WordPress is a popular target for hackers and spammers, particularly websites that are using an older version of WordPress. You simply cannot afford to use WordPress for building a website and then forget about it. The default version of WordPress is too susceptible to hackers. Earlier this year I suffered two different attacks on small … Read more
CSS sprites allow you to combine multiple images into one. The technique reduces the amount of storage your images use and speeds up the loading of your website. I wrote about the technique in my recent article on WP Hub entitled “Speeding Up a WordPress Website“. I have been working on optimising my discussion forums. … Read more
Did you realise how important Google +1’s are? Don’t worry. Neither did I. I have spoken to many bloggers and marketers over the last year and the general consensus has been that Google +1’s can help your article. I did not, however, know just how much weight Google placed on them. Yesterday, Michael Scott from … Read more
Love them or loathe them; Pop ups are one of the most effective ways of converting your visitors to subscribers. I have tried several solutions in the past. The last popup plugin I used actively on all my websites was Pippity, however I found it to be very buggy. The overall growth of my email … Read more
Social media has become hugely popular over the last few years, however when it comes to connecting with people and sharing content with others, I will always be a forum guy. I launched my first forum around 2000 and have run dozens of forums since then (I currently run three). I have also participated in … Read more
Since internet started becoming available on mobile phones several years ago, I have set up my email accounts on my phones. This allowed me to check my personal emails and work emails on the move. An essential part of being a productive internet marketer, right? Over the years, I have realised that having the ability … Read more
Before setting off to South America two years ago, I cancelled my monthly phone contract in the UK and switched to Pay As You Go (known as prepay in some countries). When I returned to the UK last month, I had around £12 of credit on my account with Tesco Mobile. That’s not a lot … Read more
The WordPress default theme has always been an important part of the development of WordPress. Three years ago, the Twenty Ten default theme raised the bar for all WordPress developers. The theme was a replacement for the old Kubrick design; which was looking very dated at the time. Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve improved upon … Read more
Whilst viewing Webmaster Tools last night, I came across a new section under Search Traffic entitled “Manual Actions”. As you may know, my Martial Arts Videos website currently does not receive much traffic from Google. To be more precise: It receives less than five visits per day. Google already responded to an email I sent … Read more
Every WordPress user has had to face comment spam at one point or another. It is a frustrating and time-consuming thing to deal with. In order to combat spam, many WordPress users install multiple anti-spam plugins. This normally removes the majority of spam. The problem is that it sometimes works too well. One of the … Read more