Blog a Living

Tales of a Full-Time Blogger

Why I blog anonymously

Many moons ago when I started out, no one ever considered blogging under their real names. Here’s why you should feel absolutely free to blog anonymously.

How to Secure WordPress Blogs

You may want to bookmark this post, because I’m going to come back to it every few months and update anything that’s changed. In it, I’m going to talk about all the ways that hackers can get control of your WordPress blog, and then about many things you can do to secure Wordpress blogs.

How I got a Facebook penalty for two words

I run Facebook pages for several websites. I get good reach on all of them, often exceeding the number of people who have “liked” the page. But a month ago, my reach on one Facebook page suddenly plummeted overnight to about 1/3 the number of “likes”. It started one day in May, and seemed to

Does Google rate your site as mobile friendly?

Mobile has grown massively over the last few years, and it hasn’t plateaued yet. It’s critical to make sure your website is mobile-friendly – that is, easy to view and navigate on a tiny little phone – but how to go about that? Google is a fan of the responsive layout, which supposedly adjusts to

Cryptowall: how to protect your PC

I’ve been away for a while, and a big part of the reason was that for the first time in my 20 years online, I got a computer virus. This nasty bit of malware, Cryptowall 2.0, strolled right past ESET, my highly-rated antivirus and firewall (the Crypto viruses also beat Norton, Kapersky and most of

Why working for free doesn’t work

Earlier this week, a hula hoop performer told the story of being asked to perform at a $1000/plate event for Oprah Winfrey for free. The producers suggested that the exposure would be well worth her time and expenses in performing. The problem was, she’d obviously already gotten enough exposure to come to the attention of

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