Hello everyone! I hope you're doing well today. We are a little excited today as we have just finished up the new redesign of iMark Interactive. If you've been here before, then you probably notice is looks different. We hope you like it. We decided to move away from our other theme because it was cumbersome and didn't keep everything clean as we wanted it. We also wanted to change up our color scheme a bit to make it more modern and friendly. We've moved back to the Genesis framework to keep …
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How to Block Malicious WordPress Login Attempts with .htaccess
Let's face it, Wordpress is great, but it's also the widest used open-source content management system with over 60 millions sites. Day in and day out, Wordpress sites are hacked. Why? Basic security protocols are not being followed. While there are hundreds of articles about how to tighten up security, I'm going to share one tip I use on all my sites. I like to call it a login lock down wall. That's not the technical term, but it's more fun to say! How You Can Stop Malicious Wordpress …
Welcome to the New iMark Interactive
It has been a while since anything has been on this blog. I started this site years ago to share my journey as an online business owner. I was running an e-commerce site selling consumer electronics. I learned a lot of valuable information in the four years at the helm. While I still love online businesses, I have switched my focus and the focus of my business. iMark Interactive is now a site dedicated to providing services to other business and website owners. Service Offerings I have a …
Are Spammers Just Getting Lazy?
Oh Spammers.....isn't it time to try something new? Over the past few weeks, I have had the same spammer try and get the same comment through on every post on my blog. I mean, really? Are you that bad of a spammer or haven't you created something that will actually check the blog to see if your comment was rejected? I have all of these questions because it still amazes me that people still try to mass spam everyone. Get a better job and quit...... If I didn't have a few good plugins to …
Spam Grows with Your Site
As a website owner and blogger, my mission is to increase visitors as well as provide a good resource for other website owners and bloggers. When I first started blogging about 5 years ago, I was focused on increasing traffic by any means possible. Free link exchanges, banner exchanges, free advertising, directory submissions, etc. I didn't really care how I got the traffic, just that I was getting it. The times of frivolous traffic gathering methods are over as if you go to the wrong place, …