T-Mobile – Be careful what you read

Starting just after 12 pm ET and continuing throughout the day on Monday June 15th. T-Mobile had been experiencing a voice and text issue that intermittently impacted customers in markets across the U.S.  That led to rumors and the news media jumping to conclusions that the largest ever DDOS attack was underway against the United…

Part V – Getting more out of Google – Sitemaps

I’ve been sharing my experiences with the Google search console and today we’re going to talk about site maps. And unfortunately I’ve been unable to get them to work due to my ongoing issues with cyberroadmap.com domain name not being hosted at WordPress.com. As you’ll recall I purchased the domain from Godaddy, but due to…

Sophos 2020 Ransomware Survey – The Other Global Epidemic

Sophos produces one of the top endpoint protection softwares on the market today. Recently, they announced a new survey regarding ransomware and the stats are very concerning. While Covid captures the attention right now, ransomware continues to be an ongoing problem that touches half of all businesses each year. The survey shows that ransomware continues…

We Are In! Cyber Roadmap Added To Google News!

The waiting is over! We’ve made it! This is very exciting! Six days ago, I began sharing how to get more out of Google – our submission to Google news. Three days ago I shared our rejection by Google news. But try, try again we did. While the rejection provided an email, there was no…

Lots of Waiting, Get Your PC/Device Patched

So here we are…. I’m waiting for my DNS record to be freed up so I can move it from GoDaddy. I’m waiting to see if my latest submission to Google news will be approved or rejected. I’m waiting to see if we have enough stats in the Google search console so I can further…

Redundancy

So you went out and you started your new business. You picked your name and then you bought your domain. You started making posts and suddenly… Visitors! You start to feel good. You start to feel like you’re reaching your audience. You’re doing your part to make sure you’re getting at least one good post…

Part IV – Getting More Out Of Google – Issues found in “Cyber Roadmap”

As my site has been progressing, I’ve been sharing my experiences with you so that you can learn, or maybe laugh with me. My first attempt at getting into “Google News” was met with the following response: Issues found in “Cyber Roadmap” blocking approval on Google News Hello “Cyber Roadmap” team, Our team recently reviewed your…

Part III – Getting More Out of Google – Google Search Console

Before we move on to the submission to Google News/Publisher Center, I thought I’d share a bit more about the Google Search Console. For a new website, your most significant challenge to collecting performance data, is that you don’t have much traffic. Thus, no significant data has been collected. Thus it can’t be analyzed for…

Getting More Out Of Google

After a day of thinking and about 4 hours sleep, it hit me suddenly. I was able to get up and start working on some of the roadmap content that we’ll be publishing in the future. With that headed in the right direction, I spent some time today working on ways to maximize our Google…