Category Archives: Website Tips and Tricks

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“SEO Unlocked” Boosts Traffic to Your Website for Free

If you really want more search traffic and you want to take SEO seriously, this is your chance.  There is no excuse for not having the financial resources because the course is free. If you put in the time, my team and I are here to teach and train you on everything you need to know.  And don’t worry, we aren’t going to bore you with every Google algorithm factor or anything like that. Instead, we are going to teach you the main concepts and strategies of SEO that drive the majority of the results as we know that you don’t have 40 hours a week to dedicate to SEO. …

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Google keeps a staggering amount of information about you. Here’s how to manage it

Google collects a staggering amount of information about you — maybe even more than you realize. Google remembers every search you perform and every YouTube video you watch. Whether you have an iPhone ($699 at Amazon) or Android phone, Google Maps logs everywhere you go, the route you take to get there, when you arrive and what time you leave — even if you never open the app. When you really take a look at everything Google knows about you, the results can be shocking — maybe even a little frightening. Thankfully, there are a few things you can do about it. …

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Your WordPress site is at risk: These precautions and plugins can keep it secure

It’s an interesting paradox. WordPress powers 35 percent of all websites on the Internet, in part because it’s so flexible … But the paradox is that WordPress itself, along with the add-on plugins and themes. is open source. WordPress core, plugin, and theme development is done by a community of companies, professionals, and individual enthusiasts, each with varying degrees of software development and deployment skills. Each WordPress site is the sum of all those components…

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Cloud services: 24 web services your business needs to try

In this guide, we’ve spotlighted 24 cloud-based services that can take your business to the next level. There’s a huge world of opportunity and available resources beyond Google, Dropbox, Salesforce, Amazon, and Microsoft.

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WordPress sites under attack via zero-day in abandoned plugin

WordPress site owners using the “Total Donations” plugin are advised to delete the plugin from their servers… This affects all versions of Total Donations, a commercial plugin that site owners have bought from CodeCanyon over the past years, and have used to gather and manage donations from their respective user-bases.

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Security researchers take down 100,000 malware sites last year

Over the last ten months, security researchers filed abuse reports with web hosting providers and have taken down nearly 100,000 URLs that were used to distribute malware … the organization noted that recent numbers indicate that the average take-down time has now increased to more than a week, to 8 days, 10 hours, and 24 minutes, giving malware authors more than enough time to infect thousands of device every day. …

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What’s really the fastest Windows 10 web browser today?

Every company is claiming their latest web browser is the fastest one yet. So, which one really is the fastest? I took them to the test bench — and here’s what I found.

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How to Shop Online Like a Security Pro

So here’s a quick refresher course on how to make it through the next few weeks without getting snookered online.

Adopting a shopping strategy of simply buying from the online merchant with the lowest advertised prices can be a bit like playing Russian Roulette with your wallet, for the simple reason that there are tons of completely fake e-commerce sites out there looking to separate the unwary from their credit card details.

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Here’s a scary warning for anyone who puts their photos in the cloud? Emergency!!

Flickr’s Big Change Proves You Can’t Trust Online Services. The once popular photo-sharing destination announced this month that it’s limiting free membership accounts to just 1,000 images. If you want unlimited storage, you’ll have to pay $50 a year. Don’t pay up? The service will delete old photographs until you’re at the 1,000-image limit. …

But as more of our digital memories move online, we’ve put our histories in the hands of companies that act capriciously or lose control of their own narrative.

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The Best Private Search Engines — Alternatives to Google

There are now many smaller players in the search game that are growing rapidly. Google’s market share has declined from 78.7 percent in February 2017 to slightly below 70 percent in February 2018.

A few of these search engines, including DuckDuckGo and StartPage began as normal search engines with no privacy enhancements. However, after they realized the massive risk associated with storing so much data, they decided to take a different approach.

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A quick introduction to web security

There are many reasons to learn about web security:

  • You’re a concerned user that is worried about your personal data being leaked
  • You are a concerned web developer that wants to make their web app secure
  • You are a web developer going through an interview process

and so on.

The purpose of this post is to explain common web security acronyms in a way that is easy to understand but still accurate.

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How to create emotional experiences into a product listing page

Brands have understood how storytelling is key to connect and build a relationship with their online customers. With an offer that doesn’t stop expanding, online products need to up their game and spark the consumer’ eye.

Online shops can now create the illusion of an actual narrative to fulfill their customers’ desires . The race for the most memorable catalogue experience has started.

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Bad bots detected on 100% of web login pages, here’s how to protect your business

All websites with login pages have been hit with bad bot traffic and face Account Takeover (ATO) attempts, according to a Tuesday report from Distil Networks.

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