Is Using Email Filtering a Good or Bad Thing?
Learn about the impact of email filtering on business communication, the prevalence of spam, and the importance of setting filters appropriately to avoid missing crucial messages.
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What is DNS and How Does it Work?
DNS stands for “Domain Name Service” (or “System”) and once I explain what it is, that’ll make sense. What DNS does is convert domain names into IP addresses. It’s just a lot easier to remember a domain name than an IP address like: 66.170.13.242. Computers need to know what IP address to go to and…
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How to Set Up Google Analytics and Google Search Console with WordPress
In my book and in my online courses, I explain that you should have Google Analytics and Google Search Console (formerly called “Google Webmaster Tools”) installed on your website. Here are some videos and links that explain how to do that. These tools provide valuable information about your website. You’ll learn how you’re getting traffic…
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Is Your Website “Google Ready?”
A Simple Way to Explain SEO I was just trying to explain SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to someone in a simple way and I came up with something pretty good… Think about if Google was a person and your website was your house. For a website to rank well, it needs: Good coding – little…
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Is it Better to Use the “www” Version of Your Domain Name?
When setting up your domain name and website, one error I see a lot is that both the “www” and the non-www version of the domain works to get to the same website. This isn’t optimal and it’ll put you behind in rankings potentially. Some Technical Stuff to Go Over Of course, both versions of…
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WordPress Limitations
I have a number of WordPress websites and ran into a problem at Hostgator since I have a website with a large amount of posts. Here’s what they sent me, which is interesting (I had to fix a little bit of their English, of course): As MySQL will begin to see performance problems when working…
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Google’s Disavow Tool
This is interesting. If you have bad links (or what you think are bad links – not everyone is thinking correctly when they do this review) pointing to your website, you can now disavow them. “I never knew ye!” If you want to start disavowing websites, then there are some things you should know before…
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How to Survive Hosting Downtime
The fix is simple: center the container, keep the text left-aligned, and give the column a reasonable width. That’s how books, newspapers, and good websites do it.
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Glossary of Internet and Web Terminology
Anchor Synonymous with hyperlinks, anchor refers to non-linear links among documents. Or more simply put, it’s the word or phrase that can be clicked to connect to another page or resource. Anchor Color You guessed it, the color on screen that represents the anchors. The reason so many are blue is that is the default…
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Remove All Instances of Thumbs.db on Your Linux Web Server
I help run a few web servers and one thing that bugs me is when you end up with all these Thumbs.db files hanging out. They’re harmless, of course, and they don’t take up much space (space is very cheap now a days) but still, let’s not load up sites with junk files please. So…
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Redirect Examples Using .htaccess
Learn how to use mod_rewrite (.htaccess) to force the WWW or non-WWW version of a domain, enforce HTTPS, manage WordPress multi-sites, prevent image linking, and redirect domain names effectively.
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How to Reset a Joomla Password or WordPress Admin Password
So, you’re “admin” and you forgot your password. Yeah, we’ve all been there. 1. Fire up PHPMyAdmin or get into your db somehow. 2. Go into the _users table. This is usually mos_users, but there’s the option to make your own prefix on the db tables, so you may have changed it. 3. Look at…
