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 Old outdated content will be penalised and pushed down.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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. – […]
Phishing
I don’t know if it is me or the general trend I seem to get loads of spam in my inbox and in my spam box. It looks like it has increased almost ten fold maybe. Very annoying as it eats into my time – cleaning my inbox. But lately the news about hotmail users […]
15 benefits of WordPress sites
editing without needing to know HTML easy to update current events – takes a few minutes No uploading of files – like static HTML sites post-dating of articles so they can automatically “go live” in the future reader participation through comments organization of the content using tags – these are like signposts for search engines […]
6 things customers don’t like on your website
Too much text On average, users only read 28% of words on a page — so make them count. Provide text where it’s needed, but try to convey additional information in different, more dynamic ways. Have images and instructional videos. Engage your visitors and this will boost your conversion. Too long to load Your visitors […]