CBProads Review One Year On
Last year I decided to join CBProAds as I wanted to place some advertising on this blog but did not want to use Adsense for various reasons.At that time, contextual Clickbank ads were not too easy to come by and the programs on offer were often ridiculously priced as far as I was concerned. CBProAds was the one service that seemed reasonably priced and offered a lot of customizable features for their membership fee.I signed up and was pleased with the simplicity of set up although targeting ads using keywords was sometimes a bit hit and miss. During the course of the year I tweaked a few things as I went along but the click through rate was always rather disappointing.

Wordpress Security
In light of recent events I managed to find time to look a lot more closely at the security of my Wordpress blogs and was surprised to find that although I had done a lot to square things away pretty well, there was actually a lot more that I could be doing.Fortunately none of it is too difficult and hopefully this will save you some research time.The most important thing to remember is to keep your installation up to date. It can be a royal pain if you use a lot of plugins because invariably the latest version of WP will cause issues with some of them until the plugin developers get around to updating their add ons too. However, that is just the way it is and it is better

Googlebot, Robots.txt, Sitemaps & Wordpress Plugins
It's a bit of a mouthful for a title I know, but I hope this post will be useful for a number of reasons.Recently, my posting frequency on this blog has been a lot lower than normal because I have been involved in setting up an offline business as well as building a new site for that business. I don't have the facilities to outsource all these things so it's been a lot of hours of hard work.Additionally, if you read my recent post about the DDOS attack on this domain you will know that it caused havoc for far longer than it really shou