The first rule of User Name is: don’t use your name. When it comes to security on the web, passwords get all the attention. And rightly so, but in our emphasis on strong passwords, we lose track of the user name. It too plays a role in the ability of hackers to get past our login […]
How to Fix Blank Product Pages in WooCommerce
If everything else in WooCommerce is working , but the content on your individual product pages is blank, here are some things to try: Check For Problems With Overriding Templates WooCommerce makes it easy to override their templates by placing your own versions inside of your theme. If you’ve created an override for the individual […]
Keep All Your Domains With One Registrar
Register all your domains with a single domain registrar Sometimes it is better to put all your eggs in one basket. And domain names are a good example. Here’s what happens: you have an idea for a domain name and you grab it right away using the first registrar you find. Problem is, five years ago […]
Check Your Website’s Listings in Google
By checking what pages Google and other search engines have indexed from your site, you can quickly get a handle on: Whether the pages you want people to find are being indexed Whether pages you don’t want found are getting indexed Whether pages are being indexed twice under different URLs (either under different categories or with and without […]
How to Create an Editorial Calendar for Your Site
An editorial calendar is a plan for articles to be written over a period of time, usually a year. Editorial calendars can take the pressure off when it comes to article ideas later in the year, as well as ensuring that you don’t forget important opportunities. If you Google “website editorial calendar” you’ll find a lot […]
4 Resolutions Every Website Owner Should Keep
If you own a small business website, here are 4 New Year’s resolutions you should be making (and keeping) right now: Establish and maintain a backup routine – save to two locations not on your server Write at least one post/article per month, and include an image or video with each Install and regularly study Google Analytics along […]
How to Use Google Analytics Annotations
The tweet about your website’s newest article has done very well and you see the spike in traffic on Google Analytics. But a year from now, are you going to remember what that spike was about? Probably not. Which is why you should use Google Analytics annotations. This very handy feature allows you to make […]
Is Your Domain Name Registered to You?
That may sound like an odd question, but I’ve seen many cases in which a person’s domain name is actually registered to someone else – typically their web designer. Now, that’s not a problem in itself. I’ve registered domain names on behalf of clients before. The issue is: will the person or company who registered […]
Drop the Correct YouTube Link Into WordPress
“You just copy the URL from YouTube, paste it onto its own line in the WordPress content editor, and you’re done!” That’s my standard line to clients and students who want to know how people get those embedded YouTube videos onto their WordPress site. But I realized the other day that I haven’t been clear […]
Why Do You Have a Website?
That may sound like a strange question in this day and age – what small business wouldn’t want a website? But the fact that we take websites as a given is even more reason to ask the question. You need to have a clear purpose or, rather, purposes for your website, and none of them […]
Know Who Provides Your Web Services
Often when I meet a new client or student with an existing website, they don’t know their details about the four key web services: Hosting Email Domain registration Internet access Either they can’t easily find the login details or worst-case they can’t find a service’s username and password at all. Even the name of the company providing the […]
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