Password Managers
I wanted to write about password managers after reading about IE vulnerability. The news item on TV said – if you click a link in the email you receive or even click a link in an infected website the hacker can hijack your hard drive and steal your passwords. This sows the seed for identity […]
How secure is your password?
I know I have written about this topic many times before. A story I read today reminded me not to take this subject lightly. I was just now reading a blogger’s post about ” How he fell for a phishing attack and the response or no response from Google. Mark Gosh is a blogger and […]
Getting a Small Business Website
I learnt something yesterday. One of my clients bought an existing business. The business came a website that sold products online & makes a reasonable amount of money. What he did not bargain for was the website came with a contract with the web developing company. There was about 18 months left of the contract […]
Increase Traffic to Your Website with a Blog
A Blog is one of the best ways to drive traffic to a website; whether it be a corporate website, small business, or online shop. By adding great content to your blog regularly, you will provide useful resources to visitors and publish more pages for search engines to index. High quality articles will also generate […]
Hacked problem resolved
Continuing from my post yesterday, the hacking problem has been resolved by Hostagator. This is one of the reasons I love Hostgator. They are so quick to resolve problems. There were two spamming scripts installed on the website server. Even after deleting all the files these spamming scripts could not be deleted. It was finally […]
Scam awareness week
This week is scam awareness week. According to statistics New Zealand loses up to $450 million in scams every year. Online scams are a large portion of that. Demography wise the elderly are most vulnerable ( I think it is because they are more trusting & not very tech savvy) The biggest portion seems to […]
Malware sites
Yesterday I was searching the net for a Rotary Club logo. I need it for a project I am doing at present. There a few sites that had good images. I clicked on one on of them on Google. And the next thing I knew what some sort of scan was going on of my […]
Online Crime
I read a news article today about how online crime will flourish in economic downturn. The reason given is – crime tends to go up when unemployment rises. Makes a lot of sense to me. When people are desperate for some money they will try all means to get the money. People these days are […]
Google Fresh
Google has introduces “freshness” of content into its algorithms. So when you type in a keyword or phrase the top results will be for the freshest content for the search term. Old outdated content will be penalised and pushed down. This adds a new dimension to search engine optimisation. If you think about this websites […]
Plan for holiday sales
Have you planned for your holiday sales activity? It is not tool late still. If you are a small retail business, you probably make most of your profit in the last quarter. Have you got your advertising in place? Have you allocated your expense for local paper ads, brochure mail box drops, radio spots etc? […]