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Android App for Drupal News

An unofficial, online-offline Android app for Drupal news, podcasts and videos has just been released in two versions named DrupalPocket and DrupalPocket+ for $2,49 at Google PlayStore. Both support common RSS/ Atom feeds and have built-in support for basic Quora, Reddit, Stack Exchange, YouTube videos and podcasts, plus many others. Key futures:
1. 600+ built-in feeds, Drupal news, podcasts, and YouTube videos.
2. Online-offline.
3. Text to Speech and Speech to Text
4. Public podcasts
5. CRUD
Pro features
1. Customizable YouTube search queries.
2. Unlimited podcast downloads.
3. Article sorting.
4. Performance
5. No ads
If you run Drupal based blog or news feed and wish to be included into this app, there is no special requirements. Contact the DrupalPocket production team to be included. Your blog will get worldwide audience and might gain some traffic.

Free Google Speed Test

Another name is PageSpeed Insights or “Make your web pages fast on all devices.”. This SEO tool uses data from the Chrome User Experience Report and display real-world performance. It will shoe following data: page load distribution, optimization score, page statistics and optimization suggestions. You get separate reports for desktop and mobile devices. And the results falls into three categories: fast, slow, average. Page speed is one of the metric google consider in it ranking and the faster your page loads, the lower the bounce rate would be. And when your site is fast, you have an advantage over slow sites. Check Google the top ranking websites they their pages loads fast. Use PageSpeed insights to check every major page of your site. You will get a valuable clues about what Google see and suggest improving. It is a good start on the path to get on the first page in search engine results page and it's FREE.

Free Professional Website Audit

This website SEO audit is a complete analysis of many variables related to your website’s level of search visibility. It becomes a good and suggested practices for businesses worldwide to improve their websites' score and usability by making audits and inspections of each public web page. These days there are hundreds of factors search engines take into account to determine where in their results your site will be shown. Some of them are: web pages speed, amount and quality of content, does website mobile friendly, website and page authority, code validation, number and quality of incoming links, server and content management system versions (latest is preferable for security reasons), HTTPS protocol and type of SSL certificate. With Web Admin professional website audit you get several types of test combine into one multipage report with technical check, search engine optimization test results and suggestions, number and quality of back linking domains, social presence check and local directory presence audit.

Google Introduce reCAPTCHA v3

From v1 reCAPTCHA has continuously evolved its technology over the last ten years. With v2 Google added some improvements in user experience and security. And now with v3 Google intend to “fundamentally change how sites can test for human vs. bot activities” as it announced in its official press release. More accurate bot detection with “Actions” and the “flexibility to prevent spam and abuse in the way that best fits your website” two main changes and additions of reCAPTCHA v3. This version runs adaptive risk analysis in the background and provide a score that tells a website owner how suspicious a user interaction is. This score will go from 0.1 for bad to 1 for good. And based on these scores' website administrators could adjust security settings. And for the end user Google promised more secure and easier interaction with websites.

New WordPress Cloud VPS

This hosting is design to give most power of our best virtual private servers to a WordPress based website. The whole server is security and performance is dedicated to a managed WordPress hosting. Benefit from the speed of PHP 7 as this version is the default one at Web Admin servers. These servers were stripped from all other software and systems that slow their productivity by taking processor and memory resources. Just imagine the full calculation power of VPS is dedicated to a single WordPress site. The uptime and performance for many websites are crucial and virtual machine in cloud infrastructure provides the best option for secure and fast WordPress based site. The latest version of content management system will be preinstalled on you VPS. Yo might choose to add professional them or even custom website including e-commerce.

MassGov Drupal Case Study

Drupal family has new top ranking member mass.gov the government website for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - the most populous state in New England. This site was recently benchmarked by ITIF (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation) and named ranks #3 in the nation for performance in page-load speed, mobile friendliness, security, and accessibility overall. Website built using Drupal 8 as core. And here is what developer Palantir.net says “In choosing Drupal as the framework for the new Mass.gov site, the Commonwealth was able to execute its vision with an extremely versatile tool. Unlike its previous CMS.” Currently more than 1 million websites worldwide run on Drupal merging great design with power, speed and security. Well done Massachusetts, today close to 76% of constituents prefer to interact with their government online. Good move of a 15-year-old legacy CMS to Drupal 8.

Business Web Admin vs GoDaddy

Yes we want to compare us with one of the biggest in industry domain registrars and web hosting providers. GoDaddy vs Web Admin where are we better? This internet giant has millions of customers and registered domains we could not win here and are not looking for. Our customers need more and ready to pay extra for special services. We register over 476 domain zones GoDaddy does less. We Admin sell the better VPS (virtual private servers) for much the better price. At Web Admin we have special WordPress, Drupal and WHMCS optimized servers, we sell SSL certificated form web security leader Comodo, while “Daddy” sells his own. And all that is just technical side of web development. We do more and better. Check our creative web design portfolio. We are search engine optimization professionals, we start SEO and marketing when we start the project, and we do more than “Turn your site into a customer magnet”. We create marketing plan with numbers and reach them.

Popular Social Media October 2018

The most popular social media sites as for October 2018 are Facebook, Instagram, YouTube Videos, Qzone, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, Ask.fm, Tumblr, Snapchat, Tinder, Vine, Flickr, LinkedIn. The top three has over a billion users each and the last lines over 100 million each. These are main social platforms for the companies looking to reach the widest audience all over the world. There are social networks that have much fewer users and still remain an effective marketing tool as they are niche specific they have the best target audience with the highest conversion rates. Check some of them: Dogster, Untappd, Houzz, Classmates, Quora, Behance, Envato, Dribbble. Yes, these special network less “crowded” but they still have millions of users with daily visits. The main landscape of social media still and will be dominated by top giants and hope that would not stop you in attempt to start a brand-new digital media. There is room for good quality content on the web and even more important there are people who are looking for one.

Different Shades of SEO

As internet grow, it already gains some history and search engine optimization has history as well. At the beginning SEO was a wild west zone. Pure mechanical number of links and keywords on a page moved sites high in ranking. Google replayed with Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird algorithm updates to wave away sites with spam content. Now old days practices would be considered as bad, outdated and harmful. The term SEO expended to a range from white to black techniques with large gray aria. There are different search engines with therefore different algorithms. And after all website are created for people not search engines. SEO professional is very well aware of different practices and will recommend staying away from “black” practices and for the “gray” zone should be clear understanding of what is done and for what purpose, what are the pros and cons. It is truly a lot to do in “white” zone and that work might be most rewording in the future.

Best Domain Registrar with Benefits

What is important to remember when you are looking for a new domain and why Business Web Admin is the best place to buy domain name. First this is a brand development opportunity, new name and website could be a gold mine for brand marketing. We are pro when it comes to keywords research, words variations and combinations, systematization and logic to find appealing copyright strong and marketing effective name. Second technical side of domain registration and domain hosting. Need free DNS? We have it, with every domain registered with us. Need more? Choose Amazon Cloud or Google Cloud DNS. And for high level of security and speed we have the winner DYN by Oracle. Just add best VPS hosting, creative design, search engine optimization and be ready to meet visitors. Use free domain search tool to check your name versions with any 476 domain extension available.

Google Plus Goes Minus

As search giant announced it's (what it was?) social network Google+ will be shout down for public use in ten months on August 2019. Possibly there are down sides especially for its employees, but did you really use this platform? The official data spring out “that 90% of all Google+ sessions lasts less than two seconds”. Diagnosis — network was dead before the day of the announcement. This death leaves us with a perfect example how company that has thousands of programmers, designers, millions of customers and billions of visitors, with literally unlimited budget has failed. Now we know (it was a “secret”) Googled tried to outplay Facebook. Its look and functionality were so close to Facebook when it was launched in June 2011, then it tried to be more like Pinterest, still no life. It was a joke those days that Google Plus network is used by Google Plus employees. No tears, to say goodbye, just remember to verify your Google+ privacy setting and history and check it today, better now and for the best clean it up.

Professional Web Design Services

Business Web Admin is a special place, and we produce a very special and unique website design. We start by listening to customers needs, their brand history and plans for the future. That help to determine what platform new website will be created with and what type of web hosting it will need. New domain name search and registration, and we ready to start. Drupal, Joomla, Magento, WordPress WHMCS or just HTML website will be delivered on time. Plus we provide our customers with extra web design services like custom PHP code writing, WordPress management classes, creative graphic design and topography. New website is developed following best search engine optimization practices and comply with search engine requirements. And when new site go on-line we help with social media marketing promotion to grow audience and bring traffic. Special campaigns to get higher domain authority, citation and trust flow.

Wix Site Builder vs WordPress

What are the benefits and downsides of each platform? First, let quickly mention what is the biggest difference between them. WordPress is an application that runs on a web server, means it needs to be installed on it and that means it requires a web hosting plan. While Wix is all-in-one platform that has hosting, domain registration, layout builder and content management all together. It has simple interface and intelligent drug and drop builder, so new website could be launched in couple of hours. We could say main Wix advantages are simplicity and accessibility. WordPress require more skills to start and to run, but it gives way more flexibility and easy way to add extra functionality via plugins. While Wix has just over 500 templates, WordPress give you access to thousands and thousands of themes, free ones and premium ones. If you are looking for more control or need integration with online services WordPress would be the right choice.

White Pages and Yellow Pages

These two color pages names send us back in history when business directories were printed. The yellow pages or golden pages, or classified directory refer to any phone directory of businesses, organized by their category rather than alphabetically by name. While white pages usually refer to personal and alphabetic listings. Today they are popular and high ranked online directory services. Yellow pages dot com has domain authority of 91 and white pages com 81. Any website and especially e-commerce will benefit having incoming links from both of these domains. More customers will be able to find directions and contacts. Yellow pages has free submission. You have on line business? Do you have physical location? If any answer is yes you must have your company information listed, better more than one or two directories. At Business Web Admin we have special directory publishing service for $189 per year create your company listing and submit it to 90 + most visited directories. We insure your information is consistent and up to date.

Open DNS vs Google DNS

There are two public DNS service providers that play major role on the market plus Cloudflare that started it 1.1.1.1. service July 2009 and have one free plan anyway Cloudflare focuses commercial service and it could be high. Google public DNS and Open DNS are free, very reliable and fast. Google launched its domain name service on 3 December 2009, Open DNS on 1 November 2005 and is one of the oldest. The first one was DYN by Oracle. To make decision which fit your needs best check their number of supported records, the number of queries per second, where servers are physically located. Yes, today the distance even for electronic data transition still matter. Means the best provider might be the one that is simply closes to you. Open DNS is free for basic needs and has premium service. On August 27, 2015 OpenDNS was purchased by CISCO for US$635 million. Big player over there.

Graphic Design Creative Agency

That is where most of the people expect to find excellent designers and few ones hope to find graphic design jobs. It is a place their imagination, art and skills come together to create something new, eye-catching and selling. Here at Business Web Admin we do more we even call ourselves united talent agency sometime. We created the best VPS hosting, domain registration, we provide search engine optimization and data analysis, and we bring colors, shapes and fonts as a graphic and web design part. We love Google fonts library and Adobe Type Kit. To enhance marketing campaign and reach prospect customers by different media we help with offset and digital printing of business cards, post cards, flayers and POS materials. The same set of graphics is used to create banners for digital marketing and advertising and social media promotion. We love creative part it ends up as most noticeable side of our work.

What is SEO and How it Works

What is SEO meaning? It is Search Engine Optimization the term covers a number of activities. Let's quickly mention them. But before couple of words about what search engines are and what they do. Their main work is to crawl web and index websites and then return most relative results to a search query users input. The leader is Google search engine, then go Yahoo, Bing, Yandex and others. Search bots see web page different from humans and the goal for SEO is to help them to understand web page content, so they could index it. General recommendations are: use keywords for URL and make page hierarchy clean, fresh and keyword reach text to what users are looking for. Create for users not for robots! Find a good tutorial and learn about meta tags, meta descriptions, Open Graph protocol, Facebook apps and Twitter cards, domain and page authority, trust and citation scores. Check website with search engine optimization tools.

Business Directory Listing

Online businesses and anyone who want to drive traffic to there website have to use social media marketing including systematic use of many business directory services.Most of them give a perfect opportunity for free business advertising: white pages, yellow pages, Google business listing, Yelp, Foursquare and many many others. For best results all theses listing must be unified and have the same information when it comes to business name, address, location, phone number, hours of operation, logo, website URL, payment methods accepted. To get on the top in search results business must have many profiles linking to his website.The question is "How to do that". Business Web Admin has special directory listing service. For $228 per year we submit and manage one business and one of its location in 90+ most visited and high ranked directories in United Sates.

Drupal 7 and 8 Security Alert

This update was released on October 17th 2018 at 16:42 UTC (SA-CORE-2018-006) and it is critical as it fixes the issue when content moderation fails to check user access privileges to use some transitions and that is a direct road to access bypass. For those who runs Drupal 7 update version is 7.6.0 for, version 8.5.x or earlier, upgrade to Drupal 8.5.8, for version 8.6.x, upgrade to 8.6.2. This is a routine update from technical point of view and main reason for it is security. Your Drupal website needs to be updated right away, remember to backup data base before you proceed. Check instructions if you have doubts and secure your site today, secure it now.

Domain Search and Registration

As easy as it might look the search for a perfect domain name could be tricky. Easy when you already know the name you want just use free online URL check tool and get an answer. Hard when you do not know where to start or your name has been already taken. It is possible to star negotiations with current domain owner to ask them to sell domain. Quicker and safer way to come up with new your own special name. Now there are giants entered this market like Google domains, Amazon to compete GoDaddy domains service, hundreds of new extension become available for registration, it is a big choice. At Business Web Admin we help to find online name for your business, we assist with domain name check and registration lookup, extra paper work for some special cases, and we give customers the best choice of DNS service providers Google and Amazon Cloud DNS, Oracle DYN DNS and even free DNS.

Web Design with Marketing in Mind

Creative design, branding and digital marketing to bring real traffic and to covert visitor into buyers. Starting from very beginning keywords and domain name research and registration. WordPress or Drupal content management system wrapped with intelligent design, intuitive interface and content distribution to guide visitors through web pages and lead them to an action. Blog or news section is must. To be visited by human and search bots more often website needs to be active and has some fresh content. Balanced text and images layout to ease an engagement and make it a natural process. What is the entrance URL? Where is an exit? What action is expected? And finally the king of marketing content words that turn into keywords, that turn into leads. Plan social media marketing ahead and better integrate some into a website.

The Best Virtual Private Server

VPS is a great alternative when you need more power than shared hosting. With VPS you get your very own virtual server environment with complete control over the operating system and applications you add. For web hosting needs most popular companion is cPanel (web based hosting control panel with pro FTP and SSH access support) it let you mange your VPS and its services like mail, aliases, redirects, IP address, SSL certificates and many others. The main characteristics of virtual server productivity is amount of RAM it has, the second is what type and hard drive it uses and in what setup. For RAM the more the better or as much as you could/willing to spend. For the hard drive there is only one choice — solid state drives in RAID. To find best VPS check how much RAM, what type of drives and does it come with cPanel. Business Web Admin has the best offer.

What is Social Media Marketing

Is a part of bigger term e-marketing or digital marketing both used mostly in academia while in common world social media marketing is becoming more popular. After all the main marketing target are people in general. And social marketing is the system of using modern social apps and platforms to achieve marketing goals. There are many media out there Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Google+ probably the most popular, they have millions and billions of accounts. To build successful marketing campaign research what social media sites have your potential audience to get engages in future. What content in addition to your products or services will you be able to produce to share on these networks regularly? Check your competitors, how are they doing?

Numbers, numbers and numbers they drive digit era and todays media let you collect and analyze arrays of information and present it right away real-time on computer screen. 

Best Web Hosting for Professionals

In the modern world where every minutes counts for many quality counts as well and for a few means a lot. There are thousands of web hosting providers. Some of them huge like GoDaddy or BlueHost, some smaller but better like InMotion or Small Orange. But what makes s different? Why we say we are the best website hosting for professionals? First we are one of the best domain registrar, helping with domain registration in over 476 zones and adding new regularly. At Web Admin we provide free dns service and option to upgrade to custom Google DNS, Amazon or DYN. We offer web design and we are really good with Drupal, WordPress and WHMCS. Check out our portfolio. At Business Web Admin we start search engine optimization when we start the project. In addition we provide copywriting and content distribution services, social media delivery and promotion assistance, marketing and data analysis. All that and more in one place.