The trick is simple – sell a sample of 10 different options for business card papers (different types of paper) and 10 different samples of flyers. Ask a very low price, and send the sample using cheap (yet reliable) sending solution. Cover your costs, nothing more. Right now, when I order business cards / printed materials, I’m not sure how will they look like.
Let’s say you’re interested in buying a web site. It’s a good idea to check on its history. On a more practical level, if you change the DNS settings and find out that the web site on the new server doesn’t work, you need to know the old DNS. How to find it? There are tools which help you do just that: DNS History History.com DNS Lookup | Nameserver Lookup – Who.is – Who.is ViewDNS.info – Your one source for DNS related tools! Whois Search, Domain History, Reverse IP/NS Lookups and more – WhoisRequest.org
A lot of WordPress Plugins and Themes are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to an unappropriate usage of two functions: add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg().
Some of the plugins/themes have been updated to reflect current changes, some have not.
If you don’t want to wait until all of your files are update to the latest version or if you want to be sure that your web site is not affected, see my tutorial below.
As a side note, it’s quite likely that your web site has a problem with this thing, if you use lots of plugins.
So, we have the CMS with the biggest number of users (WordPress) and the most popular plugin for doing SEO on it – Active Installs: 1+ Million.
My question is the following – is there a problem with using the plugin and is it possible to achieve the same results as the plugin provides by manually coding things?
You try to refersh Facebook, you clear the cache on your blog, and nothing happens. You know that if you will wait, after a while, things solve by themselves, and the image appears. But you want a quick solution. How to solve it?
From time to time, specific for a single project, I create a WordPress web site. I put a WordPress theme, add some user accounts.
It is actually simpler to handle a small WordPress web site, rather than create the files in HTML, even for a small project, with only a few links to it.
But the project, being small & tiny, by its definition, ends after a while.
Three things happen after some time passes:
You need to update contact information, because some data, inevitably, changes.
You still need to update the WordPress CMS (mostly, for security reasons, to prevent hacking) and all the plugins. You might consider updating the theme, also, if you worked with child themes (for older project, I don’t think that this was even an option).
You need to make sure that for all the people involved in the project, the site looks good (so, if someone visits the web site, it would look nice as a portfolio).
(1) Keep the domain as it is for the new ecommerce. Put the ecommerce on site.com. (2) Move the blog from site.com to site.com/blog (3) Redirect 301 the old links to the new links. (4) If you move something, you will likely lose about 30% of link value, even if you do redirection. After a year, you will lose around 40% of the current link value. (5) Read: Domain Migrations: Lessons from the Moz Transition – Webinar – Moz Redirection – SEO Best Practices – Moz Google’s Matt Cutts on Redirects, Trust + More – Whiteboard Friday – Moz Web Site Migration Guide – Tips For SEOs – Moz SEO Guide: How to Properly Move Domains – Moz Domain Migrations: Surviving the “Perfect Storm” of Site Changes – Moz
From time to time, I see things in contests like these (Concurs »), in which you need to buy something, then if you are one of the 30 selected, you need to take a test, and then be available to take your prize, which is a trip. There are three steps to win the product (join the contest by buying an expensive product – not easy, give a test – not easy, go on a trip – strange, still, not easy). It’s highly demotivating, even if you do win.
The solution: create something simple. “Join the sweepstakes, and you could win”. It’s OK to ask some things from the people, but do you really need to take 30 people to a test in which 2 of them will win a product? Simplify the rules as much as possible. “Buy a product, you might win”.
