I have had most of my blogs protected by Incapsula for the past several weeks and have seen improvement in both performance, reduced downtime and benefited from the increased security of using Incapsula to protect my sites over the past few weeks. What is Incapsula Incapsula is a web application firewall, CDN and website optimizer all rolled into one package. It is a cloud based service that sits in front of your websites or blogs, … Read more
Hey there! Who here is a blogger? I know I am! Once you have gotten the blogging bug, it can become quite difficult to stop writing. It doesn’t matter whether you have a personal blog or a blog focusing on a particular topic, somewhere out there, there is an audience for you. You know what else is out there for you? Earning opportunities. If you are fortunate enough to be contacted for a sponsored post, … Read more
In this weeks episode of The Dragoncast the guys discuss Batman and since the new Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy has been released Brian, Bryce and Andrew talk about each of the films (WARNING there are some movie spoilers!) and even rate them from best to worst, but let’s be honest here all of the movies were great…right? Also Andrew and Brian give a review of the newly released game in the Far Cry series “Far … Read more
Wordpress 3.5 updates the media editor making it easier to add media to your Wordpress blog posts and set featured image.
I started using Author hReview on all of my primary blogs and updating some of my review articles to leverage the features of Author hReview which is a fantastic plugin written by Hesham Zebida. Author hReview allows you to add review info boxes at the top and optionally at the bottom of your posts as well as add the appropriate microdata so that the star rating you apply for the product or service you reviewed … Read more
Attractive and high quality images draw attention, people are more like to be engaged and drawn in if they first see something visually appealing this is why services like Pinterest, Instagram are so popular. So if you haven’t been using high quality images or stock photography for your blogs yet then you are missing out on an important method to keep readers on the page and entice them to stay if they visit from a … Read more
I have been growing my Amazon affiliate sales recently by using Azon brand of plugins and with the release of SimpleAzon I have rebranded it to offer it to fellow WordPress bloggers so they can get all of the benefits of SimpleAzon for a fraction of the price. AzonPostImages is my branded version of SimpleAzon, it is the same exact plugin and is just branded for my site and readers. Therefore any information you read … Read more
Since I started the switch to running my contests from Rafflecopter to PunchTab primarily I have worked with the PunchTab team to help get 3 new features implemented into the PunchTab contest service. These additional features just added recently are: Punchtab Updates Export to CSV Now you can export the entries to a CSV file which you can open in Excel and filter your entries to get the total counts you need for various entry … Read more
Welcome to another week of The Dragoncast. November 18th 2012 marked a very special day in the history of video games as Nintendo officially started the eighth generation of home video game consoles. The Dragoncast’s very own Brian was one of the few that was able to pick up a Wii U this past weekend and on this episode he provides us his own review of the Wii U. Also be sure to join Brian, … Read more
It’s time for yet anther edition of The Dragoncast. In this week’s technology podcast we talk about Microsoft’s new tablet/pc called Surface which is releasing on 10/26 as well as some discussion on the new OS Windows 8. Then Andrew, Brian and Bryce all discuss their favorite video game systems as well as some of their favorite video game controllers and a bit of talk about the Wii-U as well. Also we remind all of … Read more
On our newest episode of “The Dragoncast” Monica Speca from Fable Streams joins us to discuss her involvement with the soon to be released “Genesys” RPG. Also Brian Alford and Bryce Posey discuss with Monica about how 3D technology is taking over movies and games as well as other forms of technology as well. So be sure to check in and give us a listen and let us know in the comments section below on what you … Read more
With Google clamping down on Feedburner API’s that left many widgets and services showing 0 subscribers a new notification about Google pulling AdSense for feeds has gone out to AdSense customers. So is the writing on the wall that Feedburner which we know was consumed by Google may be on the chopping block in the future like Google did for Friend Connect and other services. I actually remember talking with a company that used to … Read more
If you arrived here on DragonBlogger.com via Google Chrome, you may have been presented with the following error: This started happening yesterday and it is related to Google Safesearch flagging subdomains hosted on Bluehost (the parent company of HostMonster which hosts DragonBlogger.com) having some domains serving malware. If you dig further by clicking on the safe browsing diagnostics page you will see the following: Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for dragonblogger.com What is the current listing … Read more
I have since switched my email subscriber list from MailChimp to SimplyCast and really like that SimplyCast has a free epic plan which lets you send unlimited emails per month to up to 2,000 subscribers of your mailing list. This is actually more than MailChimp which only lets you send 2,000 emails per month period, as you can send any number to the same set # of subscribers until you get over 2,000 subscribers. In … Read more
A number of times, affiliate marketing bloggers face the situation where they want to include a particular affiliate link for products that target their respective keywords. It would seem easy when you just want to link 1-2 keywords in an article but gets hectic if numerous articles want to include links to those keywords. It even gets worse when you want to target more than one particular keyword. So, how do you tackle such a … Read more
After reading about @ileane having her blog iframed by other blogs which can lead to not only your content being read and used on another site, but your Google banner ads displayed on another site and a violation of AdSense ToS which does not allow AdSense ads to be displayed via an iFrame. This could risk in an account ban. So I decided to test out the WP No Frames plugin after I saw it … Read more
How often do you check your Google Analytics for your blog to see what percentage of your users come from a mobile browser, compared to standard desktop browser? Have you started putting in a mobile theme yet or started on a plan to appeal to your mobile readers/customers? You have even more limited real estate on a mobile browser screen, so it is imperative that your mobile theme be optimized for the mobile experience. In … Read more
MailChimp account deactivated can happen without warning and you will be banned from MailChimp losing valuable subscribers instantly.
Configuring and using MaxBlogPress Bring My Visitors Back to help protect your RSS content from being stolen without permission and add social sharing.
I have seen and learned about the WP Filter Post Category which has the neat capability of restricting which category of posts can show up in your homepage “while_post” loop call. This is ideal for blogs where you may not want to have a certain category show up on your homepage main content area because you have a separate featured article section. This plugin is mostly for themes that don’t support the functionality to separate … Read more