WordPress Security and Htaccess
I’m always looking for ways to protect my sites after I was hacked a couple of times elsewhere. Came across these handy tips I thought I would share. http://thematosoup.com/tips/wordpress-security-htaccess/
Blogging
No BS IM
“There be dragons there!” In the ‘make money online’ world there are lots of dragons, complete with fire and puffing and dangerously swagging tails. It’s refreshing then to find someone who seems more genuine than most. Meet Steve Scott. I like his style. http://www.stevescottsite.com/authority-internet-business-overview
Plan Your Business Marketing
Marketing is something we know we need to do but sometimes it falls behind all the other stuff, like tidying up the website, getting sales material written, blogging, preparing content etc. I must have reviewed and copied and downloaded a hundred different marketing plans and I’ve used (and taught) quite a few. But for simplicity, it’s hard to go past Paula Stafford’s, reproduced here: “Here’s my really simple marketing plan. 1. Create your product or service. 2. Be friendly to people and socialize. 3. Blog about your product or service. 4. Get on Twitter and Facebook. Talk about you, your product and… Read More »Plan Your Business Marketing
Take Control of Your Content
One of the big issues I’ve had with owning sites and blogs is continually adding content and keeping it fresh.
First I’d create my own posts but my publishing was quite erratic. I’d post a few things one day then nothing for a few days and then eventually nothing for weeks on end. My blog effectively ‘died’.
I then tried a few different automated content fillers. Ones where the tool would grab content from other sites and post it to my site. That worked in keeping fresh content coming to my blog. What I found though was the feeds were unreliable in terms of the type of information they would post.
Next I tried joining SEOLinkvine – you sign up, tell it the kind of topics you want articles on. Other people write articles on their topics and SEOLinkine basically matches what you want with what othersRead More »Take Control of Your Content
Hundreds of Blog Topic Ideas
Blogging is brilliant fun. It’s useful and informative and fills a creative void for many bloggers. But there are times when the well runs dry. Or maybe you’re just staring out and just wondering what you could possibly write about.
In preparation for my editorial calendar this year I searched online for what people have suggested as blog topics. Many are very specific; some a quite general; all stimulate ideas on topics for my blogs and with a little lateral thinking there is no reason why you couldn’t find 12 blog posts – one for each month of the year. Or 52 blog posts – one for each week. Or even 365 blog posts – one a day!
Here are 10 posts to titillate your brain’s creative juices. Don’t sit down and read each one. Follow my 5 minute plan:
- Go to a few listed sites
- Scan the ideas
- Pick the ones that jump out atRead More »Hundreds of Blog Topic Ideas
Blogging Software and ASP.NET
There are a range of platforms around today. ASP.NET is a web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. Lots of people want to take advantage of this platform and some consider its blogging software is the most advanced. In many ways, this particular program is more adaptable and more versatile than any other blogging software on the market. As a result there has been a slow but steady proliferation of ASP.NET based blogging products such as ThinkJot and BlogEngine.
BlogEngine for example has taken off as an open source project and has developed quite a groundswell within the ASP space.
Although most of the people who favor the program are accomplished coders who are familiar with programming languages like html and C++, this ASP.NET program from Microsoft is much easier to use than a lot of other blogRead More »Blogging Software and ASP.NET