Last week I told you about how one single hacker broke my wife’s heart. That hacker set me out on a mission. Over the last couple of years I’ve soaked up everything I could about WordPress security. I learned many of the tricks those malicious jerks use to hack blogs, I watched as plugin developers [...]

A couple years ago, someone broke my wife’s heart. No… it wasn’t me. It wasn’t even someone she knew. What I can tell you is that it was someone we’ve never met, never will meet, and someone we never want to meet. Who was this person you ask? First, let me tell you what happened. [...]

I’d like to thank the Shoemoney Newsletter for bringing this site to my attention, and I loved it so much I wanted to share it with all of you. Andy Jenkins (a.k.a. The Video Boss) is releasing a set of videos showing us how we can use video to increase sales and conversions on our [...]

A new blogger asked me the other day the age old question new bloggers always have: “How often should I publish a blog post?” This topic has been discussed many times over, like here and here. Those are two great articles to go read if this is your burning question, but let me add my [...]

I’ve been blogging for a number of years now and I have: made money lost money broke even posted articles regularly / not-so-regularly changed my blog design changed my blog’s web address … you get the idea (been there done that). Aside from being obnoxious and rude to people, here are my top 5 blogging [...]

If you’re new to blogging or are contemplating changing the design of your site, this information might pertain to you… I was visiting the Problogger forum the other day and came across a new blogger who had a question about how they should set up their website. The scenario: Bill is starting a website which [...]

Judging from my analytics, I bet many, if not most, people who visit my blog are bloggers. What is a blogger? Well I could visit Wikipedia and look it up, but there’s no need for that; we all know what a blogger is, right? But what are you, really? Yeah yeah, I know – you’re [...]

Here’s a cute little Christmas video for all my blogging friends. The other day I was busy recording a couple WordPress video tutorials while my 3-year old son, Joshua, sat quietly next to me watching me work. When I was done he really wanted to sit up to the microphone and do a recording, so [...]

I’m a blogger… and trust me, my wife knows that. It’s also almost Christmas and she’s almost finished shopping for me. The other day she asked me if there was anything I wanted which pertained to blogging. I thought, “Hmm . . . that’s a good question. What kinds of gifts can someone get for [...]

Jim Edwards, the author if the 7dayebook and many other informational products, recently interviewed Rich Cleland, Assistant Deputy at The Federal Trade Commission, and asked him to clarify some of the “new” regulations bloggers should be concerned about when it comes to affiliate commissions and reviews. Noticed I put the word new in quotes; that’s [...]

This is one of those blog articles you probably don’t need today but may need one day down the road. For that reason, I suggest you bookmark it in case you ever need to know how to do this. Sometimes as bloggers and website owners there comes a need to temporarily redirect all our site [...]

I’ve been a subscriber of the Jim Edwards I Gotta Tell You Newsletter for some time now and I gotta tell you, it’s an awesome newsletter. His newsletters are always packed with valuable information detailing ways to get more traffic to your site, list building techniques, how to write and profit from ebooks, and a [...]

It’s been awhile since I visited my StumbleUpon account; I had forgotten how much great content can be found using the popular social bookmarking site. You know, there are so many great resources out there we bloggers can use to help increase our knowledge and generate ideas that it almost sucks! There’s so much I [...]

SSL Certificate I know, it sucks. There are a ton of people out there with nothing better to do with their time than snoop around on the Internet watching for people who send login information, such as Usernames and Passwords, unsecured through the webs of the Internet. Then when they capture someone’s login credentials, they [...]

If you’re a blogger, I’m sure at some point some of these topics will interest you: Keywords for search engine optimization Running ads on your site to generate some income Analyzing your blog’s statistics Submitting your blog to the Google Search Engine Getting a snapshot of how Google is sees and crawls your blog If [...]