Ready to learn the basics of managing your WordPress website content? Awesome! Here’s a series of quick video tutorials from my YouTube channel (using WordPress 3.5.1 and recorded May 2013). For more advanced tutorials, keep your eyes open. Next week I’ll be sharing some of the rockin’ plugins and power tools I use here on […]
Websites & Technology
Protect Your Blog! 2 Action Steps to Implement Today
Could your WordPress blog be hacked in minutes? It could be if you’re using the default “admin” user, a word from the dictionary for your password, or not otherwise properly secured. Ready to fix that right now and keep it safe? Try these two quick action steps. And, be sure to also read the important […]
Warning: Social Media May Be Putting Your Security At Risk
Guest Post by MJ Schrader Social media is great (especially during a web challenge such as the Ultimate Blog Challenge). Unfortunately it is easy to get caught up in the doing that we forget about security. Yes, you need to think about security when using social media as well. 1) Use a secure and different […]
5 Critical Steps You Must Take to Secure Your Website Today
It’s every website owner’s biggest nightmare… you wake up one morning and your website is GONE. Not just gone, but replaced with a hacker’s message! That’s just one of dozens of worst-case scenarios that can become reality when your website isn’t properly secured. So what can you do to protect yourself? Below, guest superhero MJ […]
How to Get a Better Alexa Ranking (Infographic)
What’s your ranking at www.Alexa.com? You can find out by typing your domain into the search box. Want a better (lower) ranking? I went on a quest about a year ago to find out what it’d take to get my ranking below 100,000 and I kept a journal of sorts noting what I did and […]
Censorship is Coming–Unless You Take Action
Wednesday, January 18th, this website will be one of the thousands choosing to go dark part of the day in protest of the SOPA / PIPA bills being considered by the United States Congress. Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WordPress and more could be gone if this bill is allowed to pass. This affects you whether […]