Plain-English fixes for the IT, security and website problems small businesses run into.
Running the business on the family laptop? Why a computer used only for the business matters, and what a business-ready setup includes: separate accounts, encryption, sign-in, security software, backups and remote support.
Running your business from a free Gmail or Yahoo address? How to move to email on your own domain in the right order, bring your mail, contacts and calendar, and lose nothing on the way.
Starting a business in Augusta, Columbia County or Aiken? The order of the first steps, from state registration and the local business license to the domain, email, computer and Google listing that go with them.
Google patched a Chrome flaw attackers are already using, N-able took its N-central remote management service offline after 33 flaws went public, and CISA says a SonicWall VPN flaw that can get around MFA is under attack.
A sign-in from a country nobody was in can be a phone on a roaming carrier or someone with your password. This walks through telling the two apart in the sign-in log, then locking the account down step by step if it's real.
Attackers are knocking Cisco firewall VPNs offline, CISA flagged two more exploited Ivanti VPN flaws, and the FBI says to patch PHP now.
Google's November 2026 core update is rolling out through about Thanksgiving week, Google Maps now puts a Message button next to Call, and Google spells out how to remove Business Profile offers you never approved.
Shopify sets up a sitemap and canonical tags for you, but plenty is still yours: titles, redirects, product markup, apps and Merchant Center. Here's the audit, screen by screen.
New business in Augusta, Evans or Aiken and not on Google yet? How to create or claim your Business Profile, get through verification (including a rejected video) and fill in what matters.
Running the business on the family laptop? Why a computer used only for the business matters, and what a business-ready setup includes: separate accounts, encryption, sign-in, security software, backups and remote support.
Google's November 2026 core update is rolling out through about Thanksgiving week, Google Maps now puts a Message button next to Call, and Google spells out how to remove Business Profile offers you never approved.
Google patched a Chrome flaw attackers are already using, N-able took its N-central remote management service offline after 33 flaws went public, and CISA says a SonicWall VPN flaw that can get around MFA is under attack.
A sign-in from a country nobody was in can be a phone on a roaming carrier or someone with your password. This walks through telling the two apart in the sign-in log, then locking the account down step by step if it's real.
Shopify sets up a sitemap and canonical tags for you, but plenty is still yours: titles, redirects, product markup, apps and Merchant Center. Here's the audit, screen by screen.
New business in Augusta, Evans or Aiken and not on Google yet? How to create or claim your Business Profile, get through verification (including a rejected video) and fill in what matters.
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