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How to Prevent Image Hotlinking from Specific Domains

March 5, 2013

Image hotlinking is nothing new, and content scrapper find a new way to copy blog posts from your blog. It could be simple using your RSS feed to create a duplicate copy of your blog posts, or using any software or WordPress plugin, to copy your blog posts and republish it. We have DMCA to handle such copy-paste blogger, but how about image hotlinking? Those who are on unlimited bandwidth hosting like Bluehost or Hostgator, ...

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How to Redirect WordPress Images to Sub-Domain for Faster Loading

January 30, 2013

We all know, loading of a website matters a lot for great user-experience, and for search engine ranking. There are many CDN network (MAXCDN, Cloudflare), which will let you setup content delivery network, and speed up loading time of your website. Though, we can’t achieve CDN like feature, with our own hosting, but we can speed up our blog by loading images from sub-domain. You can also use sub-domain to server static files (CSS, JS) ...

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How to Set Up Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin

November 16, 2012

When ever we talk about Best SEO plugins for WordPress, All in one SEO and WordPress SEO by yoast comes out as a prominent name. Now, many of you who are using All in one SEO plugin, you should know about much advance version of the plugin, which is available in WordPress repo with the name “WordPress SEO by yoast“. This plugin has integrated many known features of other plugins by Joost de Valk, for example ...

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11 Costly Mistakes That May Reduce Your Blog Traffic

November 7, 2012

Being a Blogger is fun and the most interesting part is making mistakes and learning from it. When I started blogging, I made many mistakes which reduced my Blog traffic and hampered my Blog brand, thought I never let those mistakes stopped me as it’s part of life. When ever you start with something new and without much guidance, you end up making mistakes and over the time you learn from it and fix it. We ...

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How to Enable WPTouch helper plugin in Wp Super Cache

June 26, 2012

Being on Shared hosting, having a good cache plugin is very important for any WordPress blog, and from last 3 years I’m playing with two of such plugins: W3 total cache and Wp super cache. At the time of writing, I’m using Super cache plugin. At times, W3 total cache plugin works great and on some server Super cache. I also use Wp touch plugin to give a mobile compatibility view to my site. Today, when I was ...

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9 Steps To Secure WordPress Blog

January 23, 2012

In recent time, WordPress has been highly targeted by bloggers. Since WordPress uses MySQL and Php, it’s not tough to find a vulnerability in WordPress. Here I’m sharing some newbie tips to Secure WordPress blog. These are basic tips but some time missing these basic tips, may lead to losing your WordPress blog by some hacker. WordPress is probably the best CMS out there for blogging. I can quite confidently say that, being a user ...

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How to Edit WordPress .htaccess File

January 20, 2012

Earlier, I posted about WordPress .htaccess file and here I’m sharing a quick tutorial on how to edit WordPress. htaccess file. There are many methods which you can follow to do the same, here we will look into three of them: cPanel method, WordPress dashboard and using any FTP client from desktop. More over when you edit your WordPress permalink, you need to update your .htaccess file. If you are a self hosted WordPress user, ...

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How to Migrate WordPress Hosting & Change Domain Name

March 30, 2011

If you are a self hosted blogger for long, I’m sure you must have get into a situation where you have to migrate WordPress hosting many times. Personally, this blog ShoutMeLoud has been migrated many times from Dreamhost > Hostgator > Knownhost > Linode > Hostgator. Yah, in 3 year tenure of this Wp blog, that’a quite a change of Webhosting. Some, Webhosting offer dedicated support for migration of your Webhosting account and some of ...

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