It's All About Fraud We recently encountered a significant problem with a long-term client. We received a text message stating that they overpaid and that we need to Venmo them the money. The next day, we received a voicemail from an unknown number early in…
What is New in 2025? We are ending the fourth month of 2025, and we have been very busy at Simply Web Services this year. First, we upgraded all the website hosting packages, adding a ton more space and features to each one. We have also…
How SPAM Blacklists Work We have all heard of SPAM Black Lists, but do you know how they work? On the surface, they are designed to maintain a list of IP addresses and domains that are associated with known spammers. They are used by email…
The Ultimate Guide to Updating WordPress Securely Keeping your WordPress website up-to-date, is extremely important. It is necessary for security, speed, and new features. If you're a new site owner or a more experienced one, updating WordPress can be easy — if you follow a few simple…
How Much Does a Marketing Agency Cost? This is a common question we get - and our answer is always, it depends. What does it depend on - What would you like us to do? Everyone would like to have a massive online presence, and…
Why Isn’t My Business Showing Up on Google? Google has been a "participation required" placement for companies that want their potential and existing customers to find them Not being found on Google is frustrating and affects your overall visibility.Some common reasons your business is not…
Site of the Month - January 2025 - SungardenSoaps Site of the Month is a semi-regular feature for our blog where we feature a Simply Web Services customer and their website. The site of the month for January 2025 is SunGardenSoaps.com. SunGardenSoaps.com is the website…
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…