Use Twitter Search to Find Customers

First go to http://search.twitter.com/ and not Twitter.com

Click Advanced Search.

http://search.twitter.com/advanced

Search for people using the form or use the search operators on this page: http://search.twitter.com/operators

Once you find your potential customers, start interacting with them!

Protect Your WordPress Site From a Malicious Attack

Protecting your WordPress site from a malicious attack by using an .htaccess file in your upload folder.

/wp-content/uploads/

When uploading pictures to your WordPress site, your host may require you to set the permissions of the upload folder to 775 or even 777. VERY BAD!!!

A permission of 777 gives everyone read, write and execute privileges on that folder. This is very dangerous and can give hackers the ability to access your site and server via this wide open folder.

Minimize your exposure by adding an .htaccess file to the folder with the following code.


order deny,allow
deny from all

This will allow only certain files to be uploaded to this folder and deny all others, most importantly files that contain scripts.

Word of caution: No site is 100% safe. If a hacker wants into your site bad enough they probably can find a way. But by keeping up to date on software and plugin updates, will helps to reduce your risk of an attack.

Use Tweet Deck to Measure Link CTR & Prevent Twitter Viruses

This video will show you how to use Tweet Deck to measure a links (URL) CTR (Click Through Rate). I will also show you how this feature may help prevent you from acquiring a twitter virus. Click here for more Youtube How To Videos.

StomperNet Video Review – Is it Worth the Money?

StomperNet re-launched today and many people have asked me the following question; Is the StomperNet Program worth it? I answer this question in this very short video review of StomperNet.

If you have any questions about StomperNet please feel free to leave a comment, email or Tweet me. I’ll do my best to answer your questions before you join.

Excluding Categories in WordPress Sidebar Widget

This is a short Youtube video demo on how you can exclude categories from you side bar if using the sidebar widget. This requires us to edit the widgets.php file instead of the sidebar.php file. More how to videos can be found at the Traffic is Gold Youtube channel.

Similar Videos:
Excluding Pages In The WordPress Sidebar

We also announce our videos on Twitter, you can follow us on Twitter here: @trafficisgold.

Step by Step code credit goes to Lance Hoff

Step 1:
Download widgets.php from here: wp-includes/widgets.php

Step 2:
Find this line of code:
$d = $options[$number][‘dropdown’] ? ‘1’ : ‘0’;

under it palce this line of code: $ex = “1,2,3”;
(NOTE: change out 1,2,3 with the actual Categories you want to exclude.)

So all together it looks like this:
$d = $options[$number][‘dropdown’] ? ‘1’ : ‘0’;
$ex = “1,2,3”;

Step 3:

Find
$cat_args = array(‘orderby’ => ‘name’, ‘show_count’ => $c, ‘hierarchical’ => $h);

Replace
$cat_args = array(‘orderby’ => ‘name’, ‘show_count’ => $c, ‘hierarchical’ => $h, ‘exclude’ => $ex );

Step 4:
Save the file and uplaod back to it’s original location

You are done!!

Again thanks to Lance for the code and his step by step blog post. Please visit the site here.