Mick Olinik — Wordpress, Marketing, Business, Systems, and Lifestyle Development Engineer

The Top Eight Things You Can Do Secure your WordPress Site

by Mick Olinik on April 12, 2013

As you may or may not have heard, there have been several instances of distributed brute force login attacks on WordPress sites over the past few months. In late 2012, wordpress.com saw a distributed attack in this fashion, and just over the last few days a variety of hosting providers saw a similar attack waged [...]

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A Review of Popular WordPress eCommerce Plugins

by Mick Olinik on April 9, 2013

Once upon a time (and to some extent today still), many people believed that WordPress was only good as a blogging based CMS, which is simply not the case! In recent years, WordPress has evolved to be a much more powerful platform that can power just about anything your heart desires online. One of the [...]

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February 25, 2013

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Getting Started with Google Authorship.

In an earlier post, I detailed what Google Authorship is and why, as a marketer, you’d want to have it configured for your online persona. In this post, we will go one step further and detail exactly how to setup Google Authorship. To setup Google Authorship, you’ll need the following: Blog Google+ Profile Domain Verified with Google [...]

January 24, 2013

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Using Gmail with Your Regular Email Address

Gmail is without a doubt the most powerful tool in email today. Everyone knows it offers a fantastic interface and insane reliability; however, the service also has boat loads of features embedded that Google never really talks about and only the few who’ve really taken the time to explore the service know exist. One of those [...]

January 21, 2013

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What is “Social Search”?

In 2012, Google launched a new service – more like a new style – of searching for Google+ users. Google refers to the service as “Search, plus Your World”. Most people, however, simply refer to it as “Social Search”. Take a look at the following video by Google to get a run down of how the product [...]

January 11, 2013

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Quality, Easy-to-Use WordPress Plugins for Marketers

Yesterday, I wrote a blog post that discussed the harsh realities facing professionals coming from the non-technical marketing world when faced with the prospect of hiring contract web developers. The article painted a fairly bleak picture that involved the uphill climb of developing a basic technical proficiency to do it well, but what about folks [...]

January 10, 2013

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What Marketers Should Know in Order to Hire Quality Web Developers

I recently had a colleague of mine approach me with a conundrum. He’s a great marketer and felt he had a firm understanding of exactly what he wanted to do with a variety of web site projects he was working on, but he was just at his wits end trying to find a web developer [...]

January 9, 2013

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Understanding the Google Changes We Saw in 2012 and the Introduction of Social Search

Hey everybody! Well, it’s January of 2013, and that means it’s a pretty good time to stop for a moment and take stock of what we saw happen in the past year on the Web. In my opinion, the most important, relevant changes in 2012 happened in the realm of social media and social search… [...]

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