Archive for July, 2010

How to protect your wordpress

I found some evil guy are try to hack my sites recently,this guy have a good name which is match his hacker life:”RapidCrash”, Rapid Crash? :) From this name you can know what is the goal in his life,earn Rapid Cash via make other people Rapid Crash, so evil. :( Just search this name + SE you will find him. I found it is interested this guy always feel he is winner and feel he is cool after he hacked webmasters. Why? Is it really cool that steal other people’s money and do evil thing?

I found he like add a code at the bottom of the index.php , which will include a iframe to embed php file from a domain video3you.in to add virus and so on.

o.k, we all know do not do evil things because evil will always be punished in movie and in life. But for webmasters , the problem is how to protect your wordpress if you find a hacker is aim you?

First, if you find somebody is hacking you, tell your hosting to capture them.
2: backup everything every day and download them, there are some plugins can do database backup every day and send backup files as an attachment file to your emails, just go to wordpress search these plugin and install it.
3:check your site to found any changes in files or under directory, check your database and so on.
4:Remember change all of your username and password.
5:Since wordpress 3.0, you can choose the name of administrator, I recommed you upgrade your wordpress and reinstall it and choose a administrator name for your site, not use default name: admin.
6:There have some secure solutions in wordpress market, some of them is free and some of them need you pay a little money, but there are still no a fully and strong enough solution in this area yet, It notice me this is a blue sea, I had wrote some secure plugins for wordpress which is listed in wordpress official plugin site, This event let me decided to write a really strong plugin to protect wordpress webmasters and notice you who are hacking you, I’d like sale it with a low price.
In the current, you can just go to wordpress.org and search secure, you can find some plugin, just download wordpress secure plugin and install it, I recommend you choose the most of options, although something you can not add image or maybe some admin plugin will not work, but when you wrote posts, you just disable some options it will be ok, after publish post, remember re-active these options.

The most important things is do not worry about these evil guy and do not let them damage your life and your feeling , Years like a long river, you will know who are they always and evil will be punished always.

Yahoo publisher network closed and their client go to chitika

I heard an news from chitika, the YPN! closed, and yahoo transfer their client to chitika.
I had reported that chitika is the best online blog advertising network, this news proved my views.
In the current I have 2 sites approved by the chitika union,they earn xx$ per month for me, because I just show this AD for US visitor by a GEO AD plugin write by myself. I heard now chitika will support EU traffic, I’d like do a test, maybe my revenue will have a big improve, because many of my reader come from UK.

How to solved the problem of Bounce Rate

Many webmaster told me they have a high “Bounce Rate“, and they had to write many inline links and write more words in a post, but some times the “Bounce Rate” is still nearly 85%~95% , I read some article said they add recent post/popular posts on widget, maybe it will help reduce the “Bounce Rate”…
Yes, if your site do not: very funny / have a beauty style / have posts which is helpful for your client, maybe your visitor will leave away directly, you need do many things to solved this problem.
“Bounce Rate”,”Bounce Rate”,if no a good “Bounce Rate” , your site will have not a good rate in search engines, right?
o.k, there have a simple way to help your site.
go to wordpress official site download the plugin:”what they want“, maybe it will reduce the “Bounce Rate”.
How it works? Just check the description of the plugin, “This plugin will show all related posts / pages/ archive which match your clients’ search keyword. It can also show related posts for your regular client. When your visitor come from search engine and read your posts, maybe it is not what they really want. In general, there are some related post plugin can help your client, but most of these related post plugin are not designed for visitor come from search engine and can not match the keyword which your client really want. So I write this plugin: “what they want” to help webmaster and their readers.”
Actually, this plugin is a specify related post plugin for wordpress, when
“the visitors come from a search engine, We can know what they want, for example:”joke”, We can help them find out something more about “joke” in our site.”
That’s how it works, somebody are urgent to search something, when your site give then a list, maybe they will check more in this list to find the content what they need, so you avoid the problems of “Bounce Rate”.
More features just check the plugin page, “In the current, this plugin can recognise 80 search engines and we are working for supporting more search engines, also in night version, I am re-writing this plugin to support search box in your wordpress, actaully it should can search everything in your database.”

Now newest version of this plugin is 3.0, a test can be found here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&q=roboconvert+Your+BMW+into+a+robot&btnG=Search

just click the links in the result which come from makefun.cn ,or go to http://makefun.cn/what-they-want , you will see the DEMO.