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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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 Images for Your Website
Good website images can improve appearance, while reused or overused photos may hurt professionalism and search rankings. The post ranks image sources from best to worst, favoring original photos, then free photo sites, paid stock images, and finally Google Images. It recommends taking your own photos when possible, using free libraries like Unsplash and Pexels,…
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…
How to manage hot linking on your website
Hotlinking can be a big issue if you have high-definition images or videos. Without Hot Link protection, the content can be shown on other websites burning through your bandwidth and hiding where it is from so you don’t even get credit for it. This also can be an issue with your content being used at…
5 Tips to Market the Content of Your Website Successfully
Whether you’ve just started out with content marketing or have been producing content online for some time, your strategy should be as economical and effective as possible. Your business needs to attract the attention of people searching online for products and services, and the stakes are high. According to recent figures, more than 4 million…