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Yesterday, for about five hours, one of the largest hosting and domain name companies was down. GoDaddy experienced an extreme outage that left potentially thousands of websites, and countless small business owners, without a site or email.

Most Stadia Studio customers were unaffected since the Stadia Studio web servers are not with GoDaddy, even though hundreds of client domains are registered there.

I have found an excellent way to dramatically increase your website's Google PageRank. If you're interested in getting more traffic and more visitors, please contact me so I can explain how it works.

What's shocking is that the cost of this marketing service is less than what you'll pay for your water bill!

The Social Media Hat (http://www.TheSocialMediaHat.com) is a new website designed to provide small business owners with news and information on Social Media, Blogging, Marketing, SEO, Apps and Technology. Each topic will feature breaking news stories, information articles, and personal blog posts. Articles and blog posts will come from a variety of authors who have been identified as experts in their respective fields.

As a Drupal developer, I'm aware of many popular sites that are using the Drupal framework, like the White House and The Economist. One though that I just stumbled on today is Twitter's developer site!

Google+ has announced in a blog post that they are going to begin rolling out "vanity URLs." They say, "Today we’re introducing custom URLs to make it even easier for people to find your profile o

Pinterest is currently the fasted growing social network on the planet, with a current user base of over 11 million in the U.S. alone.

Yesterday, Facebook released their 10-Q filing and in it, it was reported that a total of 8.7% — or 83 million — accounts on the social network are fake.

I am often aproached by business and website owners and asked whether or not they should even consider a social media marketing campaign. They often think that social media doesn't apply to their business or industry. One of most compelling motivators should be the sheer number of users on social networks that can potentially hear your message.

RSS is a term you may have seen, perhaps even in one of our other blog entries.

Whenever Stadia Studio works with a new business or organization to provide a custom Drupal implementation, we talk about the flexibility of blocks and regions. Using blocks and regions is one of the aspects of Drupal that make it extremely powerful and flexible, yet that flexibility also makes it a somewhat confusing feature. We will take a few minutes to review what blocks and regions are, how they are defined during website development, and how website owners can use them to present information in different ways going forward.