Troubleshooting Archives - Converting Copy https://www.convertingcopy.com/category/troubleshooting/ Content and Marketing Solutions for Businesses Mon, 18 May 2020 17:05:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.convertingcopy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/cropped-converting-copy-favicon-32x32.png Troubleshooting Archives - Converting Copy https://www.convertingcopy.com/category/troubleshooting/ 32 32 Brute Force Password Attack Safety Tips https://www.convertingcopy.com/brute-force-password-attack-safety-tips/ Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:24:59 +0000 http://www.convertingcopy.com/?p=2956 As I related to in my WordPress security tips post awhile back, a couple of years ago one of my sites which I hadn’t touched in awhile was hacked. Unfortunately I hadn’t been backing it up, and while there wasn’t a lot of content on that site, I lost everything. I’ve since gotten a lot […]

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]]> How to Remove a Site From Google https://www.convertingcopy.com/how-to-remove-a-site-from-google/ Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:23:04 +0000 http://www.convertingcopy.com/?p=2860 There are a couple of specific ways in which webmasters can remove their site from appearing in Google. Why would you do this? One possibility is because you’re currently working on a website which is hosted and thus online but it’s not ready to be presented. In this case Google may index your site against […]

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]]> Someone Stole My Content, Now What? https://www.convertingcopy.com/someone-stole-my-content-now-what/ Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:02:37 +0000 http://www.convertingcopy.com/?p=2839 Say you find your exact same content on someone else’s site, word for word. Maybe someone else brought it to your attention in the first place, but either way, it’s your content which has been illegally stolen and published on someone else’s site. You may even just do searches for your content every now and […]

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]]> Protecting Yourself From the TimThumb Hack https://www.convertingcopy.com/protecting-yourself-from-the-timthumb-hack/ Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:57:34 +0000 http://www.convertingcopy.com/?p=2832 Awhile back one of my sites was hacked and it was the infamous TimThumb hack which is a common vulnerability in outdated versions of WordPress or more specifically the TimThumb script which resizes images in WordPress. I was reminded of it when a friend of mine’s site was more recently hacked and sure enough it […]

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]]> Traffic Drop – 7 Causes For a Drop in Traffic https://www.convertingcopy.com/traffic-drop-7-causes-for-a-drop-in-traffic/ Wed, 29 May 2013 15:38:20 +0000 http://www.convertingcopy.com/?p=2797 When you experience a sudden traffic drop, that drop could be attributed to any number of causes. The first thing you should always do is check your Google Analytics profile. Through insights they’ll give you updates on your profile to reflect substantial changes to your site, particularly traffic. Odds are you’ll have noticed the effects […]

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]]> How to Switch Web Hosts https://www.convertingcopy.com/how-to-switch-web-hosts/ Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:07:42 +0000 http://www.convertingcopy.com/?p=2774 After being with the same webhost for the last decade or so, I recently decided to move most of my sites to HostGator after being pleased with the service I experienced with my other sites I have hosted with HostGator, not to mention all of the great customer reviews from friends and people online they […]

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]]> Robots NoIndex – What to Know https://www.convertingcopy.com/robots-noindex-what-to-know/ Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:25:46 +0000 http://www.convertingcopy.com/?p=1652 When using the robots noindex tag/setting, you’re effectively telling Google and every other search engine’s search crawling robots/spiders to ignore any page on your site on which you use that tag or in other words to not index them. By default, spiders will crawl every page on your site, so you need to tell them […]

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]]> How to Use The Canonical Tag https://www.convertingcopy.com/how-to-use-the-canonical-tag/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:54:40 +0000 http://www.convertingcopy.com/?p=1480 As I discussed in my duplicate content penalty post awhile back, duplicate content issues are only issues when they are exist on the same website. This can happen easily depending on how your website is set up, but if you have the same content of a page which is located on different pages/URLs of your […]

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]]> How to Improve Website Load Time https://www.convertingcopy.com/how-to-improve-website-load-time/ Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:01:20 +0000 http://www.convertingcopy.com/?p=1466 You want visitors to your blog or site to have as quality an experience as possible. Part of this is ensuring that your site is able to load as quickly as possible. Search engines also take load time into consideration as one of their ranking factors. There are quite a few things which you can […]

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]]> Heading Tags Not Appearing in Internet Explorer? https://www.convertingcopy.com/heading-tags-not-appearing-in-internet-explorer-9/ Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:27:08 +0000 http://www.convertingcopy.com/?p=1293 I used a friend’s computer earlier to do something quick on this site and saw that none of my heading tags were appearing in his browser (Internet Explorer). This was a bit distressing considering anyone browsing my site using IE 9 since it came on the block, so for about 4 months now, was seeing […]

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