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In Case of Emergency: Why Your Small Business Needs a Crisis Management Plan
Consider this a test of your emergency preparedness. You’re in the office when the floor begins to undulate. It takes you a moment to process what’s happening — an earthquake — but by then the shaking has intensified. Suddenly, the lights flicker and go dark. Bookshelves and desks topple and jerk across the room. Windows…
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[Infographic] Protect Yourself From These 7 Common Hacks
Websites are powerful tools that can do a lot of good for your organization, but they can also expose you and your visitors to security risks. Four out of every five websites either have vulnerabilities now or have exposed their enterprises and visitors to malicious code, viruses, and other cyber-criminal activities in the past. And…
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How This Bluehost Customer Built a Thriving Blog Community (and Landed a Book Deal)
The blogging space is much more crowded than it was eight years ago when Bluehost customer Joshua Becker started BecomingMinimalist.com. But some principles for success haven’t changed. Most importantly, publishing quality content isn’t good enough — you also need to build a thriving community. Here, Becker shares five insights on community-building: 1. Spread your message. “If…
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10 Tips and Tricks for Improving SEO on Your WordPress Website
If your goal is driving organic traffic to your business website — and who isn’t thinking about that today? — you have to implement good SEO practices. The better your SEO, the higher your site will rank on the search engine results page (SERP). And the closer you get to the top of page one,…
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6 Essential Steps to Success for Code Newbies
You can read and write — right? Odds are, you can. Next question: Can you read and write code? Odds are, you can’t. One percent of Americans are professional programmers. But for the remaining 99 percent of us, learning to code, including understanding the best programming languages, may be nearly as important as good old…
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The Ultimate Resource List for Learning How to Code
The search results for “learn to code” are in the millions, so it can be hard for even the most motivated self-starter to know where to begin. If you want to get schooled on code, start with this list. It’ll point you to sites that are highly rated by users, recommended by experienced programmers, and…
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New Bluehost Security Features Make Protecting Your Site Easier
As a Bluehost customer, you take website security seriously — and so do we. To strengthen your online defenses, we’ve recently rolled out four important security updates you should know about. Password Reset Page Revamp First, we’ve revamped our password reset page, making it more accessible and easier to use. When you create a new password,…
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9 WordPress Websites That Give Us Design Envy
What do you expect potential customers to get from your business website? If you can’t answer that question with a few carefully chosen words, chances are you’re not using your website design budget wisely. After all, how can you expect site visitors to “get” your message when you aren’t even sure what you want to…
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How to Prepare Your Site for Visitors Who Don’t Arrive on Your Homepage
Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky once said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” That oft-quoted remark now borders on cliché, but small businesses can still learn a lot from The Great One if they focus on where their customers are going to be. That’s because customers will…
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The Value of a First Impression
First impressions are powerful. In business, personal relationships, or social situations, your first encounter with another person has an enormous impact on how others treat you and sets the trajectory for future interactions. For small businesses, a website is often the first thing potential customers will see. And for better or worse, your website brings…