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Planning to launch a self-hosted WordPress blog or site? Your decision is great. WordPress is the backbone of millions of websites. It is the most widely used free blogging software. Although WP is a free CMS, you cannot use it unless you deploy it on a server. You can run WordPress on your PC by installing the NGINX, PHP-FPM, MySQL stack on your PC. The website deployed on localhost is accessible through an IP address. If you want your WordPress blog to be accessible from computers or mobile devices across the world, you’ll have to buy a domain name. ...

Once your website starts ranking in search engines, you should check its Google keyword rankings often. If you don’t do so, competitors may steal your keywords and use them on their portals. A website with high domain authority won’t be affected by this. But if a site is new, competitor stealing your major keywords may have a negative impact on your website traffic. Today, we’ll share some of the best free tools to check website ranking in Google search engine. Most of the tools covered in this blog post won’t ask you to create an account. Nor they’ll ask you to enter credit or debit card details. Apart from free tools, we’ve also mentioned a powerful premium SEO tool that provides plenty of useful SEO tools. ...

Guys, you may have seen the “Leverage browser caching” warning when you test your website’s speed with the Google page speed insights tool. After finding this message, you head over to Google and search methods to increase cache expiry time. After reading a tutorial on increasing expiry time for static content i.e. JavaSript, CSS files, you go ahead and modify the htaccess or Nginx configuration file. Do you know that if you set an abnormal expiration value to the static files (say 30 days or more), you may be committing a big mistake! ...

As a newbie blogger, I kept changing my hosting provider until I signed up for HostGator. To be honest, I had faced a hard time in finding the best hosting provider for my website. To help you out in choosing the best themes and plugins, I have shared the list of WordPress Black Friday deals. Today, I’ll share a special Hostgator deal, with which you can get flat 65% off on any hosting of your choice. ...

Bluetooth connectivity has grown immensely in popularity with mobile devices in the last number of years. The convenience factor of being able to have a hands-free experience with a mobile phone while driving or out and about has fueled this growth. Unfortunately, like all conveniences there are typically downsides. In the case of Bluetooth, there have been a number of vulnerabilities detected over the last number of years ranging from mobile device viruses to attacks on devices from attackers. In their 2006 publication, Bose & Shin discussed the negative impact of viruses specifically designed to target Bluetooth enabled mobile devices. Their paper discussed the pitfalls of these types of malware that could be spread via SMS/MMS messages and by exploiting Bluetooth vulnerabilities. They analyzed these viruses in order build detection and containment systems. ...

If you have been waiting for the WordPress Black Friday sale 2016, then your wait is over. The WP BF sale has begun and top WordPress theme and plugin developers are throwing massive discounts on their top products. Hence, if you buy a premium product now, you’ll save huge money by the end of next year. In case you’re not able to find the best deals for WordPress, here is the list of top offers you can avail this November. ...

InMotion is one of the top-rated hosting providers in the world. It is an independent company and not a subsidiary of EIG. IM has cheap and feature packed web hosting plans suitable for all types of users. InMotion supports over 399 web applications and uses the high-speed SSDs aka sold state drives in their servers. It has excellent ratings on various review websites. Genuine users like you have published their honest reviews. ...

The use of mobile devices including policies and employee restrictions should be considered in any modern network security architecture. Mobile devices are used commonly both at home and at work with some organizations managing BYOD (Bring your Own Device) policies. It is therefore important to consider the implications of this and to ensure any BYOD device is properly locked down, authorized and managed within the corporate network. Westervelt (2010) published an article several years ago on the high amount of vulnerabilities discovered within mobile devices. Many of which were reminiscent of earlier / legacy web application issues. Homeland Security Newswire published an article on the ‘new’ cybersecurity threat of smartphone apps that do more than they say they do in terms of hidden malware and other threats. n.d. (2010). ...

Several hosting companies challenge Hostgator by providing competitive plans with mouth-watering features. But the big question always haunts the minds of money spenders. Are the plans worth the money or is the company reliable? As an answer to the above two big questions, we’ve shared comparisons and reviews of various hosting services. We’ve decided to share more comparisons so that you can buy get the best hosting for your site. Today, we’ve compared InMotion and Hostgator plans and features. ...

Most people use the internet to read reviews of products before they buy them. You may have seen top search engines such as Google or Bing showing star ratings in the search results of its pages. Google doesn’t show the ratings for all websites. It shows ratings only for the portals having schema markups and in-depth content. Writing the content is up to the user, but one can easily add schema codes to their site by referring the official guidelines. Modern content management systems provide extensions to add review boxes to their site and add the Schema markup code for the same. ...