SECURITY & SSL

7 Steps to Fix Mixed Content Errors

Mixed content errors are what’s causing your browser to show a security warning even though you’ve already installed an SSL certificate. You…

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GETTING STARTED

Choosing a Domain Name for SEO

Choosing a domain name for SEO matters less than it did a decade ago, but it isn’t irrelevant. A handful of decisions…

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EXPLAINERS

Why Your Site Needs a Sitemap (And How to Check Yours)

An XML sitemap is a file that lists every page on your site for search engines to find. If you’re not sure…

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RUNNING A BUSINESS ONLINE

What to Put on Your “About” Page

The About page is one of the most-visited pages on a small business website, and one of the most poorly written. It’s…

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WORDPRESS

How to Read WordPress Error Messages

Your site goes down, you check it, and instead of your homepage you see a blank white screen, or a wall of…

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EXPLAINERS

What Actually Happens When You Type a URL and Hit Enter

You type a web address into your browser, hit enter, and a fraction of a second later a page appears. It feels…

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HONEST ADVICE

Running WooCommerce on Shared Hosting: When it Works and When it Doesn’t

We touched on this briefly in our post on slow WordPress sites — WooCommerce on shared hosting works fine for most small…

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GETTING STARTED

Domain Transfer Without Downtime

We covered the difference between a domain, hosting, and a website in this post. This is the practical follow-up: how to actually…

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EMAIL & DOMAINS

Email Migration Without Losing Messages

This is the fear that stops people from switching hosts more than almost anything else. Years of email — client correspondence, invoices,…

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SECURITY & SSL

Two-Factor Authentication

“I’m too small to be a target” is the single most common reason people give for skipping two-factor authentication, and it’s backwards.…

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