Part of me wants to avoid free services online. Their usual aim is to get me hooked on something I find useful, and use it against me. And Google is Just.So.Big. Shouldn’t we be suspicious of these freebies it’s so liberally handing out just for the taking? I have been such a holdback against the [...]
A friend bemoaned, “I just spent time on the phone with comcast after seeing that another round of spam email was sent from my account. I thought that the anti-virus scan I ran had taken care of it. Comcast told me I just needed to reset my password.” That may not stop the virus from [...]
This week I started receiving the first of many “Copyright Infringement Notifications” at an email address I alone monitor. (Because it occasionally gets spam due to being easily harvested from my client’s website.) It turned out not to be spam, but a bona fide infringement warning for my client! Apparently, someone piggybacked on my client’s [...]
Nowadays it’s critical for business owners to protect your reputation online. Once your company’s name or your own name gets an unfavorable mention in Facebook, someone’s blog, a forum, or on some website it can wind up at the top of search results in Google, and there’s not a lot you can do about it. [...]
Today I was searching a client’s host’s website (Drizzle.com) for information on which version of php they’re using. Not only was this info nowhere “in site” (pun intended, haha), but when I clicked their prominent Support button, the page was nothing but a long list of drop-down menus. Thinking they might post server upgrade info [...]
…to include in a website that sells a product? You guessed it: PRICES! Last night I visited a beautifully done, modern website. Nice, clean layout with easy-on-the-eyes colors. And that’s all well and good, because they sell premium themes for WordPress. But they seem to have left something out. From the home page, their conversion [...]
Every few years I find it necessary to revisit topics as advances in technology render previous workarounds useless. Many years ago on this very website, long before the CAN-SPAM Act went into effect, I wrote about the importance of keeping spam-spiders from harvesting email addresses in web pages. Recently I was asked whether I have [...]
It’s too bad the blog spammers have to ruin it for everyone! “This internet site carries a very good offer of very good straight down to earth well getting information also it will require to hold out tremendously well, if it hasn’t already? I liked studying about some while using products!” “Hi and many thanks [...]
Watch out for domain renewal scams. Some of them, like this one, are actually for a nonsensical fee for “search engine registration.” I have no idea what services they will do for that $75; likely nada, zero, nothing. Worse-case scenario: If they’re a registrar and you pay them for domain renewal, you will transfer your domain away from the company you CHOSE to manage your domain registration!
