Easy Ways Of Speeding Up Your Website Instantly

Many clients wonder why their website is slow and why it gets slower every couple of months. We often assist clients in determining issues with their website and sometimes even need to convince them that it is not related to their hosting service. It’s like having a great car but a lousy chauffeur.

No matter how good the car maybe and how fast it could go, if the chauffeur is not competent, the high-end car is worthless. In the same way, no matter how fast your hosting server is, if you do not have a well coded and well designed website, your website is bound to open with a crawl.

This article helps draw the attention of website owners to the various things that can be done to speed up their website to make it more SEO friendly.

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How WordPress Empowers Social Service Organizations

WordPress has been around since over 10 years and is a leading Content Management System for websites and blogs. A large number of Social Organizations and Non-Profit Organizations use WordPress to establish their online presence. This article explains why WordPress is the preferred choice for most NGO’s, Non-Profits and Social Service Groups.

It’s Free and Quick

The main plus point about WordPress is that it is open source and free to use. No license fees, no upgrade fees, no hidden costs and no commissions to be paid out. This could save upto $500 per year for a small or medium organisation.

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Is It Still Worth Advertising On Facebook ?

Well, here are some facts that we know, to put your mind at rest, and offer some ideas about how to continue with Facebook.

Firstly, Facebook is a business, and makes money not only through its advertising, but also to change for a service. There is nothing earth-shattering, here. The only difference is that there is a perception that something you got for free is now a charged service.

Although this isn’t strictly true, it is a reality: they have changed their business model, and now some contacts that were attracted to you will take a charge to recover them. Let’s get over that and look at what Facebook Business Marketing can give you, not what may have been ‘lost’.

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Is My WordPress Site Vulnerable To Hacking?

WordPress websites have always been a sweet target for hackers and script kiddies looking to have some fun at the cost of damaging and defacing websites. In July 2014 the popular plugin “MailPoet Newsletters” was exploited to cause damage to over 50,000 websites across the internet. For a hacker, it is also worth investing time and money in identifying vulnerabilities, since millions of site’s across the world use WordPress, and being able to compromise one of them may lead you to be able to replicate it for other site’s with the same vulnerability as well.

The website WPvulndb.com lists all the known exploits and vulnerabilites and categorizes them under WordPress Core, Themes and Plugins. This article explains how you can test if your WordPress site is vulnerable and what precautions to take before you fall prey to an attack.

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How Secure Is WordPress For Your Website?

WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management systems which is used to make template based websites. It has a host of different features to aid quick updates and easy setup of your website. However, WordPress is also know to attract a lot of negative attention and needs to be understood before it is made live. This article highlights some common security related issues you need to keep in mind when setting up a WordPress based website.

Brute Force Login Attempts

A very common issue with most WordPress websites is Brute Force Attempts. This basically means that your wp-login page is bombarded with login requests with different username and password combinations, so that if you have a weak password, or a common username, the attackers can get control of your website.

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