Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
I’ve been sounding the warning about the impending doom of unencrypted blogs for months, and now it’s crunch time.
Word to the wise: You need to install SSL encryption on your blog right now if you don’t want to endure a drastic reduction in traffic in early 2018.
Why do I say that, you wonder?
Well, the following things will soon begin to happen if your blog doesn’t have a valid SSL certificate installed and properly configured: [Read more…]
Not all that long ago it was very easy to make money from your blog if it had decent traffic.
In the stone ages of blogging (circa 2010 and before) all you had to do was place a few contextual ads or banners on your pages and watch the money flow in month after month.
If your blog had a lot of visitors, you could earn a good passive income simply by placing ads on it.
But things are different now. In recent years ads have fallen out of favor with both bloggers and their readers. [Read more…]
If you write a blog that runs on the WordPress platform, I don’t have to tell you how important it is to keep your blog safe and secure from hackers.
I’ve written about WordPress security several times in the past, but I’d like to tell you about a great Kindle ebook that explains in detail why hackers want to break into your site, how to prevent it, and how to recover if they ever do.
I’ve been using WordPress for many years, and I thought I knew everything I needed to know about keeping my WordPress blogs safe and secure. I was wrong.
In WordPress Security: Protection from Hackers and Crackers (#ad), author Lambert Klein provides tons of information that you can use today to ensure that your blog will remain up and running smoothly for years to come. Among other things, you will learn: [Read more…]
Hello again. I hope you had a great week!
Are you thinking about starting a blog to share your thoughts and experiences with the world?
Or perhaps you’d like to start one to supplement your retirement income?
Whatever your reason for wanting to create a new blog, there’s a little secret that will allow you to purchase your new blog’s domain name from Godaddy for just 99 cents! [Read more…]
In my opinion, WordPress is the most powerful blogging platform out there, and it’s completely free. Some of the largest and busiest websites on the Internet are powered by WordPress, and many of them bear no external resemblance whatsoever to a typical “blog”.
It’s easy to open a free account at WordPress.com and be blogging in 5 minutes, but there are several important advantages of installing WordPress on your own hosting account with your own domain name. And it’s really pretty easy to do! [Read more…]