by E.I.T. Author | Dec 27, 2016 | Blog
As you know, the web is getting crowded. And Google, being the primary search engine of choice, can’t possibly put everyone up in the front of the line. Google has a lot of policies to ensure that their clients find the best of the best, …first. Before all the crappy stuff. And that’s the way it should be. They have a lot (a really lot) of policies governing advertising…so if you use Adwords, you should really look. But this is not about advertising…
They have a new rule that governs sites that have forums, mailing lists, even simple contact forms…every site that takes personal information. And the rule is that those pages must be delivered via SSL (secure socket layer…encryption for you simple folk) In other words, they have to be able to be delivered with the https:// in the front, instead of https:// . And if they don’t comply, or can’t, then in Google’s search results, there will be a warning in red that the site is not secure. (damaging traffic, of course) If you want to read about it, The Post is Here
by E.I.T. Author | Dec 27, 2016 | Blog
I received a notice of this current excellent discount. It’s normally around $80 …but here, and now you can get it for $20 for the next 3 days…just click here: https://store.acronis.com/ It’s one of the best backup software utilities that exist… I love it. I’ve needed my backups more than once, and it’s great to make a backup when you are messing around with something that may break your machine (like trying to make a triple-boot on a GPT 3TB drive on a UEFI secure boot system! LOL)
Everything I.T. is not an affiliate of any organization, and we don’t make any money for bringing you the discounts we find. I just like to share what I find with my faithful followers. So stick around, and I’ll gladly share what I find with you…FREE.
Remember, backup, backup, and backup!
by E.I.T. Author | Dec 24, 2016 | Blog
Merry Christmas to all from Everything I.T.
We will be closed on the 25th and the 26th of December for Christmas. We will be back open for business on December 27th, here and available to help configure any new devices Santa brought you for Christmas, should you need help with that new laptop, desktop, cell phone, or whatever Santa brought you.
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by E.I.T. Author | Dec 21, 2016 | Blog, Computers, internet stuff, Security, Web Development
If you have a website, you may have not even considered getting it rated as secure by the many website security rating systems that are out there, that display a security symbol next to your search results in Google & Bing. It looks something like this (this is Norton’s) 
There are many of them, but the most popular ones are Norton’s Safe Web, WOT (web of trust), McAfee’s Site Advisor, Trend Micro’s “Trend Secure” …and so many others.
To get this, you would need to submit your site (and only the owner can do it)to Norton (or whichever rating service) for review, and then they give it that little green box stamp of approval next to the URL in the search results. For Norton’s Safeweb, You can submit it here: https://safeweb.norton.com/help/site_owners There are others also, if you want to deal with all of them, I don’t know, (I recommend doing as many as you can) but there is also Web of Trust (WOT), Webutation ( https://www.webutation.net/ ) McAfee Site Advisor (now called web advisor I think) (https://home.mcafee.com/root/landingpage.aspx?lpname=get-it-now&affid=0&cid=170789), AVG Threat Labs (https://www.avgthreatlabs.com/), Trend Micro’s TrendProtect, (https://test.trendsecure.com/portal2.1/en-US/free_security_tools/trendprotect.php?page=download) …and I’m sure there are others. I think Norton, Web of Trust, and Site/Web Advisor are the most commonly used ones.
Here’s a list of a few more if you’re interested: https://www.toptenreviews.com/software/articles/website-reputation-rating-tools/
Get your site that little green safe icon, because without it, you may just be losing traffic!
by E.I.T. Author | Dec 21, 2016 | Blog, Computers, internet stuff, Web Development
Do I know what they are? No, I don’t. I only that today is day 1, and today’s special is 50% off on all their hosting plans. So for a small site on their starter hosting plan, you can get it for $4 month, which works out to $48 for the first year, which is a very good price for hosting. I’ve been with them almost 10 years now…and I haven’t found a reason to leave. They have 24/7 support as well. Check it out here: GODADDY HOSTING PLANS ON SALE!
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