6 reasons why you need to keep your website up to date

When it comes to your e-commerce business, your website is the first touch point for many potential customers. Therefore, you want to make sure your site is up to date, easy to navigate and provides the most up-to-date information about your products and services. Building a website is one thing, but maintaining and keeping it up-to-date is another.

9 ways to improve your website security and avoid hacks

How to secure your website?

Security is one of the most important factors to consider when building any website. Despite all the research that you might have done, it's important to remember that there are always new threats and vulnerabilities to consider. One of the best ways to keep your site safe is to use a company that can offer you a solution that is tailored to your business needs.

Essential Website Maintenance: Is Your Website Getting the Care it Needs?

If you were asked to name the most valuable assets in your business, what would they be? Key staff, premises and essential equipment would almost certainly feature, but what about your website? Because it’s a virtual asset, as long as it’s working as it should, it’s easy to take the vital role it plays for granted.

A significant number of important transactions happen over the internet these days. While an increasingly connected world makes life easier, it also poses a great risk as we expose sensitive data to hackers and other cybercriminals online. Hackers follow the path of least resistance to their targets, which leads to users with self-managed simple factor passwords. Reports indicate an increase in the number of data breaches involving weak or stolen passwords in the last few years.

How secure is your website?

Security online is becoming a major issue.

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Security on your website

Protect your website and all its content. Most web hosting options now offer SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to encrypt data sent via the internet, but there are many more things you can do to improve security even further.

Recaptcha requires a security code to be entered before submitting forms. This can prevent some bots and hackers.

Updates your .htaccess file on CMS websites can lock out certain bots. Software can be added to your CMS website to help create and improve this. You can even add a firewall to block repeat offenders and hack attempts.

Use unique and complex passwords for each site you visit and don't repeat them. See our article on password security.

Setting up a password policy for your site to make sure user create password with a set length with caps, numbers and sepcial characters to ensure weak passwords are created. You can give your password a life span requesting the user to renew their pasword once it has expired.

Increase security by using two factor authentication. Send the user a one time inique code to their email or via SMS text message that can add an extra level of authentication. There are even apps that you can add to your mobile device such as Google Authenticator, Last Pass, Microsoft Authenticator or Authy that will generate the unique code for you with that changes every 30 seconds.

When running a CMS website, it’s vital to keep it updated. Wicko Design can help maintain your website and ensure it’s kept up to date

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Read our blog articles on website security and maintenance.

Do your conversion rates go down all of a sudden? Are you stressed to rank on Google? Do buyers appear like neglecting your store? If yes, then fault yourself for not paying attention to your e-commerce website maintenance services.