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10 Website Maintenance Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

WordPress also offers easy-to-add plugins that add functionality to your website and it is worth noting that WordPress and its plugins need to be updated regularly to prevent potential crashes on the website. If you have a contact us form, add a Google reCAPTCHA to help stop spam emails. 3) Use and monitor Google Analytics.

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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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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 so overrun with spam bot subscribers, that we had to make the shift to a premium website hosting company and upgraded to a $96 a month plan.

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SEO For Nonprofits: A Beginners Guide To Digital Marketing Success

Nonprofits Source

keyword optimization, mobile optimization, or anchor text links). Responsive Mobile Design. Have responsive and mobile optimized pages. If there’s one thing I see the community adopting quickly, it’s optimized pages for mobile devices. 25% of donors complete their donations on mobile devices.

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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. We had to move to a premium website hosting company and upgraded to a $96 a month plan.

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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. It is another of those open source software applications that “just works.&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy.

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10 Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Embrace a mobile-first design strategy. Sixty-two percent of email is opened on a mobile device , so first and foremost your email campaigns (e-newsletters, fundraising appeals, event invites, welcome emails, thank you emails, etc.) The good news is that modern design trends for mobile email are also compatible with desktop email.

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