I decided to make a list of my favorite WordPress plugins for you (and an online source for me…)

I thought about also making a list of my favorite WordPress themes but most of the time I just browse the free ones include in WordPress until I find one that suits the site or niche that I’m working on. But since I have had a few people ask about this theme, it’s called: Eximius 2.2 by dkszone.net.  (it’s a free theme just do a search for “Eximius” and it should be the only one that shows up)

Here are my Favorite WordPress Plugins

Akismet – Protects your blog from comment and trackback spam

All in One SEO Pack -  Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for the search engines (good for setting up the basics)

BulletProof Security – Website Security Protection (just follow the steps to setup)

Contact Form 7 – A simple and flexible contact form
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Most people don’t realize that by leveraging your content you can pull in a lot more prospect and customers into your business.

This strategy can really help drive a ton more traffic to your sites and also traffic that you would never of gotten any other way. When talking about leveraging your content, I mean making it available to your prospects in as many ways as possible.

As long as your providing good quality content, you shouldn’t be afraid to promote it as much as possible and allow your prospects to consume in whatever way they are most comfortable with. Some people would prefer to read it (text), others want to listen to it (audio) and some people would like to watch it (video).

But it doesn’t stop there! (more…)

Search engine optimization is something that no Internet marketer can do without.

Why is this so important?

Simply because if your website is search engine optimized, it means that your website is ranking well on the search engines, which in turn means that a lot of people are able to find your website. It’s simply a numbers game – more traffic means more business. And that’s the reason why marketers just cannot neglect SEO. (New SEO Tool)

But, at the same time, it is too much to assume that every marketer out there can spend a large chunk of their time doing things that might enhance their chances on the search engines. Truthfully speaking, the things that most people use such as blogging, marketing with articles, lead generation, etc. are dead in the water.

These are marketing practices that will work only if you spend a lot of time with them and be quite consistent, which is definitely not going to be possible for the simple reason that if you are going to spend a lot of time optimizing your website, you won’t have any time to manage your business! (more…)

You Need To Protect Your WordPress Blog

Over the last few months, I was a victim of these hacks and not just this blog, almost 80% of my WordPress sites were compromised. It took me a few months to get what I could back and secure again. You may have noticed some content or links that go nowhere or that don’t exist. This is the reason for that.

Now I have implemented some new security and I want to share with you some ways to help protected your WordPress blog and how to fix your blog if you have experienced similar problems.

Protect Your WordPress Blog From Hackers

Here are some of the problems that I encountered over all my sites that were hacked:

• Hacker changed wp admin login (username and password)
• Redirected site to their website or other site
• Almost all hacks where Arabic and left home page with Arabic writings and music
• Common hacker name assoicated “Rock”
• Changed several files
• Caused domain names to get suspended
• Added scripts or something to falsify and get (paypal, ebay and banking) information from visitors.

Overall, it was huge pain in the butt.. but I think I would do worse if I could get my hands on them. Regardless, one of these days they will get what’s coming to them and then I will be happy for them… lol

Sorry had to leak some frustration and I know if you have encountered some of these problems you will understand what I was feeling.

Tips To Help If Your WordPress Blog Is Hacked (more…)

Here is a short list of RSS Directories that you can start submitting your site to. This is a great way to promote your site’s content and increase traffic back to your site.

• RSS-Network
• RSS Micro
• Feedsee
• FeedPlex
• Plazoo
• Feedage
• BlogBunch
• Blogdire
• RSS One
• 5z5
• Chordata
• Bailrss
• Feedgy
• Feedlisting
• Oobdoo
• RSS Buffet
• GoldenFeed
• Xmeta
• Syndic8
• Solar Warp
• RSS Orange
• RSS Mountain
• RSS Motron
• RSS-Dir
• MyRss365

Here are some other rss directories to check:

http://techably.com/2011/09/top-rss-directories/

http://www.magnet4marketing.net/2011/01/27/22-blog-rss-directories-to-submit-your-blog-to/

http://www.smashblogtips.com/top-30-rss-feed-directories-to-submit-your-blog-to-get-traffic/

http://www.jayphilips.com/2011/01/09/the-ultimate-roundup-of-rss-directories-to-promote-your-rss-feeds-to-for-free/

Submitting to RSS directories will also help your rankings in the search engines.