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Blogging is (believe it or not) just like the restaurant biz. Many things will influence choices and your first impressions. Reputation, Brand, Comfort and other factors come into play. You have to treat your blog the same way. Don’t think just because you have a great name and an amazing website idea that people will flock to it.
WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world with over 6 Million downloads so far (See why I like wordpress here) and because its so popular, you know the bad guys will begin to target its users. Hacking is a very serious issue that can cripple any website and erase a hard earned source of income, especially for the unsuspecting. The thing about it is many of us have never witnessed the devastating effects that malicious scripts can have on a website, so I’m going to show you an example of what happens when hackers attack and how to deal with it.
As of the beginning of 2009 there were approximately 
133 Million blogs online. This is a pretty large market and also the perfect playground for unscrupulous persons who live for spamming, scamming and just creating malicious programs that can seriously compromise and disable unsuspecting sites. As wordpress blog owners, we need to do everything possible to ensure that our sites are never exploited.
After posting a general tutorial on How to Add 
an About Author Box in the Post Footer in WordPress yesterday, my visitor traffic soared and quite a few persons were asking me how to add the author box to the Thesis theme. So since I like to please my readers, here’s a short and easy tutorial on how to get it done.
This is a very short tutorial on how to add an About 
Author Bio Box at the end of your posts just like the one at the end of this post. An author box is very important because it further connects with readers by giving a little background information on the author. I spent 2 days testing different types of plugins for this purpose but could not find any that worked correctly. So I decided to write the code and then this tutorial. Continue reading →
There is a growing debate on the net whether link popularity will be relevant in the medium term as search engine algorithms continue to change and evolve to be more efficient and facilitates easier methods for the average webmaster to focus on SEO related tasks. Personally, I think that link building is here to stay for the foreseeable future since Google uses linking data intensively. Continue reading →
This is a quick tutorial on how to submit your websites to 3 of the major 
search engines – Google, Bing & Yahoo
It is very important to get your website listed in the major search engines. This is a basic free submission that allows web users to access your website through organic search, provided that their search keywords match the ‘crawler accessible’ content you have on your site and your website has already been crawled and indexed. (We will discuss key word selection and search engine optimization in another post) Continue reading →
Let’s face it, we cannot be successful on the web without acknowledging the power of google and the importance of having a high search ranking on the world’s top search engine. However, to be successful, we need to know what google is looking for, what the crawlers/bots want to find, and also how to make it easy for them to find our content. To do this, let’s become the eyes of the google-bot (The google web client used to index and search the web for new content) and to do this, google has an excellent tool called the ‘Fetch as Googlebot tool’. This tool can be found within google’s webmaster tools. Continue reading →
I’ve been going through my website traffic statistics for my blog and noticed some spikes in activity in terms of page hits, that could not be accounted for as legitimate user traffic. So within my webalizer tool (A free tool used to monitor domain traffic and activity) I decided to hunt down the source of this rise in activity. Here I found IP addresses that have accessed my site and found the culprit. This particular IP registered a total of 3,000 hits in one day. I then used a free ‘who is’ online service (Honey Pot Project or Whois.net) to check who owns the IP and I discovered that this is a spammer / scammer. So let’s get to blocking. Continue reading →
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How to Highlight Author Comments & Edit Your Reply Button in Thesis
Ok, I have fallen in love with Thesis and its endless customization capabilities. Since installing and editing the theme over the weekend, I have learned quite a lot of customization techniques through experimentation and reading other tutorials online. So today, here’s a short tutorial on how to add a little spice to your dull reply button in thesis and also how to highlight your author comments on posts so that it stands out.
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