In case you haven't heard, a newer form of a brute force attack has surfaced, targeting WordPress sites across the globe, in the past few weeks. This isn't the first time a major uptick in this type of attack has occurred, and it won't be the last. This attack...
Google relies on automated algorithms to evaluate websites and improve search quality. Google's algorithms attempt to understand the user's behaviour and Google measures this behaviour to try to determine how "satisfied" the searcher is after landing on a page found...
Google makes it perfectly clear that when it comes to SEO they want more "user friendly" content and a better overall website user experience. So, over the past several years they have updated their algorithms to test for these things when ranking websites in their...
Several weeks ago Google shook up local search when people began to notice that the usual 7-packs of listings that showed up in search results for local businesses were suddenly replaced with 3-packs. This means instead of searchers seeing seven top local listings,...
I am often asked by clients and potential clients about SEO (search engine optimization). Many people assume SEO is SEO and don't realize that SEO encompasses a wide variety of types of work and processes and there are several different types of SEO experts. Some may...
Yesterday, WordPress released version 4.3.1 of it's software. This is a security release for all previous versions and I strongly recommend that you update your sites immediately. If you are one of our monthly maintenance plans, no worries, we will take care of it for...
The following is an opinion, backed by online research. Many businesses have considered (or are using) services such as Hibu or YP (Yellow Pages) to build their websites. I get that sometimes, for those unfamiliar with online marketing, knowing where to host and build...
For years I have been telling my clients to get away from using Flash on their websites. It has been a tough sell for some, too. Many are still in awe of all the cool things Flash allowed them to do on their websites. But, as more and more people started browsing the...
Have you thought about doing holiday-themed emails for your business? In 2014, 83 percent of retailers sent a general holiday-themed or winter-themed email campaign. Themed campaigns for Halloween, Cyber Monday and Christmas also have an added benefit from earlier deployment, as the holiday season approaches.
Would you know how to recover your WordPress site if something terrible happened to it? Often times even a small update can wreak havoc on a formerly issueless WordPress site. This happened recently to a company who contacted me for help. They actually had done absolutely nothing to their site to cause the issue. It happened as a result of the latest WordPress core software security update.
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