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Clear Your Cache and History in the Google Chrome Browser

March 27, 2012 / Ryan / No comments

So you need to know how to clear out your cache or history in Google Chrome? It’s a very easy process and I will show you how to do it in this quick tutorial. Need to know how to clear cache in firefox? NO PROBLEM, click the link and it will take you there.

The first you think you do is select the little wrench image in the top right hand corner of the browser (see Image1) then click on “Options” (see Image1).

Clear Google Chrome Cache History

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After the next screen comes up click on “Under the Hood” on the left hand side of the window. After you click Under the Hood, the next display screen comes up and you will want to click on the button “Clear browsing data…” (see Image2)

Clear Google Chrome Cache History

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The next screen you see will look like the one below (see Image3). It is a pop up window and you will have a series of selections you can make here. In the drop down menu you have different times you can choose from “the past hour” all the way up to “the beginning of time”. Make your selection you want for a time frame you want your browsing to be cleared up to. Then, check mark any of the items that you want cleared. When your selections are made click on the button at the bottom of the little window “Clear browsing data…”. After this is clicked on it may take a minute or two for the history/cache to clear out depending on the time frame you went back. Don’t worry it’s not freezing up, it just may take some time to clear out all the junk you had saved up. That’s it! That is all you have to do.

Clear Google Chrome Cache History

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I hope this tutoral helps you if you were confused on how to clear out your history or cache on Google Chrome.

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Hide Facebook Timeline with a Chrome Extension

March 18, 2012 / Ryan / No comments

For those of you that are just sick and tired of the new Timeline that Facebook has put out then I have a solution with you. I personally have been getting more and more used to it and don’t mind the new two column layout. If you use Google Chrome as a browser there is a way to now disable this feature.


Timeline in effect.

TimelineRemove returns you to Facebook’s old layout.

I wish all Chrome extensions worked as well as TimelineRemove. The extension installs quickly and gives you easy, two-click access to disabling Facebook’s Timeline view.

After installing the extension, you’ll see a button added to Chrome’s toolbar. Click it, then toggle between enabling and disabling the Timeline view with the “Status: TimeLine Remove” link in the small window below the button. A green check-mark icon means the extension is disabling the Timeline view; a red X means the extension is not blocking Timeline. And if you want to hide the Timeline and keep it hidden, you can right-click on the button to hide it, leaving the extension running in the background.

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How to Clear Your Cookies in Mozilla Firefox

March 7, 2012 / Ryan / No comments

Clearing your cookies or cache in Mozilla Firefox is a very simple task. If you have the later versions of Firefox you will notice at the top of the browser, there is no menu bar. On a PC if you hit your Alt key on your keyboard (don’t hold it down, just a simple press down and release right away will work) the menu bar will show up at the top of the browser. (see Image 1). Simply click on “Tools” then at the bottom of the list click on “Options”. Tools > Options (See Image 1)

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Image 1 (click to enlarge)

After Options is selected you will then see a window that pops out. On the top of that window there is a tab called “Privacy”. (see Step 1 in Image 2) Click on Privacy. After Privacy is clicked, in the middle of the window there are two links: “clear your recent history” and “remove individual cookies”. (see Step 2 in Image 2)

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Image 2 (click to enlarge)

If you click on the “clear your recent history” link, you will have the option to clear ALL of your cookies and cache in Firefox. You can clear your history from: The Last Hour, The Last 2 Hours, The Last 4 Hours, or Everything.

If you click on the “remove individual cookies” link, you will be given a list of every cookie on your computer. You have the option to delete cookies individually or a certain group of them. If you don’t know how to select more than one cookie at once please see keyboard shortcuts for windows. There is also an option to delete all cookies.

I hope this tutorial of how to clear cookies and cache from Mozilla Firefox helps. I’m making up this tutorial because I’ve been asked this hundreds of times at work and in my personal life. If you need help clearing history in Chrome please click on the link.

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15 Best WordPress Plugins to use in 2011

March 5, 2012 / Ryan / No comments

I found this article and I really liked it so I’m going to share it with you. I didn’t write this. It comes from sitesketch101.com

THE 15 BEST WORDPRESS
PLUGINS TO USE IN 2011

 

  1. W3 Total Cache – This WordPress plugin is great for two reasons.  First, it makes your pages load way faster.  Second, since it stores static versions of your site, it requires much less CPU processing than using WordPress all by itself. This WordPress plugin is number one on the list for a reason.
  2. HeadSpace: WordPress SEO Made Simple- Move over All in one SEO. There’s a new guy in town. HeadSpace provides you with the features you need to drive your site to the top.  People spend way to much time working on SEO and too little time writing great content.  This plugin let’s you put your focus back where it belongs.  It takes care of all the SEO work that your blog will need.
  3. Gravity Forms – This is without question the best WordPress plugin for forms. There is no competition. This form creates posts, allows image and media uploads, allows conditional logic, and so much more. It is the all-in-one form plugin for WordPress.
  4. MaxBlog Press Affiliate Ninja – This WordPress plugin is amazing as it massively cuts down on the amount of time it takes to promote affiliate products throughout your site. It converts keywords that you identify, tracks clicks, and much more. You won’t have to keep chasing down your affiliate links when they’re all stored in your WordPress dashboard and doing the work for you.
  5. WP-DBManager – This little gem is amazing for backing up your website. It actually has quite a few functions that it can perform but perhaps it’s most impressive feature is it’s ability to email the entire WordPress databse to me every day.
  6. Thank Me Later – This plugin is great.  It sends an email to all first-time visitors.  You can write up the email to remind them about your RSS feed or just to invite them to connect with you personally.  I do both.
  7. WP-PageNavi – Those ‘Older Posts’ and ‘Newer Posts’ links are boring.  With WP-PaveNavi you can get page buttons so users can go directly to whichever page they want.  Plus they look a lot better than plain little links.
  8. SEO Smart Links – Do you inter-link your articles?  You should.  Linking within an article to other articles is a great way to build Page Rank throughout your site and it’s a great way to get readers to find your other articles on similar subjects.  This plugin will interlink keywords to your other articles for you.
  9. Digg Digg Social Sharing – This simply WordPress plugin is what powers the floating social icons to the left of each post here at Site Sketch 101. With an easy to access Twitter icon, your friends and readers will be able to easily share and promote your content.
  10. Feedburner Circulation – The era of the feedburner chicklets are over. Install the Feedburner Circulation WordPress plugin and you’ll be able to display your subscriber count just as you see in the top right corner of this page.
  11. Revision Control – With the revisions feature of WordPress, it doesn’t take long for your database to get bloated and begin slowing down your site. With the Revision Control WordPress Plugin you can limit the number of post revisions that remain in storage. I have mine set to 2.
  12. Tweet Old Post – If you’ve been engaging and building a community of friends on Twitter, then this WordPress plugin is the perfect way to sprinkle your posts into your tweets. It has options to add hashtags, leading text and more.
  13. Widget Context – With the Widget Context WordPress plugin, you’ll be able to pick and choose which pages you want sidebar widgets to appear on. You can literally create different sidebars for different pages and sections of your site with this.
  14. WordPress Editorial Calendar – This plugin provides a crisp, clean editorial calendar of your posts both past and present. You can drag and drop articles from one date to another, edit them and much more. This is an amazing organizational tool.
  15. ReplyMe – This plugin sends an email to anyone who leaves a comment only when someone comments as a direct response to them. This is a terrific way to help continue the conversations that you’re working to build on your site.
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How often are Alexa rankings updated?

January 20, 2012 / Ryan / No comments

Alexa Ranking Information

I took the best answers I could find from a few forums for some of the most commonly asked questions about Alexa Rankings.

Ranking Information
Alexa rankings are typically updated once a week, if your rank is in top 100k, you get updated every 24 hrs . Their backlink count is approximately 6 months behind and if you want your thumbmail updated within 24 hours then pull up your site, go to correct an error, and click on update thumbnail.

Will a low traffic rank help some how in link popularity in the eyes of the other search engines, mainly google since is powering the alexa search?
Results from Alexa, or any other search engine, is not factored into the algorithm of competing search engines. You should focus on results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Alexa results can be totally manipulated and are meaningless from a SEO viewpoint.

If you use the Alexa toolbar does it help your rankings?
I have also found installing Alexa tool bar in 3 browsers firefox, chrome and ie helps. My website ranking came down from 20 mil to 1 mil just by me visiting the website daily (using from 3 browsers in 2 computer). My website is just 1 week old and has ranking of 1 mil today with traffic count of less then 10 from outside.

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