Old Copyblogger theme now available for your site

Thursday, May 31st, 2007 If you want a nice, clean, well-coded SEO-friendly WordPress theme, Copyblogger has made their old one available. Not only that – they’ve written you a guide on customizing it and styling it like a pro. Aaand, there’s a custom style pack called Organic. It’s a “custom.css” file you can replace the Copyblogger file with to get a slightly different look from the original Copyblogger theme. It’s pretty easy to work with ... READ MORE

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Google’s algo being sexist

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 You know how Google asks "Did you mean…" when you put a misspelling in the search box? Well, if you put "she invented" or "she created" it will ask you if you meant "he invented" or "he created". It does the same thing with "she stupid", however, asking if you meant "he stupid". Sexism aside, I don’t think I can muster up much confidence in an algorithm that things "she" isn’t ... READ MORE

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Get a link from Harvard edu

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 Harvard has started something that reminds me of Squidoo, but it seems to be geared more toward academic topics. You can get yourself a “playlist” (like Squidoo’s lenses) and add articles to it from various sites. Possibly some of your sites. Those links will have an .edu in them.

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Overdoing the videos

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 I know YouTube videos are the new blog post, but am I the only one getting sick of having to watch a video when I just want to read a couple of paragraphs about a topic? I don’t want to see the tutorial video; I want to read instructions. I don’t want to listen to you tell your idea in into your webcam with diagrams on a whiteboard; I want ... READ MORE

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The Foldera Beta

Friday, May 25th, 2007 I’m in the Foldera beta. It’s one of 5 billion GTD online apps I tried before deciding to go with a WordPress blog as a GTD system. It looks like a very clean, simple, Ajaxy set up. Pretty intuitive and simple. Basically, you create folders for projects. Each folder contains a calendar, emails, files you upload and tasks. You can view everything in a project, or view your collected tasks ... READ MORE

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Google banning term paper writing ads?

Friday, May 25th, 2007 From next month, Google will no longer take adverts from companies which sell essays and dissertations – and the internet company has written to advertisers to tell them about the policy. A nice sentiment, for sure – I’m not fond of the idea of kids essentially buying degrees while some very smart and hard-working people can’t even afford tuition, and I support Google’s right not to advertise something they’re uncomfortable with ... READ MORE

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Made for Text Link Ads versus Made For Adsense

Thursday, May 24th, 2007 Mubin Ahmed says building sites for AdSense is over and done. But you can apply the same skills and build for text link ad services – and maybe make a lot more money. And it’s not just AdSense: Made for Adsense is dead because if you have a site that is specifically made for adsense ads sooner than later you will get smartpriced. The reason being is that the people that ... READ MORE

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Even more keyboard shortcuts

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 I know people keep posting monster lists of keyboard shortcuts, but seriously: can you ever have enough? Ever since I started showing signs of "mouse fatigue" – the aches and pains related to mousing too much – I can’t get enough of keyboard shortcuts. You know what else rocks about them? They’re quicker and more accurate for me. Sometimes I miss my target with mouse clicking. Sometimes I struggle with those ... READ MORE

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Oh, yeah… saw that coming

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 V7N has decided to tag people and demand that they pay him if they want him not to link to them. It’s a joke based on Michael Gray’s Paid Blog Link Meme in which he links to Matt Cutts and others and claims they paid him for those links. Which is based on the unfortunate non-joke that Google wants to discount paid links. At least now they are being slightly clearer ... READ MORE

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Link cloaking with php

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 SuperAff has found a simple solution for cloaking affiliate links and gotten the designer to write some more code to make tracking the clicks simpler. This is something a lot of us have been looking for for a long time, so – nice job, guys! Thanks.

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