Posts - Page 42
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Google = Mafia?
Everyone seems to be talking about Google the last few days and how they have started to penalize websites that sell text links, such as Text Link ads. Search Engine Watch has an interesting article on the topic and Daily Blog Tips has decided to stop selling text link advertising ...
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RSS Feed Scraper - Update
There are some things that make me happy. This is one of them. I don't know if it was me banning the IP address from this site, or the 403 error image I started to serve to the website that was scraping my feed but the posts are all taken ...
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RSS Feed Scraper
It appears that I have a fan, ok maybe not a fan. I have a website scraper that is just not smart enough to actually read the content they are scraping so they are getting my nice RSS feed additional content and posting it in the site. They have many ...
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Wi-Fi Detector Shirt
This has got to be the coolest shirt I have ever seen! Nothing like wearing a wi-fi detector shirt that changes depending on the strength of the wi-fi signal where you are. I have to put this on my Christmas list. Nothing like being able to walk around and know ...
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FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin Security Update
I was browsing the FeedBurner blog this morning and noticed that they have released a new version of the FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin. If you are using the FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin you should get the newest version to protect your WordPress blog from a potential cross-site request forgery security hole. Here are ...
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Disable Indexes using .htaccess
I have several personal websites on a shared server where indexes are turned on by default in Apache. That is simply annoying, because I hate having stray empty index.html files sitting all over the place. I suppose I could just leave the indexes on but I dislike the idea of ...
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How To Lower Your Alexa Rank
I have been doing a lot of reading about Alexa rank lately, and I was curious how I might be able to lower my Alexa ranking. While most webmasters would probably agree that the Alexa ranking is not very accurate, it does play a role in how some websites are ...
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Word of Mouth Marketing Still Relevant?
There was a post over on Pronet Advertising earlier in September that has stuck in my head for a little while now. The post was titled Social Media is the New Word-of-Mouth. Perhaps what caught my attention about the post was how narrow minded the post was about word of ...
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Boost Your Affiliate Earnings with WordPress Affiliate Pro
Well I have been checking in one DealDotCom the past few days, and I have to say I have not been impressed with the crap stuff they have been selling. Things seemed really hopeful when on the second day of their doors being opened they had a copy of the ...
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Are Spammers Stupid?
Since switching to WordPress the spam comments have gone through the roof. Thank goodness for Akismet, otherwise I would be deleting and removing tons of crap from the comments everyday. I never got that amount of spam when this blog was being published on Blogger. I don't know if Blogger ...