How to Fix Wordpress “Plugin does not have a valid header” Error

If you ever run into this “Plugin does not have a valid header” error when installing a wordpress plugin, here is a very simple solution that tends to work most of the time.

Find the plugin in question.

Lets imagine you just bought EZ Empire Builder and are ready to install it on your Wordpress site. Lets also assume you just updated to Wordpress version 2.9.1 from 2.8.

The first thing to do is to go to your wp-admin panel and click,

‘Plugins > Editor’

Next, see the drop down menu near the top right side of your ‘Edit Plugins’ console. Open the drop down menu and find ‘EZ Empire Builder’ and select it by hitting the ‘Select’ button.

On the right side of the text box you will see several files that make up the EZ Empire Builder plugin. One of those files will be,

‘ezempirebuilder/readme.txt’

Click that link and you will see the contents of that readme.txt file appear on the main text editor.

Inside this file you will see where it says,

‘Tested up to: 2.8.4′ or something similar. This number may vary but the important thing is that it shows at least as high as the current version of Wordpress that you are currently using.

To fix your “Plugin does not have a valid header” problem, simply edit this number to your current version number or higher and save your changes.

Now your headers problem should be resolved until such a date that your update your Wordpress Version to a date beyond your current new setting. Updating to Wordpress 3.0 for example would require this setting to be updated again.

One easy way to avoid this problem in the future is to set it quite a bit ahead. The “Plugin does not have a valid header” error serves no real value and can be easily suppressed so, might as well do it and save yourself the troubles.

Tags: Bugs, How to's, Tutorials, Wordpress Plugins

Building an SEO Empire 101

I think I may open a can of worms here.

But, here goes… Let me share with you what I believe to be the ultimate SEO strategy. If you put this method to work, it has the very real potential to…

 

• Increase your Page Rank
• Get hundreds of thousands, even millions of pages indexed in the search engines
• Drive hordes of targeted traffic to your money sites
• …And, help you make a fortune online.

So, Lets Get Started…

First off, this is in no way an all inclusive tutorial nor is it meant to be anything like that. Its simply a peek inside of a real place that does exist and is waiting for you if you choose to go there.

If you’re NOT ready for something like this, don’t sweat it. We’re all at different stages in our lives and sometimes its a matter of timing.

For those who would take the plunge and head down this road, it could stand to be a life changing experience. It will require a significant commitment and effort on your part, cost money to setup and some real thought to make work.

The very first thing you need to do is get your mind right. This is the hardest part of the plan and the most important…

Achieving the Mindset of Success

Real riches are made through believing in yourself, being dedicated and doing whatever it takes, consistently, day after day.

Its not difficult. Anyone can do it. We are each born to do it.

The very act of conception is a result of overcoming what seem to be insurmountable odds and every single one of us are here as a direct result of the miracle of overcoming these very odds.

It’s not until after we are born that we are later taught to fail.

But that mentality is learned and it can be unlearned.

Succeeding at anything just requires the right mindset followed by positive actions leading toward a goal and you reach that goal through an unstoppable persistence.

I know it may sound over simplified but really, its not.

Work on your mindset every single day. Read, listen and watch people that inspire you. That is the most important thing of all.

Keep your mind healthy and everything else will fall into place. Most of us struggle to keep our minds healthy. We live in environments that aren’t condusive to good health. We don’t exercise. We don’t live inspired lives. We don’t explore enough. We aren’t adventurous enough. We don’t give ourselves all the things we need to flourish spiritually or emotionally or physically.

Don’t get me wrong.

I’m not saying making a fortune online is all about self-help and all that sort of thing. But, the #1 problem we all struggle with and the biggest road block we all have to success is our inablity to remain healthy, balanced, focused and targeted on our goals.

So, unless you can first deal with those issues, you can never play the game at full capacity and if you can’t play at full capacity you simply aren’t going to be able to attain the success that you’re truly capable of.

You may have some limited success or even huge success. But, whatever you acheive will dwarf in comparison to your true capabilities until you find your own balance and health in your own life.

But, eventually, once you’ve gotten yourself on track spiritually, emotionally, physically and mentally, you have to start kicking some ass.

That said, this is one of the most concrete, real money making approaches you may ever hear of, if done right.

So, lets dive right in…

Build many blogs with quality content.

They should all be used to pick up low hanging fruit in Google, but…

These sites have two main functions.

The question is, how do we use our network of sites to do all that?

The Answer

…by dripping back links from your network to your main money site. If you want to dominate Google, back links are the answer. And, when done in a controlled way through your network, you will increase the rankings of your money pages like you’ve never imagined.

I’ll explain.

PR Funneling From your Network to your Key Offers

Lets say you have 500 WPC/EZE blogs on various different IP addresses and servers.

And, lets imagine you have 10 money sites, each targeting one of 10 categories/niches. Each niche has 50 blogs dedicated to it and 10’s if not 100’s of thousands of pages indexed in Google

Now, lets imagine that one of your money sites is a Camera site.

You learn that in 2 weeks, Canon will release a new high-dollar pro-grade digital camera that is expected to be the next big thing to budding professional photographers and serious hobbyists.

The opportunity is in your face. There is some serious money to be made here FAST so, you write a review of that camera on your main camera site.

You soon discover that in mere days your site is already ranked on page 5 in Google (your site has quite a bit of PR and SE influence already due to all the hard work you’ve put into it in the past).

But, now you only have a week to get #1 rankings before the product is officially launched to the public for consumption.

Time to Orchestrate your own SERP Explosion

Now its time to flip on the nitrous and blast your way to the top page!

Of course, you have about 50 auto blogs and EZE sites, etc targeting camera gear, photography and related terms, all to support your main camera site.

So, all that is left is shifting some PR juice to your review page from these worker blogs. This is very likely to drive the ranking up to the top page for the new Canon Camera you’re promoting.

Every day you create new pages related to the new landing page, including product name, product codes, model numbers, etc, lots of new blog content.

You are also dripping more and more back links to your reviews page steadily every day. You aggressively take the #1 spot doing whatever is necessary to get the job done!

That’s it!

You’re now using your network to its fullest potential and getting maximum benefit and it will start leading to some big pay days, FAST!

When that new product is launched, you will see a flood of serious buyers to your reviews page and make a killing for weeks and months to come.

I know, sounds easy but wait. The obvious question is…

“How in The Hell Could Anyone Technically Manage Such a Complicated Task”?

To answer, we do it with our in house power house management solution. But, soon, you’ll be able to do it, too!

We’re currently slaving away to port over our own in house tools so anyone interested in our methods can join us.

You already know about WPC, WP Tube/Feeder/Scraper/Rewriter, etc. That’s just the beginning of something much bigger.

Next, we’ll reveal EZ Empire Builder.

EZ Empire Builder

EZE helps us build higher grade, quality sites off of databases while still having all the same benefits of autoblogging. EZE is scheduled to be launched on Tuesday, 01/26/2010.

But, the monster tool that is going to change everything is right around the corner.

“Say Hello to my little friend…”!

The Super Advanced SEO Empire Management System

Our Grand Daddy tool is called WP Controller. We’ve been using our in house version of this system for quite awhile now but just started porting the tools over for the public about a year ago. We’ve rarely ever spoken of this. I’m just beginning to speak about it now because its so close to launch.

WP Controller is a dangerously powerful system. It Can be used to…

And, powerful features like…

But, for early users, the creme de la creme is in the PR and back link funneling features. Once you get all set up and running, this is the part you’re really going to love. The power is awesome and I really want to spill the beans on the key features but someone would kill me if I did so I have to keep most of the really cool stuff secret for the time being.

In fact, most of the features will be kept under lock and key and you’ll be asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement so that you can not even discuss the features with anyone, period if you want to use this tool.

Every month we’ll unlock new features so only the most trusted users will know our biggest secret tactics. I’m sad we have to do it that way but trust me, once you’re using this system you’ll agree 100% that going through all this trouble to protect it is the ONLY smart thing we can do.

When all is said and done, you’ll have the ability to decide on a money page you want ranked, tell WP Controller to “go get it”, and all but sit back and watch the magic happen. You’ve never seen anything like it.

And, what I’ve told you doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what features you’ll be privvy to once you earn a more trusted status.

I’m pretty stoked about being so close to launch and I’m looking forward to sharing.

So, Put Your Seats in Their Upright Positions and Prepare For Take Off…

…because its right around the corner.

In the meantime, don’t waste any time. You should keep building sites. You’ll be able to import all your WP sites into WP Controller easily when the time comes.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled and be ready in the coming weeks because things are about to get very intersting around here…

Tags: auto-blogging, Cloaking, How to's, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Tips, SEO, Tutorials

How to Cloak to Multiple Different Landing Pages

I created this Screencast to help anyone confused about setting up WP Cloaker to redirect to multiple landing pages from one install using category cloaking.

Tags: How to's, Screencasts, videos

Grandaddy Method For Finding Great Feeds For Use With Wp Feeder!

People have mentioned having troubles finding feeds for use with WP Feeder. So, rather than explaining all the various ways you can go about finding great feeds, I’ll make this easy and stick to teaching you the Grandaddy method that puts all others to shame!

The video tells all!

Click Here to watch the video now!

Enjoy!

Tags: blogsearch, How to's, Tutorials, WordPress Feeder

How To Find The Start And End Tags For Scraping With Wp Scraper

Some people have mentioned that they have troubles finding the start and end tags surrounding articles for scraping with WP Scraper.

There are a few reasons you may have troubles with this:

1. You aren’t familiar with HTML, which I hope if not, you’ll take some time to read a few tutorials on HTML because it will really come in handy and save you a bunch of time and frustration later on.

2. The article directory just doesn’t use CSS or the code is pretty bland and its just impossible to find unique tags surrounding the articles, as I’ll explain later.

3. Or, you’re just unsure how to do it.

Hopefully this short demo will help those of you having troubles…

Click Here to Watch Video

Enjoy!

Tags: How to's, Tutorials, WordPress Scraper, WP Scraper

New FAQ Released

We’ve made a new FAQ that I will try to add common questions to more and more, over time. You can find it at anytime in the Footer of this blog…

Tags: Cloaking, FAQ, How to's, WordPress Cloaker

Setup Cron on Godaddy

1. Godaddy Hosting Homepage

2. At Cron Manager Page: Click “Create Cron Job” button

3. Fill out the form: Godaddy provides a Browse button to select the file (pretty easier). The cron command will be constructed automatically.

4. Browse Window: Just browse to your WP installation directory and select the index.php file.

5. After file selection, fill in other fields.

6. Done.

Note: Don’t forget to edit email address for cron report.

Tags: Cloaking, Cron, Godaddy, How to's, Tutorials, WordPress Cloaker

Setup Cron on HostGator

IMPORTANT: These notes ONLY apply to people using HostGator or SEOhosting hosting accounts.

HostGator and .htaccess…

When it comes to running simple cron commands on your HostGator hosting account, you’ll need to place a .htaccess file in the cgi-bin of each account.

This .htaccess file must be placed in the public_html directory of each website hosted on a shared hosting package.

If you have a reseller account, you only need to put it in the main cgi-bin. This will then eliminate your need to duplicate the file for each individual public_html directory.

Editing your .htaccess File…

Here are the commands to place inside your .htaccess file if you are using HostGator:

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>

Step-by-Step Screen Shots: Setting up Cron

Here are some screenshots to assist in setting up cron on HOSGATOR HOSTING accounts.

NOTE: You may click on the below images to view larger screen shots.

1. From CPANEL Homepage:

2. Cron Jobs page:

3. Set 1. Email address, 2. Put command cron command we provide, and 3. Set the schedule.

4. Done

The Cron Code

The following commands seem to work with HostGator and my plugins…

php /home/yourfolder/public_html/yoursite.com/index.php
action=cl_cron cron_code=0123456

php -q /home/yourfolder/public_html/yoursite.com/index.php
action=cl_cron cron_code=0123456

…where “yourfolder” = your sites folder and where “0123456″ is your cron code found in the ‘Options’ tab of the relevant plugin (ie., WP Scraper or WP Feeder, etc)…

Additional questions? Email support for more help.

Tags: Cron, HostGator, Hosting, How to's, Tutorials, WordPress Cloaker, WordPress Feeder, WordPress Scraper