5 Critical Steps You Must Take to Secure Your Website Today

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It’s every website owner’s biggest nightmare… you wake up one morning and your website is GONE.  Not just gone, but replaced with a hacker’s message! That’s just one of dozens of worst-case scenarios that can become reality when your website isn’t properly secured. So what can you do to protect yourself?  Below, guest superhero MJ [...]

Two Simple Ways to Stop Spam on Your Blog

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In yesterday’s post I suggested turning off captcha and not requiring registration if you want to get more comments on your blog. Quite a few readers asked me, without those protections, how they could prevent spam. So here are two simple steps you can take: If you can’t see the video above, click here to [...]

How to Promote Your Blog Posts (Video)

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  If you can’t see the video, click here to watch it on YouTube: http://youtu.be/C_qgr1TPdc0 Want to know more about how I get lots of traffic to my blog?  Don’t miss the free livestream rebroadcast of Adam Urbanski’s Overnight Authority. I’m up Saturday afternoon to share my strategies and secrets for getting more traffic to [...]

How to Create Pinnable Image Quotes

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Love those images of quotes that are so popular on Facebook and Pinterest?  Here’s how to create your own! Can’t see the video? Click here to watch it on YouTube: http://youtu.be/EfWUtLMZ1cY Did you grab your free video training yet? Get instant access to “How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog with Pinterest” and listen in [...]

How to Embed a TED Talk Video in a Blog Post

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Found a great video on TED that you’d like to share on your blog but aren’t sure how to make that happen?  If it’s not hosted on YouTube, here’s how to embed it and share. Step 1: Find the “<> Embed” button and click it. When you click a popup will open. Step 2: Get [...]

Before Gremlins Attack: Keep Your WordPress Safe

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Guest post today is courtesy of my rocking virtual assistant (and real life sister, complete with tacky and embarrassing photos from childhood to prove it), Melissa Barham of Barham Virtual Assistance. What would you do if you woke up in the morning only to find out that your WordPress website had disappeared?  Hackers, sever crashes, [...]

How to Get a Better Alexa Ranking (Infographic)

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What’s your ranking at www.Alexa.com?  You can find out by typing your domain into the search box. Want a better (lower) ranking?  I went on a quest about a year ago to find out what it’d take to get my ranking below 100,000 and I kept a journal of sorts noting what I did and [...]

The Easy Way to Create Your Own Infographics

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Wondering how you can get in on the infographic craze and create your own snazzy infographics to share? I promised to share with you how I created the “Why Should You Join the Ultimate Blog Challenge?” infographic I shared on my blog over the weekend. So here it is. No photoshop. No stock photography sites. [...]

How to Customize the Photo Strip on Your Facebook Fan Page

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Have you customized your photo strip on your Facebook fan page yet? It can be a great way to promote your products or services if you know how to use it.  It’s that group of the 5 most recent images you’ve uploaded that shows up across the top of your fan page. Here’s what mine [...]

Make Your Own *Tweet It!* Page

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After I shared two posts last week with “tweet it” tips and quotes, readers requested I share how to set that up, so I am. Because I love when you all tell me exactly what to share to help you. It makes blogging so much easier. So, let’s look at the what, why and how [...]