Lost an hour today to trying to debug Ecto posting to this weblog (if you’re not using Ecto, you should consider it). I was constantly getting this error: XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only Finally I wrote up a nice little support ticket for Dreamhost with all the details. Surprisingly I got the fix back […]
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Social network SEO spammers complain Digg closes playground
Some of my SEO colleagues are bemoaning their lack of success in getting their annoying marketing materials to the front page of Digg. Bravo to Digg.
AdSense Arbitrage Coming to an End – Internet Marketing
It’s official – Google will be kicking the AdSense spammers off the network. What AdSense spam is are those sites which you arrive on via either organic search or PPC results (usually the former) and you find nothing but RSS feeds or chopped up articles on a very basic template. The sites rarely have any […]
Stats: Statcounter versus Mint
We’ve compared two real-time web analytics services to find out which one understands site’s visitors better.
Redesign the WordPress Login via a Plugin
The WordPress login page just doesn’t look good. What to do about redesigning it? Two solutions.
Shopping Cart for WordPress: WP e-Commerce
Just discovered a very nice shopping cart for WordPress…. We will take WordPress from weblog software to CMS, bypassing bloat.The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.WP e-Commerce is a Web 2.0 application designed with usability, aesthetics, and presentation in mind.
SEO for clients: Learn about your vertical – fast
There’s a big discussion going on now among SEOs (search engine optimisers) about Google’s pronouncements about paid links. Basically Google has banned them and promised penalties for using paid links. This is a kind of totalitarianism – Google is free to do what they want with their own algorithm but that does not give them […]
Sponsored Themes at WordPress.org
Coverage of the raging debate about sponsored themes at WordPress.org. Pros and cons of sponsored WordPress themes. Guidelines proposed.
WordPress Ideas Page – Revisiting the Blogroll
When WordPress was a small weblog CMS for PHP insiders, including the developers blogroll did no harm. Right now it’s a tool to sell text links. Enough is enough. Time to revamp the WordPress Blogroll.
Social Web, Online Communities and the shift in Search
Manifestations of online communities: foums social bookmarking sit Ask Enquiro » Blog Archive » Business to Business (B2B) Marketers Need to Actively Participate in Online Communities: How Can B2B Marketers Actively Participate in Online Communities?… Vox – Online community where you can share information about your products, solutions and services through blog posts, audio, video and more.
Keeping destination addresses to yourself
How to hide your affiliate links for IE with Javascript.
Google algorithms creating spam
A very interesting discussion on Aaron Wall’s SEOBook about whether Google is contributing to web spam. The best part is in the comments (sorry Aaron!) where two readers to the numbers on AdWords for relatively high priced PPC words. Basically they just don’t add up.
Pricing a Project: Hourly Billing versus Flat Fee
Pricing a Project | Blue Flavor: One benefits to hourly billing is the client is responsible for increases of scope, protecting the vendor and the customer…. Over our careers in the web we’ve seen requirements invariably shift, and often for good reason, to produce a better, more people-centered end product.
Chaotic Business versus the E-Myth
What do Trizle and E-Myth recommend to beginning entrepreneurs? Read how opposing business advisors approach the mindset of a starting company.
Making a Good Headline Better
I am having to learn copywriting (quite a bit of the poetry I wrote in my twenties was published so I have hope of managing copy too). I wish I had more clients who could write copy as well. What any website needs is more great copy. As opposed to machine generated or offshore article […]
Licensing Photos
Sometimes a website can be setup to help one party and instead help another. For one of my websites, I need to license some photos. I haven’t had the right language for the contract. I looked at the contracts from the stock agencies but they were way too elaborate. I tried to find a local […]
Is there going to be a real estate crash?
I ran across the most amazing niche website yesterday – dedicated to the possibility of a crash in house prices in the UK…. His forecast for house prices is for “a 30 to 40 per cent fall over the next three to four years”, a fall he describes as “a healthy correction”.
Free Proxies and Anonymous Internet Surfing
Great guidance on how to anonymise your surfing via proxies: Hiding Your IP Address, Anonymous Internet Surfing HOWTO. The danger is that unless you do it just right you risk more than you gain. Specifically that the proxy holder can grab all your unencrypted passwords (email, site logins).
Quality Directory Lists
Our clients are ready for another round of SEO. One component we will be doing more of in this round is directories. It’s too tedious and slow to have someone senior do it. There are lots of directory submission services. But you want to be sure to be applying to directories worth being listed in. […]
Is Dynadot selling our domain name searches?
Dynadot is a great company. Nowhere better to register one’s domain names. Why? fair prices great backend interface fast loading website (for a domain registrar where one spends a lot of time doing repetitive actions, speed is extremely important telephone support But lately Dyandot has been getting a lot of bad press for purportedly selling […]
