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What is Google Search Console?Google Search Console is a free Google tool that shows how your website actually performs in Google Search — not estimates, but the real data Google holds on your site.
What is Essential Eight Maturity Level 2?Essential Eight Maturity Level 2 is the middle tier of the Australian Signals Directorate's 3-level maturity model for its Essential Eight mitigation strategies.
Do meta keywords still matter for SEO?No — Google ignores the meta keywords tag.
What does an MXToolbox SPF result mean?An MXToolbox SPF result tells you whether your domain publishes a Sender Policy Framework record, and which mail servers it authorises to send email on your behalf.
What is APRA CPS 234 and does it apply to me?CPS 234 is the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s information-security standard.
What is the DMARC sp= tag and does my policy cover subdomains?sp= is the optional DMARC tag that sets a separate policy for your subdomains.
What does securityheaders.com actually check?securityheaders.com makes a single request to your home page and grades the HTTP response headers it gets back, from A+ down to F.
What is an XML sitemap and do I need one?An XML sitemap is a machine-readable list of the pages on your website that you want search engines to find, usually living at yourdomain.com.au/sitemap.xml.
What is a Google PageSpeed score and does it affect my ranking?A Google PageSpeed Insights score is a 0–100 lab estimate of how fast a page loads and becomes usable, produced by Google’s Lighthouse engine for mobile and desktop separately.
Does my small business need ISO 27001?Almost certainly not.
What is the difference between SSL and TLS?SSL and TLS are the technology that encrypts the connection between a visitor’s browser and your website — the padlock and the “s” in “https”.
What do "impressions" mean in Google Search Console?An impression is counted each time a page from your site appears in Google’s search results for someone — whether they clicked it or not, and even if it sat far enough down the page that they never scrolled to it.
What is an SSL Labs grade and what counts as good?An SSL Labs grade is a letter score from A+ down to F that Qualys SSL Labs assigns to a website’s HTTPS configuration after testing its certificate, protocol versions, and cipher support.
What is "average position" in Google Search Console?Average position in Google Search Console is the average ranking your page held across all the searches where it appeared, where position 1 is the top organic result.
How much does SMB1001 certification cost?SMB1001 certification fees scale with tier, and at the higher tiers the real cost is implementation rather than the certificate itself.
What is SMB1001?SMB1001 is a tiered cybersecurity certification standard built specifically for small and medium businesses — published by Dynamic Standards International, updated annually, and unlike ISO 27001 or the Essential Eight, actually sized and priced for a business without an IT department.
What is DMARC and why does MXToolbox keep flagging it?DMARC is a DNS record that tells receiving mail servers what to do with email that claims to come from your domain but fails the SPF and DKIM authentication checks.
What is a meta description?A meta description is the short snippet of text — about 150 to 160 characters — that Google often shows under your page title in search results.
What does "Not Secure" in the browser address bar mean?“Not Secure” in the browser address bar means the page is being served over plain HTTP rather than HTTPS, so anything typed into it — a contact form, a login, a payment field — travels unencrypted and can be read or altered in transit.
What does "DMARC record not found" mean?"DMARC record not found" in a tool like MXToolbox means your domain publishes no DMARC record at all — so receiving mail servers have no instruction on what to do with email that fails authentication, and their safe default is to deliver it anyway.
What is keyword difficulty?Keyword difficulty is a score from 0 to 100 that SEO tools like Ahrefs and Moz use to estimate how hard it is to rank in the first ten organic Google results for a given search term.
What are the DISP membership levels?The Defence Industry Security Program has 4 membership levels, each aligned to an Australian Government security classification — the level determines what information your business is accredited to handle.
Does SMB1001 count toward DISP membership?No.
What is SPF (Sender Policy Framework)?SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is a DNS record that lists which mail servers are allowed to send email using your domain.