One of the primary concerns when migrating your website to a new hosting provider or domain is the impact the migration will have on SEO.  If done improperly, a site migration can devastate a quality page ranking and make recovery a time consuming and costly SEO process. Migrating a website to a new hosting provider [...]

As the number of small business, membership, and internet marketing websites continue to increase, so to does the popularity of Open Source website and ecommerce content management systems.  With a large selection of these free platforms available to choose from, including such popular choices as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento and osCommerce, the one thing they [...]

The popularity of WordPress continues to grow among small business owners and entrepreneurs, as this popular Open Source Content Management System (CMS) steadily matures in to a robust platform for everything from landing or “squeeze” pages, to marketing and membership websites, ecommerce platforms, and more. One of the greatest benefits to using WordPress is the [...]

jQuery is a popular and reliable method for handling website form submission and input validation.  While jQuery is extremely powerful, and relatively easy to implement and customize, it can at times become difficult to troubleshoot for a developer or webmaster not familiar with its use. One of the most common issues encountered by those new [...]

Whether you are new to the concept of web based marketing, or an experienced Internet entrepreneur, or a small business owner, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a term you are sure to get familiarize with. Search Engine Optimization is simply the process of optimizing your website content to achieve optimal search engine indexing and placement in [...]

The WordPress platform is very robust and reliable, but as with all database driven Content Management Platforms, WordPress requires continual maintenance and ongoing optimization to reduce page load times and provide a quality user experience.  One of the many ways to optimize a WordPress environment is to disable the WordPress Post Revisions feature. The WordPress [...]

If you are like most WordPress website administrators, you use Google Analytics to track website traffic and statistics.  For Small business website operators and Internet entrepreneurs, traffic statistics are a valuable source of SEO and marketing data.  Unfortunately, Google Analytics will by default track just about all administrative level access to the site, skewing the [...]

For any website operator, especially one that is chasing good SEO ranking, Google Analytics will be a familiar tool.  WordPress websites are no exception, with Google Analytics easily integrated within a WordPress theme via code or WordPress plugin.  With Google Analytics being used globally for website traffic, statistics, and Internet market data mining, here are a few [...]

While WordPress is typically a secure and stable platform, it can fall victim to hackers when not maintained, or when poorly developed or outdated plugins are used. One of the more common methods for hackers to hide the malicious PHP code inserted in to WordPress is to base64 encode the hacked code, and then use [...]