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16/02/2022

FYI for those using Magento2

On Sunday, February 13th, Adobe pushed an emergency update to their Magento2 ecommerce software patching a critical unauthenticated remote code ex*****on vulnerability. It is marked as CVE-2022-24086 with a CVSS score of 9.8. Website administrators

11/02/2022

According to HubSpot 73% of people admit to skimming through blog posts while 27% of people read them thoroughly. 🤓

How can you make your blog posts easier to consume while skimming?

Simple!

🔹 Use lists
🔹 Include images
🔹 Add in graphs
🔹 Break up paragraphs with white space
🔹 Don’t write walls of text

According to HubSpot, 73% of people admit to skimming through blog posts while 27% of people read them thoroughly. ntent. 🤩

08/02/2022

What is SEO Spam? SEO spam is what attackers will inject into a website to attempt to use your SEO ranking for something else not ranked otherwise that will further the attackers' objective. They spam and

14/04/2021

PHP 8 brings significant performance improvements and new features to the popular scripting language. However, major version updates sometimes introduce compatibility issues with WordPress core and WordPress plugins - be sure to take backups and check compatibility before upgrading to PHP8.

PHP is one of the most important languages for your WordPress site. Here's what the latest version, PHP 8, has to offer!

15/07/2020

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26/06/2020

To earn and keep high organic positions, your posts must meet your audience’s expectations — in other words, they must match search intent 🎯 The below will help you to identify search intent for your keywords and decide on post types and headlines accordingly 👇

💡 To identify for your own list of keywords, check for keyword modifiers (e.g. ‘how’, ‘review’, ‘price’), and type a keyword into the Google search bar to check for any SERP features such as:
▶️Featured snippets may indicate informational intent;
▶️People also ask may indicate informational intent;
▶️Site links may indicate navigational intent;
▶️Google Ads may indicate commercial or transactional intent
▶️ Shopping ads may indicate commercial/transactional intent.

You should now decide how to deal with from your list that fall outside of your blog’s purpose, such as ensuring navigational keywords point to category pages or transactional keywords point to product pages.

❓ What to do next: Refer to the infographic above to identify search intent for every keyword from your keyword list, and mark it with the appropriate journey stage.

More on how to research topics for your blog's plan https://bit.ly/2TAlfLt

02/06/2020

Coming soon to a website near you. Another major Google Search Algorithm update, Core Web Vitals. Only this time we get a heads up! Thanks Google.

Don’t worry… your traffic hasn’t gone down (or up) because of the Page Experience algorithm update hasn’t rolled out yet. But it will in 2021 according to Google. Due to the coronavirus, they decided to give us all a heads up on the future algorithm update and what it entails… that way you...

30/05/2020

Updates are vitally important to the health of your website, learn why...

What version of WordPress does your website run? As the world’s most popular content management system (CMS), developers are constantly releasing new versions of WordPress on a regular basis. According to the official release changelog, 19 new versions of WordPress were released last year. With up...

02/05/2020

Our friend Neil has some very insightful tips for small business websites.

You start a website but you still haven't put out a lot of content. You want to attract a lot of organic visitors from search and social but haven't been abl...

30/03/2020

Great tips as many workers are working from home for the first time.

With the new pandemic hovering over our heads, the main piece of advice from most countries is stay home. Working remotely is a new reality for many people around the world, and Sucuri can help

05/03/2020

So many times I see customers violating the CAN-SPAM laws unknowingly. These are great tips to avoid the spam folder and follow the law.

Have your open rates suddenly plunged to single digits without warning or explanation? Don’t panic, we've got answers!

03/03/2020

Security of your website should always be top of mind.

For many people, website security is an intimidating topic. It seems like there’s an endless list of things necessary for protecting your website. And while resources like our Website Security Guide cut through much of