If you would like to offer downloadable files on your WordPress site but keep them protected from the general public by way of password protection, this article will bring you through the quick steps. We're going to be using the Simple Download Monitor plugin for this. There is a password protection … [Read more...] about How to Create a Password Protected Download in WordPress
Guide to WordPress Media Uploader
If you are new to WordPress, you might feel somewhat overwhelmed by the amount of options available in your Dashboard. Chances are, you won't need a whole lot of these features right from the start, though. What most people need to launch a successful blog is the knowledge of how to publish a basic … [Read more...] about Guide to WordPress Media Uploader
Start Podcasting on Your WordPress Blog in 7 Easy Steps
Running a podcast on your blog can be a great way to gain additional traffic, re-purpose your existing content and even make some money through audio ads. And while the popularity of podcasting was on the decline a few years ago, this activity has regained a lot of momentum recently and is now … [Read more...] about Start Podcasting on Your WordPress Blog in 7 Easy Steps
What Can Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Teach You About Your Online Business? Plenty
The holidays are upon us and while we have to maintain our online business presence during the festivities, it's OK to take breaks. Specifically, who can resist (whether we have children or not) watching fun holiday movies? In fact, many of their themes can actually be applied by us, giving us … [Read more...] about What Can Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Teach You About Your Online Business? Plenty
How to Use the FileZilla FTP Client for Your WordPress Site
While there are auto-installation tools at many web host providers to get WordPress installed, many people like finer control of the installation process. The best way in that case is to use an FTP tool. FileZilla is one of the more popular tools so in this article I will walk through some steps of … [Read more...] about How to Use the FileZilla FTP Client for Your WordPress Site
Implementing CAPTCHA on Your WordPress Login Page
WordPress is vulnerable to Brute Force attacks. This is when the attacker will keep on trying to guess the password for a WordPress account, all the while assuming that he/she/it knows the username. This can be done manually or with a script. A would-be hacker, in most cases, simply needs to know … [Read more...] about Implementing CAPTCHA on Your WordPress Login Page
How to Setup Regional Sales Tax in Your PayPal Account
When running a web store and using PayPal as the payment processor, you can easily set it up so that PayPal will add the sales tax to the final amount (and optionally to the shipping amount as well) during checkout. In a standard (perhaps traditional) PayPal transaction, the buyer will choose … [Read more...] about How to Setup Regional Sales Tax in Your PayPal Account
Top 10 SEO Tools and Add-ons for Your Online Business
The phrase SEO tool is an umbrella term that includes any piece of software or service which can: help you improve your website's visibility build a credible online brand garner strategic and competitive intelligence research keywords and links track social media performance create … [Read more...] about Top 10 SEO Tools and Add-ons for Your Online Business
How to Bring More Facebook Users to Your Web Site
There are some very specific ways to leverage Facebook traffic to gain more exposure to your content, whether that is internal (on a Facebook page) or external (on a web site) content. In this article I will discuss a few different ways, and provide very specific how-to's for each one. Below … [Read more...] about How to Bring More Facebook Users to Your Web Site
6 Simple Strategies to Get Blog Posts Indexed by Google Quickly
In this article I offer some tips for writing blog posts that are geared up for search engine traffic, and that are written to be shared in the social web. For the example, I will be walking through how I create a real post for a high authority health web site. I will also be creating a video to … [Read more...] about 6 Simple Strategies to Get Blog Posts Indexed by Google Quickly