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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For many years Nonprofit Tech for Good used a budget website hosting company for $12 a month, but by 2020 our website downtime became significant and our email opt-in forms overrun with spam bot subscribers. Since then, our site has experienced zero downtime, no more bot email subscribers, and customer service is exceptional.

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10 Website Maintenance Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Search engine optimization (SEO) can be an expensive and time-consuming because it requires on-going maintenance. Installing a robust SSL certificate on your website helps protect confidential contact and financial information when when donors make an online donation and builds trust among users by assuring them that your site is secure.

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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Customer service can be unreliable and slow to respond and if your site has been taken offline or data compromised in a cyberattack, and in either case, you are going to need fast-responding, knowledgeable customer service. Since then, our site has experienced zero downtime, no more bot email subscribers, and customer service is exceptional.

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Lame spam of the day: disappointed spammer

Robert Weiner

Most of the spam that reaches me comes as emails, but my blog also attracts a fair share of spammy comments. Here''s one of the former, from a spammer I presume is trying to increase the search engine ranking for a site selling shoes. I searched for the first sentence and found over 2 million examples, so it may be working.

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Lame spam of the day: weight loss blog comment

Robert Weiner

Some of the lamest spam I see comes in the form of comments on my blog posts. Some sounds convincing, but my spam filters (Akismet and Bad Behavior) are incredibly good at catching them. It's particularly entertaining when the spam is trying to link to one of my spam of the day posts.). Here's an example.

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Lame spam as blog comments

Robert Weiner

I wrote recently about spam in the form of blog comments. Fortunately, my anti-spam filters (Akismet and Bad Behavior) caught them. I assume that most of these are planted for search engine optimization rather than to get people to click a link. When in doubt, do a web search. This is really a stupendous work done by you.

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. I recognize so many snippets that have appeared in my spam folder over the years. { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.

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