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Excerpt: As promised, this post is on social media to increase traffic for blogs. Social media is quite a vague term but it is generally accepted to mean any thing from leaving comments in a blog to the large content community sites. A good blog should foster opportunities for communities to interact. Not only does it have a feel good factor that make you want to carry on writing a blog but it also reduces reliance on traffic from search engines and the whims of the mighty Google. The key to success of a blog is to create content that will…

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Excerpt: WordPress is a great content management and blogging platform  with enormous potential to add new content to existing websites or online stores. The enormous range of plugins makes it  extremely versatile. If you are new to blogging or WordPress what can you do to make your WordPress blog more search engine friendly? At the time of writing, the latest installation is 2.7.1. One of the major features other than its new interface its automatic upgrade feature, which allows you keep your system up-to date. This is the first rule of keeping a secure blog. Rather than go for the default theme, you…

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Excerpt: In Part II we further examine how you can make your WordPress installation more secure including passwords,    login plugin to prevent brute force attacks, .htaccess to restrict access to wp-admin and more.  Part  I can be found here. Even if you have done everything so far, it might be easy for someone to get into your site if you have not secured it with a good password. Password Security The simplest way for an attacker to break in would be to attempt a brute force attack and guess your password. To be safe, you need to follow the standard advice: your password needs…

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Excerpt: Regular readers will have noticed that  for the last few days the blog was sporting a skull and death to everyone motif. This wasn’t a new nihilistic  F*ck-you WordPress theme. The blog was defaced by idiot hackers. Well we are back up and running again and no lasting damage was sustained although the inconvenience was significant. This misfortune gives me the opportunity to talk about security. There are a number of ways in which the little tinkers can mess up your site. Including server vulnerabilities,  network attacks, database hacks and accessing admin areas. Server Vulnerabilities Server vulnerabilities are the foundation of a secure site, if this…

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Excerpt: In part I of this two part series on SEO tips for Blogs we looked at WordPress plugins, creating themes, internal linking, RSS Feeds and Blog Aggregators. In the second part of  search engine optimisation for blogs, we examine social media, external linking and how to avoid duplicate content. Social Media Twitter Twitter is a social networking site that allows you keep in touch with groups of people on the web through the passing of short messages (tweets) to say what you are doing. It sound like a ridiculous idea but it has the capability to build up a targeted audience for your…