June 10, 2007
Recovering Lost Data
Recently my computer crashed and I had no access to any of the files on my hard drive. I use a backup program and tried to do a restore and quickly found out that my backups were corrupted and worthless. I had about 8 years of email history, receipts, pictures, purchased music, and countless important documents that were lost and needed to be recovered.
I also tried what everyone does - rebooted about 100 times - but each time I would get an error explaining that no hard drives were found. I was desperate to get access to my data and started looking at hard drive recovery companies from my laptop. I quickly discovered that hard drive repair companies were there for large companies with lots of money, not for someone who wanted to recover more personal stuff than files to save a business. Also, the prices were outrageous, most services were $2,000 and up just for them to give it a shot.
Another worry was if they somehow were able to access my hard drive, they would have access to all my personal financial data I keep in Quicken. I figured there had to be a cheaper ‘do it yourself’ solution out there so I kept looking – then I stumbled on BinaryBiz. Their VirtualLab data recovery software saved me from pretty much starting my computer life from scratch.
They have a free trial version for Windows that quickly found almost all of my files and displayed them in an organized list. I was never happier to pay for software I found on the Internet. For less than $200 dollars my binary life was saved.
If you ever need data recovery for a crashed disk, I would recommend giving BinaryBiz a try before either giving up or sending your hard drive to some stranger that will charge 10 times as much with no guarantee of success.
Posted by Idea Man at 06:30 PM | Comments (1)
May 29, 2007
Webpage Title Tags
One of the most important web page elements search engines use to categorize and rank each of your pages is the TITLE tag. The title tag is the HTML code that adds the words you see in the top bar of your Internet browser.
It is very important that every page of your site has a short, unique title describing exactly what that page is about. If you are selling hundreds of different items, each item page should have a unique item name. If your site has hundreds of different articles, each article page title should describe what the article is about. It’s as simple as that.
I have seen sites that use the same title across their entire website. If the name of your web site is Acme Widgets, you want more than Acme Widgets in the title for every page of your site. I have seen many sites do this that wonder why they are not getting any search engine traffic.
You really need to spoon feed information to search engines about what your website and each page is about. The proper use of the TITLE tag is one of the best ways for you to do this. It is such a simple, common sense thing; however, I am still surprised by websites that don’t take advantage of this opportunity.
Posted by Idea Man at 01:52 PM | Comments (1)