Category: News
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Why you can’t afford NOT to invest in SEO
Small businesses have a huge amount to gain from quality SEO – both in creating brand awareness and gaining new business. Search engine optimization (SEO) is vital to a successful online presence, and effective SEO helps to ensure your business is positioned properly in the market and directly targeting your key consumers. 93% of online…
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Choosing Plugins Wisely: Protect your WordPress site against hacking through plugins
1. Download plugins only from reputable sources. For free plugins, this means WordPress.org only! Since anyone can create a WordPress plugin, hackers can exploit this vulnerability to hide their own nefarious plugin. The WordPress.org plugin library will only offer plugins that are known to be safe. Other software sources that offer paid plugins such as…
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Keeping your WordPress site secure
WordPress has revolutionized the internet and provided easy-to-use access to millions of users with limited development capabilities. While it is perhaps one of the most useful tools out there, it is also one of the most vulnerable. WordPress works with a coding language called PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor which allows for scripts to be integrated into…
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Good Design is Good For Business
A recent analysis by the Design Management Institute, a nonprofit focusing on design management, shows with statistics what graphic designers suspected all along: that good design increases profits. In the past 10 years, design-driven companies outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 by 228%. These companies included Apple, Coca-Cola, Ford, Herman Miller, IBM, Intuit, Newell Rubbermaid,…
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How to Import Email Accounts to Gmail
Gmail makes handling multiple email accounts easy and is a great tool for condensing all of your accounts into one location so that you don’t have to check multiple URLs. Below is a detailed tutorial on how to import a new email address into your existing Gmail account, and how to send messages from Gmail…
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4 Ways to Secure Your WordPress Website
WordPress is the world’s most-used content management system (CMS) and blogging software. It is user-friendly and makes maintaining your website a breeze. However, like all CMS’s, it’s file and content structure allows for invasion if not properly secured. Hackers often insert malware that can destroy your site or redirect to another site (often an unsavory…