Email delivery can become a serious obstacle when free inbox providers decide to block legitimate messages. Free services operated by Microsoft such as Hotmail, Live, and Outlook tend to prioritize aggressive spam suppression over delivery accuracy. Their filtering approach often relies on broad network blocks instead of isolating only the offending sender. If a single…
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Secure your WordPress website now
The Internet has seen many more attacks than normal at WordPress based websites this year. It’s more important than ever to make sure your WordPress website is safe and secure. Here is 6 steps that are all important, and should be done right away to secure your WordPress. 1. Update everything in your WordPress. 2….
5 Ways to Protect Your Website from Downtime
When you create an online presence, you likely didn’t do so to make it available just a few hours a day or days per week. Ideally, visitors should be able to access your information around the clock to read your posts, buy your products, or learn more about your business. Website downtime can be a…
Where to get quality pictures for your website
Adding good images to your website, blog, or ecommerce site, can make the difference between a good looking website and a great looking website. Most of the templates in our Easy Site Builder can work with any type of business by simply changing the images. The issue is, using recycled over-used images can hurt your…
How to get customers to refer your business
When it comes to making sales, few things are more powerful than a customer referral. They’re simple, effective, and absolutely free! We love when referrals come our way. Yet many entrepreneurs are reluctant to actively pursue them. If you’re like that, than consider this. Every business relationship can lead to additional business relationships. When customers…
5 things to know about moving your website to a new web host
Your web host is the foundation of your website. There is nothing worse than for a visitor to click on your website only to find an error screen showing – “This site can’t be reached”. If you are doing online business, this is definitely not something you wish to see. If you’re considering moving your…
Why you should upgrade your website’s PHP version today!
PHP is now on version 7.3 with 7.4 coming around the corner in November of 2019. 7.0 has been the shining light that kept PHP alive. Several alternatives threatened to make PHP 5.6 obsolete and with version 6 being skipped these alternatives almost did. But PHP came back strong with version 7. Improving virtually every…
5 Quick Ways to Improve WordPress For Better User Experience
Everyone wants their website to be popular, but there’s tons of competition among WordPress sites. Considered the most popular content management system (CMS) on the planet, it now runs 34% of the entire internet and has over half of the CMS market. So, how do you make your website stand out from the crowd? The obvious answer…