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Q&A: Is the ‘Copy Plain Text’ browser extension safe to use?

Posted on January 21, 2021

Question from Amber: I do a lot of copying and pasting when I’m writing posts for my lifestyle blog.

Something that always irritates me is having to paste everything into Notepad to get rid of the formatting and then copy the “clean” text and paste it into the blog post I’m working on.

I checked Google and found a browser extension called Copy Plain Text that allows you to copy text and paste it without the formatting.

My question is, do you think it’s safe to use this extension?

I’m asking because I know lots of extensions are dangerous and I don’t want to mess up my work computer.

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Has your blog’s email server been ‘blacklisted’? Find out right now.

Posted on January 18, 2021

If you’re a blogger you probably depend on email to communicate with your readers, your advertisers and any other folks that you talk to in the course of writing and managing your blog.

And chances are you even use email to deliver an informational newsletter to your subscribers.

If you’ve noticed that many (or even most) of your emails are being ignored, there’s a good chance that your email server has somehow landed in an email blacklist database. [Read more…]

Warning: If your blog uses the Really Simple SSL plugin you need to upgrade to the Pro version ASAP!

Posted on December 17, 2020

Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.

Do you have a WordPress blog that you’ve upgraded from unencrypted http to https encryption to get that awesome little padlock?

If so, there’s a good chance you used a plugin called Really Simple SSL to facilitate the conversion for you.

And I must say, Really Simple SSL is an absolutely awesome plugin that does an excellent job at encrypting your blog’s contents and helping you handle any mixed content issues.

Truth be told, I really like this plugin a lot. I like it so much in fact that I use it on all of my WordPress blogs (including this one).

But there’s a serious problem with using the free version of the plugin: It doesn’t add the crucial security headers to your blog that it needs to have in place to ensure that the site (and its visitors) are truly secure from hackers and scammers.

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Want to be a successful blogger? Diversify these three things.

Posted on December 14, 2020

Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.

There are certain things every blogger must be able to do in order to succeed at blogging.

Of course knowing how to write well and get your points across to the reader is at the top of the list.

However, there are other things that are just as important that don’t really have anything to do with the “blogging” process itself.

Today I’m going to concentrate on one of the most important things bloggers can do to ensure their long-term success: Diversify!

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How to quickly find out how your blog is ranking in Google

Posted on December 11, 2020

If you’re a blogger you surely know how important it is for your blog posts to rank well in Google.

After all, traffic is the engine that drives all success in blogging, and there’s simply no better source of traffic than Google’s organic search results.

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