Tag Archives: site health

Start at home to secure your website

If someone steals the keys to your house, did they just get the keys to your car too? Are the keys to your website sitting on your laptop? This morning I received a great article from BlueHost about securing your … Continue reading

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Review Website uptime monitoring statistics regularly

Are you sure you website is available all of the time? What about when you are not looking? The only way to be sure is to have automated monitoring in place, and luckily there are a number of paid and … Continue reading

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Perform a security scan to determine vulnerabilities

New website vulnerabilities are being found all the time. Use one of the readily available scanning services to keep up to date. I use a great scanning service from Sucuri to check my website whenever I do maintenance. This article … Continue reading

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Check email delivery

If customers are leaving you a message on your website then you want to know that the messages are getting safely to your in box. Particularly if you are using a plug-in to give you a nice contacts page. Checking … Continue reading

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See your website before it goes live

How do you see your new web site before it goes live, and how do you see your old site after it is gone? It is an exciting time when your new website goes live, I am going through this … Continue reading

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New summary of website health provided by Google

Google Webmaster Tools now provide a helpful summary of the website health for all of the websites on your Webmaster Tools account. This is very helpful as it saves you having to drill down into every website individually – which … Continue reading

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