Author: Chantel Venter

How Important Is Geographic Redundancy To Your Domain Name Server?

How Important Is Geographic Redundancy To Your Domain Name Server?

The geographic redundancy of a domain name server (DNS), also referred to as DNS geo-redundancy, forms part of a company’s continuity. In other words, if your company is serious about limiting any downtime and disruptions regarding your hosting, perhaps due to a power outage or other challenges, geo-redundancy will be a pressing matter to prioritise. Not really sure what a DNS has to do with your domain name or hosting? Let’s take a few steps back to explain the relevance a little. What is a Domain Name Server (DNS)?What does Redundancy mean in Web Hosting?What is Geographic Redundancy (Geo-redundancy)?How to Choose the Right Web Hosting Plan for Your Website What is a Domain Name Server (DNS)? A domain name is a short n […]

7 Ways to Save your Start-up Money

6 Ways To Save Your Start-up Money

Every little bit helps, and small changes can help you save your start-up money. Uncertain times have always been a catalyst for opportunity. Changes in consumer behaviour, and their adjusted needs, spur new business ideas.  Never has there been a better time to turn an idea into a start-up, than now. Irrespective of how great your idea is and how many investors you have at the ready, it is always a good idea to cut costs and keep overheads as low as possible while you grow your business. 6 Tips on How to Save your Start-up Money1. Ask: Do you really need an office yet?2. Ask: Do you really need a ‘brick and mortar’ store yet?3. Outsource & Automate4. Buy smartly: 5. Negotiate & Barter6. Think: Inbound Marketing 6 T […]

Our Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2022

The small businesses that have survived the initial shock of Covid-19 and its effects on trade, services, manufacture, etc., and that have successfully adapted, will come into 2022 with their ‘guns blazing’. That’s because after nearly two years of “uncertainty” there is some normalcy in the ‘abnormalcy’. Now, at least, business owners know more or less what to expect, and can be better prepared. Here’s what we do know: Consumers spend more time at home browsing the internet and shopping via mobile devices and they want to feel important. Based on this, and everything else the past two years has taught us, these are the 10 things we think will stand out in the year ahead.   […]

Index Website With Google And Bing

This article gives you steps on how to index website with Google and Bing. Search Engines e.g. Google and Bing, use web crawlers (also known as spiders, or spiderbots). This is software technology that crawls the entire World Wide Web daily, finding new hyperlinks and indexing new content. When search engines index website content, it means that content gets added to their gigantic database. If a website has not been indexed by a Search Engine (SE), it won’t rank on organic searches, because they are unaware of the site’s existence. The SE bots will eventually crawl your website and index it, however, this can take weeks. Every new website owner is excited to get their website live asap and they want it to be seen in sea […]

3 Things To Gear Up For Christmas Online – Part 3

This blog will help you gear up for Christmas Online, ensuring that you use your full online potential. With only three weeks left until Christmas, you might think it is too late to start a marketing campaign. The truth is, it is never too late. A large percentage of Christmas shoppers leave it until the last minute, either holding out for specials, or until they have time. ‘Now’ is therefore an excellent time to start and take your campaign to the next level with ideas like these: Gear Up For Christmas OnlineRun a Deal of the DayBring an Influencer on BoardAnnounce Free Shipping and “Last Call”Missed our Gear up for Christmas Online Blogs? Gear Up For Christmas Online Run a Deal of the Day Create daily deals and use […]

Top On-page SEO Factors to Include when Building your Website

Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, is a term that refers to the online tools that a company can implement to assist in increasing its organic (unpaid) ranking on search engines. The purpose of SEO is to help increase your website’s online visibility and attract customers. SEO is divided into three categories: On-page SEO – what can be implemented on the website itself. Off-site SEO – other aspects that you (or others) can do online that links to a page/s on your website, in other words building your credibility. Technical SEO – the items that your hosting company, or website building platform, that can contribute to, i.e. site speed (hosting), mobile readiness and domain trust. If you are using a website builder […]

3 Things To Gear Up For Christmas Online – Part 2

Part 2 of 3 things you can do to gear up for Christmas Online, ensuring that you use your full online potential. By now your Christmas campaigns are already running or lying in wait for the Black Friday hype to die down. In the first part of this series we looked at strategy marketing and ways to build an email marketing list. As there is still enough time, let’s tackle some of the details of your campaign – its tinsel, if you will. Ultimately, if you (and your team) aren’t really excited about your Christmas specials, you’ll have trouble enticing anyone else. So, get psyched! 3 Things To Gear Up For ChristmasPackagingIn the spirit of ChristmasFreebies 3 Things To Gear Up For Christmas If you haven’t done so alread […]

eCommerce Tips and Tricks for Black Friday & Cyber Monday

Tips and tricks for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the two American-named, major shopping days that have in recent years grown in popularity in South Africa. In fact, many SA stores are now making an entire weekend of it. This year, Black Friday will take place on the 26th of November and Cyber Monday on the 29th. Shoppers can expect to pick up incredible deals in-store and online respectively. Did you know that in-store sales dropped by 30% last year, but the increase in eCommerce jumped by 60%? Is your eCommerce store ready?Increase visibility and boost sales with Tips & Tricks for Black Friday & Cyber Monday1. Sweeten the deal more to stand-out2. Improve user-friendliness on your website3. Make sure your site is mobile-fr […]

10 Cyber Security Tips for Businesses & WFH Employees

It’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month but in truth, recognition of this growing hazard should take precedence every day. South Africa experiences the third highest number of cybercrime attacks in the world, suffering 577 malware attacks every hour. Companies need to intensify their defence strategies. Unfortunately, with most of the attacks focussed on employees, a company’s mitigation protocols are only as strong as their ‘weakest’ link. Here are our top 10 cyber security tips to protect your business and your remote workforce from the digital age’s biggest threat! Cyber Security Tips for Businesses1. Implement a cyber security strategy for in-house and remote-working employees2. Train employees regularly & […]

Why Prioritising Cyber Security is Critical to Your Business

Cyber Security is non-negotiable! Cyber attacks can affect businesses and individuals in a professional, or personal capacity, with disastrous consequences. While October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the seriousness of cyber crime should always take precedence; particularly in companies where a ‘work-from-anywhere’ culture is the order of the day. Did You Know?The Biggest Cyber Security ThreatDomains.co.za Takes Cyber Security Seriously Did You Know? Malware – It has been estimated, that South African businesses suffer 577 malware attacks every hour via online communications. Malware is malicious software such as a virus, worm, spyware, ransomware etc., which are designed to steal information and disrupt […]

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