7 questions to consider about your website

This article is for business (or website) owners.  Throughout the years, I have created websites for company’s from scratch, redesigned websites that already existed, and with some have just made  a few suggestions.  No matter what project I encounter, I always tell the owner that the primary goal of any website should be that it is your “digital” sales force out there on the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 

IP Tables–and removing blocked IP

We have been doing a lot of work lately with the firewall and IPtables.  I came across this blog site that is very handy when it comes to easily explaining Linux command line commands.  This site was extremely useful for removing IP addresses that got blocked do to people forgetting their passwords and trying to log in too many times. 

Here are some of the commands:

List IP’s that are being blocked with the line numbers:

iptables -L INPUT -n --line-numbers

Once you have the line number you can delete the entry

iptables -D INPUT 10

Saving the iptables listing

service iptables save

For the complete blog page and other great Linux stuff, visit: 
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/iptables-delete-ip-address-subnet-from-linux-firewall/

EXIM Cheat sheet

I Found a great web page that gave a nice cheat sheet for EXIM commands.  I wanted to document this page since I will be using most of the commands to develop an monitoring system that I can use on my phone and desktop widget.

The page is located at:  EXIM CHEETSHEET

The 10 Golden Rules to Attracting Authority Links

Through some research I was doing, I came across the term “Authority Links.”  Of course I wasn’t sure what these were, what this a new buzz word on the net, should I know what these are?  Well, I highlighted it and hopes of having some time to come back to it and do some research.

E-mail Addresses as Images

Spammers always scan websites looking for e-mail addresses; however, one of the best ways to have your clients contact you is through e-mail.  One of the ways you can remedy the issue of spammers “scraping” your website for staff’s e-mail addresses is to place them on the website as an image.

I found a nice little utility on the Internet that will take what you type in as an e-mail and then create the image of the e-mail address.  It can be found here:

http://safemail.justlikeed.net/

Presenting Blogging for Business 101 Tonight

DNSTC will be presenting tonight at the Mahoning Valley Wedding network meeting a short presentation on Blogging 101 for businesses.

Tonight's meeting is at Buffalo Wild Wings at the Southern Park Mall.

Trend Spotting to Stay Ahead

 

If viral advertising, social media, and apps are foreign concepts to you, it might be a good idea to freshen your familiarity with the trends that are happening in the world around you. It is easy to fall into the trap of doing business as you always have, but in today’s global business climate the best way for your business to stay competitive is to utilize the hottest trends to make them work for you and keep your business up to date. There are a wide variety of trends that may or may not be right for your business, but this article from smallbiztrends.com offers four trends that your business should be taking advantage of right NOW.