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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.…
Sales Pages That Sell: Masterclass Playback
How to Write a Sales Page That Sells
Breaking down the structure of a sales letter so you can see the exact steps to writing your own compelling copy … even if you feel you can’t write or hate writing!
Templates and Cheat Sheets included.
Writing sales copy is tough! Especially when you are starting from a blank piece of paper or a new web page.…
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.…
Website Wonders: Masterclass Playback
What’s right, what’s wrong and – more importantly! – what you can do to get better results from your website
Ask your friends what they think of your website and you’ll probably get lots of “Oh, it’s lovely” and “I like the colours”.
Does this help you improve your marketing?
Do these comments help you get more clients from your website?…
Recommended WordPress Plugin: Exclude pages from navigation
Have you wanted to create special thank you pages for your newsletter but then got stuck because they cluttered up your website navigation bar?
What about wanting stand alone sales pages that you want to use for specific marketing campaigns, but not want listed on your website’s menu?
You may have got your website designer to do some clever coding to stop these pages being added to your menu, but this often costs you money and it doesn’t allow you to quickly knock up a page or two without a few days delay.…
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. …
Best WordPress plugin to showcase your recent blog comments
Comments on your posts can feel like the life force of your blog, can’t it?
I remember, when I started my first blog back in 2005, how isolating it would feel when no one would stop by and leave a comment at the end of my articles. I knew people where visiting, but I wasn’t sure I was on the right track until I started to get comments.…
WordPress plugin recommendation: Thank Me Later
Best WordPress Plugins: This week’s WordPress plugin recommendation
Any tool that allows me to automate an opportunity to reach out to someone gets the thumb ups from me. But the trick to many automated tools is being able to customize them so that they feel as if you have personally written them.
This is why I love the thank me later WordPress plugin.…
WordPress Backups, Security and how to stop the spammers: Expert Interview with Tracey Rissik
We spend most of our time here at the Web Tech Club focusing on marketing; how to use web tech tools to grow your business and attract more clients.
However, if you don’t know how to protect your online marketing assets and make sure you don’t lose everything you spent weeks and months creating, then you could find your business shutting down overnight!…
Q&A Session: WordPress.org (audio download)
What’s your burning question about using WordPress.org to market your business?
Which plugins can turn your blog in to a marketing tool?
WordPress has fast become the small business owners’ Number 1 choice of website and blogging software. It’s flexibility and adaptability makes a very powerful piece of kit.
But in it’s basic form, a WordPress.org blog has the danger of being “just another website”, floating around the internet gathering nothing much more than pixel dust.…
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.…
The importance of your “Contact Us” page on your website
How many of you have been on someone’s website, wanting to get in touch to find out about a product, complain about a service … or just tell them what a great job they did… and you’ve not been able to find ANY way of getting in touch with them?
And how does that leave you feeling? Untrusting of the business?…
