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Starting a Band
Well, I’ve been kicking around the idea of starting a casual band. I’m thinking of just getting a few folks together to casually play some songs. It’s a little bit of a scary thought. Music is so personal and expressive. If you aren’t all on the same [...]
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WordPress: Top 8 Common Issues for Long Term Users
We have been working more and more with WordPress, so we thought we would list the top 10 most uncommon issues that can occur if you ever use WordPress over a preiod of time.
How to Hide the Admin Bar
The easiest way to do this is to make a change to your css by adding the following;
#wpadminbar
The benefits are that this will not change your core code, and it will allow you to bring it back easily if you need to.
An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request.
This is a common issue if you have an old version of WordPress, usually 3.2. You can do it by making the following change.
Edit file plugin-install.php
However we highly recommend you just update your core.
Help My Site Has Been Hacked
We covered a lot of this in our post when we were
- Don’t Panic
- Backup everything on a local drive/folder that you have marked as HACKED code
- Use
- Scan for iframes, and BASE64 coding.
- Look in the header.php for suspicious code.
- Get to the cause, search for current known vulnerabilities, look for problems with timthumb
- Do a fresh install of WordPress, a fresh theme as well if you can, only upload your theme and database
- Test your site again
- Install WordPress firewall2 and any other security plugins you feel necessary.
PHP Deprecated’ warnings on every screen
Installing WordPress on a IIS3 or Windows server has its own problems. In your wp-settings.php file, you’ll find this code:// Add define('WP_DEBUG',true); to wp-config.php to enable display of notices during development. if (defined('WP_DEBUG') and WP_DEBUG == true) { error_reporting(E_ALL); } else { error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE ^ E_USER_NOTICE); }
How do I change Password Protected text?
If you have an installation that you want to use password protected pages, there is a chance you might want to customise how those pages are presented. All you have to do is add the following to your functions.php file
<?php add_filter( 'the_password_form', 'custom_password_form' );
function custom_password_form() {
global $post; $label = 'pwbox-'.( empty( $post->ID ) ? rand() : $post->ID );
$o = '<form action="' . get_option('siteurl') . '/wp-pass.php" method="post"> ' . __( "This post is password
protected. To view it please enter your password below:" ) . ' <label for="' . $label . '">' . __( "Password:" )
. ' </label><input name="post_password" id="' . $label . '" type="password" size="20" />
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="' . esc_attr__( "Submit" ) . '" /> </form> '; return $o;
} ?>Fatal Error: Out of Memory
This is common on shared server installs, or installs where you are trying to upload a big plugin or media. It is relatively straight forward to change;
1) Add/edit a php.ini file in the root/public_html folder of your site. Add/change the values for memory_limit. By default it should see memory_limit = 8M. Try changing it to 24M.
2) If you can’t find the php.ini file, open up the PHP file which requires more memory and add this line just after ini_set(’memory_limit’, ‘12M’); we can increase memory upto 16M or 24M to resolve the issue. But do it try with 12M first.
3) In last, open the .htaccess file from the root/public_html folder and add this line php_value memory_limit 12M
I have lost my password/user can I recover from PHPMyadmin?
Losing your password should be fine if you want to recover it back to your email address, but if this is not an option, then you have to rely on PHPMyadmin.
All you have to do is go to the user table, and change the password from there. You will have to make sure that the encoding is set to MD5 or it will not work.
How can I make an admin user with PHPMyadmin?
If you are a looking to add/change a user to become an administrator, it is a little more complicated than a lost password. First you have to add the user to the table, making sure that the level is set to 0. Then in the user_meta table you have to add the following;
- Click on the “Insert” tab to insert a new row.
- Fill in the following information
- umeta_id - leave this blank it is automatically generated
- user_id – this is the id of the user you created in the previous steps
- meta_key – for this step insert wp_capabilities
- meta_value – insert exactly this –
a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}
- Insert another row with this information
- umeta_id - leave this blank it is automatically generated
- user_id – this is the id of the user you created in the previous steps
- meta_key – for this step insert wp_user_level
- meta_value – insert 10
- Click the “Go” button in phpMyAdmin to insert the row.
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Article Marketing-The Best SEO Tool
How to do Effective Article Marketing?
Article marketing is not an easy job but it requires a well planned and tactical approach. The internet is full of copied content that most people use to get fast results with minimum effort. Though many search engines are selective, the rule is bypassed and many plagiarized articles got published even through popular search engines like Google and Yahoo. The readers reject such articles and may not work well in the long run. To do effective article marketing the following key points are important for success.
1. Article Title:
The title grabs the attention of the reader. Therefore it should tell what is going to describe in the article. The most important keyword is included in the title. The title should attempt to provide an answer to the topic that is written in the body of the article.
2. Article Body:
There is no need of writing a lengthy article for internet marketing purpose. The number of words can be anything between 300 to 500 words. It is better to write pros and cons rather than writing only the advantages of any product or service. The option for a final judgment may be left to the reader. Only one point may be written in each paragraph with a natural flow from start to end. It is also important to use the most frequent keywords strategically in the article.
3. The Resource Box:
The readers often seek the origin or author details of a well written article. Adding a resource box is therefore important to the writer. It is a place where the author can provide personal details, website address and links to the product or service and should be brief as far as possible.
Promoting the article to various article directories and web-2 sites gives wide publicity. Such article sites may be selected based on page rank, the number of readers, ease of use and its terms and conditions to accept articles for publication. Nowadays there are many automatic article spinning and submission tools available. Its effectiveness greatly varies because of the many drawbacks that come up during the submissions. It is better to check a software spun article manually before it going to get published.
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Google’s Over Optimisation Penalty
Google has revealed plans to penalise the search rankings of websites that overuse search engine optimisation techniques.
Matt Cutts, a software engineer within Google’s Webspam team,
They would target websites that attempted to elevate their search rankings by providing a suspicious amount of keywords on a page, exchanging too many links or making changes “beyond what a normal person would expect,” he said.
“The idea is basically to try and level the playing ground a little bit,” he said.
“All those people who have been doing – for lack of a better word – over-optimisation – or overly doing their SEO compared to the people who are just making great content and trying to make a fantastic site, we want to make that playing field a little bit more level.
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Selecting a Shopping Cart for WordPress
How Shopping Carts Work?
An online store can be set up either in conjunction with or separate from a physical store or a manufacturing location. A customer should be able to locate the product or service easily by navigating from the home page. Once the customer is satisfied with the product or service, it is placed in a shopping basket just similar to a store basket to purchase items physically. The shopping cart software automatically adds any additional products desired by the customer and proceeds to the check out page. The final price of the product is arrived by adding any taxes, customs duty, or providing any discounts and bonuses as the case may be. The next step is to make electronic payments using various payment options like credit cards, debit cards, paypal and other payment services. Nowadays many online stores provide the facility for cash on delivery meaning that there is no need of making advance payments.
Shopping Carts for WordPress: Everybody know that the plugins enhance the functionality of the wordpress sites considerably. Many easy to install plugins have been developed for wordpress to use them as shopping carts. Some of them are free to use but others require payment. Brief descriptions about the leading shopping carts for wordpress are provided below.
1. WP e-commerce: This is an easy to manage wordpress shopping cart plugin available as free to download. It is fully customizable with advanced payment options like PayPal, Google checkout and many others. The built in shipping calculator provides shipping rates charged by leading shippers. Higher payment options and more features are included in a gold version of this plugin.Many add-ons like product sliders and shipping modules make this shopping cart more user friendly. In this shopping cart there is no way to customize an invoice but it can be viewed via the web browser.
2. eShop: The e Shop plugin is another free program with rich features and many e-commerce functioinalities.It uses the existing wordpress framework with downloadable products and stock control. However it has limited payment options for transaction.
The selection of a shopping cart greatly depends on needs. For small online stores WP e-commerce is still a better option. The paid program like cart 66 is a best tool for those online stores having different products with high business volume.
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My Guitar Made Me Do It
My first guitar lesson was October, 31, 2010 and my last lesson was June 5, 2011 and they were every other week. I feel like I’ve learned a lot during that time period, however, I had some concerns during my lesson stretch and it was only after [...]
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How To Kill A Good Web Series Too Soon
I’m currently in the throes of a new web series and my first reaction was to start blogging every blow by blow about the series as I go through all of the development stages but I had to stop myself. I took some time to reflect on [...]
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The best Sydney marketing blogs
We aim to become the best
This year we have decided to do it all again, although this time, we are going to be a little more strict. First we are looking for blogs that have posts at least three times a month in the last six months. That means if a blog has not been updated since before Christmas, it is not going to make the list. Second we are looking for websites where the blog is a main feature, so a lot of businesses that use the blog as a way to promote other services are not going to make the list. Lastly we are looking for at least some current content. Blogging about this vs that is fine, but unless there is something that shows currency, the blog will not make the list. Also, as a change from last year, we are looking only for blogs, not magazines or online publications.
Obviously if you think you have a blog worth talking about, and you want to see it here, just
Again, in no particular order;
By Gavin Heaton, author of
Just when you think there can’t possibly be ANOTHER social network to add to the crowded list – along comes Pinterest. Not only has Pinterest been able to garner an audience – it’s one of the fastest growing social networking sites in history, generating 11.7 million visits in the month of January.
It is the goal of every business owner to target maximum number of people and they use different techniques such as online marketing and advertisement for achieving this goal.
Catriona Pollard – Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Do you want to generate publicity for your business with a media release? Then you need to create a media list and start pitching your release to the right journalists.
Last week went by like the speed of light in the seat of Internet and technology. Now let’s reflect on our submersion in the Internet marketing brain trust we call SMX West 2012. Between me and guest liveblogger Kathy Long, 15 conference sessions were reported here over the 3 day event. Plus, video interviews will be coming soon!
March 6, 2012
May 11, 2010
A short while ago I attended Perry Marshall’s Ultra-Advanced Pay Per Click Marketing Seminar in Maui, Hawaii. The price of admission was ,000. Plus flights and accommodation.
Written on March 2, 2012
Watch how Craig Macindoe makes ,000 in his restaurant on a Wednesday night while it is pouring down with rain and his competitors are struggling to fill a table. Oh also watch out for when he explains how he will add 0,000 to his profits this year too. Some people just cant seem to get their heads around the fact there’s a recession on!
Posted by Matt Freedman on February 16, 2012
Author Steven Berlin Johnson offers a theory of where great ideas come from. Steven is the best-selling author of six books on the intersection of science, technology and personal experience.
Written on February 21, 2012 by Anne
Mar 6, 2012
In our technology-driven world, social networking sites have invaded the lives of billions of people worldwide. Rarely would you see someone who has not yet engaged or created a profile in at least one of these sites.
16/02/2012
Posted on Google+ account and Twitter earlier today:
Posted by Steve Sammartino on March 6, 2012
You may remember that I met a guy on line called Raul – the Rocketeer from Romania which I posted about. Well we did our project up. Which was not just fun, but a world first. Again it wasn’t a revenue project, just a fun cool thing that is possible with the all cheap technology we have today.
The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) has crowdsourced its new ‘official’ definition of the discipline of public relations.
* drum roll * HERE IT IS:
Public relations is a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics.
It was no small feat to get to this point in terms of coming up with a definition of PR that accurately reflected the profession as it’s practised today.
MARCH 2, 2012 BY IVAN LUTROVIN
by Jennifer Frahm
Posted by Sarah Mitchell on 25 February 2012
March 2, 2012
Posted on February 28, 2012 by Kate Kendall
Ross Dawson, March 5, 2012 at 11:46 am
It strikes me that in these these confused and confusing times we should lay down clear thoughts about what we believe in. I am mustering my thoughts across a number domains to express what I think is important. However one of the questions is what to call these statements. On the face of it ‘Manifesto’ is an admirable description.
February 13th, 2012 by mark
Tuesday, February 14, 2012@ 3:23 PM
Google+ has recently launched business pages and the good news is they can really help your search engine optimisation if you set them up with keywords in mind. And what’s even better – they are relatively simple to set up (but, like Facebook, you do need a personal profile first).
Wednesday, 07 March 2012 06:23
About 10 years ago, I was in New York for a holiday and by chance, I happened to be in town when there was an entrepreneurs event with Jack Welch. I sat down with my friends who were also in business and watched Jack Welch talk about his story of how he changed GE and his philosophies on business.
It’s often difficult for small businesses to build credibility, instilling the perception of reliability in consumer’s minds. Owner-operators, particularly contractors and those in the service industry, generally publish their mobile phone number in newspaper ads, on their websites and on their vehicles. That’s what you are supposed to do and the phone number should be prominent!
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Press Release Writing for SEO
The first step in writing a search engine optimized press release is to identify the best keywords about the topic you are writing. The content should be around the main primary keywords but use of secondary keywords in the text help to get the visibility more.
There should be a brief headline written in bold that says what the press release is all about. It should be around hundred characters with a primary keyword about the topic. The headline should grab the attention of the readers and prompt them to read further.
A short summary of the content is often desirable which may be written in one or two sentences. The summary should include secondary keywords and the maximum length may be limited to around 250 characters.
A press release can be published online using text, images and videos. It can be further popularized with the help of social media. The best press releases will include a call to action so that readers take interest to know more.
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FREE SEO For Resellers
FREE SEO For Resellers
Are you looking for a trustworthy and reliable SEO partner to help you grow your business and your clients? We can help you grow your business AND grow your product offerings.
What is in it for you?
We offer an affiliate rate of 15% on all our SEO services. Most SEO contracts start at 0 a month, so that means you could earn 0 per year per client.
We also offer FREE SEO for our resellers. That means we will analyse your site, build links and promote your business for free. We will give you all our tools of our business package, including rank tracking and conversion optimisation, so that you can become number one in your field.
How does it work?
You create a page(s) on your website promoting whatever part of the SEO program you want to. Obviously the more pages you create the better. All you have to do is direct your current or new customers to a form created by us that they will use to fill out the order. That way we can track who is coming from where, and make sure that you get paid on time.
If you direct customers to us, we will provide you with 15% referral fee for the life of the customer. However, this program is not open to everyone with a website. We are only offering this program to exclusive resellers who are willing to promote the program. We want to find businesses that are focussed on building their business and are interested in what SEO has to offer.
What programs can you sell?
All of our programs are available either through white label or our affiliate program. The pricing on these vary depending on the details of the program, so for pricing you need to contact us.
Resell SEO Programs
Our standard SEO programs vary depending on the keywords being targeted and the website that the traffic is being sent to. We are working on a tool that you can use to generate quotes, but for now, each quote is dependant on the client giving us as much information as possible. Our programs start from 0 a month.
We can give you and your clients a range of SEO Training to help you improve your business and website. We have a track record of increasing the position of websites, and we can show you how to carry out this on your own, without our help.
Resell Conversion improvement
Ecommerce websites need to be optimised for conversion. You need to know that every visitor to your website has the maximum chance of being coverted into a customer. We have use A – B testing, use Google Analytics and a range of other techniques to slowly ratchet up the coversion rate of your website. If you have an ecommerce website, or are selling anything on the web, you need to make sure you customer is going to know what to do to buy from, or interact with, you.
Link Building outright is not an SEO activity. Links are a form of web promotion and should not be used in isolation. However there are some forms of this web promotion that work better than others. All our linked building packages are specifically designed to build your website’s profile, so we can not give you a generic link building option. However here are some of the things we carry out as part of your link building program.
At the end of a every month, you will get a comprehensive report that lists all the links we have generated as part of the program.
Creative Development has a unique and proprietary SEO asset list that we use to build the profile of all our clients’ websites. We build a range of ranked web links that are always relevant and conform to Google’s own link building recommendations. We build links from .edu, .org websites as well as utilising our relationships with the media to generate unique authoritative mentions in national media.
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