This is a guest post by Robert Regehr.
Are you a full-time blogger earning a living from your Wordpress blogs or an aspiring Problogger with your first taste of the freedom that comes from blogging? There’s a ton of really good advice out there on getting up and running from bloggers like Darren Rowse and Yaro Stark. However, there’s shockingly little on protecting your blogging nest egg. If you rely on income from blogging to support your family you need to secure your Wordpress installations immediately. Here are five actionable steps you can take today to ensure hackers won’t disrupt the income stream you’ve worked so hard to build from blogging.
What’s All The Fuss About? I’ve Never Been Hacked
The default Wordpress install is about as secure as a wet paper bag, especially if you make a habit of blogging from your favorite coffee shop. You’ve put a lot of hard work into enjoying the rewards that come from blogging. The last thing you want is some script kiddie or hacker taking over your site; it’d be like someone breaking into your home and robbing you blind.
I’m sure you’re very careful when shopping or banking on the Internet; would you ever consider logging into online banking or shopping without looking for the “https” in the URL? If you’re like me and blog with a white chocolate mocha on free Wi-Fi, you’re pretty much shouting your username and passwords to anyone within earshot. Public access points in coffee shops and cafes are far from secure and you never know who’s sitting across from you with a packet sniffer watching your every move.
Fortunately there are steps you can take to secure Wordpress and protect yourself. I’m not just talking about using stronger passwords but actual bank level security for your site. If you’re serious about earning a living from your blogs you simply cannot ignore security when it comes to protecting your online assets.
This is a guest post by Farnoosh Brock.
While it may seem out of the ordinary from the usual blogging and social media, I included it for two reasons. 1) Farnoosh is a wonderful friend and inspiring person who has contributed some great articles and interviews here before. 2) Healthy habits are an essential part of blogging – if you aren’t healthy, you won’t be able to produce great content. Enjoy!
I believe all good smart habits are related and connected, and before I tell you about the smart habit for which Kristi invited me to write here today, that of Green Juicing (affiliate link), I want to share why and how your one good habit can lead to many more.
You have most definitely experienced this. If you start a new eating habit, for instance, first you feel better and then you get more energy, and as a result, perhaps you join a fitness program, or even more, you put a stop to your other bad habits one at a time, all the while not realizing that a single good habit can be responsible for an entire change of direction on your self-improvement journey.
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
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Blogging / Content Marketing
This is a guest post by Christine Brady of Insightful Mommy.
If you have been blogging for any length of time, you have no doubt heard the phrase list building or building a list of subscribers. But what does building a list of subscribers have to do with blogging you may be wondering…
As bloggers, your focus is much like mine – creating great content to share with our readers, staying active on social media, connecting and promoting your blog. But every one of the daily task that we work hard on are all subject to finding your audience.
And unfortunately, your audience may not always follow your blog or follow you on social media. Some may have your blog loaded in their RSS, but what about the readers that don’t?
You need a way to reach them. This is where building a list of subscribers becomes a vital part of your online business strategy.
Let’s face it – list building is all the rage in the Internet Marketing arena. There are Internet Marketers out there who run their businesses solely based on their list on subscribers. Some don’t even have a blog or a Twitter account, but they have a subscriber list that they care for and nurture.
That is an incredible business model – and one that we bloggers are in a great position to pick up on. Bloggers are actually in an even better spot as we have mastered great content and know how to connect with our audience.
The idea of building a subscriber list is not complicated as it may seem.
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.
Blogging / Writing
