Plain-English fixes for the IT, security and website problems small businesses run into.
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.
When the internet drops, the fix depends on what actually broke. A quick way to tell whether it's one computer, your Wi-Fi, or the internet line itself, and what to do about each.
Binance lost about $6.3 billion in a hack on its own systems. Here's what happened, why the scam wave that follows is the real risk to you, and six ways to lock down your crypto.
Bots keep filling your WordPress contact form with junk. Here's how to layer a honeypot, a CAPTCHA and Cloudflare, set them up in WPForms and Forminator, and what no tool will stop.
A vendor app in your Microsoft 365 tenant was reported compromised and you need it off. Here is how to disable it without deleting it, take back its permissions, roles and secrets, and check the logs.
Meta's updated business terms let it crawl sites linked to your page. Nothing changes until November 20. If AI training doesn't bother you, do nothing. If it does, here's the robots.txt fix for WordPress, Squarespace and Wix.
Products added, but Google shows a competitor instead? Twelve WooCommerce checks, each with where to look, what good looks like, how to fix it and how to confirm, that you can run in an afternoon.
Choosing a web address local customers can say and spell, checking it isn't someone's trademark, and registering it in your business's own name with the settings that keep it from slipping away.
Binance lost about $6.3 billion in a hack on its own systems. Here's what happened, why the scam wave that follows is the real risk to you, and six ways to lock down your crypto.
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.
Meta's updated business terms let it crawl sites linked to your page. Nothing changes until November 20. If AI training doesn't bother you, do nothing. If it does, here's the robots.txt fix for WordPress, Squarespace and Wix.
Bots keep filling your WordPress contact form with junk. Here's how to layer a honeypot, a CAPTCHA and Cloudflare, set them up in WPForms and Forminator, and what no tool will stop.
Products added, but Google shows a competitor instead? Twelve WooCommerce checks, each with where to look, what good looks like, how to fix it and how to confirm, that you can run in an afternoon.
Choosing a web address local customers can say and spell, checking it isn't someone's trademark, and registering it in your business's own name with the settings that keep it from slipping away.
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