How to Respond to Reviews As a small business owner, you should be monitoring your online reviews. There are many different places where a review can be posted. A positive review is great and can boost your online reputation, which can attract new customers. A…
Beware of Emails Stating Your Account Has Been Suspended First and foremost, Simply Web Services will never send a client an email stating that you need to give us your password. Second, if you think something is fishy, ask, we are here to answer your…
Pay-Per-Click: What It Is and Why You Would Use It The concept of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is a simple one: high-traffic search engines such as Bing and Google sell listings in their search results to businesses and individuals, which are displayed above the organic, non-paid…
Upgrading WordPress WordPress (WP or WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to within WordPress as Themes. WordPress was created as…
What Is WordPress - Non Geek Speak WordPress is a program or app (more commonly known as a Content Management System or CMS), and to extend its capabilities, like a large opening slider or slideshow for example, you add plugins to it. You also have…
New Way of Doing Email The new server setup has a new way of doing email. We are now using an outgoing email service that monitors all outgoing email for policy and SPAM. This is designed to stop or slow the spread of SPAM. Think…
The Move to a New Server Was a HUGE Success Minus a few minor growing pains here and there, it went very well and we couldn't be happier and we hope that you are as well. Here is the skinny on who, what, when and…
WOW! That Was a Long But Successful Weekend! Afternoon! We have launched the new servers – it was a long weekend, but the move was overall successful. We have only had a few unique to the specific client glitches that are currently all fixed. Each…
Server Migration The migration to our new server is coming along well. This new server will have twice the physical CPUs, three times the CPU cores, and twice the CPU clock speed. It will have twice the RAM, and we are moving from classic spinning…
SPAM Is Out of Control Lately, we have been experiencing a huge influx of SPAM emails, but this time, things are not what they seem. Our email server uses a software application called MailScanner, which checks every email message and gives it a score. The…