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		<title>WordPress 2.8.6 And Your Responcibilities</title>
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Before I begin this post I have to make a statement to avoid any misunderstandings &amp;#8211; I love WordPress! I strongly believe it to be one of the most versatile platforms for publishing on the web and also one of the most supported. My hat goes off to its developers and [...]</description>
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<p>Before I begin this post I have to make a statement to avoid any misunderstandings &#8211; I love WordPress! I strongly believe it to be one of the most versatile platforms for publishing on the web and also one of the most supported. My hat goes off to its developers and community who constantly work on enhancing, improving and what is more important &#8211; Securing WordPress!</p>
<p>And while with each major release it becomes simpler and easier to upgrade I know from my experience and from talking to many business customers that sometimes it feels as if decision to use WordPress puts you into constant upgrade cycle&#8230;.</p>
<p>Upgrade cycle forced by a need to stay secure and one step ahead of &#8220;crackers&#8221;. Upgrade cycle, urgency of which can be greatly reduced if using some common &#8220;Best Practices&#8221; and it is exactly what I want to share today&#8230;</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" title="wordpress 2.8.6" href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release/" target="_blank">WordPress 2.8.6 is a security release</a> that addresses 2 vulnerabilities that can only be exploited by active<em> &#8220;registered, logged in users who have posting privileges&#8221;</em>.</p>
<p>I highlighted that quote for a reason.</p>
<p>My personal quick investigation showed a few more security releases of WordPress that share common problem &#8211; vulnerabilities that can be exploited by registered users on your blog or on blogs that have open registration:</p>
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<li><a target="_blank" title="wordpress 2.8.3" href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/" target="_blank">WordPress 2.8.3</a> &#8211; fixes elevation of <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Privilege escalation" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation">privilege escalation</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" title="wordpress 2.8.1" href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-1/" target="_blank">WordPress 2.8.1</a> &#8211; small security issue that allows regular user see admin pages for plugins they shouldn&#8217;t have access</li>
<li><a target="_blank" title="wordpress 2.6.2" href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/" target="_blank">WordPress 2.6.2</a> &#8211; this one is actually an issue with <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="PHP" rel="homepage" href="http://www.php.net/">PHP</a> functionality, not the WP itself but it address a problem where <em>&#8220;With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password.&#8221; </em>Not as much of a security issue as it is major annoyance but still&#8230;</li>
<li><a target="_blank" title="wordpress 2.5.1" href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/" target="_blank">WordPress 2.5.1</a> &#8211; this one fixes a more severe issue identified by <a target="_blank" href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1930" target="_blank">CVE-2008-1930</a> that actually allows remote users to create account on your blog with administrative privileges.</li>
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<p>I&#8217;m not going to go any farther into releases history as I think I have sufficiently proven my point that leads to a Best Practice I want to share:</p>
<h3>Users And Roles Best Practice for WordPress Security</h3>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities" target="_blank">1. Roles for users on your blog</a> is a great mechanism top help you control who and what can do on your blog. If need users, other than your own account on your blog &#8211; always follow principle of least required access privileges.</p>
<p>With development of community style blogs, guest bloggers and popularity of outsourcing it is an important to not give a person more access than they need to complete task. Refer to document I linked to above!</p>
<p>2. Disable Open Registration on your blog unless you absolutely must have it and allow unregistered users to comment on your blog. This practice will apply to 99%  of the blogs I know and will help you avoid the rush of upgrading to latest version of WordPress that addresses elevation of privileges security problem.</p>
<p>3. If you simply must have open registration, for whatever reason you might have, be sure to pay attention to security releases and upgrade as soon as possible! It is YOUR responsibility to stay secure!</p>
<p>There are a few more ways to make sure your blog will stay secure by implementing a strategy concept I have called &#8220;<a title="Triple P Of WordPress Security" href="http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/wordpress/triple-p-of-total-wordpress-security" target="_blank">Triple P Of  WordPress Security</a>&#8221; and if you carry out even part of what I share &#8211; you can sleep a lot better at night, I promise!</p>
<p><strong>Stay Safe! Be Responsible! Enjoy the great blogging platform we have!</strong></p>
<p>Oh, and don&#8217;t forget to comment and tell me what you think!</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>{SIDE-NOTE} &#8211; WordPress 2.8.6 is a simple and safe upgrade in my experience and I implemented it on all my blogs with no issues.</em></p>
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Over the last few years I&amp;#8217;ve built a lot of blogs, both for clients and my personal network.  Each of my sites utilize different plug-ins depending on what’s required for the sites function.  That being said, there are 8 plug-in&amp;#8217;s that go into every site blog I [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 7px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fgeneral%2F8-new-plug-ins-every-new-blog-should-have"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fgeneral%2F8-new-plug-ins-every-new-blog-should-have" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p><em>This post is by a guest blogger Jake Walker&#8230;</em></p>
<p>Over the last few years I&#8217;ve built a lot of blogs, both for clients and my personal network.  Each of my sites utilize different plug-ins depending on what’s required for the sites function.  That being said, there are 8 plug-in&#8217;s that go into every site blog I build.  I consider these the &#8216;don&#8217;t leave home without them&#8217; choices of the plug-in world.  In my opinion any blog missing these plug-ins is hindering itself.</p>
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Akismet</strong><br />
I know I&#8217;m not the first person to include this on a must have plug-in list, and I definitely won&#8217;t be the last. Akismet rocks. Enough said.  Unless you want to constantly be deleting spam comments from your blog, install this plug-in.</p>
<p>Have you ever noticed that the spam bots seem to find a blog before the real people do? Thank goodness for Akismet. Amen.</p>
<p><strong>Bookmarks Are Sexy</strong><br />
I love this plug in.  I don&#8217;t use all of the provided network icons, usually Digg, Facebook,<br />
Stumble and delicious will suffice.  If you aren&#8217;t writing at least once a week for the<br />
sheer purpose of social network attention, you aren&#8217;t promoting your blog effectively.</p>
<p>The fastest way to establishing authority in your niche and building links (not to mention a reader base) is through proper social networking promotion.</p>
<p><strong>SEO for WordPress</strong><br />
Most new themes these days are beginning to code themselves with SEO in mind, so this plug-in is starting to become obsolete.  However, for most themes it&#8217;s still necessary.  This plug in allows you to<br />
custom build your title tags from the post edit window.  Starting the title tag with a meaty key-phrase is essential for ranking for that phrase in the search engines.</p>
<p>SEO for WordPress has many other handy features that make life easier.</p>
<p><strong>Email To A Friend</strong><br />
One of the biggest mistakes I made early on was underestimating the value of this plug-in.  The coolest part about it is you can actually see who is sending your posts to who, and what they are saying about it in the email.  Is it kind of sneaky and semi-voyeuristic? Yes.  Interesting and encouraging? Absolutely.  It&#8217;s also a great way to make word of mouth marketing easy for your readers.</p>
<p><strong>Robots.Txt</strong><br />
This is a must have. Search engines love it when you&#8217;re organized and you tell them what to do.  This automatically builds a must-have robots.txt file for your site.  Check it out.</p>
<p><strong>Database Backup</strong><br />
I consider this plug-in my little insurance policy.  It automatically backs up your WordPress database and emails you the file daily. Talk about peace of mind.  I always have a fresh back up of all my sites sitting in the cloud in my email folders and also backed up on my hard drive.   It&#8217;s an easy, smart and prudent thing every blogger should do.</p>
<p><strong>Subscribe To Comments</strong><br />
This one is as simple as two words: Return Traffic. Someone says something engaging, and they’re notified every time someone replies. Offering the option for viewers to subscribe to comments is promoting conversation which is generating return traffic and allowing your readers to engage and communicate, creating a community. That’s a no-brainer.</p>
<p><strong>SiteMap</strong><br />
Lastly, building a sitemap makes it very easy for pages to get indexed, re-indexed, and constantly recognized.  This plug-in automatically draws up an .xml sitemap and submits to Google at a frequency that you set.  You should also link to the site map from the footer of your blog.  This will make it very easy for the search engines to index.</p>
<p>Of course there are plenty of other awesome plug-ins that I use a lot.  But these are my 7 absolute musts.  I never build a blog that doesn&#8217;t utilize them.  Happy building!</p>
<p><strong>Jake Walker</strong> has been working on the web on and off for the last 10 years.  An avid blogger<br />
he has had many posts featured on major social networks and other news portal websites. He<br />
currently works as a search engine optimization consultant with the other smart people at<br />
<a target="_blank" title="seop.com" href="http://www.seop.com/" target="_blank">seop.com</a></p>
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		<description>It&amp;#8217;s funny how we perceive ourselves sometimes and how it can be quite different from how your family does and the differences is quite drastic!
Case to the point&amp;#8230;.
Over last 4 weeks or so I have worked on getting my current house ready for sale. Contractors going in and out and checks that I sign following [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 7px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fweb-20%2Fblogging-web-20%2Fturn-your-idle-time-into-productive"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fweb-20%2Fblogging-web-20%2Fturn-your-idle-time-into-productive" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>It&#8217;s funny how we perceive ourselves sometimes and how it can be quite different from how your family does and the differences is quite drastic!</p>
<p>Case to the point&#8230;.</p>
<p>Over last 4 weeks or so I have worked on getting my current house ready for sale. Contractors going in and out and checks that I sign following alone brought my wife into following line of thinking -<em> we can &#8220;save some money&#8221; by doing small things such as painting, etc ourselves. </em></p>
<p>Or Can We?</p>
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<p>I have to give my wife the credit &#8211; she is now not only taking care of the family, going to school full-time in the evening but also does most of the work. I&#8217;m only left with some wall prep. work, running to hardware stores and helping her out from time to time.</p>
<p>Problem is &#8211; every time I have to switch from working on my core business to chores, I lose time! Time that I perceive as biggest asset that I have but since my wife thinks we &#8220;can save money&#8221; already made &#8211; arguing with her will be pointless as she is just as hardheaded as I&#8217;m and in this case I choose the path of distraction that keeps her happy <img src='http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Whew, long story!</p>
<p>Now, if I could only remember why I was writing it&#8230;</p>
<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; Time!</p>
<p>If you have some idle time this weekend, here are links to some good content to help you turn that time into Productive:</p>
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<li>Shawn Collins shares a disturbing news on <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.affiliatetip.com/archives/avg-anti-virus-versus-affiliate-marketing/" target="_blank">AVG Anti-Virus Blocking Affiliate Links</a>. If you are doing any type of affiliate marketing you might want to check it out.</li>
<li>Alberto Hallado shares tips on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.alberthallado.com/wordpress-theme-structure-that-works-for-business/" target="_blank">WordPress Theme Structure That Works For Business</a>. And he also reminds us importance of keeping your blog up to date &#8211; just check out the post!</li>
<li>Patsi Krakoff teaches us how to<a target="_blank" href="http://www.coachezines.com/2009/10/build-a-product-funnel-on-your-blog-through-content-marketing.html" target="_blank"> Build a Product Funnel on Your Blog through Content Marketing</a>. A MUST read post.</li>
<li>John Jonas shares his own personal collection of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jonasblog.com/2009/10/web-tools-to-help-run-your-online-business.html" target="_blank">Web Tools To Help Run Your Online Business</a>. Sometimes difference between being productive and wasting time are the tools you use. This is great reference list!</li>
<li>Nicole Dean continues with her success stories and this time shares <a target="_blank" href="http://nicoleonthenet.com/2009/online-success-ross-goldberg/" target="_blank">Online Success Cast #16: Ross Goldberg</a>. Great content guys, as Ross has highly unusual story and a person with integrity, although he might be edgy for some! Great guy, excellent story and shared by master teller Nicole! Check it out!</li>
<li><a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Doug Champigny" rel="blog" href="http://DougChampigny.com">Doug Champigny</a> shares his insight on <a target="_blank" href="http://dougchampigny.com/protecting-and-preparing-your-internet-marketing-business-in-todays-economy/" target="_blank">Protecting And Preparing Your Internet Marketing Business In Today’s Economy</a>. And when Doug speaks &#8211; I listen and highly recommend you do same!</li>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wasn&amp;#8217;t going to write on this topic originally but for some reason my partner and I started to see this issue more and more often occurring:
Customer Makes It IMPOSSIBLE For Us to Provide Customer Service
While it can be due to many reasons, fact still remains and worst of all &amp;#8211; it leaves bad impression [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 7px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fmoney-making%2Finternet-marketing%2Fhow-customer-makes-customer-service-impossible"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fmoney-making%2Finternet-marketing%2Fhow-customer-makes-customer-service-impossible" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>I wasn&#8217;t going to write on this topic originally but for some reason my partner and I started to see this issue more and more often occurring:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Customer Makes It IMPOSSIBLE For Us to Provide Customer Service</strong></p>
<p>While it can be due to many reasons, fact still remains and worst of all &#8211; it leaves bad impression on that person even though it wasn&#8217;t even our fault. Considering that we pride ourselves in providing great customer service to our clients &#8211; we are obviously not happy with situation either.</p>
<p>Let me give an example and a fix, that perhaps will apply to some people reading this post, especially if you have requested a support for a product and never got a reply&#8230;</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Solution&#8230;</strong></span></p>
<p>Yes, I decided to go backward and present the solution to the problem first as I think it is MOST important:</p>
<ul>
<li>Be sure you <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Whitelist" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist">whitelist</a> the support email address that you expect reply from</li>
<li>Check your SPAM or BULK folder &#8211; you might find your reply there</li>
<li>DON&#8217;T use email address that requires people to very themselves through Spam-Arrest or some similar service &#8211; you&#8217;d be AMAZED how many people do this one!</li>
<li>BE SURE you can accept email on email address you send from &#8211; a LOTS of time inbox is too full and support gets reply back stating that person can&#8217;t accept any new emails</li>
<li>Turn off any Out Of Office autoresponders, as too often they also auto refuse messages to be sent to your inbox</li>
<li><strong>Try writing from different email address if you didn&#8217;t get reply to your request!</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Those are just some of the few solutions to problems like this one&#8230;.</p>
<p>This morning I have received an email from a Free Member on Expert WordPress (I have protected some details for <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Privacy" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy">privacy</a>):</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1249" title="customer-support1" src="http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/customer-support1.jpg" alt="customer-support1" width="532" height="457" /></p>
<p>I personally believe that 4 minutes to reply from the time problem was submitted is  good but guess what&#8230;</p>
<p>Customer Never Got The Email!</p>
<p>Or so it seems in next message:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1250" title="customer-support2" src="http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/customer-support2.jpg" alt="customer-support2" width="525" height="310" /></p>
<p>I have highlighted the response we get any time we attempt to email the person who is obviously upset and yet &#8211; I still don&#8217;t know if he was able to get into the system or not&#8230;</p>
<p>Case above is one of the less obvious as some email addresses we try to reply to simply BLOCK our replies, actively refuse to accept it and since person emailing for support never tries any other emails we can reply to &#8211; they never get answer from us.</p>
<p><strong>Everyone Losses in this case!</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Customer upset for not getting promised service</li>
<li>We are unable to give service and get tarnished reputation</li>
</ol>
<p>Once again &#8211; this post is not meant to upset anyone but perhaps help some people understand why is it they never got reply from us!</p>
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		<description>Affiliate Marketing can be a reason for legal action against you, whether you agree with new FTC &amp;#8220;guide&amp;#8221; or not, it is here to stay. In this post I simply want to share a resource that gives you an option to add Affiliate Disclosure to your email marketing campaigns.
I just got it myself from Mike [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 7px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fmoney-making%2Finternet-marketing%2Femail-affiliate-disclosure-freebie-you-must-have"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fmoney-making%2Finternet-marketing%2Femail-affiliate-disclosure-freebie-you-must-have" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Affiliate Marketing can be a reason for legal action against you, whether you agree with new <a title="ftc attacks bloggers" href="http://www.howtospoter.com/money-making/internet-marketing/ftc-attacks-affiliate-bloggers">FTC &#8220;guide&#8221;</a> or not, it is here to stay. In this post I simply want to share a resource that gives you an option to<em><strong> add Affiliate Disclosure to your email marketing campaigns.</strong></em></p>
<p>I just got it myself from Mike Young and will be working on integrating it into my email marketing.</p>
<p>Simply click here to download *.zip archive that has the PDF with exact legal language you can use in your <a title="Email Affiliate Disclaimer Download" href="http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/affiliate-email-disclosure.zip" target="_blank">Affiliate Emails as Disclaimer</a>.</p>
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Technorati&amp;#8217;s State Of Blogosphere 2009 is one of the most detailed reports on what is moving bloggers and statistical data available for free.
Stephen Pierce unleashed [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 7px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fweb-20%2Fblogging-web-20%2Fwhat-im-reading"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fweb-20%2Fblogging-web-20%2Fwhat-im-reading" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>While it might not be interesting to most &#8211; I think information shared in following posts or articles can be not only entertaining but also extremely educational. My weekly round up:</p>
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		<description>Unexpectedly I logged in tonight to discover that new version of WordPress is made available and its not WordPress 2.9!
New release is a security hardening branch to help you stay more secure and while I haven&amp;#8217;t seen any direct urging notifications on developers blog, it addresses several security issues that exist in your blog and [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 7px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fweb-20%2Fwordpress%2Fwordpress-2-8-5-released"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fweb-20%2Fwordpress%2Fwordpress-2-8-5-released" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Unexpectedly I logged in tonight to discover that new version of <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="WordPress" rel="homepage" href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress</a> is made available and its not WordPress 2.9!</p>
<p>New release is a <a target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/">security hardening branch</a> to help you stay more secure and while I haven&#8217;t seen any direct urging notifications on developers blog, it addresses several security issues that exist in your blog and as such &#8211; <strong>Upgrade Highly Recommended!</strong></p>
<p>As I write this post, my main blog as well as 5 of my Niche Blogs that have different plugins and theme configurations were upgraded with no problems using Automated Upgrade option so I think its safe to say that go ahead and upgrade now!</p>
<p><strong>Just be sure to backup first!</strong></p>
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		<description>A few days ago one of my customers have submitted the ticket with questions that go beyond normal product support we offer. And while I have provided a simple answer &amp;#8211; I have to admit that on second review of my answer &amp;#8211; I wasn&amp;#8217;t happy with it!

That answer wasn&amp;#8217;t exactly what my customer was [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 7px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fmoney-making%2Fcopywriting%2Fprotect-your-blog-copyrights"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fmoney-making%2Fcopywriting%2Fprotect-your-blog-copyrights" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>A few days ago one of my customers have submitted the ticket with questions that go beyond normal product support we offer. And while I have provided a simple answer &#8211; I have to admit that on second review of my answer &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t happy with it!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="blog unique content copyrights" href="http://www.howtospoter.com/money-making/copywriting/protect-your-blog-copyrights"><img class="size-full wp-image-1237 aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none;" title="copyrights-question" src="http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/copyrights-question.jpg" alt="copyrights-question" width="551" height="167" /></a></p>
<p>That answer wasn&#8217;t exactly what my customer was looking for and not something I was personally satisfied with. <em><strong>My apologies to Xavier</strong></em> and since &#8220;Identifying Content Uniqueness&#8221; is rather common question &#8211; I want to give detailed answer in form of post.</p>
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<h3>Blog Content Copyrights And Uniqueness</h3>
<p>While there are some tools that will help you find if your content unique or not and if it was taken and used by someone else &#8211; <a target="_blank" title="copyscape" href="http://www.copyscape.com">Copyscape</a> is undoubted leader. Using it is extremely simple, just enter full direct URL to your post and you will get results back:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-1238 aligncenter" title="copyscape" src="http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/copyscape.jpg" alt="copyscape" width="433" height="214" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In image above I simply entered full url to my blog post &#8220;<a title="Triple “P” Of Total WordPress Security" href="http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/wordpress/triple-p-of-total-wordpress-security">Triple “P” Of Total WordPress Security</a>&#8221; and it provided me with several results.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Problem is &#8211; FREE version of the tool is limited to number of results returned and if you test it &#8211; you will find that many times you get a lot of false positives. If you are working a lot with <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Private label rights" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_label_rights">PLR</a> content or purchasing content from elsewhere &#8211; I recommend you look at Premium account options they offer to take advantage of their technology.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you are looking to simply watch your blog to make sure that your content is not stolen and reused by scrapers elsewhere I want to share a great free tool with you that I learned about from &#8220;<a target="_blank" title="Stop Scrapers and Spammers Fast" href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/10/20/stop-scrappers-and-spammers-fast/" target="_blank">Stop Scrapers and Spammers Fast</a>&#8221; blog post on Darren Rowse blog &#8211; <a target="_blank" title="copygator" href="http://www.copygator.com/" target="_blank">CopyGator</a>!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">While it is not same in functionality as Copyscape it does well what it does, and FREE!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" title="copygator" href="http://www.copygator.com/" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-1239 aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none;" title="copygator" src="http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/copygator.jpg" alt="copygator" width="550" height="128" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Interestingly enough it provided me with a better results than Copyscape as far as my content concerned and a lot more accurate!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">While they offer you a nice badge to place on your blog as &#8220;Option 1&#8243; that actually turns red when your content used somewhere else &#8211; I preferred Option 2 as shown in image below simply because all I have to do is add their <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Remote procedure call" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call">RPC</a> to my ping list and provide my feed. Now every time I will post new blog post &#8211; Gator gets notified and monitors it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-1240 aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none;" title="copygator-options" src="http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/copygator-options.jpg" alt="copygator-options" width="548" height="156" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Simple, Effective, Non-Intrusive!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Allow Google Alert You For Content Usage</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">This option is more advanced and it will actually serve as dual edged sword &#8211; protect our copyrights as well as BE NOTIFIED when someone uses it without permission!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Step 1 &#8211; Install Plugin</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Although <a target="_blank" title="feed footer" href="http://www.blogclout.com/blog/goodies/feed-footer-plugin/"><strong>Feed Footer</strong></a> plugin was created a while back and haven&#8217;t been updated to latest version &#8211; I use it on all my blogs and it is part of standard &#8220;<a target="_blank" title="Expert WordPress" href="http://www.expertwordpress.com/a1.php">Expert WordPress</a>&#8221; blog installer package.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Simply install this plugin and you will be provided with 10 fields you can use to provide Text, Ads or <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="HTML" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">HTML</a> content to copyright protect your blog posts. Those fields will be auto inserted into your RSS Feed on rotating basis for all new posts only and since RSS is what scrapers always use to steal your content &#8211; it will show up on those &#8220;splogs&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">You can use it to both add ads as well as copyrights message with link to your blog. I recommend using some unique key phrase that you can use for easily identifying when your feed was used outside of your blog.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">See the copyright message in image below that is added to my<a title="subscribe to rss feed" href="http://www.howtospoter.com/feed"> RSS Feed</a>:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1241" title="howtospoter-copyrights" src="http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/howtospoter-copyrights.jpg" alt="howtospoter-copyrights" width="540" height="112" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As you can see I have a unique phrase &#8220;Copyright WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er&#8221; auto-inserted into ALL MY posts in blog<a title="subscribe to rss feed" href="http://www.howtospoter.com/feed"> RSS Feed</a> and now I can move to step 2&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Step 2 &#8211; Allow Google Monitor The Web For Me</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Hey, Google is good for something besides doing searching!  <img src='http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_evil.gif' alt=':evil:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: left;">All you have to do now is use your unique phrase, &#8220;<strong>Copyright WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er</strong>&#8221; with quotes to create a <a target="_blank" title="Google Alert" href="http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en" target="_blank">Google Alert </a>and each time it shows up anywhere &#8211; you will get email from Google! See image below</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" title="Google Alert" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-1242 aligncenter" title="google-alert" src="http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/google-alert.jpg" alt="google-alert" width="363" height="287" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Now you just let the Big Guy to let you know  anytime your content might is stolen <img src='http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  And since we are on topic of Google Alert &#8211; you don&#8217;t have to limit yourself to monitoring only your copyright&#8217;s message.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">You can use it to monitor for your niche specific phrase to be alerted anytime new story comes out, monitor entire market to be &#8220;the man or woman to go to&#8221; for latest information in your Niche! Make yourself &#8220;The Source Of Latest Info&#8221; and you will be rewarded.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Conclusion</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">No matter which method you choose to use &#8211; it is important to use at least something to protect your biggest asset, content you have created!</p>
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		<title>Google Wave Invite Wanted!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&amp;#8217;t get too excited over technology too easy but sometimes, when something comes out so revolutionary, as Google Wave &amp;#8211; I just got to have it!
So here I was reading blog post by Jack Humphrey when I decided to watch the video included:

All I can say right now &amp;#8211; MUST HAVE.
WANTED: Google Wave Invite!
Bounty: [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 7px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fweb-20%2Fgoogle-wave-invite-wanted"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtospoter.com%2Fweb-20%2Fgoogle-wave-invite-wanted" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>I don&#8217;t get too excited over technology too easy but sometimes, when something comes out so revolutionary, as Google Wave &#8211; I just got to have it!</p>
<p>So here I was reading blog post by <a target="_blank" title="Jack Humphrey on google wave" href="http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/i-just-got-my-google-wave-invite/" target="_blank">Jack Humphrey</a> when I decided to watch the video included:</p>
<p><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p6pgxLaDdQw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p6pgxLaDdQw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></p>
<p>All I can say right now &#8211; MUST HAVE.</p>
<h3>WANTED: Google Wave Invite!</h3>
<p><strong>Bounty:</strong> Lifetime Membership To Expert WordPress</p>
<p><a href="http://www.howtospoter.com/about" target="_blank">Contact me </a>if you can send me invite using form on blog please!</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE: I got my invite already! Thank you <a target="_blank" href="http://www.webspacebuddy.com/">Rangoo</a>!</strong>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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I have always been clear when making a product reviews on my blog that I use affiliate links. In fact Affiliate Marketing is a big part of the monetization model on my blog  and in last 3 month or so, ever since I heard that FTC will go after internet endorsements I have [...]</description>
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<p>I have always been clear when making a product reviews on my blog that I use affiliate links. In fact Affiliate Marketing is a big part of the monetization model on my blog  and in last 3 month or so, ever since I heard that FTC will go after internet endorsements I have added extra disclaimers to each post that included affiliate links.</p>
<p><strong>Well, time has come &#8211; &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; has his eyes on Your Blog Income!</strong></p>
<p>Yesterday<a target="_blank" title="FTC endorcement guides" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/endortest.shtm" target="_blank"> FTC has resealed final guides governing endorsements, testimonials</a> and yes, that includes promotions via Affiliate Links! This could have a very dramatic impact on your affiliate marketing business if you don&#8217;t precautions. And here is how and what&#8230;</p>
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<p>First and foremost I want to make a disclaimer:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>I&#8217;m not a lawyer, I&#8217;m not qualified to give you legal advise and if you have <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ANY</span></strong> legal questions or concerns I highly recommend you get yourself advise from professionals!</em></p>
<p>With that being said I want to share what I use for legal protection of my own sites, such as you can see in <a title="legal documentation" href="http://www.howtospoter.com/legal">legal documentation section</a> of my blog.</p>
<p>For years I was using legal forms on my sites that you can create using some free generators. And sorry, I will not even link to those for one simple reason &#8211; I have learned that those generic form generators actually have more chances to damage you instead of protecting. They simply leave too many loopholes open for your site to become legal liability to you and your family!</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know about you but I prefer to be as secure and as protected as possible.</p>
<p>To really get a solid legal defense you got couple options:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">1. <strong>Get an Internet Lawyer</strong> to create legal documentation for your sites. And it is very important to hire a qualified professional. Internet Law is a  new so be sure if you hire someone who know all the intricacies of the new media format and offer you solid protection! This is the most expensive but best form of protection you can find, expect to part with a few hundred dollars.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>2. Get</strong> <strong><a target="_blank" title="website legal forms generator" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.expertwordpress.com/recommends/WebsiteLegalForms" target="_blank">Website Legal Forms Generator</a></strong>. This is a software I use myself to create all legal forms for my own sites, such as I have shown above. And reason behind it simple. Software created by Internet lawyer Mike Young, who knows the nature of the web law and provides you with very decent protection for the price you pay!</p>
<p>I like the simplicity of the software and protection it provides but it also doesn&#8217;t hurt to know that you get ongoing support.</p>
<p>Since the FTC guides just came out &#8211; software doesn&#8217;t generate dedicated form for it but when I first heard about this regulation coming, I have contacted them and was advised that once final version of regulation released &#8211; they will include protection for it. Is is always nice to know that you and your family are protected against intrusive eye of Big Brother.</p>
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