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What Is CSS and JavaScript Minification and Why Does It Matter?
Performance

What Is CSS and JavaScript Minification and Why Does It Matter?

Every extra kilobyte your website sends to a visitor costs them time - and costs you conversions. Minification is one of the easiest performance wins available, and on WordPress it takes about sixty seconds to enable.

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Domain Name Investing: What It Is and Whether It Is Worth It
Domains

Domain Name Investing: What It Is and Whether It Is Worth It

You have probably heard stories of domain names selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Those stories are real - and deeply misleading about how domain investing actually works for most people. Here is the honest picture.

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Managing SSL Certificates with the cPanel SSL Manager
Tips & Tricks

Managing SSL Certificates with the cPanel SSL Manager

SSL certificates are no longer optional - every website needs HTTPS. cPanel makes managing them straightforward once you know where to look and what the different options mean.

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How to Set Up Google Business Profile for Your Canadian Business
Small Business

How to Set Up Google Business Profile for Your Canadian Business

Google Business Profile is one of the most powerful free marketing tools available to Canadian small businesses, and most businesses are using it poorly - or not at all. Here is how to do it right.

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How to Create a WordPress Staging Site Before Making Major Changes
WordPress

How to Create a WordPress Staging Site Before Making Major Changes

Every significant change to a WordPress site carries some risk. A staging site gives you a safe place to test updates, new plugins, and redesigns before any of it touches your live site - and setting one up is easier than most people think.

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Linux File Permissions: Keeping Your Hosting Account Secure
Security

Linux File Permissions: Keeping Your Hosting Account Secure

Incorrect file permissions are one of the most common security vulnerabilities on shared hosting. The fix is simple once you understand what the numbers mean - and getting it right dramatically reduces your attack surface.

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How Web Fonts Affect Your Page Load Speed (and What to Do About It)
Performance

How Web Fonts Affect Your Page Load Speed (and What to Do About It)

Fonts are one of the most overlooked performance bottlenecks on modern websites. Loading four weights of a Google Font on every page can cost you half a second of load time - and that half second shows up directly in your bounce rate.

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Should You Buy an Expired Domain? What to Know Before You Buy
Domains

Should You Buy an Expired Domain? What to Know Before You Buy

Buying an expired domain sounds like a shortcut to SEO authority. Sometimes it is. More often, it is buying someone else's problems. Here is how to tell the difference before you spend a dollar.

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FTP vs SFTP: Which Should You Use to Upload Your Website Files?
Tips & Tricks

FTP vs SFTP: Which Should You Use to Upload Your Website Files?

FTP is one of the oldest protocols on the internet, and one of the least secure. If you are still using plain FTP to manage your website files, you are sending your hosting password across the network in plain text every single time you connect.

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