Category Archives: Blogging

Brute-Force Login Attempts

In my last post, I talked mainly about backups of your own local PC. In this post, I am going to talk in more general terms about how protect the work you have done on your WordPress site. Continue reading

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Backup, Backup, & Backup

You want to be able to recover from a webhack, and you want to be able to recover from your own errors. There is one more thing you need to back up, namely, your power. If you have a laptop with a battery that is in good shape and charged, then you may not need a UPS (although I still run mine on one when I’m at the house, because of the extra surge protection, and I can finish or shut down a print job when the power goes out). But if you have a desktop system (I have several, because I have some fairly compute-intensive applications, like video editing, that I do frequently), then you definitely need a UPS. Continue reading

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Massive Distributed Brute-Force WordPress Site Attack

On Saturday morning, I awoke to several thousand messages in my inbox telling me of unsuccessful login attempts to “admin” for nearly all of my WordPress sites (I have over 50). I opened a ticket to my hosting company, and … Continue reading

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Inside Adsense

For many years, the concept behind Adsense has fascinated thousands upon thousands of marketers because it seems relatively easy to profit from. And Google makes a fortune perpetuating that illusion. Once upon a time, it really was easy to slap … Continue reading

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To Backlink, or Not to Backlink

I think it’s still worthwhile to get a few backlinks to jumpstart your traffic, as long as you don’t consider that to be your major traffic strategy. I have used the service of SocialAdr to good effect for the last several years, and if you don’t overuse their service, it can give a significant boost to your initial traffic efforts. Continue reading

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Getting Images for Your Blog

Photos add a significant amount of engagement of your readership. You’ll note that I have at least one image in every post I write. In order to reduce the amount of hosting space and speed up loading, I always resize … Continue reading

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What do You Get From an IM Course?

I got an interesting question this morning — from my first “guru,” Martin Avis. I am profoundly flattered! Hi Howard, I know that you have been through Sarah’s affiliate training program and thought highly of it. As I haven’t had … Continue reading

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The Biggest Mistake of the Beginning Affiliate Marketer

The biggest mistake of the beginning affiliate marketer is failure to build a real business. How is that? Typically, what the beginner does is pick out a few affiliate offers that look good (or were recommended as having a good … Continue reading

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Just Beyond the Basics – Blogging 201

There are lots and lots of books, courses, and even a bunch of free videos on YouTube, on how to do the basic setup for a blog. If you are using WordPress, you can get a skeleton site set up … Continue reading

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Getting Started — The Best Hosting

One of the more important decisions you will make when starting out in your quest to make some money via Internet marketing is your choice of web hosting. If you want to host a single web site as a side … Continue reading

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