How to Extend the Google Analytic Reports Scheduled Emails

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 After setting up and configuring Google Analytics on your website, it’s a good idea to set up scheduled emails to get a summary of how your website is doing via email for convenience’s sake.

We configure Google Analytics and a custom Website Analytic Dashboard, including setting up the scheduled emailed reports with most new website services for clients; or as part of our SEO Strategy plans.

But the renewal of the scheduled emails is up to the client.  For clients with current active web hosting, we will do this for you at no extra charge if requested (submit ticket here) .




Regardless of who sets the scheduled emails up, Google limits scheduled email reports to 1-year term, so they are required to be extended to continue receiving them. The following walks you through the steps necessary.

Extend the scheduled emailed Google Analytic reports

  1. Login to Google Analytics (https://analytics.google.com/)
  2. Once logged in you will be presented with your Google Analytics Home dashboard displaying statistics of your website.
  3. Click on the ADMIN menu; located on the lower left of the screen
    1. This takes you to your Admin dashboard.
  4. Under “All Web Site Data” find the “Scheduled Emails” menu item. (may have to scroll down).
  5. All scheduled emails will display here.
  6. To extend, click the Action button and select Extend.
  7. Then confirm on the prompt that you want to Extend the scheduled email.
  8. That’s it, you just extended your scheduled emails by a year.

Receive a Mail Delivery Failed Error When Sending Message to Hotmail or Outlook Mail Accounts

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Stop SpamThe other day I received a Mail Delivery Failed message from clients that were using Hotmail and Outlook.com email accounts.

Those that were using Google, Yahoo or others received the message just fine.

The error details included:

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients.
This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.com SIZE=2169:
host mx2.hotmail.com [65.55.33.135]: 550 SC-001 (COL0-MC6-F24) Unfortunately, messages from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX weren’t sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list. You can also refer your provider to http://mail.live.com /mail /troubleshooting.aspx#errors.

After researching this a bit I found out that Microsoft has implemented a rather autonomous spam filtering system that as you see in the message, my server/IP address was not blocked due to spam activities , it was simply part of a an IP network.




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WordPress Plugins Found Hiding a Backdoor – Is Your Site Secure?

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This is an unfortunate example of why you need a good maintenance plan for your website, such as our Maintenance +Security plans we offer.

Security issues that could degrade your site like this pop up for all types of websites powered by content management systems.  Not to scare anyone into spending money, but need to be aware and be informed of how your website may be at risk, regardless of what web company you happen to work with.

The backdoor code in all three plugins works in a very similar way by calling to a remote server and inserting content and links on the affected sites. Experts believe the backdoor code is used to inject hidden SEO spam (cloaked links) on affected sites that help improve the search engine ranking of other sites.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/three-more-wordpress-plugins-found-hiding-a-backdoor/




 

Why make a website mobile-friendly? — Small Business Guide

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Source: Why make a website mobile-friendly? — Webmaster’s Mobile Guide

There are outstanding statistics that give good reason to make a website mobile-friendly.  In the USA, 94% of people with smartphones search for local information on their phones. And of those 77% of mobile searches occur  at a place of home or work place, where desktop or laptop devices are likely present.

source: Google.com : comparison of not so mobile-friendly site vs a mobile-friendly site

If that is not enough reasoning to have a mobile-friendly site, than the change Google made this April to its search algorithm should

convince you.

Google made a huge change to its search algorithm (effective on 4/21/2015) that affects all sites that are not mobile friendly.


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Looking for a Web Designer? Ask these questions!

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Looking for a web designer may be a daunting task for the small business owner.  This web designer will be the one that will be showcasing your business and personal reputation online for everyone in the world to see.

You want to make sure you get a professional designer but at a fair and reasonable price,
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