Your blog can be an excellent tool for marketing your business online, but your blog will only be an effective tool if it is engaging your site visitors. That means your blog will be worthless if it is not being read or if site visitors are not interacting with it in a positive way. In… [Read More]
3 Steps for Creating Strong Passwords
I want a password that is easy to remember and type. That’s exactly the kind of password that hackers like. So, say goodbye to lame passwords and follow these steps in creating strong passwords. 1. Think of a phrase or saying that is easy for you to remember. As an example, let’s use “I Like… [Read More]
Preventing Brute Force Attacks
This week one of my client’s WordPress was a victim of a brute force attack. Luckily the client had a good password but the sheer number of login attempts caused the web host to suspend his service because of Terms of Service (TOS) violations. His website was using over 80% of the servers resources and… [Read More]
Sharing PowerPoint Presentations as Slideshows
Do you have an awesome PowerPoint presentation or PDF file that you want to share with your site visitors as a slideshow? Of course you can just upload and link to the media, but that means your visitor has to download and view their content on their computer. Wouldn’t it be nice if the PowerPoint… [Read More]
How to Continuously Find New Blog Topics When it Feels You Are Out of Fresh Ideas
Keeping your website content fresh is a critical component to achieving good search engine results. The search engines prefer websites that add new content regularly. The easiest way to do this is with your blog. Of course, sometimes that is easier said than done. Even the best writers suffer from writer’s block and the pressure of knowing… [Read More]
What Happened to my LinkedIn Applications?!
This week LinkedIn updated my profile page to their new format. They have been rolling out the update for several weeks now, so if your profile hasn’t been updated already, you can expect it to be updated soon. The changes to the profile page give a crisp, clean overview of your professional story. The main… [Read More]
3 Tips to Optimize Your WordPress Images For the Search Engines.
Properly optimized blog images can help your overall Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts and can generate traffic from image-based search engines like Google images. If you are ready to ramp up your SEO efforts here are some quick tips on optimizing your images. Use your keywords in your file name. Name your image files using… [Read More]
WordPress Security – Change your Admin Username
Keeping any website secure should be an ongoing process and WordPress sites are no exception. One of the easiest ways for a hacker to access your WordPress site is to simply guess your username and password. “Admin” is the default username for many older installations of WordPress and hackers know this. Now that he has… [Read More]
Search Engine Optimization for your WordPress Blog
You have a WordPress blog and you have even been posting blog posts regularly, but you don’t seem to be generating a whole lot of new traffic. What search engine optimization efforts, can you undertake to have your blog achieve better Search Engine results and start generating more traffic? You need to optimize each blog… [Read More]
Choosing Pictures For Your WordPress Blog
Photos are worth a thousand words or so the saying goes. On the web this is only true is the photos you are using are quality pictures. If you are using poor quality photos on your blog the photo is only saying one word – Unprofessional. For your blog photos and graphics to be truly… [Read More]
