Most customers prefer a branded business email, as opposed to a personal sounding one, when they are trying to contact a place of business. After all, a business email instills brand recognition, establishes trust, and seems more professional. Having a business email also ensures that the right people within your organization are fielding customer questions and concerns, and that your business is receiving the most exposure possible. Luckily, so you think, most web hosting providers give their customers a free email account with their hosting services that can be used as a business email. And while this is definitely better than using … [Read more...] about Why You Should Separate Your Business Email from Your Hosting Account
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6 Reasons Hackers Are After Your WordPress Website
You may think that because you use WordPress, the most popular content management system to date, that your website is impenetrable. Especially because the WordPress core is so secure. Well, even though WordPress is built on clean and solid code, the truth is any website, no matter how well protected, is vulnerable to attack. In fact, there are websites such as Website Hacked that make an effort to spread awareness that websites of all sizes and kinds can be hacked at any moment. Making matter worse, hackers are not just after your user’s personal and financial information. In fact, there are a whole host of reasons why your website may … [Read more...] about 6 Reasons Hackers Are After Your WordPress Website
The 3 Key Elements of a Secure WordPress Website
As you’re probably aware, keeping your site secure is extremely important. However, the task of making your website safe can seem daunting. This is especially true if you don’t have much experience or technical know-how. One easy way to get started is to look at what security features other sites implement. There are a number of elements that you’ll find on just about every secure WordPress website. As it turns out, many of the techniques they use are not that difficult to add to your own site. In this article, we’re going to introduce you to a number of security solutions you can implement on your WordPress website. Before that, we'll … [Read more...] about The 3 Key Elements of a Secure WordPress Website
How to prevent your WordPress website from being hacked
There’s no escaping the fact that thousands of websites get hacked every day. Many hacks go by without notice and with the problem rectified before any serious harm is done, while some security breaches hit the world’s largest corporations, creating PR disasters and lengthy periods of downtime. If your WordPress website gets hacked, you’ll not only lose an invaluable channel for new business; Google may also remove it entirely from their index. Google blacklists over 30,000 hacked websites every day, and, while WordPress is a perfectly secure platform, there are still plenty of steps you can take to bolster the security of your … [Read more...] about How to prevent your WordPress website from being hacked