A friend of mine built an online store several months back and didn’t take SEO into consideration for even a second. He, being an…
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Recent Botnet WordPress Attack: How to Secure a WordPress Website
In light of the recent WordPress attack where a botnet of “tens of thousands” of computers tried gaining access to WordPress blogs across the…
Fix: No jvm installation found please install a 64-bit jdk
Recently I came across this error when trying to develop an Android app: no jvm installation found please install a 64-bit jdk. Here’s the…
How To Install MongoDB on CentOS 6.X or WHM Server
Alternative databases such as NoSQL or MongoDB are increasingly becoming more popular. In this guide, I want to take a look at how to…
8 Productivity Tips for Professional Webmasters
Deciding to make a living as a webmaster means taking on a lot of the kinds of responsibilities employed workers never have to worry…
An Amazing WordPress Plugin For Copywriters: Landing Pages
Many people ask me, “What are some good WordPress plugins and themes for which Copywriters can use to make their lives easier?”. While there…
National Cyber Security Awareness Part 1: How To Avoid Online Scams And “Homograph Attacks”
October is the National Cyber Security month. Our webhosting partners Singlehop asked me to write an article to raise awareness for this cause to…
PHP: Redirect To Url – Delayed, With Or Without “Header”, After Form Submission, Cloaked Affiliate Redirects
PHP makes redirecting users very easy. There are countless ways how you can redirect visitors to other pages. Let’s take a look at a…
How To Install PDO on CentOS 6.x or WHM – Fix Class ‘PDO’ not found in database.inc (Drupal)
As an administrator or webmaster you should know a little how to fix common problems. One common problem is that an Apache or PHP…
Productivity Guide: Save Time As A Writer, Affiliate Or Webmaster With AutoHotKey
I considered recently the amount of time that it takes to perform certain tasks on the computer. I implemented a voice recognition app in…
Updated: ‘Shell Shock’ Remote Code Exploitation: How To Patch Bash And Determine If Your System Is Vulnerable
A remote code exploitation dubbed ‘Shell Shock’ has been uncovered by Stéphane Chazelas, a security and Linux specialist working for a large software firm.…
DNS or Split: How To Invalidate 30,000 Amazon S3 Objects In 10 Minutes For $0
Amazon’s S3 service can be really annoying. For example invalidating a couple thousands objects not only will cost you a lot, it is not…
How To Install ClamAV On CentOS 6.X
As a webmaster it is really good to have a bunch of tools pre-installed on your server. ClamAV is a great antivirus for Linux.…
5 Tips to Maximizing Drupal’s Efficiency
While Drupal is an effective CMS it can be quite draining on your PC as far as your RAM and CPU usage, but there…
Top 5 Giveaway Tools for a WordPress Blogger
Every successful blogger knows that updating your blog with engaging material on a regular basis is a must if you want to grow your…
20 WordPress Security Tips And Best Practices To Secure Your Blog
In this article we will discuss WordPress security and give you 20 tips to enhance the security of your blog. Tip 1: Consider Htaccess Authentication to…
Installing xvfb-run and XORG on Centos 6.X
Alright, let’s take a quick look at installing xvfb-run on CentOS. I’m currently doing all sorts of experiments and installing all sorts of utilities.…
Productivity Tip For Webmasters: Save Time Resizing Photos With Light Image Resizer
Previously called “VSO Image Resizer,” the “Light Image Resizer” tool helps save time for those that constantly modify images on their computer. This is…
How To Create, Drop and Import SQL Databases From Command Line
As a webmaster, you will be managing a lot of databases. A good practice is to backup databases to multiple servers, so you need…
Install jpegoptim in Ubuntu or CentOS: Compress your images losslessly to optimize Google PageSpeed score
Fast websites are important. Speed is everything these days and will have a profound effect on your business. Here’s how to install jpegoptim in…
10 Online Security Tips For Freelancers, Writers And Affiliates
Working online is a great opportunity, but it is important to keep security in mind, especially since a lot of personal and financial information…
Installing Discourse On CentOS 6 Using RVM / Ruby and WHM
Discourse is a new social discussion CMS and one of the best choices right now to start a forum. The catch? It’s written in…
30 Best Project Management Tools: Time, Budget And Expense Tracking
The following is a compilation of the 30 most useful project management tools to keep track of your expenses, time, budget, invoices, colleagues, files…
10 Fastest Ways To Make Money (Online) Without A Website / Spending Money
First let’s think about a general approach strategy – if we want to earn money, either online or offline you have to offer something…
Best Free WordPress eCommerce Plugin: An Overview Of The Premium eStore Plugin By Tips & Tricks HQ
The developers at Tips & Tricks HQ put together a free plugin for WordPress that makes it very simple to add an “Add to…
The Best WordPress Security Plugin For 2013 (Triagis Reviewed)
There are a lot of security plugins out there for WordPress, but most fail to address the basic needs that we need to feel…
How To Install Drush On CentOS 6.X
Drush is a command line tool to manage your Drupal installations, for example to clear caches. Here’s a guide how to install and configure…
How To Create Professional CSS Sprites For Your Fast Website In 10 Minutes
Websites these days not only have to beautifully designed, they also need to be fast. One great way to speed up your sites is…
Top 10 Productivity Tools for Webmasters
A productivity tool is a piece of software that can help you increase work efficiency by streamlining your daily tasks. A variety of utility…
Video: Setting Up an “Unlimited” Account Through WHM on HostGator For Prosper202 Aff-Tracking
Today I was tasked to setup Prosper 202 affiliate tracking software for a client. I won’t go through the steps to install it here…
Creating A Symbolic Link On CentOS 6.x For FFmpeg
Sometimes Drupal and other CMS’s have problems detecting system paths – it’s understandable since every server is using unique control panels and often completely…
How To Secure Your Wp-Admin Backend: Htaccess Apache Authentication
As a result of the recent brute force attacks on self hosted WordPress sites, I decided to create a second level of authentication for…
Is Your “Temporary” Online Service Business Standing in the Way of IM Goals?
Providing much-needed services online is a great way to offset the costs of your online business project or even provide a full-time income so…
How To Secure Your WordPress Installation (Video)
In this article I am going to discuss some of the general tweaks that can be performed to improve the security for a WordPress…
Installing Git On CentOS 6.x
There are many tools out there that can make your daily webmaster life a little easier to manage. One of the few Unix-tools that…