Tools For Monitoring Your Website

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Below is a list of excellent online tools that can help you monitor your website and keep everything on track.   Find Out How Fast Your Website Loads www.gtmetrix.com Get insight into how well your site loads and provides actionable recommendations on how to optimize it.   Learn About Visitors To Your Website marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/ A powerful analytics tool that provides insight into...

How to Secure Your Website From Hackers and Hijackers – WordPress 101

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Website hacking and hijacking is on the increase again! Don't take your website for granted. Your website was a business investment, just like your computer hardware or vehicles. And, like them, your website needs ongoing maintenance, servicing and patch updates. Sometime soon, these will be automated much like your computer operating system or mobile phone...

How Website Maintenance Affects Your Business

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I had some fantastic feedback from our email last month about your Business’ Judgement Day. Yes it really was a true story! You can read it again here if you missed it (it was during the holidays after all).

There were 2 questions that were commonly asked by many of you…

“How does website maintenance, or lack of it, really affect my business?”
AND
“What am I actually getting for my money each month?”
Good questions from great people. Here is what you need to know!…

Is Your Business Mobile Friendly?

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What is a "Mobile Friendly" website? A "mobile friendly" (or mobile responsive) website is one that correctly displays the content of a website on small screens. The site adapts to whatever size screen it's being displayed on. Regardless of what device a visitor is using to access your site, they'll see all of the content you...

Why do I receive spam emails from my own address?

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When you are receiving emails from your own account, there are 2 possibilities at play: Your email account has been hacked and used to send spam Your email address has been spoofed To find out which is the likely event, log in to your hosting control panel (or your email account's webmail) and check to see if any...

How to track your online marketing activities

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Assuming you are already set up with some form of analytics on your website, the following will guide you through how you can track your online marketing activities that take place outside of your website domain - in blog articles, forum comments, social media, emails etc. The steps outlined below relate specifically to Google...

5-1 Checklist Webpage Optimiser

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Use this basic 5-1 checklist for optimising your website pages so to get better search results for your online website marketing. Write a keyword rich title for each page of your website. Check that your website has a description Meta Tag using your keywords. Do this in most browsers by selecting “View > Page...

Online fraud on the rise – some of the methods explained

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This week I have seen a number of media stories (blogs, papers and TV) highlighting the increase in online fraud and how Social Netwok sites are now being used to lure in the prey. Therefore, I wanted to remind you that if you own a website it is possible that it can be used...

Why do I receive emails that aren’t addressed to me?

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Do you receive emails that appear to be addressed to someone else, in that it is not addressed to your email account? Wondering who, what and why? Quite basically this is spam, it is common, and if you haven’t received them before now – you’ve been very lucky. Read on to find out the...