PayPal as a checkout, either on its own, or with other payment gateways and providers, in your online shop, or auction, chances are you’ll want to customise… -
Allow HTTPS on Amazon EC2
Continue reading: Allow HTTPS on Amazon EC2If you have recently setup an Amazon EC2 instance and would like to configure access to Port 443 (HTTPS:// traffic) on your new instance, there are a few things you… -
How To Grow Your Facebook Page Using Facebook Advertising
Continue reading: How To Grow Your Facebook Page Using Facebook AdvertisingA step-by-step guide to maximizing paid and organic growth on your Facebook page. Over the past few months, we’ve recommended using Facebook advertising to grow a business or event Facebook… -
Magento Tip – Removing the PayPal Logo from Right Side Column
Continue reading: Magento Tip – Removing the PayPal Logo from Right Side ColumnThe tutorial below describes how to remove the PayPal logo that shows up by default in Magento‘s standard themes, in the bottom right-hand side. We’re working on another Magento installation… -
WordPress Tip: Adding a PDF Link into a WordPress Post
Continue reading: WordPress Tip: Adding a PDF Link into a WordPress PostIt is quite simple to add a PDF (or other file for download) into a WordPress post or page, however, sometimes we forget exactly how to do it in the… -
“Safe” Ways to Increase Google PageRank and Search Rankings
Continue reading: “Safe” Ways to Increase Google PageRank and Search RankingsUPDATE 2019 – the article below was originally posted in 2013, and a lot of terminology and practices, particularly in SEO (do we even talk about PageRank any more? Remember…
