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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the most important part in any online business web site today. Not only because a well optimized website will help increase your traffic and then boost your sales but its been proven to be far more rewarding than online promotional methods like advertising and sales promotion. There are tons of SEO techniques, some are allowed and acceptable by Google while some are not. In this post, we will focus on the most aspect of SEO as it aplies to OpenCart ecommerce.

Understanding OnPage SEO

On-Page SEO is also often referred to as on-site SEO and involves optimizing internal elements of your website pages to make them more search engine friendly. On-page SEO helps search engines understand your website better, to gauge if your content would be relevant to people seeking for information about anything online using a set of keywords.

If you’re planning on using SEO as an integral part of your Internet Marketing campaign, it would be to your greatest advantage to have a clear understanding of the basics and importance of On-page SEO.

The Importance of On-Page SEO

In recent years, other Internet marketing channels have appeared, taking sizable bites of the online marketing space. Many shifted their online campaigns to some very popular channels like social media marketing and dropping their SEO efforts without carefully analyzing real data. Many have succumbed to the myth that “SEO is dead” and is not a relevant factor anymore in driving targeted traffic to websites.

SEO is still the most important source of targeted traffic to websites. In a report by Forrester Research, organic web search or natural search engine results still sits at the top of traffic sources used by survey respondents. The report also states that this percentage is growing at a steady rate and is expected to continue growing in the next couple of years.

That is why it is very important to optimize your On-Page SEO if you want to have targeted visitors knocking on your online doorstep. However, it doesn’t mean that you choose one Internet marketing channel over the other and drop the rest altogether. To get the maximum results, you need to explore each of these channels and select which can be combined with SEO to get the best results. But before you can dive-in to all these in greater detail, it would be best to proceed and understand a bit more information about the basics of on-page SEO.

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WordPress leads as the most popular content management system (CMS) on the Internet today powering over 74,652,825 sites with about half of those websites hosted on the free WordPress official site. The rest are hosted on private servers like Todhost.com.

There is a reason so many CMS-based sites use WP. WordPress is a smart and intuitive platform that nearly anyone can learn to use. There are numerous plugins and themes available to help website owners customize the look and features of a site. Plus, those who understand coding can easily customize their sites even further.

However, WP is also susceptible to a few security threats. Hackers love to go in through the backdoor of your WP site and attempt to set up residence there. Fortunately, if you are aware of the most common security threats, then you can easily fix them and prevent hackers from taking over your site. Below are the top 5 WordPress security threats and how to fix them.

1. Password Hacking

You’ve probably noticed that most sites requiring a password now require you to create a strong password with capitals, lower case, numbers and special characters. The more complicated you can make the password (but still remember what it is), the less chance hackers have of breaking into your site.

Understand that hackers often use bots and can try dozens of passwords in seconds. If your password is easy to crack, you can be certain they can and will crack your password. Creating a strong password includes tips such as:

Not using the same password for everything
Making the password at least 12 characters long
Making sure all your devices used to sign in are secure (two-factor authentication helps)

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Useful Analytic Tools that Will Improve Your SEO https://www.todhost.com/blog/useful-analytic-tools-that-will-improve-your-seo.html

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is ever changing and so requires constant assessment and review. To understand your current performance and take steps to improve, you require analytic tools. That is the focus of this post. This post is completely dedicated to SEO analytic tools. For each tool, we will provide a brief overview of its functionality.

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Drupal is an open-source CMS and or framework that is used by at least 2.2% of all the websites on the internet. It powers all types of websites ranging from blogs to corporate and government sites. In this post, we will discuss tips on how to speed up Drupal performance to ensure your website keeps running fast, ensuring a good experience for your visitors and the search engines.

Drupal was originally released in 2001, two years before WordPress was even on the market. With WordPress being so popular, many people ask why someone would choose Drupal over WordPress? Here are a few reasons Drupal is preferred by web developers::

Security: Drupal has enterprise-level security and provides in-depth security reports. WordPress tends to have more plugins with vulnerabilities, especially if the owner doesn’t update them.
Scaling: Drupal was meant to scale to thousands of pages! WordPress was originally designed as blogging platform and actually runs into a memory issues after 100 pages.
Powerful: Drupal was designed with developers in mind and so the design possibilities are endless, especially with its modular design.

“We chose to go with a Drupal-based platform because it is open source, has a dynamic developer community, and offers a powerful and flexible platform for building online communities.” Mitch Kapor, Electronic Frontier Foundation


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In this tutorial, we examine the fundamental optimization steps required to enhance the performance of your Drupal website.

Drupal is a powerful content management system designed for rugged performance. A Drupal website that is well-optimized for performance can handle several million visits each day. That had been one of the advantages going for Drupal.

There are several ways to configure Drupal for optimal performance. These include optimizing MySQL, implementation of a Content Delivery Network (CDN), and different modes of caching such as View Caching and Page Caching. Apart from these, Drupal offers a range of options to reduce or optimize bandwidth requirements.


This post is more of checklist of performance optimization good for a Drupal website. Here are the recommended steps:

1. Update core module, contribs module, and themes of Drupal site

You always want to keep the core, contribs module, and themes updated.
a. To run updates, navigate to “Reports” → “Available Updates”
b. Click on “Check manually” to scan for additional updates

2. Use Content Delivery Network

Implementing a Content Delivery Network (CDN) with Drupal is a fast and easy way to instantly reduce load times for your website and ensure you are serving your static content (product images, JavaScript, CSS) from CDN.

3. Utilize Caching

Caching is fundamental to improving the speed performance in Drupal. Drupal provides caching options. This is probably the easiest way to speed up Drupal performance on your site.

a. Page Caching

To enable caching, navigate to Configuration → Development→ Performance
Enable “Cache pages for anonymous users” and also “Cache blocks.” You can then choose a time for minimum cache lifetime and expiration of cached pages.

b. Views Caching

1. To enable views caching, navigate to Administration → Structure→ Views
2. Click “Edit” on the view where you want to enable caching
3. Expand the “Advanced box”
4. Select “Time-based” and click on “Apply (all displays)”

c. PHP Caching

PHP Cache (APC) is well-known to increase the speed of Drupal installs. Add the below code .htaccess to enable PHP caching

<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

# Remove browser bugs (only needed for really old browsers)
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent
</IfModule>
# Requires mod_expires to be enabled.
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault "access plus 30 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 15 days"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 months"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 months"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 months"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 months"
ExpiresByType text/js "access plus 1 months"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 months"
</IfModule>

Here are some other caching options that can be used to improve the performance of the Drupal website.

d. Memcache
e. File Cache
f. Redis
g. Boost (turns all Drupal pages into flat HTML files)

4. Optimize Your Images

You can change the compression ratio of an image. By default in Drupal 7, it is set to 75%.
1. To change the ratio, navigate to Configuration → Image toolkit
2. You can then change the % amount and click on “Save configuration"

5. Use Fast 404 module to reduce 404 error in Drupal

6. Aggregate CSS/JS

By aggregating your CSS and JavaScript files, you can improve the performance of your front-end and download times. This happens because the browser doesn’t have to fetch files, reducing the number of HTTP requests.

1. To enable, navigate to Configuration → Development → Performance
2. Now click on “Aggregate and compress CSS files” and “Aggregate JavaScript files”

3. Click on “Save configuration”

You can also use advagg module to simplify advanced aggregation of CSS/JS

7. Use minify js and css for page speed

8. Use syslog instead of database logging for error log

9. Use search engines like (Apache Solr, Elastic Search)


10 Optimize your database

a. Scale-up database server hardware, increase the number of CPU cores, and use RAM and disk storage array technology to maximize I/O on disk reads and minimize latency
b. Reduce the volume of queries by modifying your application or increasing their performance using standard database optimization techniques such as building appropriate indexes of the field.
c. Use AutoSlave module for master and slave database

$databases['default']['default'] = array (
'driver' => 'autoslave',
);

$databases['default']['master'] = array (
'database' => 'mydb',
'username' => 'username',
'password' => 'password',
'host' => 'master.example.com',
'port' => '',
'driver' => 'mysql',
'prefix' => '',
);

$databases['default']['autoslave'] = array (
'database' => 'mydb',
'username' => 'username',
'password' => 'password',
'host' => 'slave.example.com',
'port' => '',
'driver' => 'mysql',
'prefix' => '',
);

// Use locking that supports force master

$conf['lock_inc'] = 'sites/all/modules/autoslave/memcache-lock.inc';

// Use AutoSlave transactional safe cache wrapper with a memcache backend

$conf['cache_backends'][] = 'sites/all/modules/autoslave/autoslave.cache.inc';
$conf['cache_default_class'] = 'AutoslaveCache';
$conf['autoslave_cache_default_class'] = 'MemCacheDrupal';

11. Disable the PHP Filter module

12. Disable theme registry rebuilding

13. Disable unnecessary modules

You can disable modules—Administration Development tools, Devel, Devel node access, Module Filter, Blog, Forum, Taxonomy, Search, Help, Shortcut, Database Logging, Color, Toolbar, Tracker, Statistics (this module writes to your database on every page load. If you are using Google Analytics you probably don’t need this), Update Manager— if you don’t need their functionality for your site.

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Images are a critical component of any website especially its impact on website speed. They make websites attractive, improve user experience, click through rates and can also reduce bounce rates. But they also can slow down your website. All of these will have some impact on your website performance both on search engines and the impression your users will have about yyour website.

Even though Internet speeds have dramatically increased over the years, it is important that you take care of pictures on your website because it will improve your website performance.

Just because it’s easy to upload images to your site, that doesn’t mean you should do that without any preparation. Unoptimized images can, in fact, hurt your site in many ways; from affecting the way visitors think of you to the speed of your website and SEO rankings. If you still haven’t thought of that, we’re here to show you several ways of improving images in WordPress.

In this guide, we are about to show you:

How to optimize images for WordPress to speed up your site and improve SEO
Change the way WordPress compresses JPEG images
The most popular image optimization plugins for WordPress
Add lazy loading for your videos and images
Display before and after images in an attractive way
How to create interactive images – draw, add descriptions and links
How to regenerate additional image sizes
Remove width and height image attributes with jQuery
How to create custom image sizes in Media Uploader
Create automatic screenshot of any website and publish it as image in your post

How to optimize images for WordPress so that you speed up your site and improve SEO

First, you need to understand why image optimization is important. Why you should optimize images for your WordPress website. Here are the top reasons you should improve our website images:

Faster site
Better SEO
Smaller backups
Less bandwidth usage
Happier users

You should also know that there are different stages at which you can optimize the images. You can take care of the pictures even before you upload them to a blog or you can do that after the upload.

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If you already have a website that is pulling reasonable traffic, then it should interest you to turn more of your website visitors into customers and you will want to do as much to optimize the rate at which visitors can become customers.

This guide will walk you through much of what you need to know about conversion rate optimization, why it is important and how you can go about building your own optimization strategy. The goal is to help you improve the performance of your website, as well as the tools you’ll need to be successful.

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WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world today. It is also the most popular content management system (CMS) with built-in applications and functionalities that make it very vasatile to perform a variety of tasks. There are millions of users who work with the CMS on an everyday basis and thousands of plugins that add functionalities to the WordPress CMS.

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20 Top SEO Techniques that Produce Good Results

To get high rankings in the search engines take both time and effort. But there are some SEO techniques that are easy to implement and will definitely produce some good results. The good side of it is that you can implement these techniues on your website by yourself.

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Google’s Search Engine Result Pages (SERP) is always changing as the search engine gets better at answering user’s queries which affect the content and how is optimized.

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Understanding your website performance is important to enhance the areas it is performing well and improving on the areas where it is not doing so well. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) analysis gives you deep insights into the areas that may need some improvement. It is important to perform an SEO analysis on a regular basis as the industry keeps evolving quickly. And it will help you stay ahead of your competition. This post provides an insight into what changes can be made to keep your website up-to-date in respect of its SEO status.

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Working with data on how your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is performing can be very helpful for your website performance monitoring and improvement on search engines. This requires studying your performance data from the traffic you receive after implementing your SEO strategy or making some necessary adjustments. SEO today has changed from the keyword driven approach it used to be and Google keeps changing its ranking signals particularly in terms of importance. Working without data from website performance is like walking blindly. In this article, we will look at the most most important SEO metrics that every webmaster should seriously consider in the assessment and management the SEO performance for any website. Also read:

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WordPress Website Speed Optimization Tutorial
https://www.todhost.com/knowledgebase/840/WordPress-Website-Speed-Optimization-Tutorial.html

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A research study revealed that 90% of businesses acknowledge that they’ll need to use social media for customer service by the year 2020. Studies have also revealed that about 67% of customers currently use social networks like Facebook and Twitter to get quick resolutions to their customer service issues.

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Is your website getting enough traffic but no conversions? Then, it's time for you to analyze. 'WHAT IS WRONG?' Everyone in the digital marketing industry knows that a high traffic website without good conversions is meaningless. Conversion is more important than traffic if you want to increase revenue. And that's the main purpose of every business, to maximize profits for its owners. So if your conversion rate sucks, you simply need to know the reasons why your website is not converting. Learning these things will help you focus on improving your marketing strategies and start getting more sales.

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How to control new user registration in WordPress:: https://www.todhost.com/knowledgebase/838/How-to-control-new-user-registration-in-WordPress.html

One problem plaguing WordPress especially membership sites that take user registrations is spam user registration, which can also be referred to as user registration spam or spam bot registration. This occurs when user accounts that are spammy are being created at regular interval. If your WordPress site allow users to register, then it is like going to be vulnerable to spammers.

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Reasons Why People Leave Your Website: https://www.todhost.com/blog/reasons-why-people-leave-your-website.html

When people visit your website and do not navigate to any other page outside the landing page, it is not a good sign and indicates poor website quality, that they likely did not find the answers they sought, your website provides little information or some other factors like poor design discourages them. This article takes a detailed look at and attempts to solve the problem of why people will click the back button after visiting your website.

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The Drupal Paragraphs is a very popular module for handling content in Drupal 8. Paragraphs work in a similar way to content fields, but also provides a wide range of options for the design, layout and grouping of your content. This article provides a detailed guide on the use of Paragraphs and following it diligently, you will be able to use Paragraphs for all your Drpal sites.

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The internet is very competitive and so after setting up a beautiful and functional website, you need to get visitor traffic to it. If you have put up a great website and no one’s actually visiting, your perfect website is not going to have any major impact and you will have no benefit from it. So it is important that you draw up a clear and functional strategy around building traffic to your website. Of course, we need not delve into why you need traffic to your website. We will rather focus on how you can get traffic to your website and get benefits for your online efforts

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Enabling SSL on your website is no longer an option. As Google roles out its Chrome update which mark sites that do not have SSL enabled as "unsecure", enabling SLL is now a must as not doing so could hurt your website reputation and business.

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Improving the speed of your website has become very important for several reasons. The most outstanding we would say is its impact on user experience and the increasing weight Google gives to user experience. That explains why website owners and managers are investing in ways that can improves their website speed. Prominent among them is its impact on conversion, website bounce rate and ranking in the search engine result pages. One thing we cannot deny is that about any website is that loading speed matters. When you have a website that loads slowly, it leads to a poor user experience and negatively affect search engine rankings.

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You can enjoy lots of visitor interactionon your WordPress website by adding videos from sites like Youtube, Vimeo or any other video platform. One way to do this in WordPress is to copy and paste the embed code and customize it to suit your needs. However, copying and pasting the embed code is not the most efficient way to do it. If you want to save time and have more advanced features, such as video galleries or lightboxes, you need to install a WordPress plugin for your videos.

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The Ultimate Guide to On-Page SEO

Search engines have rules and the practice to meet up with their standards is what is generally referred to as Search Engine Optimization. Wikipedia defines it as follows

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the online visibility of a website or a web page in a web search engine's unpaid results—often referred to as "natural", "organic", or "earned" results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a website appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users; these visitors can then be converted into customers


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You can check the php version set for your account. There are two ways you can do this and know the PHP version set for the account. By default, we have PHP 5.6 set on every of our shared hosting servers. To check what PHP version is selected for your account go to cPanel > Software section > Select PHP version menu:

https://www.todhost.com/knowledgebase/836/How-to-check-your-PHP-version-and-configure-your-PHP-settings.html

Having performing content can seriously enhance and encourage your blogging while poor performing slow down the realization of your goals and conversion. You put a lot of work into your website and the content marketing efforts you use to get more out of it. And yet all that work just doesn’t seem to be adding up to the kind of results you’d hoped for.

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Basic Marketing Tips and Tricks That Produce Big Results

Marketing today is taking a new shape. While traditional forms of marketing still have their place, digital marketing is undoubtedly and increasingly becoming central to the success (or failure) of many businesses. If you are not focusing on the latest marketing tactics for attracting new customers, meeting your revenue goals may be a daunting task and could even be impossible. Because the online world is in such a state of flux and growth, you need to be flexible enough to keep pace with these dynamics. In this post, we consider some of the key elements that should be seriously considered when drawing your marketing plans. These elements do significantly affect the success of your business.

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We have upgraded to the latest cPanel control panel enabling automated SSL on every hosted website on Todhost servers. That means you can choose beteen our free SSL and our premium options. If you already have a premium SSL certificate enabled on our account and wish to switch to our free SSL certificate all you need to is not to renew your premium SSL and you will be automatically switched to our free SSL.

Does the Free SSL Show Browser Warning?

No. No browser warning. It is not the same as a self signed SSL certificate The service is provided by Let's Encrypt and is as good as every valid SSL certificate. The only difference is that it available free to all accounts hosted on our servers.

How to Activate the Free SSL

There is no installation required and no special configuration is necessary within cPanel to use the free SSL You will only need to enable it within your website. If you use a content management system like Joomla, you can enable it within the global configuration area. Same will be for ever CMS like WordPress. Simply check up the tutorial in our knowledgebase on how to enable SSL for your website.

Generally, a simple code imputed into your htaccess file will be enough to force ssl on all your pages. To do this on a add the following code to the bottom of the file.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} OFF
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

Now you can be rest assured that your website is now secured with SSL.

Email marketing is a dependable strategy of digital marketing communication and provides a direct connection to credible leads that are most likely to improve your conversion rate. Email marketing remains one of the best methods to engage leads, but the hardest part of using it is figuring out the best time to send out your marketing emails.

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Understanding the speed performance of your website is fundamental in assessing its usability. Website users as well as Google and other search engines love fast speed These statistics should be disturbing but it underscores the need for a good website speed:

A one-second delay in page load time leads to:

11% fewer page views
16% decrease in customer satisfaction
7% loss in conversions

Running page speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights or WebPageTest are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to interpret the data in perspective. While they can provide valuable information to help optimize websites, don’t forget about perceived performance and the user’s experience to be specific. Speed performance will vary with different websites just as the tools for implementing faster loading pages are not exactly available for all applications.

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Joomla Security - The Complete Guide

Joomla is a free open-source content management system (CMS), built on a MVC framework. It is currently the 2nd most widely used CMS with over 40million downloads. While that doesn’t sound like a lot, that is is still millions of businesses and blogs that have chosen to power their websites with Joomla . As with any major platform, additional security concerns always present themselves. Your risk of attack is greater and vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered and exploited by attackers. This week, we provide a complete guide below on what you can do to harden your Joomla security and help prevent yourself from getting hacked or becoming a victim of the next brute-force attack.

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