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Web Accessibility in Canada: Making Your Site Work for Everyone
Small Business

Web Accessibility in Canada: Making Your Site Work for Everyone

An accessible website works for everyone - including the roughly 6.2 million Canadians living with a disability. Beyond the ethical case, Canadian law increasingly requires accessibility for organizations of all sizes.

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How to Prevent Your Domain from Expiring and Protect Your Online Presence
Domains

How to Prevent Your Domain from Expiring and Protect Your Online Presence

Domain expiry is one of the most preventable disasters in web hosting - and one of the most damaging. Losing your domain name can mean losing years of SEO work, customer trust, and brand recognition overnight.

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What Is Included in Every dotCanada Shared Hosting Plan
dotCanada News

What Is Included in Every dotCanada Shared Hosting Plan

Too many hosting companies advertise a low monthly price, then charge extra for SSL certificates, backups, and email. At dotCanada, the essentials come standard on every plan.

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How to Stop WordPress Comment Spam with Akismet and Other Tools
WordPress

How to Stop WordPress Comment Spam with Akismet and Other Tools

Every WordPress site with comments enabled attracts spam bots within days of launching. The good news is that stopping them is straightforward, free for most sites, and takes less than an hour to set up properly.

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Website vs Social Media: Why Your Canadian Business Needs Both
Small Business

Website vs Social Media: Why Your Canadian Business Needs Both

Handing your entire online presence to Facebook or Instagram is one of the riskiest things a small business can do. You do not own those platforms, and one algorithm change can wipe out years of built-up reach overnight. Here is why your Canadian business needs a real website - and how social media fits in alongside it.

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How to Change the WordPress Login URL for Better Security
WordPress

How to Change the WordPress Login URL for Better Security

Every WordPress site in existence shares the same default login URL. That makes your login page one of the most attacked addresses on the internet. Changing it takes five minutes and immediately reduces automated attack traffic on your site.

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What Are Brute Force Attacks and How Do You Stop Them?
Security

What Are Brute Force Attacks and How Do You Stop Them?

Brute force attacks are relentless, automated, and aimed at every publicly accessible server and login page on the internet - including yours. Understanding how they work is the first step to shutting them down.

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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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