Google Maps Speed Camera Update

Google Maps To Start Showing Speed Camera Updates & Locations

Google Maps is set to start showing speed camera locations on Australian roads.

The Google Maps service recently integrated road hazard alerts and is now expected to include speed cameras soon. Users will be able to alert the Google Maps system of speed cameras, with the app showing the speed cameras as well as the time they had been seen.

These added features and Google Updates by Google Maps have been rolling out over the past six months, some of these features are being ported over from Waze. Waze is a map company that was bought out by Google in 2013, for the most part Google has kept Waze standalone, but recently has decided to move popular features from that service over to Google Maps.

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Google Releases Ad Blocking Feature in Google Chrome On Feb 15 2018

The 2018 new year follows a caution of ad-blocking enforcement released in June. Chrome will stop showing advertisements that offer non-compliant web ad experiences starting February 15. The original warning was given in June but didn’t specify a period frame besides “early 2018.”

With over half the marketplace providing ads in the web browsing market, it has a possibly sizable impact for non-compliant websites whose advertising do not meet up with the expectations of the Coalition for Better Ads. Experiences such as full-page interstitials, programmed sound and blinking-flashing advertisements are the set of banned advertisement types.
Online marketers can access an assessment with their website’s ad experience in the Advertising Experience Report, that will chronicle any advertising that qualify as troublesome or misleading. Ads will be designated as “Caution” or “questionable.” Declining assessments will never be made on one advertising experience, but instead depends on the ratio of total web page views which contain these encounters. The Coalition outlines these as:

7.5 percent in the first 8 weeks of this program.
5 percent in the four months.
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How To Boost Your Search Engine Presence

Sometimes, the best SEO strategy is a simple one. You focus so much on how your business looks, or stands out that you tend to forget the basics. The fundamentals on how you really got started. Going back to the basics, will help boost your SEO. In order to create a reliable, flawless, and unbeatable SEO strategy, you need to create the best experience for your consumers as you can. Read more

Why Website Hosting Security Is Important

After months of hard work, long hours and endless investors, what happens when hackers get into your business and you lose everything? Can you protect your clients? Yourself? When marketing a business or website, always remember to set security standards. Now a days it may only take one phone call or a few lines of codes to insert a virus or receive all your personal information.

Three tips to website security: hire a cybersecurity team, purchase cybersecurity insurance, and intermingle sensitive information with general information. With all the recent hacking to our celebrities, our country and even our enemies, don’t be that statistic. With your successful website and business comes people who want what you have. Make room in your budget to hire one or even two Cybersecurity employees. Let this be their only job and let them continuously manage your website and let them address any concern that a customer may have. Even if it’s not necessarily a threat it will always be better safe than sorry.

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Make Your Business Stand Out – Know Your Customers

What makes your business and or website stand out from all the rest? What makes you different? Know what your potential customers need and want. Like playing a guessing game, you won’t always have the time to ask each customer questions to evaluate their intent or interest. You have to know what a customer wants on a website in order to make them your customer. Address the points that are most important, the points that will improve the quantity or customers, and the quality of work you provide.

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WordPress Maintenance Mode Error Fix & Why It Happens

WordPress Maintenance Mode Error

Why Does The WordPress Maintenance Error Happen?

The Maintenance mode page is actually not an error. It is a process that normally happens when you are updating plugins, themes, etc. Normally if everything has worked out, then this notice will probably be displayed for only a few moments. However, sometimes due to a web server’s slow response or low memory issue the the WordPress maintenance page may timeout or be interrupted. When this happens, you website may be stuck in the WordPress maintenance mode.

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Facebook Brings Down 2 Billion Phony Accounts

Facebook brings down 2.2 billion phony accounts during January and March

Facebook brings down 2.2 billion phony accounts during January and March, a record high for the organization.

That number is just a little less than the 2.38 billion month to month active clients Facebook has in the world. For comparison, Facebook (FB) disabled 1.2 billion phony accounts in the past quarter and 694 million among October and December 2017. The new numbers were published Thursday in the organization’s third Community Standards report. Facebook will start releasing this report quarterly beginning one year from now, as opposed to two times per year, and begin the inclusion of Instagram reports.

The organization said it gauged 25 of each 10,000 content views, for example, viewing a video or looking at a photograph, on Facebook were of things that abused its content guidelines. Somewhere in the range of 11 and 14 of each 10,000 content views violated its nudity and sexual content rules. Facebook likewise shared out of the blue its endeavors to take action against illicit offers of guns and illegal drugs on its website.

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2016 Online Business & Marketing Success Tips

With 2016 just around the corner, finding new business ideas, and ways to spruce up your company doesn’t hurt. Figuring out what makes this year, your year. First tip, start targeting the future of this country, the Millennials. Millennials spend over $500 billion dollars in internet spending, and in the years to come they will make up most of our workforce. Millennials are your best customers, they’re always connected. Whether it’s through social media, or blogging they’re constantly streaming somewhere. Make your website speak to them, they don’t do the traditional phone calls, or reference checks. They usually go by the recommendations of friends, or something shard on social media. Present your company in a way that makes them want to read and share your business. Next, be authentic. Nobody wants to be lied to, they want to know exactly who they’re dealing with, what they’re going to get and how their concerns will be handled.

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