What is gzip and what are the program’s advantages?
What is gzip? – the compression tool in focus
  • Know-how

If you want to optimize your website in terms of performance and usability, you need to know a thing or two about compression. Whether it’s the HTML pages, the embedded media content, or CSS and JavaScript files: Compressing data doesn’t just save valuable web space, but also improves your website’s average loading time. A useful tool is gzip, a compression process, which all current web servers...

What is gzip? – the compression tool in focus
Premiere Pro alternatives | The best freeware
Premiere Pro alternatives: free video editing software
  • Web design

Adobe Premiere Pro is seen as the professional standard bearer when it comes to digital video editing. That being said, there is a surprising amount of excellent alternatives to Premiere Pro out there, both for semi-professional and private use. Whether you need it for work, social networks, or simply to have a bit of fun, you can read about the best free video editors on offer here.

Premiere Pro alternatives: free video editing software
Archiving and Compression Using Linux
Archive and compress data using Linux
  • Tools

Archiving and compressing files contributes positively to the security and stability of a system. For Linux and other unix-like systems, there are countless free programs with which you can create unaltered or compressed archive files over the command line and extract them as well. One of the classic packing programs for Linux is tar. Today, the tool still counts as one of the leading archiving...

Archive and compress data using Linux
Voice search optimization for your website
Optimizing websites for voice search – future-oriented SEO
  • Search engine marketing

The process takes place rather quietly and unnoticed, but then again, voice search is becoming more and more important for search engines – and also for SEO. Changes in user behavior and the first adjustments in search algorithms that take this trend into account are already noticeable. Future-oriented SEO starts right now with voice search optimization. Get to know the most important voice...

Optimizing websites for voice search – future-oriented SEO
What is a rewrite engine?
What is a rewrite engine?
  • Technical matters

A rewrite engine is a component of the web server software that allows website operators to internally rewrite URLs or to redirect them to external URLs. The most popular rewrite engine is mod_rewrite for the Apache HTTP server, but other web servers also offer similar functions. We show you how URL rewriting works in different web servers.

What is a rewrite engine?
How to protect your domain from typosquatting
Typosquatting - the devil is in the detail
  • Domain tips

The practice of exploiting misspelled variants of popular websites for personal gain is known as typosquatting. Users who incorrectly enter URLs into a browser’s search bar may be getting more than what they’ve bargained for and end up on a squatted domain. We’ll show you how typosquatters exploit the simple workaday mistakes of internet users and how website operators and their visitors can...

Typosquatting - the devil is in the detail
What are advertorials?
Advertorials – The king of native advertising
  • Online sales

Native advertising is the new buzzword in marketing. But not everyone correctly understands how advertorials and other native advertising work. Advertorials should not be confused with flat advertisements: As an advertiser, you have to stick to certain game rules. An advertorial should not only fit in with its editorial environment, but also needs to lay all its cards on the table – Two words:...

Advertorials – The king of native advertising
SEO Update: 2016 ranking factors according to Searchmetrics
SEO ranking factors 2016: the Searchmetrics study at a glance
  • Search engine marketing

With the annual correlation study on the topic of ranking factors, Searchmetrics has been taking care of the SEO sector since 2012. The prominent search and content performance platform also presents the most important findings each year in Google rankings – this comes in the form of general ranking factors and rank correlations. We have summarized the key learning points of the 2016 study for...

SEO ranking factors 2016: the Searchmetrics study at a glance
Banner blindness: explanation and impact
What effect does banner blindness have on online marketing?
  • Online sales

Advertising banners, pop-ups, and similar ad formats are not popular within the internet community. The user consciously as well as unconsciously ignores this kind of advertisement while surfing the web with more and more internet-savviness, as well as being increasingly wary of untrustworthy fake dialog boxes. This phenomenon is known as 'banner blindness', which was identified by Benway and Lane...

What effect does banner blindness have on online marketing?
Personal branding: make yourself a brand
Personal branding: how to market yourself online
  • Online sales

The principle of self-marketing is best known as a tool used by celebrities. But while almost all of us post regular photos and updates on social networks, only some are using these tools to create an image for themselves as a means of helping their career. This process is known as personal branding. But how do you set about building a brand for yourself? Our introduction to personal branding will...

Personal branding: how to market yourself online