Mark Carrington

Breathe Your Dreams

Tagged: technical skills

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Affiliate Marketing

WP Link Fixer Review

Introduction: WP Link Fixer Review Welcome to my WP Link Fixer review. This is a simple plugin designed to fix a looming Google problem. The problem is that Google announced in late July 2021 that it will be targeting “spam links” – their words. Web creators nowadays have many ways to monetize their websites and blogs. Some of these methods lead to the creation of outbound links that, if overdone and not annotated correctly, could violate our quality guidelines. In this post, we want to share a reminder on how to deal with links that might have a commercial nature and how we continue to work to lessen the impact of link spam on our results. The gist of the...

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IP Journey / Technical Aspects

Managing WordPress Security

Introduction: Managing WordPress Security I was prompted to talk about managing WordPress security a few days back when I got an email from one of my sites saying that someone had been locked out for failing to log in using a user ID that I thought was secret. A lot of the vulnerabilities around WordPress come from the code itself. According wpscan.rog, only 14% from the core code, 11% from themes and a whopping 75% from plugins. One of the threat areas has nothing to do with code at all – it is simple and brute force attacks on guessing admin ID and password. That is the place to start protecting your site. Secure admin ID is the first level...

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Affiliate Marketing / IP Journey

No Technical Experience Needed

No Technical Experience Needed: Introduction No technical experience needed. There it is staring me in the face in a banner ad at the top of my blog pages. There it is sitting on the opt-in box on the right hand side of my site – No IT Skills. I have been doing affiliate marketing for a long time. I have been working with computers for a long time (since 1981 professionally). I do not know what it means to have no IT Skills. I can remember a long time ago doing a project migrating a system from one mainframe platform to another. The team was short of skills to deploy stuff needed for my project. I just grabbed a manual...