Around mid-April news of attacks on WordPress based websites was spreading fast. Described as brute-force attacks, these botnets are intent on gaining access to websites by repeatedly hammering away at the administrative login. Some sources reported the April 2013 attack as being the worst ever. The botnet’s job is to attack your WordPress login in [...]
Read MoreAvoiding Penalties from the Link Police

When it comes to SEO, make it a point to ensure that your website links are safe, which means simply that your links are honest, clean and built so that they won’t prompt Google to penalize your site. There are links which are considered spammy or low-quality in the eyes of the Google bots. There [...]
Read MoreI’m Afraid My Web Designer Owns My Website!

I recently received an inquiry from someone who’d found and read my Who Owns My Website? article. Concerned that she may not own her website, she asked for some guidance. Instead of charging her a private consultation fee, I decided I’d blog it instead so that others might learn from her situation. Her inquiry covered [...]
Read MoreHave You Hugged Your Website Lately?

Ok, so you’re really not gonna hug your website but hopefully I got your attention. The point I’m trying to make is to care about your website! If you’re a website owner and you’re not researching and implementing ways to make your site better on some kind of consistent time-frame, you should be. I can’t [...]
Read MoreWANTED: The WOW Factor!

I don’t know how many clients I’ve had since I started developing websites in 1996, but I can tell you there’s a whole ‘lotta of them. If I had it to do over, I’d have kept track of the number. Having dealt with so many people and developed so many websites, I’ve learned a bit [...]
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