I love Scott Ginsberg. He’s that ‘nametag’ guy and he’s refreshingly real. You can grab a copy of his latest publication from the link below. It’s called The Nametag Principle and it’s got a year’s full of ideas you can use. http://esbjournal.com/2011/11/grab-scott-ginsbergs-new-book-for-free/ Oops – sorry, you’re too late 🙁 But, you CAN go here and get all of his books for free – legit. Hey – so the right thing – if you download it, spread the word.
Like a lot of people, I have found the security setting in Windows 7 incredibly frustrating. For example, I copied a lot of my data across to an external HDD to free up disk space and was always being told I had no permission to do anything with the files after that move. Each time I wanted to do something I had to go through the change ownership tedium each time.
Tons of posts abound about how to fix it but nothing worked – and I got nervous about downloading fix files and changing host files.
Then I learned one little trick in this post that made life a lot easier – tick the box that starts “replace” in the bottom left corner of the final screen. By doing that. you have permission for the entire folder. I kept changing permission for the folder to delete an old hotfixinstaller folder but it wouldRead More »Access Denied in Windows 7
One of the key elements to building traffic is to write articles and publish them over the web. ALL over the web. There are major reasons to do this. Here are two reasons:
1. build credibility and reputation as an expert
2. generate a supply of backlinks to increase your search engine ranking
So how do you write a host of articles to link back to your site? Won’t that take an inordinate amount of time, let alone the ability to come up with an endless supply of articles and titles? Well, yes … and, no.
If you wrote ALL your articles by hand you’d be a very busy bunny. To get decent backlinks you’ll be needing hundreds of articles in a host of different article directories and locations to get enough ‘link juice’. Or, you can simply rewrite some of those articles to quickly generate a number of ‘unique’ articles. Now here’s the trick.Read More »Spin Those Articles
Secure Browsing Not sure about you, but I reckon I take the web for granted these days. I shouldn’t. Nor should you. The proliferation of bots and general baddies who are looking to steal your information, logins and even your identity means we need to stop being complacent. Any line of defense we can put in place to protect our online experience is good IMHO. That’s why I was glad to find this little tool that makes your regular browsing that little bit more secure. Grab ‘HTTPS Everywhere’ add-on for FireFox or Chrome. Adding that extension will help you to… Read More »** Tech Tip For The Day **
Wow.
There is a fairy-godmother after all, and her name is Vlad!
I have a growing list of WordPress websites and it has been getting tedious updating each one of them and monitoring them, even with using a password manager to automatically login.
Then along comes Vlad with a very cool tool.
ManageWP is both a plugin (which authorises the software to centralise your sites) and a dashboard which not only shows an at-a-glance status of your sites but also has increased functionality. You can do bulk updates and upgrades, bulk posts and pages, and other activities including automated backups of your entire site – outstanding safety feature.
And you never have to leave.
From within the dashboard you can then step into any of yoru sites and do the usual stuff.
This is a beta-model at the moment and so it’s use is temporarily free. Which is a good move on Vlad’s part because even after onlyRead More »Easily manage ALL your WP Sites
Putting up a website or blog is great. You’ve put your stamp on the www and are sharing your knowledge, ideas and expertise with the world. Good on you!! So, how’s it going? Are people reading? Does Google or Alexa like you? Where can you tweak things to improve your readability and rankings? Whaddyamean “I dunno!?” OK, there are lots of analytics tools out there and Google’s own tools are pretty compelling. But here’s a site that will give you basic information on your site and or blog and helps you to find areas for improvement as well. And it’s… Read More »Basic Analytics for Your Website and Blog