In this video I talk about Kubrick theme and how happy I am with the current security updates with the plugin I recommended in an earlier post this year. I talk about some interesting books I am trying to read at the moment. I also talk about what I did today to come into my knowing, get my head into gear and sort things out in my bachelor pad.

I do go on a bit, the first thing you will notice is my name is Robert Bridge, I live in London and I am currently your buddy blogger here on this website. I go on a bit about WordPress and the fun I am having using the old Kubrick template. My mind goes back over eight years as a I reflect in this video about the good times of learning all this stuff.

What is great about this recent weblog is to see that I am just as passionate about blogging as I was when I first got a domain name, before that I was just blogging on Blogger, Myspace, Yahoo and Associated Content. I am really happy today and tell you all about that in the video, so if you get chance have a listen and please leave a comment in the new LiveFyre comments below, Youtube like you to comment there too, so please leave your blurbs.

If you are wondering what WordPress Direct is it is a place to upload your WordPress site to hosting, very popular in 2005, lots of successful business owners used Marties services and at the time it was really good, not sure what he is offering today or in-fact whether you actually need it anymore. It was good though I think I originally upload this site and trash Robot through the WordPress Direct methods.

Anyway I have gone on long enough, thanks for reading and have a great day.

A new security plugin that does what it says on the tin and more.

Wordfence is amazing plugin developed by the creator of Feedjit. I just read the recommendation on the Mark Maunder‘s blog. Within ten minutes of installing it adding my key number I have fixed two errors showing up in plugins. It scans you whole domain and looks at the files for errors and any potential spam in any of the files of plugins. It also scan any edits in these plugins you may have made. It requires a one click then you are done fixed. I got two errors one was from the editing I did in my header year or so ago and forgot all about it and the other is a change I made in an important plugin internally. I changed the php Twitter link to link to my Twitter link thinking it would be external. Anyway the plugin found this out and fixed it back for me. I the plugin can read this I guess the developer can do.

Wordfence is great because when you visit my site I have the details of your IP address which means I can find out who you are. Not bad for a nights work, I may even add Feedjit here again try it out, I do not really need it however it would be just nice to give back in some way because the truth is I think Wordfence is really good. There is a paid version so I will let you know if it still works in 30 days. The plugin says it free forever though. Check it out Wordfence. Be warned though when you install it for five minutes you will struggle to login the admin panel. Whilst waiting go over the the Wordfence website and create an account there so you can see your login key there, this will give you an element of support and also let you know they features. Most of the features are however mentioned WordPress.org.

Dear reader my name is Robert Bridge and today I will be your buddy blogger helper, my hope is that you will comment and let me know of any other solutions. When I mean other I mean simple solutions to create a visitor counter other than the one I talk about here. I like Google Analytics so I hope the one you recommend links up with them, so here goes.

The name of the WordPress Plugin in Counterize. Now the first thing you will notice when you install is it wants to connect with you Google account, I mean the whole account. The plugin speaks with Google and requires a key number. The link i given in the settings and all you need to know is are you logged into your Google account, obviously the Google account you want linked with your analytics, which should already be linked through Google Webmaster. If you do not know what I mean search this blog for All in One Webmaster this post will easily help you get set up there. Now assuming you have this and have done these basic things then you have to add the next bit of code which is a little bit more long winded. It requires you visiting your Google Analytics page and finding the correct code for your site.

Here is what is great about this, Google Analytic s again have changed and improved, I am not going to go into that here but I am sure somewhere on this blog there is information about adding Analytics to places from blogs to Social Media. But here is what is not so obvious and why I am thankful about having this plugin. When I went to find code to track I found a duplicate of this domain in my analytic s, thats not all I found many links no longer working for example I add Analytic s tracking auto responders I no longer use, blogs that no longer work Amplify.com was one. Anyway I wanted to do some house cleaning and delete some of these accounts no longer active. Have you ever gone to Analytic s account and thought all those links are clutter and could not find the delete. Well here is where to find it. It is top right press the admin panel when you are one the tracking account you want to link. Having clicked on Admin you will be shown a link or links depending on how many accounts you have attached to the Analytics account. So click on the column of the tracking account you want to delete. From there above the link there should be five or so links go along to the one near the right above your link which says account settings. Now below right you will see options to delete or save. Delete it and its gone, you confirm delete and its deleted. Click the link again its still there you have to delete twice for some unknown reason. At this point it will ask you to confirm deleting the clutter you want rid of in Google Analytics, confirm and its gone.

Now back to your domain in Analytic s they have a code specifically registered with your domain its a UA-123456 and you have to add that to the Counterize section in the settings (it is below where you got the code form Google+). Now all you have to do to show on website for visitors is to add the Google Analytics widget to your footer or side bar. It asks some silly questions about looks which I do not think really matter. Basically I am happy with what the plugin does what it has taught me and happy to share with Google these things, but the reality is it looks rubbish and is branded with Google sign, so if you know of any alternatives please let me and my readers know below in the comments, or if you have joined make a thread in the forums and leave your tips there. Please when you join the forum use your real name and not your keyword niche, I monitor the domain regularly and will simply delete you or if need be block your IP. I want to create a space where people can learn as well as get something for nothing.

Yours faithfully

Robert Bridge.

Talking is something since computers and communications that it is on the rise, we have been blessed with various ways of communicating opening your mouth is a blessing, sign language again is something people learn when they have the ability to communicate gone. The TV landscape honours these things but does not always create enough participation. Infact some television shows merely create more dissonance. TV shows like soaps bring out what people think and believe. During hard times most of this I imagine is not very positive, prejudging anyone or anything is not good, especially when you are around people you love. TV is for entertainment, it is right to laugh when funny things happen, but is it right to laugh when people of power on the telly do absalutely the wrong thing. Watching whilst waiting for a laugh or reacting when something really silly happens can show things that are not necessarily good. Many people who market online have expressed the need to take the telly out the equation. When I speak to friends children they express many likes and quickly share how they communicate throughout the day. From favourite toys that open an imaginery world of creativity, to a game of cards that represent the players in a game to IPads and games to play on these hand held devices. Media and television enrich so many lives but I feel if we participate rather than passively enjoy there is a danger of saying and getting involved in conversations that will neither serve yourself or enrich the friendships around you.

So do we have to make the decision to passively enjoy the amazing creativity of televsion and wait around for the nosiy ads to question the television. Should we express and opinion about fiction that happens in soaps to those around us. I think not and I maybe wrong. Some may say this type of conversation reveals more about people than they are actually aware. The reason for this I guess is becuase I am so used to having a telly in the background keeping me company. But when you know the story and know more about the characters and how un civilised they are bearing in mind its only a story, does you opinion matter either way?

One thing I know now is three overs everyday with friends or even people you do not know, it does perhaps not even have to be a conversation orally, typing is fine. Engaging in small talk for many people I know is very difficult, I am not sure if this is what I am reccomending. Three hours of small talk and hows your father…

Many cultures have conversations embedded to a tea, for one hour some countries spend asking about the family, the goats the house, the health, the goals and dreams. The last two are the ones I wishing to cultivate but without the laughter there would be less of focus. O I can see now how people read into other peoples sense of humour.

Please understand this, when you are laughing you are learning, yes I really beleive that. I know, I know not everybody do. Its great to understand the different types of people out there. The colour coding thing really helped for a time, although I could never remember if I was a high or low blue or a green or who was red and what colours best worked out. The things I speak of are mearly the fruits of |ECademy by Thomas and Penny Power, I liked all of what they taught, how they taught and the generosity in the way they taught it. That’s the great thing about getting out the house and talking to people. Never underestimate the power of getting out there and opening up to building new relationships, sharing goals and visions, complimenting people on their strengths and having a laugh about those crazy weaknesses. Well Ecademy is changing, Thomas and Penny have changed hands after thirteen or more years they have handed the ropes to someone else. Look out for more quotes from the author of the art of war and for gods sake don’t be put of by building relationships and see if you can have conversations for three hours everyday.

Well I have a boat load of rubbish on my hard-drive for one thing and I am great at figuring things out, I notice a lot of rubbish from experts and have learned to let go and devised a way to ask people for help, its my own technique and it works for me, and no before you ask its not rocket science its just me being me. Here is a valuable tip I will share with you, its simple and perhaps worthless to most people.

“Keep your eyes and ears open”

These days you can take a good look and find out all about a blog, take this blog for instance, on the home page you can see a collection of posts in the stream on the home page, at the bottom of the page is ways and means provided for you the visitor to share my rubbish too. You see people know who have been about for a few minutes on the digital landscape know this stuff, they have social media and are always on the look out for stuff to add to their often static or dormant stream. Many people are churning out the new content in their micro niche, which often collides with duplicate content. On your blog this is not a good thing, churning out other people’s content however is perfectly fine. Have you ever wondered why so many people are looking for guest bloggers, it pretty common and I am sure you agree if someone contacts you the chances are is because they are either friends with you on social media or they came about your blog via search or Google alerts because they are interested in your specified subject. Competition is completely wrong this is not the London Olympics and even if it was you would be in a team. Same goes for blogging as it does for social media, it’s nothing new however it is the only way you can succeed. Yes there are other ways if you pay or configure your streams with other peoples stuff, or you a bundling streams from software shops and e-commerce sources, coupon deals etc, but its not long before you will have to connect with your new found friends and new found fans. If this is you then you should concentrate a little bit of your time everyday on Facebox or Google+ to connect with these people. Forget about your niche, share what is great and entertaining. You have the keys through social media, and if you are genuine enough you will know what you like, music videos is one easy way of making someone happy, so please just for a minute forget about your micro niche, it may serve you now, but in ten years time which is the perfect end goal for any business successful summary.

Be careful though not all songs are always what they say they are, many artists have taken the old and mixed it with there own new. My point is the last thing you want to do is offend anyone with other peoples rubbish. Like I say I have a hard-drive full of rubbish but what I have not mentioned is I have deleted even more rubbish. Sometimes absolute rubbish slips through the net I am sure it happens to everyone, if this is you then at some point you will have to do spring cleaning. And its the same for your blog.

If you are new to blogging then this will not apply to you well not yet anyway, so here goes.

How to spring clean your blog.

1. Devise a great navigation, add as many fancy drop downs as you can be sure to add all the necessary legal things and cookie announcements needed, don’t drown your readers in terms and conditions if you do not have any other interesting pages. A quick way to quickly expand the top of your pages navigations is by adding more categories and again when posting with this in mind don’t be a afraid to use more than one category because often the category is a much more powerful way of optimising your post than the tags. Again you could use tags in your navigation I just not sure how. Everyone are talking about getting traffic, as much traffic as possible, now I know you who have a micro niche will be shaking your head, but the same marketers shaking their head know 3 months of hard work to rank and create a well researched on target blog is no longer something you can set and forget. Remember when you were told blogging is about something you like. Well here’s the thing, you like and add fresh stuff and that’s it, you keep doing that or everything goes quiet. Email marketing is one solution but anyone who does email marketing knows or so it seems in my inbox is that the blog is not the place to send people. The place to send people is other peoples places. People who are selling stuff and offer high commissions. Over the years I have noticed a trend these things happen in seasons, another reason why your micro niche is not the best bet. Bundling sites and adding them to your navigation or in the side bar is one way of solving this problem however if its not on site then it will increase your bounce rate. A bounce rate is something on your analytics account. Its not uncommon when you check to see high bounce rates especially if you are driving loads of traffic to your site so remember try and keep everything in house as deep as possible into your site as you can. Same goes for images, affiliate links etc. Again your pretty link link shorteners are one way around avoiding a low bounce rate when you are affiliated in some way with other peoples stuff.

2. Over the years of churning away the tags can become somewhat sloppy, in your word press panel if you navigate to you appearance section you will find your tags many of them for some reason are no longer attributed with certain posts, just delete them and get rid of them and watch the rankings in Google swell up afterwards. If you are new then it might be a good idea to forget about all the expensive keyword research and go with a bit of common sense in choosing your categories instead, you can use two or three for some posts, experiment about a bit and see how you get on. If you have a blog and are bilingual or writing in another language then you might want to change your title links to the default. The default is the =p?123 because if you are translating posts and submitting them to various search engines around the world, then you want those posts to be as universal as possible. Call the title what you want, again properly the one key word you cannot change is the title of your post, so as much as make it punchy also make it five words and beyond of something people will still be searching for five years from now. Like I say common sense is the best thing about the words we use. Some people do it really well and you can learn from them, which leads me onto my next tip.

Learn from free stuff.

Social media is free right, its time consuming and your like a kid in a play yard, you know you have to do it and like a pet dog we all need to exercise. Well blogs are free to and each platform has special things. Live-journal has the ability to add your profile icon into a post and add those silly emotions to say how you are feeling, these snippets can be copied into you WordPress hosted blog. WordPress.com a free hosted version is great because it has never been easy to use. In their terms and conditions they offer a package where you can use still the wordpress.com for blogging, but they also highlight the fact that you cannot use certain plugins because they conflict with what they already have to offer. So what am I talking about and the same goes for Posterous, Blogger and Tumblr here is the community. People in the communities like certain things, some people are happy having the geo location of a post linked to the relevancy of the topic. For instance your on holiday right, you login to a computer or type in on your phone an entry. Perhaps you just want to upload some images. WordPress dot com is great because you can upload a load of images in one upload, same for Posterous and this is what that community favours, so imagine this on your hosted site, variety is great, yes I know continuity is very effective, but what I am saying is things are changing and if you are not keeping up with the curve and going over the old rubbish that yes still works else it would seriously not be on my hardrive I would deleted it by now or added it to DropBox or something like that. OK I make it much more bluntly the great thing about any of these sites is the ability to connect with the community, many people comment and create back-links to each other. SOme common problems with having a hosted site is having the ability to do these things. Ways have been devised like the commenting system to humour links to people who comment, but to be honest comment luv is not all that, you can search for other blogs using comment Luv and you can quickly give authority to friends who post and it did in the beginning cultivate a community of people who were sharing and reposting other peoples posts, but the majority of comments just like any other is a collection of spam comments using software that no one sells anymore because its so annoying. The best comment box is the one where either you or the persons blog you are commenting on has a stream at the bottom of their page or in the side bar acknowledging these posts. You can limit the amount of days people have to comment creating and training your readers about scarcity ie get your posts in fast whilst you have the chance. Little things but they really help, in blogging its the little things you will find really help. Noting these things down again will really help you, because in all honesty what happens in 2013 is the same stuff that happened in 2007, companies come and go, say this and say that, but the one thing that serves all these peoples thoughts is money and agenda’s. You have sales force teams out there reversing knowledge so instead of you becoming a better blogger you become a dumber blogger, you just don’t know it till you pause for a minute and think how can I escape this rubbish, after all five minutes lost is much better than an hour and twenty minutes of self promotional mind games, right?

Ok so I have given you two tips, I am done, I am hungry and need something to eat if you want me to write about the three other things a blog needs then please leave some comments down below.

Its the unveiling of the box, this video is from the archives of YouTube my second video diary for the RNA drops. There are a lot of video’s on-line but none as compelling as mine. This video I mention and comment on the service the company provided from the ghetgo. It has been mentioned that I have become younger since the last video. I do not have anything to say on this matter. This video diary is how I see it in the beginning. Please also before you watch this video have a good read here because there are a few things I want to tell you about before you race over to Youtube and watch the video.

RNA DNA at first I thought is not something to trifle with, its a chemical so it must be weird or something, hmm. It took me two years to get over this notion, that two years flew really fast. I missed out on getting in front of the whole experience. My time to join in the party came after two years of listening to testimonie, I be honest I did not want to hear testimonies, I just wanted to listen to the conversations, engage with the team online of people who a looking for all kinds of reasons to improve life. I like the show on Achieve Radio, it is a great station and the show is James Martinez Cashflow. Lots of people are now listening. In the beginning I am led to believe there were only about 11 listeners, which made me a one in eleven unless you do not count me and there are 11 other people out there for which this show was targeted towards. Either way whatever it is and whatever has been said does not amount to much becuase everything prior to those days according to Ion reports is obsolete, that means everything has changed. Nothing much has dissapeared, everyone is still there and if truth be told I had not been let down once. Bob, James and Carolyn always over delivered with information, entertainment, music and special guests. You could say I was a fan of the show.

So please bare that in mind when watching the diary video’s you should do a lot of background on these drops before you dive in a make a decision. That said from day one the advice has been, just get them, leave all the questions behind you and enter this world of knowing. Sounds really daft, right, I agree it sounds nuts but you have to listen to believe it. I must say you do need to understand a few things. If you are a fan of Youtube over the past few years, then you have already been exposed to this stuff. The digital imprint left on people is already happening, I mean it has already happened.

There is not enough substance to what I am trying to say the best thing is to go over to my video and watch as I open the box and put the first drop under my tongue. Why do I do this, well that is what it said to do on the instructions. I am sure if you are still reading you have already seen other people talk about the drops on the Internet. Perhaps your just a fan of Bob, Ion of Carolyn and feeling a bit left out by not taking the drops. Watch my video this might help to know whenever you do give it a blast what to do to document your own journey on the fastest path to joy.

RNA Drops Diary Last year first video, watch the video above from Youtube then look out for more videos’ from the archives. The first video you get to see the dropbox and I share my hopes and goals.

I know it is a bit of a tedious process anyone who understands the secret Abraham’s , Proctors version and the Campbell version will know why I do this sort of thing. The first installment is free and that is the one where I share strengths, goals and the vision for the future.

The usual order goes next into the fears, the problems, the things that are holding you back, the things that make you think yes I am stuck too, therefore how can I get unstuck. The usual rubbish, please follow along, turn to whatever page you want and let me know if this helped below.

First let me introduce myself, my name is Robert Bridge, I live in London and am avidly using social media in one form or another. I have been a blogger with WordPress for a few years and like getting creative.

I also like media and language since this was an avenue I choose in social sciences education. That was a couple of years ago and have not had the chance to invest more in my education. I have been lucky to meet new friends who are very educated in what they do, and they have been going through my choice of books old and new and highlighting the most relevant for the transformation that I so wish to experience. This year has been a struggle I have been indoors for most of it. It has manifested slough and a bit of a stutter. Speaking to people helps, going out to various events helps even more but actually achieving simple things everyday is the biggest boost that I can think of. Recently I realise my thinking is manifesting results but is also manifesting fear and confusion. I miss my pops who died recently, well actually over a year now, my granddad passed a few months before my pops. They were amazing people and both achieved amazing things. Recently my nephew (my sisters kid had a bit of an accident on the road and hurt his foot). These things have really held me back and have strangely distanced myself not just from the world but my family and old friends.

Here is the thing, when I go out with what I know I put on a very brave face and dress becomingly so know one notices my stutter and cluttered mind. In the house when need be I also dress as smart as possible to help me focus. Sometimes I prefer to wear something more active for exercise. I have been very lazy and my hobbies and fitness movements have also been effected, my thinking can talk me out of taking action, hence the reason why I have been working simple tasks to focus. The great thing is they seem to be working. There are still some things about me that I am not so proud of like being a bit of a cheapskate and smoking rollies. My hope is that in October I can join the masses and stop smoking or at least stop for the duration of no smoking week. Also I often have late nights munchies and no I should not do this because my belly is getting bigger and in November I will be over the hill 40. But enough about me I will now add some tips about Twitter, you put up with my moaning and groaning so I think you deserve a reward. Now this information is not something you could not already find on the Internet in all the main places. But it is something that I find helpful.

Twitter if you do not know is a microsite that many people use in the west to communicate. Mainstream media stars use it and it is readily spoke about on TV and news. Its a great way to get involved in Q & A and often people air there opinions about various things.

Sometimes people even air their daily feelings, but most as I sure you agree see it as a business tool, a place where you can advertise. A place to grow a following of interesting people. A place to absorb news from websites like this. Some see Twitter as there way of getting readers from the site and the use of its multi platform api. As I already mentioned this website framework is WordPress and there are many plugins that help but twitter has its own API for a widget which is perfectly fine. They have also more recently added a way of joining your Twitter account with your website. What this means is when you tweet a post from your site or anyone else’s, at the bottom it will show your URl web domain link. Cool huh. The best place to read more about how to implement this is over on a site called Triber. They also have there own commenting system but is a good place to find step by step instructions to mingle your Twitter account with you Twitter handle.

ow whilst I am blurting out all what I have learned this month through using Twitter here is another really cool tip and its about Twitter search. The API application is called TweetChat now the great thing about Tweetchat is that when you link it with your account you can safely search any hash tags and below will flow a list of people also using the hash tags. You can also re tweet or share there messages.

On a lighter note there ar Twiends e more powerful ways of utilising hash tags but I will not be recommending them here since it can get you account suspended and I do not want to be partisan to anything like that. Lets just say there are ways to follow lots of people with hash tags. If you are ok with follow lots of people in attempt to get more followers my suggestion is. Yes it still works and the code that can be found online follows as many people as possible on the topic of your choice. I am not going to add the javascript here for that one, but will point out you need the right script for the right type of browser you are using to search the Internet.

This week on Twitter a new header box was enabled. Now this means you can add an image, my suggestion is you use an image that is either very basic or something that you have captured yourself. If you notice a drop in followers when you add it let me know because I am interested and have read people have experienced this this week.

Observation number three. I have been on Clickbank for over three years and have not had any luck what so ever. However I have been schooled in the ways of targeting relevant people to send them various links, it happens to me a lot. I do not do these things much anymore and am more interested in good content.

But just in case I will tell you the two mistakes people make with there hoplinks or affiliate amazon links and that is Bit.Ly/ Bit.Ly is a link shortner, it s really good but if you use an affiliate link it does not work, well it does but it shows a warning page. Know one ever clicks past warning pages so please do not fall into this trap. As you know you can get your own cloaked hoplink from the Clickbank account, you may also know that you can join your website with a Clickbank API that transforms your hoplinks automatically into untraceable affiliate links. The thing is if you want to make money online Clickbank is the place of choice, god know why because a lot of the information products are over priced and rehashed junk. My hope is soon to create a membership site where you can login and have a butchers round and be amazed by all the content. If you are thinking about buying a product on clickbank leave me a comment here and I will let you know if it is on my load of crap list. That aside Clickbank is a good place to get things going and the video’s the sales video’s are if anything very entertaining. If you fit into a certain category then the products may be golddust, but chances are like me you already have a mountain of information to get through. That’s why it really helps to have positive people around you who are able to distinguish between a winning formula and a secret code that know one has the time or money to understand.

I am very lucky that I am surrounded by the leaders in this feild and do dabble in this type of learning. The thing is I would not recommend it to someone like me who is trying to succeed and promote or create something special. I am very supportive but at the same time realistic, educated and free.

In my favour as I hope you agree I am confident, passionate about what I am doing and open to better suggestions. Currently I am focusing my mind on things that can help the world be a better place. I like the idea of a recyling robot and like many look in awe at the technology with all its possibilites. And have a good sense and experience of long term things that can add value if you use correctly and have a plan that traces back to a clear goal.

Now I am working backwards there so if you are reading and have an Adnroid phone then download my6sense its really cool way of sharing. Now if you have many Twitter accounts you can still share this with all them via Hootsuite. Hootsuite mobile app on Android again is really cool and not clunky at all. Some clunky aps on Android have always been vopi activated. So that’s Skype and now Viber. Viber is purple, its cluncky but the possibilities for a bargain hunter like me are truly awesome. Its free to phone any mobile on your contact list as long as they have the app too. And who would not want that, great for people on the move. The thing its best to have a wireless connection so if you are in a hotel or at a friends make sure you have access via password so you can call free worldwide your mobile buddies.