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For those of you who didn’t have the pleasure of attending this September’s Think Visibility conference then you sadly missed Glyn Wintle’s excellent talk on WordPress Security, cleverly titled “WordPress Security 101″. The talk was excellent and I came away thinking about all the tricks I had missed when securing my own websites, whether they be WordPress or something else.

After talking to a few people after the knowledge had been imparted upon us, I found that it was not what some people were expecting. Although the title of the talk did give the impression it was all about WordPress, the talk was a more well rounded “How to secure websites with a few WordPress specific examples thrown in”.

This for me was much more useful, but I do understand that some people going to learn how to secure their own WordPress website(s) may have left feeling a little confused.

So this is where this blog post (hopefully) steps in. I will be covering the points discussed by Glyn and hopefully elaborating a little so it becomes almost a check-list of things to do and how to do them. So let’s get started!

This years Think Visibility conference was one that the team were really looking forward to for a number of reasons. Firstly, Jackie was selected to be one of the speakers, secondly, we were one of the sponsors of the event and thirdly, we knew it was probably going to be the best one yet. We weren’t disappointed and yet again came away with some fantastic tips and the chance to meet up with old and new friends alike. We would like to have attended all the presentations but this just wasn’t possible, so this post is a round up of just some of the highlights. For more in-depth reviews of the day I recommend the following:

These days, there are hundreds of social networking websites available online – finding old friends or sharing interests with others is a major factor in their popularity. Many, many internet users have joined at least one of these social networking sites with one of the biggest being Facebook. If you own a business and you are targeting an 18 to 25 demographic to sell your products, Facebook could provide you with a ready market.

The great thing about Facebook is that it provides tools that can be used to effectively market your products and services, as standard. With over 62 million users worldwide, that’s a lot of potential clients to do business with. So, here are a few tips that can help you use this phenomenal site to market your products and services for free.

Contrary to those that know me, I don’t really believe that Twitter is the best thing to happen to internet marketing ever….honest. However, I do think it has an incredibly important part to play in an holistic search marketing campaign, if used with some thought and a clear strategy. Primarily a communication tool, ironically this represents both Twitter’s greatest strength and also its greatest weakness. Anyone with internet access can open an account in under a minute and tweet about anything and everything – and they usually do. The perception that Twitter is where people tweet about what they’ve just eaten is based on fact (hell, even I’ve done it!) but that doesn’t mean that serious users should shy away from participating. On the contrary, the fact that people are actually using Twitter at all means that anyone serious about internet marketing should be part of the process too. Why wouldn’t you want to promote your service or product in an arena where literally millions are ready to listen?

However, having millions ready to listen means there are millions of other Twitter accounts to compete against – so how do you make yourself or your client stand out from the noise?

Welcome to the Carnival, I guess you all know why we’re here!

Welcome to the new Carnival Creative blog, it’s here that you’ll see our up to the minute information on new developments in the company as well as advice, reviews and research on the latest technologies, developments and innovations in the world of SEO, PPC and Design, hell we may even throw in some industry secrets, just don’t tell THE INDUSTRY!

So roll up roll up (come one we had to say it just once) and visit our site regularly to see what we’re up to, who we’re up to it with and what we’re learning.

We may call ourselves experts but even we know that in this field you’re kept on your toes and constantly having to adapt new strategies in order to stay at the (big) top! So stay tuned and we promise you the best insights into our creative world. Of course, what we can’t promise you is no more carnival puns, they’re just too darn tempting!