Author Archives: Ron Connelly

POP or IMAP Email?

POP and IMAP email are 2 ways that your computer or portable device can connect with a mail server to retrieve your email.  When you setup your email account on any device, you have the choice of setting it up as a POP account or an IMAP account.  If it matters, Wikipedia describes POP here […]

How Can I Improve My Site Ranking?

How Can I Improve My Web Site Ranking in the Search Engines? How to improve a Web site’s ranking is a common question asked by many Web site owners.  That question has complicated answers.  This article is intended to give some insight into this question to a Web site owner who does not maintain his […]

How Do I Make an XML Sitemap?

What is an XML Sitemap Anyway? An XML sitemap is a small file with lines of simple XML machine readable code that list the HTML files, the image files, and the audio and video files that are part of a Web site.  Google uses it to easily see what pages and other files make up […]

Help Your Google Ranking with SSL?

Really??  So a secure Web site will rank better in Google than an unsecured site?  But I thought we only needed to have a secure site if we were doing online transactions involving credit card info, or if we were requesting certain kinds of info from viewers. It’s true; Google announced recently that they will […]

I’m Not Receiving My Email!

We often get calls to help clients who are having problems receiving email.  Email is a medium we have all come to absolutely rely on 24/7.  Most of us are even plugged into our various email accounts on our smartphones, all the time and everywhere. But occasionally we notice that we have not received any […]

Subject: Important Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)

What is This Email Notice About? Domain name registrars are governed by ICANN (Internet Corp. of Assigned Names and Numbers).  This is an international organization who’s job it is to oversee the domain name system worldwide.  It is explained fully here in Wikipedia, if you’re interested.  ICANN requires all registrars to verify the registrant and […]

Domain Names Are Valuable Assets, Protect Them!

Who Is My Domain Name Registered to? It is very easy for anyone to go register a domain name from any number of online vendors. However, from our experience most people do not take proper care of their domain name properties once they have registered them.  When you register a domain name for yourself, or […]

Considerations for Choosing a Domain Name

What’s a TLD and Which One Do I Want? This article is intended to help if you do not yet have a domain name registered for your business or organization. Domain names ending in “.com” are usually preferable to those of other Top Level Domains (TLD’s); such as .org or .net. If you are a […]

How Does Your Web Site Look?

When you ask yourself this question you probably think about how long it has been since your site has been updated, and the fact that the look and feel is just soo dated. Or that the colors and graphics are soo “yesterday”, or that you’re just simply tired of it. Not to mention that the […]

Have Records of Your Internet Properties?

Keep a Record of Your Log Ins Over the many years we have been in business, a recurring problem has been clients who don’t have a record of the logins for the various pieces and parts of their Internet properties.  This includes access to their domain name records, their Web host account, FTP account for […]