Tag: email

8 Ways to Use Email Alerts to Boost SEO

June 28, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Link building is nowhere near dead, and some of the best link opportunities can be discovered by setting up email alerts for various things that are published on the web. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Rand runs through eight specific types of alerts that you can implement today for improved SEO. Howdy Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Today we’re going to chat about email alerts and using them to help with some of your SEO efforts, specifically content identification, competitive intelligence, some keyword research, and, of course, a lot of link building because email alerts are just fantastic for this. Now here’s what we’ve got going on. There are a number of tools that you can use to do email alerts. Obviously, Google …

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8 Ways to Use Email Alerts to Boost SEO

Improved default settings for Linux machines : @AlTobey Writes

June 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I get asked about my default settings for Linux fairly frequently and was writing this in an email and decided to post it for broader use. If you have better recommendations, by all means please send me a pull request. The Edit button at the top of this page will get you there. There are a couple groups of settings below. Most of the settings below should end up in /etc/sysctl.conf or /etc/sysctl.d/filename.conf (depending on your distro). They can be applied immediately with sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/filename.conf. I’ve applied most of these to hundreds of machines and never had an issue. That said, test in non-production first! I run the same settings across pretty much every …

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Improved default settings for Linux machines : @AlTobey Writes

How Peak Design Recovers 12% of Abandoned Carts With Email Remarketing

June 17, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Close your eyes. Take a second and imagine yourself shopping on your favorite e-commerce website. You’ve got a cart that’s full of merchandise and you’re about to check out. You take your credit card out and begin completing the checkout form. First Name, Last Name, Email Address, Payment Info. The phone rings, your boss walks in, those TPS reports are due. Panic. You quickly Xed out of the window. You’ve just abandoned your cart. There are hundreds of reasons why people abandon online transactions and it happens almost 67% of the time on e-commerce websites according to the Baymard Institute. It’s not all bad news, however. Let’s think about your transaction from the e-commerce companies’ perspective. Compared …

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How Peak Design Recovers 12% of Abandoned Carts With Email Remarketing

Making end-to-end encryption easier to use

June 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Tuesday, June 3, 2014 – posted by Stephan Somogyi, Product Manager, Security and Privacy

Your security online has always been a top priority for us, and we’re constantly working to make sure your data is safe. For example, Gmail supported HTTPS when it first launched and now always uses an encrypted connection when you check or send email in your browser. We warn people in Gmail and Chrome when we have reason to believe they’re being targeted by bad actors. We also alert you to malware and phishing when we find it.Today, we’re adding to that list the alpha version of a new tool. It’s called End-to-End and it’s a Chrome extension intended for users who need additional security beyond what …

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Making end-to-end encryption easier to use

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Email encryption in transit

June 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Many email providers don’t encrypt messages while they’re in transit. When you send or receive emails with one of these providers, these messages are as open to snoopers as a postcard in the mail. A growing number of email providers are working to change that, by encrypting messages sent to and from our services using Transport Layer Security (TLS). When an email is encrypted in transit with TLS, it makes it harder for others to read what you’re sending. The data below explains the current state of email encryption in transit. Generally speaking, use of encryption in transit increases over time, as more providers enable and maintain their support. Factors such as varying volumes of email may explain other fluctuations. Outbound Messages from Gmail …

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Email encryption in transit

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