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One way of safe guarding your wordpress site from hackers
Once again the hackers are out in full force and as I type, warnings are being sent out by major hosting companies such as Hostgater.
These wise words from Tracey Rissik, our WordPress Expert here at The Web Tech Club, were posted on our Members Only Facebook Group:
“Hi all – just so you know, attacks against WordPress sites seem to be happening worldwide, to all hosting providers – just got this from Hostgator http://blog.hostgator.com/2013/04/11/global-wordpress-brute-force-flood/ – make sure you have full backups in place everyone !!!…
Panda & Penguin and the latest Google updates: Recorded interview with Wendy Chamier
Panda & Penguin – A guide to the lastest Google updates and how they affect your website rankings and search engine optimisation
Last year – 2012 – Google introduced two new updates to its algorithm calculations: Panda and Penguin.
Panda mainly focused on website content to ensure only “quality” websites where coming to the top of search listings. Whereas Penguin mainly focused on the creditability of links to and from “quality” websites.…
Evergreen Blogging: Masterclass Playback
Creating, Promoting and Repurposing Evergreen Blog Posts
Special 3 part Masterclass showing you how to write less whilst still attracting more clients and customers
A lot has changed in the blogging world over the past few years. Google latest updates, known as Panda and Penguin, have had BIG impacts (some may say devastating and others have rejoiced) on how Google looks at and ranks the content on your websites and blogs.…
Attracting more readers to your blog: expert interview with Laura Summers
Kevin Costner did nothing for web marketing with his infamous phrase “Build it and they will come”.
Writing great blog posts and then simply crossing your fingers, hoping that somebody will find your blog, is madness. And yet, this is what too many business owners do. They focus on creating great content and think this is enough to build their readership.…
Tweet old blog posts automatically – WordPress Plugin saves the day!
They say an average tweet lasts just 4 hours! So if you are tweeting links to your latest blog posts, they are quickly forgotten by the end of each working day.
A good blog post deserves more than 4 hours of Twitter fame, don’t you think?
So rather than using a scheduling service such as Hootsuite or Tweetdeck and upload links and tweets to be tweeted over the coming weeks, this rather nifty WordPress plugin makes tweeting your old blog posts a dream!…
How much should you pay for website hosting?
If you are going to get yourself a website or blog, one service do you need to subscribe to is a web hosting service. Your website can’t get found by your clients if it ain’t hosted!
You may get “free” website hosting as part of your website. Your website designer may have included it in the price of the building the website for you … but do make sure of what your on going costs are. …
How to synch your blog with your Facebook profile
If you have a blog, then synching it to your Facebook profile is a must!
It’s an easy way of giving value to your Facebook friends and giving them the opportunity to “like”, add a comment or share with their friends – all great publicity for you and your blog!
This video shows you how to use the NetworkedBlog application to do this.…
Blog Widget: How to socialise your blog using Facebook NetworkedBlog Widget
In a previous video I introduced you to the Facebook application – NetworkedBlogs. This clever little app allows you to synch your blog feed automatically to your Facebook page or profile.
This video shows you how to use the NetworkedBlog widget in your blog – a great way of socialising your blog and automatically adding photos your fans and followers.
Got a question?…
WordPress Blogsites: Recorded interview with Sandra DeFreitas
If there is one blog tool I constantly rave about, it’s WordPress.
WordPress is the blogging tool that I use to power both my CanDoCanBe.com site as well as this WebTechClub.com. And, although it’s by no means the one and only blogging tool to consider, it one of the most flexible, adaptable and effective blogging tool for a lot of small businesses.…
Blogging Inspirations: Recorded interview with Mark Lee
Thinking about setting up and writing one blog can be a lot to get your head around. Managing three blogs may seem impossible!
But this is exactly what Mark Lee does and during this half hour interview, I pick Mark’s blogging brains on how and what he does to write and manage all these blogs without them taking over his whole working week.…
Blogging for Business: Web Tech Training Session Playback
Blogs, RSS Feeds and all that jazz
A simple, non-technical explanation of what a blog is and how you can use a blog to attract the right clients
Blogging has been around for many years now.And some will even suggest that social networking sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn are replacing the need for blogs.
But blogging is not only here to stay – it has become the backbone to many small business online marketing strategies and sites such as Twitter have only fuelled the success of well-read blogs.…
