Is it OK to use this image?

Congratulations! You’ve found the exact picture to use on your website. It is the perfect representation of what your post, or page is about. Now comes the big question, is it legal to use it? There is, of course, the popular adage “It is often easier to...

QuickBits: It’s brutal out there

If you keep hitting at something long enough and hard enough you will eventually knock it down. That was a military tactic in the middle ages when they used battering rams to knock down castles and fortresses. And it’s a hacker tactic used these days to break...

Why Secure Your Website?

Good question. WordPress consistently updates its basic code to protect against hackers, so why do you need more than that. First, WordPress updates come about because someone has found a weakness in WordPress and used it to attack a website, or more likely a lot of...

What are you doing to market your website?

We have long said, “A website is a marketing tool which needs to be marketed.” You can’t just put a website up and hope people will find it. You can’t count on Google and other search engines to send everybody who searches for your keywords. You have to drive traffic...

Get Protection Now

Imagine, one of your good customers calls and says “I tried going to your website but I get a warning that it’s not safe – I think you’ve been hacked.” You rush to your computer and try to bring your site up – you get the same message. You ignore the...

QuickBits: What should I say?

Calling your existing customers every so often to stay in touch just isn’t practical. The next best thing? Send emails. Sure, you get lots of emails and delete most of them, so it’s easy to think that they won’t work when you want to promote your business. But in...