How Website Speed Can Impact Your Business

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Did you know that 47% of website users expect web pages to load in less than 2 seconds? Generally speaking, anywhere from two to four seconds is considered an ideal page load time for a business website—any slower than that, and you start losing traffic (and therefore customers). For this and many other reasons, website speed can have a big … Read More

How to ACTUALLY Get a Google Maps API Key Easily

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They’ve got all the money in the world and the best and brightest minds from across the globe, and yet somehow Google seems to have no idea how to make things intuitive. If you’re like me, you thought it would be the easiest thing in the world to get a new Google Maps API key, but found yourself on sales … Read More

Remove Apps Icon Shortcut from Bookmarks Bar – Chrome

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It’s happened again… The good people at Google have made a change that no one really wanted! The new Google Chrome 29 comes with a feature that includes an Apps Icon that acts as a shortcut so you can easily get to all the great Chrome apps that neither you nor anyone has installed. Okay, so you don’t really want … Read More

Chrome Cursor Latency Fix

Are you experiencing a problem in Google Chrome where, inexplicably, highlighting text and scrolling have a massive lag and delay? If you aren’t experiencing those same problems in any other browser and are in Chrome, I might have a solution for you> I’m not really sure why this solution solves the problem, but for some reason it works. The problem … Read More

How to Link to Your Google Places Page: A Tutorial

I’ve had several people come up and ask me, ‘How can I give people a direct link to my business listing in Google Places?’ While at first it may seem impossible, it is actually quite easy. They may be looking to put this link on their website, share it with potential clients, put it on their business card, or one … Read More