WordPress on AutoPilot - Ebook Finished

WordPress on AutoPilot
The ebook is finally complete and I will be releasing it in the next week. This has taken a lot more time than I thought it would but now it is finally done. Check back in the next few days for more details or subscribe to your RSS feed and be automatically updated.

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WordPress on AutoPilot: Using MagicJack as a Business Phone Line

Using MagicJack as a Business Phone Line
Part of the process of setting up WordPress sites on AutoPilot is to automate the business so it runs itself. Traditional phones lines are expensive and require monthly fees, voice mail support, and other features. The biggest problem I have with phone lines is voice mail. You have to check it all the time to see if anything new has come in. A lot of times I forget to check it and then customer get upset.

I have asked most of my customers to use email to contact me but this doesn’t work for all problems. Some times it is much easier to talk issue out over the phone. So what is a person supposed to do? How to use get a business phone line for little cost at all?

MagicJack Details
MagicJack is a device you hook up to your computer to make calls over the Internet. The great thing is they provide you with a phone number and voice mail service for $20 USD per year. You can use this for your business phone number. When the MagicJack is not running on your computer your calls are sent to voice mail. MagicJack will send you an email message with the voicemail attachment.

Now you have a cheap business line without the costs or hassle of a traditional business phone line. Where every you connect to the Internet you can take calls. So if you travel a lot your phone will be with you.

I like to use this with my cell phone so I can limit the calls I get on my mobile to registered paying customers. The other calls go to MagicJack for me to respond to as I have time. Here is a link to MagicJack if you want more information.

Has anyone else tried this? What do you think? Let us know with your comments.

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Link Spam be Gone! How to Get Rid of Link Spam for Good with Bad Behavior

Tired of Link Spam?
I finally decided to try some new apps besides Akismet for link spam. Just today I got over 37 link spams on one post from the same IP address. I could have blocked the IP in the blacklist but I decided to try something different.

Bad Behavior
This is a program that kills link spam dead. I have installed it on other sites of mine and have loved the results. Now I am rolling it out to all my sites. The great thing is I can still have Akismet with Bad Behavior. The best of both worlds.

Here are some details from Bad Behavior:

Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour:

A whole new way of keeping your blog, forum, guestbook, wiki or content management system free of link spam. Bad Behavior is a PHP-based solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it.

Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.

Bad Behavior also transcends other link spam solutions by working in a completely different, unique way. Instead of merely looking at the content of potential spam, Bad Behavior analyzes the delivery method as well as the software the spammer is using. In this way, Bad Behavior can stop spam attacks even when nobody has ever seen the particular spam before.

Bad Behavior is designed to work alongside existing spam prevention services to increase their effectiveness and efficiency. Whenever possible, you should run it in combination with a more traditional spam prevention service.
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Bad Behavior works on, or can be adapted to, virtually any PHP-based Web software package. Bad Behavior is available natively for WordPress, MediaWiki, Drupal, ExpressionEngine, and LifeType, and people have successfully made it work with Movable Type, phpBB, and many other packages.

Installing and configuring
Bad Behavior is very easy to install. Just upload it to the plugins directory and activate it. That is it. It does all the rest for you. On one of my sites I say the link spam go to zero instantly. This is a must have plugin. I going to add it to my list of WordPress on AutoPilot Must have Plugins!

Have you tried it yet? What do you think? Let us know with comments.

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