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Martech Zone articles tagged https:
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Content Marketing
What Is A 404 Error Page? Why Are They So Important?
When you make a request for an address in a browser, a series of events happen in a matter of microseconds: You type an address with http or https and hit enter.The http stands for hypertext transfer protocol and is routed to a domain name server. Https is a secure connection where the host and browser do a handshake and…
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Content Marketing
How to Secure WordPress in 10 Easy Steps
Do you know that over 90,000 hacks are attempted each minute on WordPress sites globally? Well, if you own a WordPress-powered website, that stat should worry you. It doesn’t matter if you are running a small-scale business. Hackers don’t discriminate based on the size or importance of the websites. They are only looking for any vulnerability which can be exploited…
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Search Marketing
How Web Security Affects SEO
Did you know that around 93% of users begin their web surfing experience by typing their query into the search engine? This whopping figure should not surprise you. As internet users, we have become accustomed to the convenience of finding exactly what we need within seconds via Google. Whether we’re looking for an open pizza shop that’s nearby, a tutorial…
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Content Marketing
Semrush Adds Tool to Crawl Your Site and Find HTTPS Issues
If you’ve ever had to utilize a browser’s developer tools to try and track down a rogue image or include that’s not secure, you know how frustrating it is. Lucky for us, there’s been a fantastic update to Semrush‘s comprehensive Site Audit – the addition of an HTTPS checker. You can now perform an in-depth HTTPS check which covers 100…
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Search Marketing
Finally, It’s Time to Retire Your WWW
Sites like ours that have been around for a decade accumulated SEO rank on pages that have sustained incredible traffic. As with most sites, our domain was displayed and started with www. In recent years, the www has become less prominent on sites… but we kept ours because that subdomain had so much authority with search engines. Until now! Moz…
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Search Marketing
Yoast SEO: Canonical URLs on a Site with Optional SSL
When we moved our site over to Flywheel, we didn’t force everyone into an SSL connection (the https:// url that ensures a secure connection). We’re still undecided on this. We may ensure that form submissions and the e-commerce portion are secure, but not sure about just the average article to read. With that in mind, we realized that our canonical…