If you have a wordpress based blog you no doubt have it installed to a directory either called “Wordpress” or “WP”. How do I know this, because thats the default that everyone uses.  Because of that it makes it very vunerable to hackers or just people who would like to browse your directories.

One of the easiest changes you can make to your setup is to ensure that all the directories within your wordpress directory are protected.

To do this simply add the following link to your .htaccess file that exists in the main WordPress installation directory - “Options All -Indexes”, painless quick and easy and now you have at least some protection from nosy browsers.

Your blog posts can help you drive traffic in more ways than one.  Each of your posts is a great resource and you can use them to help drive additional traffic to your site.

By extracting your blog posts and submitting them to Article directories you will gain an even wider audience and because the directories allow you to include a “resource” section in which you can place a link to your blog, it will help drive traffic.

If you have a significant number of posts on your blog already then you have a great base from which to select.  Don’t submit every post you have written otherwise readers finding you from a directory will have nothing new to read, select your best and submit those.

In addition to selecting your best articles, you can also do rewrites of each of them to create different versions for submission to different article directories.  Sound like a lot of work?  Not with services like http://www.badarticle.com/ which do the rewrite for you. You cut and paste your original article into it, decide how much variation you want from the original and let the software do the rest.  If you are going to use these services make sure you are only rewriting your work, don’t be tempted to take someone elses and rewrite it.