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Website Traffic Crash? Here’s How to Diagnose and Fix the Problem
“Ask David!” question: "My website traffic crashed. What should I do? Will switching to the UltimateWB website builder help?"
UltimateWB as a website backend gives you a sleek code base that allows you to have a fast loading website, coded right for search engines and for the best user experience. UltimateWB also provides a built-in SEO tool to allow you to easily add custom meta descriptions for each of your webpages, as well as easily create a sitemap with the
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Tagged competition, competitor activity, competitor tracking, content, error messages, fast loading times, google analytics, Google Search Console, hackers, marketing, pagespeed insights, search engine algorithm, search engine optimization, seasonal fluctuations, security breaches, seo, server downtime, social media, technical issues, traffic crash, traffic drop, website errors, website hacked, website speed
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What are the most common WordPress vulnerabilities?
WordPress, although widely used, is not particularly easy or user-friendly and can be susceptible to various security vulnerabilities. Here are some of the most common ones:
Weak Passwords and Login Credentials:
This tops the list because it applies not just to WordPress but to any online system. Hackers can easily exploit weak passwords through brute-force attacks.
Outdated Software, Plugins, and Themes:
Outdated software often contains known vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit. Regularly updating WordPress core, themes, and plugins is crucial.
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What are the most important things to consider when setting up security for your website?
Keep your website builder/platform upgraded, have SSL on your web hosting, have strong passwords. I also like to avoid using third party plugins - you can do that easily without being a coder by using UltimateWB. UltimateWB has a lot of built-in apps that are very customizable; you can build any type of website with it.
Got a techy/website question? Whether it’s about UltimateWB or another website builder, web hosting, or other aspects of websites, just send in your question
... Continue readingCan’t access your website? Prompted with a “Download” link on your own website?
You can’t access your website. Instead of your website being displayed, your browser prompts you with a “Download” link or download bar.
If this happens after changing web hosts or after your website has been hacked and cleaned up, there are a couple of things to check.
Your .htaccess file may be causing the problem
If you recently moved your website to a new web host, some of the coding in your old .htaccess file may have been specific to
... Continue readingJoomla website keeps getting hacked? Do this.
There has been a rash of brute force login attacks on not only WordPress blogs and websites as discussed in the previous post, but also Joomla websites. Of course we would say a great solution would be to switch to UltimateWB software, and fast! But, if you are determined to keep your website on Joomla for now, there is one thing you can do after you clean up all the files and reupload a fresh copy of the CMS -
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Tagged joomla, joomla hacked, joomla security, secure website, website hacked
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WordPress website hacked? How to fix it…!
If your website isn't displaying the way it should - for example the page header doesn't display - and your WordPress blog prints out an error instead of displaying your awesome blog posts - and you haven't changed anything - it means your website has been hacked.
Chances are it is from your WordPress blog or its third party plugins you are using. Perhaps from a backdoor, like when in 2011 three popular WordPress plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache), had malicious backdoors added to
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Posted in Website Security
Tagged fix backdoor, fix website, remove backdoor, website hacked, wordpress hacked
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