Affiliate marketing in general has seen big changes over the past 5 years or so. Gone are the days where you could build and drive traffic to a relatively “thin” website with little or no unique content populated by simply details of the products and services offered by others. This, for most, was a huge […]

Getting started in web design and development is a lot easier than it used to be. In the past, you had to learn HTML, you had to get to grips with a graphic app such as Photoshop and you had to be familiar with the fundamental workings or domain names and web hosting. Now it’s […]

When it comes to paid traffic, most of us just think Google Adwords and leave it at that. But there are actually many, maybe even hundreds of paid traffic sources that can all be used to drive traffic, significant traffic to your website. And usually this comes at a much cheaper cost when compared to […]

Outside of your site (and it’s content), one of the most important elements (if you’re serious about online promotion) is its backlink or backward link profile. This consists of the links from third party websites your website has acquired i.e. a list of other websites that link your websites. Now depending on your knowledge of […]

We’ve covered lots of promotional topics here on HostPresto over the past few months but today we’re going to focus on Twitter and more importantly, how to grow a following or audience. Now, this isn’t going to be a step by step guide with guaranteed riches. In all honesty your potential following is going to […]

You might find it surprising but very few web designers can literally just open Photoshop or Sketch and produce a high quality, visually stunning design right off the bat. Sure they can draw on past inspiration and produce something which perhaps resembles something they’ve built previously. But for something truly fresh, they tend to seek […]

Lots of the readers of this blog are interested in making money online and whilst we’ve talked a lot on how to actually do it, you’re going to need someone to facilitate it and that typically comes via Affiliate Networks. In short, affiliate networks match advertisers (the people who actually offer the services or sell […]

For most, social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are a somewhat untapped resource when it comes to promotion and traffic generation. Particularly for those old timers who think SEO and Google are the be all and end all of traffic sources. In this article we’re going to run through some tweaks, tips and […]

Wp-Cli is a command line tool specifically made to manage your WordPress websites through the command line. By entering some simple commands you will be able to carry out tasks such as backing up, installing or updating plugins and even publishing content, without having to log in to your WordPress admin. Wp-Cli saves you time […]

Moving to a new host can seem like a lot of hassle. But with proper planning, it needn’t be. If you do things properly as I’ll outline below you’ll actually find the entire thing quite easy and certainly stress free. You might also be moving to a host as great as HostPresto and find that […]

Making the leap into freelancing is a big decision for most. Some do it out of necessity, some do it as they’ve become tired of the traditional 9-5 (or more specifically, their current employer) and some just do it because they crave the freedom that being a freelancer offers. But making the leap is just […]

Lots of people think because they can string a sentence together or write comment after comment on Facebook then they have what it takes to become a content writer. This simply isn’t true and whilst being able to put words on the Interest does stand you in good stead it is most definitely not the […]

Most web professionals will consider hiring a freelance at some point. Usually it’s due to a lack of ability or lack of time. Or in some cases their entire businesses model may revolve around outsourcing and hiring freelancers. Regular businessmen rather than “tech guys” tend to adopt this approach. Regardless, whatever your reasoning, there are […]

Most people don’t tend to look into blog performance until speed issues or outright downtime becomes apparent. Increased search rankings (yielding more traffic), a popular social share or a feature from a popular third party site can all highlight glaring issues with your blogs performance once it becomes inundated with traffic and grinds to a […]

In the past, if you wanted to generate traffic from search engines such as Google and Yahoo, you had to either employ someone or perform a certain level of trickery in order to get anywhere. Thankfully, those days are firmly behind us and now it’s all about the content itself (and rightly so). Out of […]

Selling your first website can be a daunting but partly fun experience. Most of that stems from the unknown of the process along with price expectancy and the risk/worry of coming up against a non-paying buyer. However, the thought of profiting from something you’ve built and the feeling of cold hard cash in your hand […]

Given the sheer popularity of WordPress, it’s sometimes easy to forget that there are alternative blogging and content management platforms out there in the webosphere. So today, we’re going to run through what I think are the top 5 WordPress alternatives around at the moment. Obviously building applications such as these is big business, so […]

Whilst it is true that WordPress can be installed on pretty much any web host that offers a PHP and MySQL platform, there is a lot to be said for opting for a WordPress optimised web hosting plan. In truth, a typical WordPress hosting plan will be like for like with a regular shared plan […]

Most people tend to set out on their freelance journey already armed with a handful of essential, bill-paying clients. Very few dive right in without a single client on their books and just hope/pray to land a worthwhile job. But let’s be honest, clients don’t last forever. You could be the best freelancer in the […]

When it comes to setting up a blog (or regular website), most people tend to focus on the development and the design of the site with the content itself often taking a backseat. They deem the technical aspects of the build to be far more importance than its substance. This is pretty much all cases, […]