Protect Yourself from Email Spam Everyone gets email spam, and while it can be a general annoyance, it can also be dangerous if you aren’t careful on how you manage it. In this blog post I wanted to share how I identify “dangerous” spam, and offer some of my own strategies to protect myself. The…
SEO Services Should Be Questioned Anyone who has a business website wants to ensure that there website is found easily in Google. A lot of companies promise good SEO results if you pay them a substantial fee each month for their optimization services. The reality is, you don’t need to pay lots of money for…
One of the advantages of using WordPress as the development platform for websites is its extensive offering of plugins. In this post I will be sharing my thoughts on the best utility, optimization, and security plugins currently available. If you’re new to WordPress After you install WordPress it will come with two plugins installed, yet…
Learn how to identify and target keywords for SEO with the new Google AdWords Keyword Planner Tool. In previous posts I have noted how useful Google’s Keyword Tool can be in defining the best keywords to target for with regard to SEO. As Google noted: “Plan your Search Network campaigns and learn what your customers…
I have written a good deal about the SEO optimization methods that every website should use. On my website submission page I suggested a variety of techniques that can be beneficial to your site ranking. These include: Keyword optimized page titles that are unique for each page with regional specificity Keyword optimized page descriptions (metatag)…
Tracking user behavior on a website is one of the key components of a good SEO plan. Website tracking with Analytics can let you know many things, such as the number of new and repeat visitors, the visitor location, the Internet browser and device used to view your pages, the landing page (first page visited),…
What is needed for SEO hasn’t really changed all that much in the last few years, and in case you haven’t seen my website submission page I’d suggest at least taking a moment to review it. The link to it is: https://www.ecurtisdesigns.com/website-submission/ Our submission page has information both on SEO and site submission, which of…
Security on the Web is undeniably important, both with one’s personal computers and the websites stored on hosting servers. I have dealt with a variety of hacker intrusion issues over the years, and most have been of the SQL Injection or email malware type. Just recently one of my clients acquired a trojan which resulted…
Many of you are interested in implementing a customer or client portal on your WordPress website (for user specific content and pages), and while there is no easy “out of the box” solution for user specific content, the best solution I have found is by using a few key plugins within the CMS WordPress. The…