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Are you a blogger who takes your own photos or creates your own graphics for use in your blog posts?
If so, you’re probably concerned about other bloggers or webmasters stealing your images and using them on their own blogs or websites.
Well, it just so happens that Google has a very handy tool that you can use to quickly check to see if your image(s) have been used on another site.
If you run a blog, chances are you’re concerned about it getting hacked and infected with malware. And in this day and age, that is a very valid concern.
Hackers and scammers are constantly probing blogs for security holes weaknesses they can exploit.
If they happen to find one they can quickly gain access to your blog’s server and install malware that will turn your blog into a vehicle for distributing all kinds of nefarious code to the devices your blog visitors use to access it. [Read more…]
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I have used several web hosting companies over the years, with various levels of satisfaction.
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Like many new bloggers I wanted my first blog to look amazing and have tons of bells and whistles.
For example, I installed a fancy slider that would display an image and snippet from a post, then fade out after a few seconds and “tease” the next post.
That was just the start of my fascination with plugins and other add-ons.
Before long my newly-created blog was as “busy” as a honeybee in a clover field – and I don’t mean “busy” as in having lots of visitors.
After a while I began to notice some things…
Question from Sam: Hello Rick. I need some advice if you don’t mind.
I ran some page speed tests on my blog and found out that it takes almost 8 seconds for my home page to finish loading.
I know I need to make my pages load faster but I don’t know what else to try.
I’ve already removed all but the most important images from my posts and cut the number of WordPress plugins from 37 down to 24.
I’ve noticed that your Rick’s Daily Tips blog loads lightning fast. What did you do to get the pages to load so quickly?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]