Twitter is becoming one of the fastest growing social networks with a growth rate of more than 55 % per month. More than hundreds of different applications have been developed for a better usage of Twitter.

Twitter has been mentioned almost anywhere and even big corporations or celebrities are using Twitter. A good idea would be to open micro-niche blogging sites just like Twitter, but focused on a specific niche.

Open Source Twitter Clones

Actually there exist a couple of twitter clones but the most interesting version which I would definitely give a go is Laconica

Laconica (pronounced “luh-KAWN-ih-kuh”) is a Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users can choose which people to “follow” and receive only their friends’ or colleagues’ status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, Jaiku, and Plurk.

For more information and or the download link you can visit Laconica

You can also check a live example of how the Laconica script looks and functions over at Identi.ca, which is the official site which uses the twitter clone script made by Laconica

A Twitter like site, designed particularly for a specific niche can go viral immediately and the potential actually is quite big. Once you set it up properly, you only have to market it all over the internet (no spam) and you gonna see some activity on your own twitter clone site

To tell the truth I have never been concerned about the security of my sites. However after discussing with some of my friends I realized a lot of our blogs (I’m talking about Wordpress) have some loops which are risky. Someone with proper knowledge would be able hack our blogs.

What should I do in order to prevent my Wordpress blog from being hacked?

First of all it is recommended that you have the latest version of Wordpress installed. If you are using any older versions, you better update your blog as the latest version of Wordpress has fixed some previous possible loops and has increased security. Click here to get the latest Wordpress version.

Most of us (including me) didn’t know that wp-content/plugins or wp-content/themes were accessible from anyone. I have seen some great affiliate marketers or entrepreneurs who haven’t changed anything to prevent anyone checking their information.
So by accessing wp-content/plugins I can see what plugins someone has installed and in this way I can find possible loopholes from which I can profit and hack the site. A good method to stop anyone checking your wp-content/plugins or wp-content/themes is by adding a blank index.html file. So when someone will try to see what you have installed, the blank page will be shown.

Be careful my friends as many of us upload their premium themes as zipped files on the “themes” directory so someone could easily get the theme for FREE. Thats why I strongly recommend you to add a blank page on both wp-content/plugins and wp-content/themes.

Another suggestion from me would be to change your username. In most of the manually installed Wordpress blogs, you have a custom username as “admin” so by accessing your phpMyAdmin you could change that value into something else. In this way it would be much harder for someone to find both usernames and password rather than only the password.

I have just checked 2 well-known entrepreneurs and I could easily access their wp-content/plugins and wp-content/themes. This means I could see all of their plugins and themes which is not good as someone might cause you problems just from that information. I have contacted personally those bloggers and informed them about this issue.

Thanks for your attention

Olgi Zenullari

I have been asked many times how to properly optimize the meta tags for better SE positioning. Below you will find some interesting resources which will help you optimize better your website

1. Meta Description

   Meta Description is basically a summary of what your site is about. Don’t forget that meta tags are crawled by Google Bots and they are really important. A simple code of meta description would be like <meta name=”DESCRIPTION” content=”The text you want goes here.”>

   Let’s write a simple description and see which would perform better

   a. <meta name=”DESCRIPTION” content=”Webmaster Information For All.”>
   b. <meta name=”DESCRIPTION” content=”Useful webmaster resources which will help your site rank higher on search engines and get much more exposure.”>

   So which one do you think would perform better? Definitely the second one as it gives more information about your site

2. Meta Keywords

   Meta Keywords are another factor which affects your SE ranking position. If you have a hosting website you should add keywords which are related to your niche online. The code is as follows:<meta name=”KEYWORDS” content=”Your Keyword list over here“>

   Make sure you don’t add 3-4 same keywords or dont use more than 10 different keywords. A good example would be:

   <meta name=”KEYWORDS” content=”web hosting, cheap web hosting, compare host, hosting packages, linux hosting“>

3. TITLE

   Another important factor is the title of your page. It is shown at the top of the browser and its the primary thing seen (or read) from Google Bot<title> Make Money Online with Olgi Zenullari</title>

So the above three optimizations will help you achieve better results and gain more traffic from search engines. I would strongly recommend you to use a SITEMAP for your site too as a Google Bot will find the possible linking from your first page and index all the other pages aswell I have also experimented with another meta tag which I would definitely suggest you to use it if you have a blog or a site which you update frequently

<meta name=”revisit-after” content=”7 days”>

This meta tag tells to the  google bot (spider) after how many days should it revisit your site. Based on your update frequency you can set 3 days or 7 days or even 14 days Hope you have found something useful in this article

Thanks for your attention

Olgi Zenullari