The Small Business Website Guy

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3 Things You Must Do Today to Protect Your WordPress Site

There are three keys to secure and protect your WordPress site. You want to make sure these three areas are addressed as soon as possible:

Set up a regular backup

A good backup allows you to recover from almost any disaster that can befall your website. Your web host will … Continue reading

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Google Prefers Mobile-Friendly Sites

It's official: Google prefers mobile-friendly sites. As of April 21st, Google search algorithm will change to favor mobile-friendly sites in searches done on mobile devices. This will have a major impact on websites that are not mobile-friendly. Read on to learn why this change is being made and what you can do about it...

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HostGator Migration Breaks Backup Buddy

HostGator is migrating older customers to new servers. If you are one of these HostGator customers and use Backup Buddy to back up your site, be aware that the HostGator migration breaks Backup Buddy! Fortunately, the fix is easy, but it needs to be applied as soon as the migration is complete to avoid...

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Not Receiving Email From Your Site? This May Be Why…

Are you using a contact form or another application that sends email from your website? Did it suddenly stop working for no apparent reason? If you haven't checked lately, I suggest you do so. A client of mine recently discovered that she was not receiving email from her site when anyone filled out the contact form. Given that she had just sent out a promotional email, this was obviously not a good situation.