One of my sites was hacked
I wrote a post about password security yesterday. The importance of having a strong password. Today I get an email from Hostgator my hosting company which says one of my sites is sending out more than 500 emails an hour and they have suspended that account! And I thought I had a strong password. The […]
Misspelt email addresses
A missing dot in an email address might mean messages end up in the hands of cyber thieves, researchers have found. By creating web domains that contained commonly mistyped names, the investigators received emails that would otherwise not be delivered. Over six months they grabbed 20GB of data made up of 120,000 wrongly sent messages. […]
Blog spam became nil…
In my last post I talked about spam comments in blogs and how to stop them. I found out my Akismet (spam catcher plugin) got uninstalled for some reason. And that is why the spam was just pouring in. I uploaded the plugin again and installed. And guess what in the past 2 days Akismet […]
Content Management System
If you are a small business and you don’t have a website, you are leaving money on the table. I deal with small businesses everyday. The ones that do very well are the ones that update their websites often and keep the content fresh. These days customers expect you to have a very informative website. […]
10 Benefits of having a professional website design
Yesterday I was answering a question in a small business forum. The question – should I hire a web designer to design my website? My answer to that was Yes. 10 reasons why you should get a professionally designed website:- Good design means good first impression. (It does matter) Good design will invite customers – […]
5 Steps to Better Google Ranking
Simple SEO Steps that every business owner should take. You will reap the rewards in more traffic, better rankings in Google & see your profits go up. These steps below are from the horses mouth ( Matt Cutts is Google’s spokesman for SEO) Step One Get your page titles right for your business. Choose the […]
How to Avoid Online Crime
Hi-tech criminals are racking up more than 100 attacks a second on the world’s computers, a survey suggests. The wave of attacks was driven by a steep rise in malicious software in circulation, said the annual report.The number of malware (malicious software) samples that Symantec saw in 2009 was 71% higher than in 2008. – […]
Grow your small business
Grow your business with a marketable website. That is what I tell all my customers. All small businesses need a website for credibility – for your prospects to get more information about your products before contacting you. (Like an online brochure) Before you get your website up and running chart a marketing path. What are […]
Branding For Small Business
The other day I answered a question in Linkedin regarding branding for small business. The question was “Is branding important for small business?” The answer a big YES. The American Marketing Association (AMA) defines a brand as a “name, term, sign, symbol or design, or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and […]
Back From Holidays
I have not posted for a while. I decided to have a good break this year and took 3 weeks off. Fully refreshed and charged for 2010! I am planning a few different strategies for my online business this year. I am almost done with the new look and feel for pixels. It got delayed […]