How to Back Up Your WordPress Site
Backing up your WordPress site is a simple process. With just a few steps, you can ensure that all of your website’s content and settings are secure and easily restorable in the event of a system fail ...
New Mass Gmail Rejections To Start April 2024, Google Says
Starting in April, senders of unwanted mass emails to Gmail users will begin to see message rejections increasing unless they abide by new Gmail email sender guidelines, Google warns. New Rules For Se ...
Business Internet Safety Guide
Keep your business safe by maintaining a secure Wi-Fi network, using strong passwords and updating software regularly. Cybersecurity is important for everyone, and businesses are no exception. 61% of ...
The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Accessibility, and How it Can Boost Your Platform
Making a website accessible means building a platform that maximum people can share and find reliable. That's why WordPress Accessibility is so crucial. More than 45.8% of websites across the globe wi ...
How AI-Powered Features Are Revolutionizing Marketing Automation Platforms
New artificial intelligence functions for MAPs can do everything from generating personalized content to optimizing campaigns. Like much marketing technology, many marketing automation platforms (MAPs ...
Google Launches Gemini, the AI model It Hopes Will Take Down GPT-4
Gemini is Google’s latest large language model, which Pichai first teased at the I/O developer conference in June and is now launching to the public. To hear Pichai and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassa ...
Why NASA Chose WordPress for Revamping Its Flagship Website
NASA has removed the beta label from the new nasa.gov website, which was launched on WordPress, replacing Drupal as the CMS. After a lengthy process, which required 18 months of active web development ...
17 Fixes For Why Your Website Isn’t Performing
I’ve now taken the procedure I follow in reviewing sites and converted it into a tool…available free…to help small business owners to improve their online presence by diagnosing and fixing some of the ...
How to Translate WordPress (Ultimate Guide)
WordPress powers almost 43% of all websites and not all of them are in English. In fact, the number of non-English websites is on the rise, with 56% of WordPress sites being created in languages other ...
Performant Translations Plugin Now Available on WordPress.org
After an in-depth performance analysis earlier this year revealed that translations can impact server response times, WordPress contributors proposed half a dozen technical solutions for consideration ...
No Logo? No Problem! AI Offers The Answer
Online visitors are pretty savvy and will judge your whole business by what they see in the first 3 seconds, and right now, you have to ask yourself the question: "are my visitors responding well to m ...
How to Generate Qualified Leads for a Small Business: 3 Easy Tips
According to a 2021 HubSpot State of Marketing survey, 50% of small business owners say generating qualified leads is their primary digital marketing goal. But generating leads is a top challenge for ...
12 Reasons Why Twitter’s Rebrand To “X” Is A Mistake
It’s a mistake because rebranding is always a mistake. Even if your brand is called Wanker or the Certified Union of National Transcribers, you keep your original name. The only reason you ever rebran ...
6 Ways Small Business Owners Can Get Their Employees to Use AI
One of the most pivotal innovations that artificial intelligence offers small businesses is the ability to change the rules of engagement — a more level playing field. And its adoption in this size ca ...
WordPress Contributors Demand Transparency and Objective Guidelines for Listings on Recommended Hosting Page
WordPress’ Recommended Hosting page is a hotly contested piece of online real estate, and has recently come into focus again following the removal of SiteGround from the listings. When the change was ...
OpenAI, Google, others pledge to watermark AI content for safety, White House says
AI companies including OpenAI, Alphabet (GOOGL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement measures such as watermarking AI-generated content to help ...
Google Is Testing An AI Tool That Can Write News Articles
Google is testing a tool that uses AI to write news stories and has started pitching it to publications, according to a new report from The New York Times. The tech giant has pitched the AI tool to Th ...
How Can Small Local Service Businesses Use AI To Improve Their Digital Marketing?
When many of us hear how AI will change the world – particularly digital marketing – our thoughts (and occasionally fears) drift towards how big organizations will use machines to do the work of legio ...
5 Principles To Follow When Allocating Your Marketing Budget In An Uncertain Economy
Even with the threat of a recession in the next year, companies should prioritize marketing to stay ahead of competitors. In fact, marketing spending is on the rise—now is not the time to back down. C ...
Video Marketing In The Age Of Constant Content: How To Make An Impact
With TikTok accounts, Instagram Reels and beyond, the age of video content is now. How often do you see a video ad pop up on your social media while browsing your preferred platforms? You might not ev ...
The World Wide Web Turns 30. Where Does It Go From Here?
TODAY, 30 YEARS on from my original proposal for an information management system, half the world is online. It’s a moment to celebrate how far we’ve come, but also an opportunity to reflect on how fa ...
How to Get a Free SSL Certificate (and Why Google is Forcing You To)
(SSL's have become more than a good idea...they're just about "musts" with SERP implications. Here's a good article from 2017 that still holds up. - Edward) By Colin Newcomer - Jan. 9, 2017 - Elegant ...
WORDPRESS ALERT:
Fast Secure Contact Form Plugin Removed By WordPress Due To Serious Security Issue
Greetings, all... One of the most popular WordPress forms plugin, the Fast Secure Contact Form plugin (which has been the standard for all Brass Ring Multimedia websites for years) has been removed f ...
10 Things Your Small Business Can Learn About Marketing from Apple (INFOGRAPHIC)
Building a universally loved brand without engaging in price wars against competitors is not easy. But one brand that has achieved this seemingly impossible feat is Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). Behind Apple’ ...
27 Amazing Online Marketing Tactics for Small Businesses With Low Budgets, by Neil Patel
I love small businesses. As a small business, there are many opportunities for growth with a smart marketing strategy. But you’ve probably noticed a problem. Most of the marketing tactics out there ...
8 Ways Technology Is Improving Your Health
We hear all the time about how technology is bad for us. Since the introduction of computers, we spend more time sitting at a desk than moving around at work. We have created this seden ...
About WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities and How to Address Them
You work hard to make your site awesome. And with all that work you put in, the last thing you want to do is lose your site to some malicious hacker. When it comes to hackers and WordPress, plugin vul ...
Non-HTTPS Sites Labeled “Not Secure” by Chrome
by Mark Maunder On approximately January 31st of 2017, version 56 of the Chrome web browser will be released. There is a significant change in the way it displays websites that are not using HTTPS, al ...
Mobile And Tablet Internet Usage Exceeds Desktop For First Time Worldwide
Is your website ready to make you look great online? If you're waiting to go "mobile-ready," you've waited too long. Brass Ring can help! - Edward Increased traffic plus Google search rankings ...
