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…
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…