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10 Social Networking Security Tips Social Networking is the biggest thing to hit the internet since it began. The sheer numbers involved are staggering. If Facebook was a country it would be the 3rd largest in the world behind India. It can be a massive force for good, yet it comes with inherent dangers, not least of which is to your security. So here are 10 Social Networking Security Tips, to keep you safe and secure while chatting with your mates! 1. Don't Publish Too Much Don't publish too much information about yourself, your personal life, and your family online. Things to avoid, if possible, are full dates of birth, mother's maiden name, 1st pet's name, 1st school, or make sure you lie to these types of things. After all, they are all used by major institutions as "security" questions, so don't make it easy for someone to target you. 2. Assume Everything is Public Always assume that everything that you post on the...

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Building the Perfectly Optimized Site Using WordPress In the past few years WordPress ( www.WordPress.org ) has become the standard blog publishing platform because of its ease of use, rich feature set, available plugins, and standards compliance. Of course, the fact that it's free and open source hasn't hurt either. While developers have flocked to using WordPress as their blogging platform of choice, it's often overlooked as a content management platform for non-blog sites. WordPress allows you to create pages that are automatically are added to the sites' navigation bar and can be customized by a PHP programmer to handle just about any task you'd want to accomplish with a site. Free themes and plugins can help reduce programming and design costs immensely, and with a little work WordPress can be customized to automate many of the most arduous SEO tasks. The result is a powerful and easy to use search engine friendly publishing platfo...

301 Redirect Plugin for WordPress . for Non-Technical Bloggers How frequently do you write blog posts knowing that they've got a very limited shelf life, or post a news post knowing it'll be out of date in a months time? All the time right? Then why not make the links garnered by those posts work for for you? A 301 redirect is the best way to do so! Well, now there's a quick and easy solution for the more non-technical amongst us. SEP has developed a 301 redirect plugin for WordPress. What Does It Do? This plugin permits you to: easily 301 redirect any blog post or page (future or past) to any other post or page (internal or external site) by merely entering the url to redirect to. choose a specific time and date to have the redirect occur When to Use: when the information in the post has a limited shelf life, and provides no value after the fact when you dramatically improve an existing post, and want previous less extensive posts to suppor...