Tag Archives: ecommerce

01.19.23
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Maintain WP Security Implement SSL for WordPress Website


(Ananova News) January 19, 2023.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security protocol encrypts the data transmitted between your website and users’ browsers. It ensures that the information coming to and from your website is secure. Thus, helping to prevent hackers from intercepting sensitive information. SSL-secured websites contain a certificate that verifies a secured connection. 

SSL is an important aspect to maintain security and a must for every website – Rohit Kumar (Ananova Expert Team). Let’s Encrypt provides free SSL, so, there should be no hesitation to implement the same.

It’s recommended to purchase premium SSL from a reputable provider like Instant SSL, cPanel.net or Namecheap. It’s easy to install and configure on the most cPanel control panel.

An eCommerce customer wants to read HTTPS in the website URL, to consider it secure. SSL encryption is a must for websites collecting sensitive information such as Credit Card numbers, entering user names and passwords, health data, financial accounts, or any other private information.

Most browsers like Google Chrome and Firefox warn the visitor if the website doesn’t have an SSL certificate or has mixed content. 

“This website might not be secure.” – for websites that do not have SSL.

The browser displays a small lock image before the URL when clicked provides information about the certificate holder, the issued by, the expiration date, the issuer’s public key and a digital signature of the certificate issuer.

There are three different types of SSL certificates: domain validated (DV), organization validation (OV) and extended validation (EV). 

  • DV SSL for personal websites is the least expensive option. It requires that the website owner verify that the domain is registered to the domain owner, which is done through the WHOIS database.
  • OV SSL for business or nonprofit websites, and requires a higher level of verification. The SSL certificate issuer verifies the address and location of the owner.
  • EV SSL for e-commerce businesses and businesses exchanging financial data as it offers the most amount of protection. The certificates offer the highest monetary warranties to any website viewers affected by an SSL failure.

Technical experts always suggest keeping software (theme, plugins, third-party add-ons, and WordPress Core) updated and up-to-date with the latest fixes. Always use strong and unique logins and passwords to secure accounts. Hence, it is always suggested to have managed WordPress hosting, as the provider monitors website security, takes regular backups, and keeps them up.

Companies like WordPress.com have the expertise to protect hosted websites from cyber attacks, breaches, hacking, identity and access management (IAM), malware and vulnerabilities, and phishing. They take care of updating WordPress core, themes, plugins, and PHP, disabling external URL requests, and implementing SSL. They keep regular backups, which ensure business continuity. A secured website has a good online reputation, so businesses prioritise security. Every eCommerce store and business website needs protection against cyberattacks, malware, and viruses. Businesses want to protect data as well as sensitive information and thus want to ensure website functionality and online reputation. Hence, it asks for crucial security measures. Google penalises or blacklists malicious or phishing websites.

01.19.23
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Improve WP Security: Disable PHP File Execution


(Ananova News, January 19, 2023.
Disabling PHP in specific writeable directories stops the PHP execution process. While it’s enabled with proper configuration in some directories. The hackers attempt to break the website by uploading backdoor access files or malware in the PHP code of WordPress files to gain access to the website. The.htaccess file can be used to disable PHP execution.
Insert the following code into the .htaccess file in a directory:

php_flag engine off
<Files *.php>
deny from all
<Files>

Technical experts always suggest keeping software (theme, plugins, third-party add-ons, and WordPress Core) updated and up-to-date with the latest fixes. Always use strong and unique logins and passwords to secure accounts. Hence, it is always suggested to have managed WordPress hosting, as the provider monitors website security, takes regular backups, and keeps them up.

Companies like WordPress.com have the expertise to protect hosted websites from cyber attacks, breaches, hacking, identity and access management (IAM), malware and vulnerabilities, and phishing. They take care of updating WordPress core, themes, plugins, and PHP, disabling external URL requests, and implementing SSL. They keep regular backups, which ensure business continuity. A secured website has a good online reputation, so businesses prioritise security. Every eCommerce store and business website needs protection against cyberattacks, malware, and viruses. Businesses want to protect data as well as sensitive information and thus want to ensure website functionality and online reputation. Hence, it asks for crucial security measures. Google penalises or blacklists malicious or phishing websites.

01.19.23
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Secured WordPress Hosting


(Ananova News) January 11, 2023.

Choosing a secured WordPress web hosting provider is a must, and with that, a business website may need security plugins like Jetpack or Wordfence. Along with the provider, a business also purchases security software as an essential aspect of maintaining website security. It’s expected of a web hosting provider to prevent cyberattacks and malware or virus threats. So, Ananova always recommends going with well-known hosting companies. You can check their track records and security features, such as SSL certificates, firewall protection, and malware scanning, by looking them up online or doing some research.

Technical experts always suggest keeping software (theme, plugins, third-party add-ons, and WordPress Core) updated and up-to-date with the latest fixes. Always use strong and unique logins and passwords to secure accounts. Hence, it is always suggested to have managed WordPress hosting, as the provider monitors website security, takes regular backups, and keeps them up.

Companies like WordPress.com have the expertise to protect hosted websites from cyber attacks, breaches, hacking, identity and access management (IAM), malware and vulnerabilities, and phishing. They take care of updating WordPress core, themes, plugins, and PHP, disabling external URL requests, and implementing SSL. They keep regular backups, which ensure business continuity. A secured website has a good online reputation, so businesses prioritise security. Every eCommerce store and business website needs protection against cyberattacks, malware, and viruses. Businesses want to protect data as well as sensitive information and thus want to ensure website functionality and online reputation. Hence, it asks for crucial security measures. Google penalises or blacklists malicious or phishing websites.

01.02.23
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Ananova recommends WordPress.com for eCommerce Stores


(Ananova News) January 02, 2022.

Ananova has always recommended WordPress.com and Shopify as the best web hosting providers to build an eCommerce store. The rapidly growing online eCommerce business has already overtaken traditional methods. The companies spent thousands of dollars to stay ahead of the competition and gain attention. Most firms choose Ananova recommended as the most popular and flexible WordPress.com WooCommerce for online business success. Millions of designers and developers work to improve and develop responsive customizable eCommerce themes and plugins, thus providing an enormous selection to users. The platform helps eCommerce stores increase customer loyalty and even boost SEO rankings. The SEO-friendly feature JSON-LD schema markup helps Google understand the content type and ensures all URLs across all pages are optimized. WordPress enables you to do incredible customization and you don’t need coding experience. You can make your store stand out from all the other online businesses. WordPress.com enables an eCommerce store to add and upload thousands of products within proper categories with proper tags, & titles.

Ananova lists WordPress.com as a reliable web hosting provider because of its excellent technical customer service, reputation for security and uptime. The provider offers ample resources like space and bandwidth to accommodate business growth via an increased number of products or customers. The provider manages everything behind the scenes, and entrepreneurs need to focus only on the core business. The platform provides tools to enable taxes, set up shipping methods and add payment gateways. The customers can configure payment gateways like PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Braintree and 2Checkout. Paypal is free for personal accounts with a sales volume per month below $20K. It’s a good option for stores selling low-priced items. Businesses with heavy cash payments can go with Paypal Express Checkout. Stripe works with all major credit cards but, it does not provide an option for recurring billing eg. monthly subscriptions. It has built-in fraud protection features which help reduce chargebacks since they are secure transactions initiated through HTTPS protocol encryption. Another payment method Authorize Net offers much lower fees but requires more setup time. Before going live, each transaction requires manual approval before being processed by them first before being sent along to whichever company requested it originally.

The technology with improved usability, functionality and better security has made purchasing with online eCommerce much easier compared to the traditional way. The provider takes care of eCommerce stores against malicious attacks that try to hack to steal credit cards and sensitive information through phishing scams or other means.

The companies understand that most potential customers are available online, especially through mobile devices. The WooCommerce Social Login enables customers to log in to Woocommerce through social media accounts like Facebook, or Twitter rather than creating an account for buying through the website.

Online feedback or comments alter the customer’s buying decision. Most businesses get trademark registrations for their selected eCommerce store domain names thus, legally hold brand names.

You can look at the Ananova selected top hosting providers at: https://ananova.com/best-hosting-providers

The key players listed in the list include Liquidweb, WordPress.com, A2Hosting, GreenGeeks, Namecheap, Inmotionhosting, Resellerspanel, Hostgator, Interserver, Sitevalley, Webhostingpad, Bluehost, Hostmonster, Fatcow, IPower, Weebly, Shopify, Accuwebhosting, WPEngine, Cloudways, Hostens and many more.

04.27.22
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Multi-Vendor Marketplace


Most businesses list their products on top marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Etsy, and others to increase sales. While focusing on their e-commerce portals, SMEs list products on branded marketplaces that helped increase revenues by 80 per cent. The global marketing websites allow listing men’s and women’s clothing, fragrances, skin-care products, cosmetics, and much more. Their product pages look like brochures. With managed services, these marketplaces make buying, selling, and sophisticated transactions easier.

Most businesses start their e-commerce portals, but one in thousands begin getting traffic. Thus, these businesses find it comfortable to list products on marketplaces where traffic is already there. The e-commerce marketplace provides fully managed services, responding to the complex needs of SMEs and large businesses. Hence they are gaining popularity as more businesses go online. The company gets the liberty to sell products worldwide with hosted applications and even don’t need employees scattered across those selling destinations. The standard, the preconfigured platform, enables companies to list products instantly after signup to get customers.

The marketplace provider installs base e-commerce software, apps, round-the-clock monitoring, caching, 100% uptime, periodic backups, and other plugins on standardized hardware and server infrastructure and configurations. The technical team takes care of performance, complex needs, and speed deployments, and manages the application, content distribution, network, storage capability, and service-level agreements and licensing. Furthermore, it makes data accessible anytime and anywhere, with real-time access to billing information, trouble tickets, and other data associated with their accounts.

The businesses find the cost of listing or launching products on marketplaces much lower than implementing and maintaining e-commerce portals themselves. Thus, they decided to go with branded marketplace instead of making a significant investment in bringing up sites, thus capitalizing on the marketplace’s extensive infrastructure.

Most companies don’t have the skills, technical staff, & technologies for those pieces. Marketplaces like DownTown.us do much more marketing stuff like offering streaming media services, social media sharing, & business listing apart from providing the platform, thus making the companies profitable by increasing the visibility and demand of their products. Therefore, most small and midsize companies are moving into the managed services arena.

07.23.13
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Adapting Your Site for the Visually Impaired


Adapting Your Site for the Visually Impaired

You’ve set up your website to appeal to shoppers, consumers of all kinds, and other people that you’re trying to market. But, have you thought about people that are visually impaired? Millions of visually impaired people use and rely on the Internet daily, but the Internet isn’t always friendly.

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06.28.13
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Hot to start an online store?


Hot to start an online store?

According to Forrester Research, Co., U.S. online retail sales grew 12.6% to 176 billion in 2010. That number is expected to be as high as $279 billion by 2015. Not in the online retail game yet? You’re missing out. Dying to get into online retail but don’t know how? Here are some simple 6 steps to start your own business. 
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Start by getting your own cheap hosting. You can find reviews at ananova.com