Posts tagged Blog
How To Protect Your WordPress Site From Hackers
Jan 13th
I have had the unpleasant experience of having several of my wordpress blogs hacked in the past, and for that reason had to get a bit smarter about security. After all, if you’re making money with your blogs, you want to protect your livelyhood right? 
In my case, the hacker inserted his own advertising, and redirect system in order to profit from my traffic.
Nasty right? 
Some of you may be using this, but I can bet you that many are not.
Here I am just going to share with you the quickest and easiest way to make your WP blog(s) more secure from hacking. I just use this one method/tool, although you can take precautions such as changing your wordpress blogs prefix (instead of wp-admin, you might have davessite-admin, etc)
We are going to be installing and activating a little known security plugin called WP Guard. Download it from here:
http://taragana.com/products/free-wordpress-plugins/wordpress-guard-plugin/
(download from halfway down the page)
What this basically does, is adds an extra layer of protection above your wordpress site structure. So that a would be hacker, will find it difficult, if even only just too annoying to bother hacking your site, and move onto something that’s easier prey.
Basically, when installed and activated on your blog, when someone tries to access any of your admin pages, ie – wp-login or wp-admin, they will be greeted by this:
Although some hackers may be able to bypass this with a bit of work, the point is, you are far better protected than 99.9% of the other wordpress blogs that the hacker has to choose from, and so it’s quite likely in the case that a hacker did have a random go at your infiltrating your site, they would move on, as you have an “annoying” extra layer of protection.
So, let me quickly show you how to install and activate this baby 
Step one, go to plugins >> add new >> upload, within your wordpress dashboard, and browse and select the wp_guard.zip that you should have already downloaded. Then upload it.
Then go here:
Then, it’s simply a matter of choosing your username and password, and pressing “Update” once you have done that the first time, it will be activated, and will always be protecting your blog 
For more ways of securing your blog, check out this handy little article :
http://www.wptavern.com/top-5-wordpress-security-tips-you-most-likely-dont-follow
Hope you found this little tip valuable, and remember to leave any comments or questions you may have.
Happy marketing
Nick
Ping List For WordPress
Dec 15th
Here is a decent ping list for your wordpress blogs, it’s what I personally use for my wordpress blogs.
http://zing.zingfast.com
http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://www.zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://www.weblogues.com
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.snipsnap.org
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.popdex.com
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://www.lasermemory.com
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://www.catapings.com/ping.php
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/
http://www.blogroots.com
http://www.blogpeople.net
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.a2b.cc
http://weblogues.com/RPC/
http://weblogues.com/ping/
http://wasalive.com/ping/
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://topicexchange.com
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.twingly.com
http://rpc.technorati.jp/rpc/ping
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rcs.datashed.net
http://r.hatena.ne.jp/rpc
http://popdex.com/addsite.php
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pingoat.com/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://ping.wordblog.de/
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.snap.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.namaan.net/rpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.kutsulog.net/
http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/RPC2/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.fc2.com/
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2
http://ping.blogoon.net/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.php
http://newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://newsblog.jungleboots.org/ping.php
http://mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://mod-pubsub.org
http://lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://imblogs.net/ping/
http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://hamo-search.com/ping.php
http://fgiasson.com/pings/ping.php
http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://catapings.com/ping.php
http://bulkfeeds.net
http://blogupdate.org/ping/
http://blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://blogsnow.com/ping
http://blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://blogsearch.google.us/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.tw/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.sk/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.se/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.ru/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.ro/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.pt/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.pl/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.nl/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.lt/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.jp/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.it/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.in/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.ie/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.hr/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.gr/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.fr/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.fi/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.es/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.de/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.vn/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.uy/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.ua/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.tw/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.tr/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.sg/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.sa/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.pe/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.my/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.mx/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.do/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.co/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.br/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.au/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.ar/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.za/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.ve/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.th/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.nz/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.ma/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.jp/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.it/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.in/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.il/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.id/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.hu/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.co.cr/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.cl/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.ch/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.ca/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2
http://blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://blogpeople.net/ping
http://blogoon.net/ping/
http://blogoole.com/ping/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogdb.jp
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blog.goo.ne.jp
http://blo.gs/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://bitacoles.net/notificacio.php
http://bblog.comping.php
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
Time Management – An Internet Marketer’s Bane Or Blessing
Oct 9th
It doesn’t really matter which industry you are in, in fact you don’t have to be in an industry at all, time management affects us all. We all have the same amount of time right? And in fact it is really the quality and ability we posess in time management, that directs and controls how successful we are and will become.
As Eben Pagen quotes fairly often “time management is a misnomer, the real challenge is to manage ourselves”, these are the words of Stephen Covey himself, and its just so true.
So if your reading this then you are on the right track, go and have a look at some of Eben Pagen’s stuff on YouTube, as he talks a lot about smart management. Also have a look at the link in the “Links” section on this blog, as there is a great little piece of software there called Work Pause, and you can try it out for 30 days.
