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How To Stay Secure in an Internet Security Jungle

How To Stay Secure in an Internet Security Jungle

Heartbleed is one of the biggest internet threats on the planet.

Detected in early April, 2014, Heartbleed is a disastrous computer bug with the potential to divulge website encryption keys, usernames, passwords, and user info to criminal hackers. The vulnerability was found in OpenSSL, a preferred cryptographic tool created to secure communications between a user’s browser and a web server. The way to tell if you are on one of these potentially affected sites is to look for a padlock sign ...

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24
MAY
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5 Ways to Use Email More Productively

5 Ways to Use Email More Productively

Ok, you can’t live without email but you’ve fallen into some bad habits. Break those bad habits and learn to use emails more effectively. Want to improve your email efficiency? Here are 5 email mistakes that could be costing you time and money — and what you should do about them.

  1. Remember beating your friend or your older brother home from school? How did you do it? You may have ran faster but you probably also ran smarter. You found shortcuts. ...
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2
MAY
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How Is Ranking In The Search Engines Determined

How Is Ranking In The Search Engines Determined

Search for anything using a search engine. Almost instantly, the search engine will go through the millions of listings it has in its database and present you with ones that match your search topic. The matches will be ordered, the sites that are the most relevant are suppose to come up first.

Search engines frequently do not give you exactly what you ask for, often to find what your looking for you will need to rephrase your search in different ways. ...

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11
JUL
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Categories: Search Engines

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Why An Online Presence For Local Businesses Is A Must

Why An Online Presence For Local Businesses Is A Must

If you’re looking to get found on Google, there’s a good chance your business isn’t just a website, but also a location. 20% of searches on Google are related to location, and 97% of consumers search online for local businesses. Lots of small businesses are looking to the web to boost the visibility of their brick and mortar establishments.

It’s important that your business has its own website. Your website should include all the essential information potential and current ...

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26
MAY
0

Categories: Local Marketing

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Recent Google Updates, April 2012

Google has been rolling out updates to it’s search engine faster than ever. There were a couple notable updates that happened in the first quarter of 2012, which we’ll go over here. These updates affected:

  1. Sites that are “top heavy” with ads. You may have come across websites like this – tons of ads above the fold, and very little content or content that’s not readily visible. These kinds of sites are now being penalized and will rank ...
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6
MAY
0

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Google’s Most Recent Update 2011

Google’s Most Recent Update 2011

In early 2011 Google started a rollout of it’s most recent update to it’s search engine algorithm, called Panda. The whole focus of Panda has been to lower the rank of “low-quality” sites and increase, or keep high, the rankings of website with good, usable content. Websites created with copied content with the purpose of showing ads (called “scraper” sites) are being heavily penalized.

This update has it’s basis human quality testers that have rated thousands of websites according to design, ...

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17
OCT
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Categories: Search Engines

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Email Spamming

Today we address one of the biggest problems on the Internet–spamming. Have you been spammed lately? If you have, you’re not alone. Nor are you alone, no doubt, in disliking it. Nothing seems to so inflame Internet and e-mail users so much as being spammed by unsolicited junk e-mail. But why call it spamming? According to Internet legend, it originated from a Monty Python comedy sketch in which the characters endlessly repeat the word “spam.” The repetition of the word ...

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10
DEC
0

Categories: Newsletter Marketing

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Search Engine Spamming

Search Engine Spamming

So, what is “Search Engine Spamming”? 
Known as “spam” or “spamdexing,” it is basically using unethical and unprofessional techniques to obtain good search engine rankings. The major search engines have a definite set of rules and regulations they expect web designers to follow when submitting a web site to their index. It doesn’t mean that you can’t do things to “optimize” the pages you’re submitting, but you should abide by the criteria of the specific engines.

What are some of these ...

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18
JUL
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Categories: Search Engines

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Domain Transfers

How do I transfer my domain to Success Makers?

Domain names must initially be registered with an official registrar, and must be registered with a primary and secondary name server. In order for your site to be officially hosted by Success Makers, the domain name must have our name server information listed in its record.

If your domain name was originally registered with Network Solutions, we can start a transfer for you on their on-line modification form. When we do this, Network ...

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10
OCT
0

Categories: Help Desk

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Enabling Cookies In A Web Browser

Cookies are tiny files of information that a Web site stores on your computer. Normally you would not want anyone, anywhere, storing an information file on your computer without your permission. But cookies can be very useful. For example, when you shop on line, the Web site can store a cookie file on your computer. This cookie file can store:

  • What items you have bought before,
  • What you have in your shopping cart, and
  • Other convenient but non-private information.

The next time you visit this on ...

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20
JUL
0

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