Blogging For Profit Online Training Video
Blogging For Profit Online Training
Do you have a WordPress website? Got a blog? Do you use it to enhance your expert status? How about to sell your products and services?
Sadly, so many blogs are unloved. Updated so infrequently that no-one visits them any more. Many see the effort involved in creating content is just too much.
That’s sad, as I believe that your unique experiences give you a position that many people just don’t have. People will gladly read and listen to your insights. You just have to give them your unique content.
Discover how on my brand new online training. Click the video to see what it's all about and click here for the FREE online training.
Training Description
This free online training covers:
1. Blogging fundamentals
2. The need for content
3. How to create content – fast
4. How to leverage your content
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Blogging For Profit – Overcome The Barriers To Content Creation
Do you know the three biggest barriers that block most WordPress website owners from blogging for profit?
If you're a WordPress website owner you probably want to bypass barriers to successful blogging for profit. You almost certainly want to push on to create the quality content your customers need quickly and easily. And you absolutely want your content found by the search engines, don’t you? Then read this article immediately …
Barrier No.1: Not Getting Into The Habit Of Creating Content Regularly
Why Is It A Barrier?
This is a barrier because if you don’t get into the habit of creating content regularly, you’ll never do it at all. It just gets harder and harder with time. You'll see how long it is since you updated your blog and get depressed. You'll find something more constructive to do, like dusting the skirting boards.
What Is The Problem Here?
When you get out of the practice of creating content regularly, the quality of the content you produce falls off rapidly. And the time it takes to create your content just gets unmanageably long.
How Do You Bypass / Get Around It?
The first step is to pick a content creation strategy you can work with. That may be writing the content yourself. It may be outsourcing it, or using PLR. It may be dictating your content and getting the recording transcribed. It may be a combination of these.
The important thing is to decide on a strategy and stick to it.
How Do You Bypass It If You've Already Been Blocked By It?
If you've already got out of the habit of creating content regularly, then here’s some good news.
It doesn’t take a great effort to get back into the habit. Just start. And when you start creating content, it will get a momentum all of its own. It becomes natural, a part of your life, just something you do.
Then you'll start to get compliments about your content. And that will spur you on. And you'll gain followers, and goodness, that might even lead to more business ...
Barrier No.2: Not Finding The Time Needed To Create Content
Why Is It A Barrier?
Many people see just finding the time as the biggest barrier to creating content. And honestly, these days we’re all busy, aren’t we? There's work, the family, those friends you haven't seen for ages. Who has the time?
What Is The Problem Here?
Believing that you don’t have the time to create content is enough to stop you in your tracks. But it’s only a belief, not reality.
How Do You Bypass / Get Around It?
First of all, realise that everyone gets the same allocation of time every day. Even if you’ve wasted time yesterday, you get the same amount again today. So it’s really only perception that it’s hard to find the time to create content. You have all the time you need.
It’s priorities you may need to work on. So ask yourself:
- Why must I create content?
- What will it do for me?
- Is it important?
- How can I make time for it?
How Do You Bypass It If You've Already Been Blocked By It?
The best time is to work with how you prefer to work. Are you a lark or a night-owl? Do you do your best work early, when it’s quiet, or at the tail end of the day? If you work with your body's preferences, you'll find you're able to work well, and the content you create is likely to be of high quality.
The important thing is to find a regular slot in your day where you can work on your content. And stick to it.
Barrier No.3: Not Pairing Up Your Content With Calls To Action For Your Services
Why Is It A Barrier?
I’m going to assume that you’re not creating content just for altruistic purposes. You’re creating content either to sell directly, or to use to promote your existing products or services. So it’s important to match up the content you use for promotion with a call to action for your offerings.
What Is The Problem Here?
Content that has a disconnect with an offer you're making will cause your readers to put their mental brakes on. They'll just switch off. Instead of a smooth path to a sale, you'll get people not taking up your call to action. So you need to engineer your content so that it corresponds with your calls to action.
How Do You Bypass / Get Around It?
The easiest way to ensure a good match of content with call to action is to start with the end in mind. Consider what your offering (your product or service) is, and what the key benefits to your customers are. From this, create a compelling and clear call to action.
Once you’re clear on that, start to create your content that will naturally lead to your call to action. If you plan your content in this way, aimed squarely at your call to action, your article will flow naturally into your offer.
This approach has the advantages of there not being a disconnect between your content and the pitch for your services. It all just flows.
Blogging For Profit - Taking This Further
Now you know and understand the top three barriers that WordPress website owners face when attempting to blog for profit. And understanding them will help you overcome these common barriers.
To take this further I'd like to invite you to cut to the front of the line and find the blogging for profit success you desire. I’d like to invite you to join me at my free "Blogging For Profit Online Training".
This training is for WordPress website owners who want to create the quality content your customers need quickly and easily. And enable you to break through the – all too common – barriers to creating quality content.
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Blogging For Profit FREE Online Training
FREE Blogging For Profit Online Training
Discover how to profit from your WordPress site - by blogging.
You have an unique set of skills and experiences. People WILL want to learn from you IF you share your experience with you. But what's the best way to do it? What should you avoid?
A friend of mine says that there are more people who can ONLY hear your content from you than you can ever get through in a lifetime. Don't underestimate yourself. Share your content. Join me on on my 'better than paid' training.
This FREE WordPress plugin online training shows you:
- How to create your own unique content
- How to SEO your content
- How to leverage your content
- ... and a great deal more ...
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FREE Blogging For Profit Online Training
FREE Blogging For Profit Online Training
Discover how to profit from your WordPress site - by blogging.
You have an unique set of skills and experiences. People WILL want to learn from you IF you share your experience with you. But what's the best way to do it? What should you avoid?
A friend of mine says that there are more people who can ONLY hear your content from you than you can ever get through in a lifetime. Don't underestimate yourself. Share your content. Join me on on my 'better than paid' training.
This FREE WordPress plugin online training shows you:
- How to create your own unique content
- How to SEO your content
- How to leverage your content
- ... and a great deal more ...
Get IMMEDIATE access to your FREE online training: click here now.
Three Steps To Online Profits With a WordPress Blog
Would you like to discover the Three Steps To Online Profits With a WordPress Blog?
Got a WordPress blog? Is it languishing for want of fresh content? Was the last time you updated it when dinosaurs ruled the earth? Want to change that?
First of all, relax. Even if you've not updated your blog in ages, it's actually quite simple. There are three main steps - and they're easy. Just read on and get ready to put the steps into place.
Step One - Get Yourself a WordPress Blog
You need the self-hosted version of WordPress, not the one you get from WordPress.com. To use the self-hosted WordPress, you’ll need hosting – preferably hosting that makes it easy to install WordPress. If you need hosting – or need WordPress installing - just ask me, as I provide professional hosting solutions. Contact me at [email protected]
Why Self-Hosted WordPress?
You need self-hosted WordPress for a variety of reasons. One important one is the ability to add plugins. These are the pieces of code that add functionality to your website. You can only add them to self-hosted WordPress, not WordPress.com.
These do everything from playing your videos online, to protecting you from hackers, to getting you found in the search engines.
Step Two - Start Blogging
Every WordPress site comes with a blog. Indeed, WordPress started as simply a blog. So you can start writing blog articles right away. It's already set up for you.
Now you need to create blog posts – your content. Sign in to your WordPress site and you are taken to your Dashboard. From the menu on the left hand side, go to Posts and click Add New.
In standard WordPress, Posts can contain text articles, audios, videos or images, or a combination of all three. Give your blog Post a title, then just start typing text. Press Publish and it's available online.
Step Three - SEO Your Content
You want your prospects to find your new content, don’t you? Then you need to SEO it – perform Search Engine Optimisation on it so that it’s easy for the search engines to find. Luckily this is a whole lot easier than it used to be.
In the Plugins section of your Dashboard, click on Add New and search for ‘Yoast SEO’. Install this plugin. It’s free, and better than SEO plugins that I have previously paid for!
If you follow the directions in the plugin, it will guide you through optimising any blog Post. You need to know what keywords are relevant to your market, of course. But I’m assuming here that you have done (or got someone to do) some keyword research for you.
Three Steps To Online Profits With a WordPress Blog
There you have the three steps to online profits with a WordPress blog. To recap:
- Get yourself a self-hosted WordPress blog
- Start blogging - add your content and
- SEO your content
Now that I’ve outlined the three steps to online profits with your WordPress blog, what should you do next? You have a choice – if you have enough information, you can just go ahead and start executing each of these three steps in order.
You may be interested in a free online training I’ve recorded that will assist you to action these three steps. My training also goes into steps 2 and 3 in quite some detail. And it's free. Just go here to reserve your place on my free online training: Blogging For Profit – http://alunloves.it/blogging And I’ll see you there.
Free Online Training: Blogging For Profit
Blogging For Profit Online Training
Do you have a WordPress website? Got a blog? Do you use it to enhance your expert status? How about to sell your products and services?
Sadly, so many blogs are unloved. Updated so infrequently that no-one visits them any more. Many see the effort involved in creating content is just too much.
That's sad, as I believe that your unique experiences give you a position that many people just don't have. People will gladly read and listen to your insights. You just have to give them your unique content.
Discover how on my brand new online training, available now.
Training Description
This free online training will cover:
1. Blogging fundamentals
2. The need for content
3. How to create content - fast
4. How to leverage your content
Where and When
From the comfort of your own home ...
Reserve Your Place Here
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WordPress Plugin Security Vulnerabilities
This post is about WordPress plugin security vulnerabilities. It’s great having WordPress plugins that extend the functionality of your WordPress site. They allow you to do many useful things – duplicate Pages or Posts, lock down your membership content, SEO your posts and many other things.
Realistically, no WordPress site can afford to not benefit from the functionality that plugins bring.
But there’s a problem.
What Are WordPress Plugin Security Vulnerabilities?
Many WordPress sites have a whole host of plugins. And they get updated quite frequently. Sometimes the reason for this update is to add functionality, sometimes it’s to work with a new WordPress version. But most often they’re updated when the authors discover vulnerabilities in them.
As a result, when you manage a WordPress website, you have to ensure all your plugins are up to date. If they get out of date, you’re leaving potential security holes in your site. Holes that hackers can exploit.
Don’t Hackers Just Guess Your Password?
Many people think that hackers gain access by guessing your username and password. And yes, this does happen. You can protect yourself against this by having hard to guess passwords and not having ‘admin’ as your username.
But more frequently, hackers make use of plugin vulnerabilities in your out of date plugins.
So Why Are Plugins Vulnerable?
Let’s have a look at the components of a WordPress site. As well as the core WordPress files, you have a Theme and you have one or more (often a lot more) plugins.
A WordPress site has one version of WordPress, which may or may not be current. Most sites now auto-update WordPress when a new WordPress version is released. So now, unless your WordPress version is seriously out of date, WordPress auto-update will cope with WordPress core updates.
WordPress Themes
You will have one active theme, and this may be a free theme or a paid theme. I always recommend getting a paid theme from a reputable developer who updates his theme regularly and offers support if you can’t get something to work.
With free themes, you’re on your own. If it breaks, tough luck – you have to fix it yourself (are you any good at PHP coding?
Reputable vendors of paid themes – like WooThemes – offer support that you can call on in times of difficulty.
WordPress themes don’t get updated that often, and you’ll normally stick with one – as this determines the look and feel of your site.
That leads us to plugins.
WordPress Plugins
Many sites have a whole host of plugins, each of which providing a piece of needed functionality. Because the average site has so many, there are many opportunities for a plugin to get out of date and have vulnerabilities. Hence the need to keep them regularly updated.
And unlike WordPress core files, plugins do not get updated automatically.
This in turn means that if you manage a WordPress site, you need to log into it regularly to check if any plugins need updating. The alternative is to leave your site exposed to hackers.
How Often Are Plugins Updated?
I manage many sites on behalf of my clients and myself. Every single day I see multiple cases of plugins that need to be updated. Often I will need to update plugins on sites twice or three times a day.
So What Should You Do?
If you don’t want – or are unable – to log in to your WordPress site every day, I provide a service to do this for you. It will also take care of your WordPress core and any theme updates – though these require updating far less frequently.
Next Steps To Address WordPress Plugin Security Vulnerabilities
If you believe that I can help you with keeping your WordPress websites up to date with your WordPress plugins as well as WordPress core files and your theme, contact me here.
WordPress Security Plugins – The 3 WordPress Security Barriers
Do you know the three biggest WordPress security barriers that frustrate most WordPress website owners? Are you aware that you can resolve a number of these just with WordPress security plugins?
If you're a WordPress website owner who wants to avoid security barriers and take practical steps to make your site hacker-proof, then read this article immediately.
Barrier No.1: I Don't Know If I Have a Problem!
Let’s deal with the most fundamental problem first. Many people suspect that they might have a problem with security but don’t realise the scale of the problem. They don’t know if they are a likely target for hackers or not. They don’t know whether or not their site is already under attack.
Why is it a Barrier?
Ignorance is not bliss. Turning a blind eye to a prevalent problem will not make it go away. Pretending it’s not a problem will not help. Hacking is one of the biggest and most costly problems out there for a website owner. It's vital you take action today to safeguard your site tomorrow. And that starts with discovering whether or not you have a problem.
What is the Real Problem Here?
The reality is that if you have a WordPress site, and especially if it gets a fair amount of traffic, that it may well already be under attack! In fact it's more than likely you site's under attack. You just can’t see it.
I see the results of hacking attacks every day. If you saw what I see, you'd realise the need for urgent action!
How Do You Get Around This?
You need to know a little about WordPress security plugins. You can get around this lack of knowledge simply by installing a free (yes, free!) security plugin.There's one I recommend to all my clients as a first line of defence. It's called WordFence.
Go to your WordPress Dashboard and search for the (free) WordFence plugin. You will need to configure this plugin to change some of the default options. But once you do, you’ll see the scale of the hacking activity that threatens your website.
For example, you’ll be notified about login attempts where hackers attempt to guess your WordPress username and password. This alone is worth getting this plugin for. If you're a bit overwhelmed by the options, just contact me and I can help you.
Barrier No.2: I Don't Know Where To Start
The next barrier I see is people who really don’t know where to start with security issues. Let’s say they have identified there are regular and persistent attempts by hackers to guess their WordPress administrator username and password.
Why Is It a Barrier?
It should be obvious this is a problem that needs to be resolved, but many people don’t know where to start. Again we need to start with objective facts. Your new WordFence plugin will give you loads of information if you let it. But security is not just about installing WordPress security plugins.
How Do You Get Around This Barrier?
After you’ve become aware of the hacking threats that face you by installing WordFence, you can start to configure it to meet your needs. The WordFence plugin will help you here by pointing to your likely security vulnerabilities.
Let’s say, for example, you have left the WordPress administrator username at the default value: ‘admin’. This is the most hacked username, as hackers realise that they can make their lives easier by hacking sites that leave their username as ‘admin’.
With WordFence, you’ll be able to see just how many hackers are trying to gain illicit access to your site in this way every day! You can see if hackers are trying 'admin' as a username. You'd be amazed how many do. This can be frightening and sobering, but there is a solution.
You Get Around This By ...
The way to get around this barrier is straightforward. Set up a new administrator user with a username other than ‘admin’. And give it a secure password – WordPress will do this for you. Now delete the 'admin' username so it can no longer be used.
If both your administrator username and your password are hard to guess, this is likely to block all but the most persistent hackers.
Barrier No.3: I Don't Know What to do After I'm Hacked
Why Is It a Barrier?
It’s best to know the route to sort out a problem before you come across it. That way you don’t waste time and potentially make costly errors.
If you don't know what to do when you’re hacked it can also mean your website is offline for longer than it needs to be. In the worst case, not knowing what to do could mean the loss of your site!
How Do You Get Around This Barrier?
You get around this by initially approaching your hoster. If they’re professional, they will have a service to clean up your site. This may either be included in your hosting fees, or may be an extra charge. Either way it may be cheaper than going to a specialist.
Failing that, there are a number of professional service providers who specialise in WordPress website cleanup. I use SiteLock and WordFence, and some of my clients use Sucuri. There are others out there, but I’d recommend checking out these providers first.
The service you’ll require depends on the nature of the hack, but if you know what cleanup is likely to cost beforehand and where to go, you’re in a much better position.
WordPress Security Plugins
WordPress security is a big and complex topic and can be a bit overwhelming to the uninitiated. There are many services available - and a lot of them are costly. The whole area can be a minefield! If this article has whetted your appetite to discover more about WordPress security plugins and what they can do for you, read on ...
Taking This Further …
Now you know the top three WordPress security barriers website owners face and how to bypass them. So I'd like to invite you to cut to the front of the line to discover what further steps you can take to increase your security of your WordPress site.
As there's more information here than I can cover in a short article, I've put together an free online training to help you. So if you want to make your website secure - so that it doesn’t get hacked - join me on this FREE online training.
This could be the first step in making your site hacker-proof! Click on the link now.
Protect Your WordPress Website From Hackers Online Training
Protect Your WordPress Website - FREE Online Training
This FREE online training contains valuable step-by-step instructions on how to:
- Discover how to protect your WordPress website
- Learn how to speed up your website
- What plugins to choose - and why
- Where to find them
- How to install and configure them
Join me, Alun Richards, as I reveal the secrets of increasing your security against hackers.
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FREE WordPress Plugin Online Training
FREE WordPress Plugin Online Training
Discover the essential plugins for your WordPress site - plugins to improve your security and plugins to increase the speed of your site.
This FREE WordPress plugin online training shows you which plugins to choose, where to get them and how to install them.
Protect your site and speed it up now!
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