Blog

Email remains one of the most powerful channels for engaging customers, driving sales, and building brand loyalty. But with increasing spam filters, tighter inbox regulations, and evolving authentication standards, ensuring your emails actually reach your audience’s inbox is more critical - and more fiddly - than ever.

If your business relies on its online presence to operate, whether through e-commerce, client portals, or customer communication, a sudden website crash or network slowdown can feel catastrophic. Often, these disruptions aren’t accidental. One of the most common culprits is a DDoS attack, or Distributed Denial of Service attack.

But what exactly causes a DDoS attack? And why would anyone want to target you?

We have fended off many of these attacks recently and I thought this was a good topic to blog about. Let’s take a closer look at how these attacks happen, and what motivates the criminals behind them.

In the past few weeks I have heard more than one exasperated website owner say “I don’t need to appear on Google”. It’s not the first time I’ve heard this either. To be perfectly honest, unless your website is 100% password protected and has no public content, every organisation can benefit from being on Google - and the audience reached will be ultimately more engaged.

Since 2008 at Joomstore we have focused on the building and maintenance of your website and I wanted to take this opportunity to share 30+ years of Digital Marketing expoerience and explain some helpful ideas that you can easily put into practice with your awesome website for maximising exposure and response. 

Continue reading