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Your Email Has Been Hacked… Just Yawn??
You get weird email from a friend that means their email account has been hacked. That's so common! Can you yawn and ignore the email. Can you friend just change their email password and move on?
The Tale of Two Websites
Employment attorney Brian Hawes' website was less than 4 years old, but it looked dated and lacked functionality. See how the same material looks in a 2014 design
[NO] Speed Kills… Your Google Ranking
Google includes how fast your site displays as one of the factors in determining where it appears in search results. You need to coordinate your need for top Google rankings with the coding platform, hosting company, and add-on services for your website.
Kickstarter Hacked — User Data Stolen
The hacking of the Kickstarter website means you should reset your password there and everywhere else you used the same password.
The Care and Feeding of Your WordPress Site
You can’t just publish your WordPress website and forget about it for weeks, months, or years as you could for HTML-based pages. (See more on how WordPress sites are different in our previous post.)
A WordPress site needs:
- Updating of its modules to plug security holes that have been discovered.
- Monitoring of visitor comments. You’ll want to respond to questions or complaints, and you will want to encourage people’s comments.
- Watching for fake spam comments that are loaded with links to scammy sites.
- Regular, intentional back-ups.
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Fortunately, regular maintenance is neither difficult nor time consuming.
Here’s what we suggest.
- Sign on to your site administration account at least once a week. Pick Mondays at noon or another regular time
- Review the WordPress Dashboard. Any pressing tasks will be […]
- Review the WordPress Dashboard. Any pressing tasks will be […]