Archive for April, 2008

New blog statistics program

Whooping Woopra Blog Statistics Program
This program could revolutionize the way we gather information about our visitors and interact with them. Imagine being able to communicate with your visitors without any extra software or hardware. Imagine getting information you need in a way you can really use it to focus your blog’s content to better server [...]

Whooping Woopra Blog Statistics Program

This program could revolutionize the way we gather information about our visitors and interact with them. Imagine being able to communicate with your visitors without any extra software or hardware. Imagine getting information you need in a way you can really use it to focus your blog’s content to better server your readership. The possibilities are endless.

This sounds really interesting, especially the part about being able to communicate with visitors on the fly. I can’t even wrap my mind around that, but I’ve signed up to see how it goes.

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Installing Wordpress 2.5 the really careful way

WordPress Upgrade Preparation Checklist
The more you prepare your blog in advance for the upgrade, the easier it will be to make the transition without complications.
I just uploaded the files overtop of my old files, but Lorelle’s nine tips for making sure your upgrade goes well are closer to the right way to do it.

WordPress Upgrade Preparation Checklist

The more you prepare your blog in advance for the upgrade, the easier it will be to make the transition without complications.

I just uploaded the files overtop of my old files, but Lorelle’s nine tips for making sure your upgrade goes well are closer to the right way to do it. ;)

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Brand yourself

Are You Building Your Personal Brand?
The risks to exposing yourself to your customers and community (figuratively speaking, of course) aren’t nearly as severe as you may think; and the rewards are huge. By creating a powerful personal brand you’ll be differentiating yourself from others in your organization and industry, it will encourage more interesting job [...]

Are You Building Your Personal Brand?

The risks to exposing yourself to your customers and community (figuratively speaking, of course) aren’t nearly as severe as you may think; and the rewards are huge. By creating a powerful personal brand you’ll be differentiating yourself from others in your organization and industry, it will encourage more interesting job opportunities, you’ll be compensated more by an employer afraid to lose you, you’ll increase your visibility, and in time you’ll be able to understand yourself better and will be more confident.

I’ve never been wild about the idea of branding myself. It seems… limiting. I have several online personas, and some of them are doing stuff that has nothing to do with money making (except that they make some). This article is great food for thought.

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AntiLeech: give scrapers bogus content

Plugin: AntiLeech Prevents Content Scrapper
AntiLeech can detect a splogger bot using its User-Agent string, or by IP address. You can enter a User-Agent or an IP address into the Options panel of your WordPress blog. In addition to all of that, AntiLeech will produce a robots.txt output from the User-Agents that you’ve specified in the [...]

Plugin: AntiLeech Prevents Content Scrapper

AntiLeech can detect a splogger bot using its User-Agent string, or by IP address. You can enter a User-Agent or an IP address into the Options panel of your WordPress blog. In addition to all of that, AntiLeech will produce a robots.txt output from the User-Agents that you’ve specified in the options page, assuming you don’t already have one. Download the plugin now and prevent RSS or content scrapper.

Something to add to your Wordpress arsenal.

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Mark’s affiliate site tips

Random But Practical Affiliate Site Tips
If I make a typo of a common word I correct it. However if I typo a product, service, company name, event, etc I leave the typo the way it is.
Having a natural typo can sometimes bring good traffic to a page because if you naturally mispell something others might [...]

Random But Practical Affiliate Site Tips

If I make a typo of a common word I correct it. However if I typo a product, service, company name, event, etc I leave the typo the way it is.

Having a natural typo can sometimes bring good traffic to a page because if you naturally mispell something others might also.

Now, that is interesting. So are a lot of the other tips, some of which come strictly from the level of experience someone like Mark has.

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