Posted on May 10, 2013
CloudFlare is a service that confronts several problems that a website may encounter on a daily basis such as:
1. Slow speed
2. Security issues
3. Search engine crawlers and threats
4. Wide range of online threats
CloudFlare is suitable for all kinds of dynamic websites to improve their quality. So if you are wondering how CloudFlare can improve your website speed internationally, it would be comforting to know that a large percentage of the total Internet users pass through CloudFlare on a daily basis to safeguard their property on their websites.
This service benefits your website speed in the following ways:
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Posted on May 8, 2013
When starting your own website online, you put a good amount of hard work on creating it. So it is important to keep it safe with a secure backup that saves the result of all your hard work in case something happens. Just like computers, websites also sometimes break down because of server issues or even someone hacking into your webmaster account. So unless you have a secure backup, you may lose your blog or website worth of years of your time – in an unexpected incident.
Lucky for you, if you are using a Linux server with a cPanel Web Hosting account, you can easily create automated or manual backups for all your domains and websites. Here is an easy guide to show you the basic steps.
There are two methods to create a secure backup in cPanel. You can choose the one you find the easiest.
1. Using the Backup Wizard feature in cPanel
You can find this in the File section on your cPanel homepage. After you click on it, you will see an easy 3-step method to create an instant secure partial or full backup from your websites. Since it includes a simple step-by-step wizard feature, it is the ideal solution if you prefer and faster and easier backup method.
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Posted on May 6, 2013
Improving website conversion can significantly improve the bottom line. How? By getting more sales with the same amount of traffic.
One of the best ways to improve website conversion, is with Split Testing. Split Testing is sometimes known as A/B testing or Multivariate testing. It’s about setting up two or more separate versions of your landing page and then showing each page to your website visitors for a set period of time, for example a week.
Say you have set up a two week experiment where you display landing page A for one week, followed by landing page B in the following week. At the end of the experiment you then compare the data you have gathered for each page. Which page converted the best to sales? Which page had visitors staying the longest? Which page increased the subscribers on your list? Once you have gathered data on your pages, you can tweak the landing pages again and conduct more experiments, to improve the conversions further.
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Posted on May 3, 2013
AWStats is an open source tool to analyse log files that are produced by web servers and produce HTML reports against each of them. These log files are generated as user download pages and websites.
In a nutshell, AWStats is a web analytics and reporting system. Analysing website statistics with AWStats include streaming media, web, FTP servers and mails. The analysed data is presented visually with tables, graphs and texts.
Most of the major server log files are supported by AWStats. The various formats supported by the tool include Webstar, Apache, IIS and many more. As this is an open source system, it is open for developers to work on it and modify its capabilities.
AWStats is written in the language Perl. Therefore it is flexible and can be used on any operating system. That is why it has become so popular as a server administration tool.
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Posted on May 1, 2013
Hacking can also be termed as cracking. These two terms have almost the same meaning and that is; unauthorised access to the information stored in a computer system. It is important to keep our systems secure so unethical hackers (crackers) do not exploit it by whatever means.
Below are easy ways that could help you protect your website from hackers;
1. Email address protection
Spammer programs sometimes find your email from your website or from someone else’s email. This is how you at times get strange emails that test your form. You could also wonder how at other times you send yourself emails; it’s usually not you who send yourself such email, but these spammer programs.
Spammer programs are usually in script form and are meant to break up your email thus making spammer software programs not able to read them. To protect your email address, keep it listed in an image form on your website.
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Posted on April 29, 2013
Attracting and maintaining high quality traffic is the ultimate goal for any site owner – and speed is a huge factor.
We’ve all heard the statistics about user patience … if the site doesn’t load virtually instantly, the visitor will simply move on to the next website.
A website with fast load times will always capture more traffic from search engines. In this age of browsers with support for multiple tabs, users are fond of concurrently loading several items from search engine results in several tabs. This means that the user will start by visiting the site that loads first and may never go to the other results if he gets what he was looking for. Even Google places importance on search results with sites that load fastest.
Good news, is that if you have a WordPress site, there are a few things you can do to increase the speed of your site.
Here are 5 ways to improve your WordPress load times.
1. Plugins
Plugins require extra time to be loaded when a user visits your site. This means that you should get rid of those that you no longer need.
2. Choose a Speedy Theme
Different themes have different load times. You should therefore test them and choose the one that takes the shortest time to load.
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Posted on April 22, 2013
In order to choose the most appropriate method to to focus on in order to increase traffic to your website, and ultimately improve the online visibility of your website, you need to understand the difference between the two main traffic sources.
Organic Traffic (SEO) versus Pay Per Click Traffic (PPC)
To make things easy, here is just a summary as it can get quite complex.
Organic Traffic (SEO)
Pro’s:
- Greater long term benefits
- More exposure, branding, and awareness
- Greater ROI over the long term
Con’s:
- Result can take a long time to be seen
- Is a long term strategy, with minimal short-term ROI
- Harder to track ROI
Pay Per Click Traffic (PPC)
Pro’s:
- Quick to Setup
- Easy to measure and ensure ROI
- Fast results
Con’s:
- More expensive
- Lower ROI over the long term
- Requires greater management to ensure no money wasted
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