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New Blog
I have been busy starting a new blog, Yes! Islanders for my favorite hockey team. I’ll be back soon here with a post regarding this sites first month in existence! It will be loaded with current stats from different providers and goals for the next month.
Social Bookmarking
I have been amazed recently by the amount of traffic that can be brought in by submitting your pages to Social Networks and bookmarking sites. Here is a list of all of the sites I have begun to submit to:
Digg.com, Propeller.com, Reddit.com, Del.icio.us, Stumbleupon.com, Socialogs.com, Indianpad.com, Google.com/Bookmarks, Technorati.com, Furl.net, Diigo.com
Of course, some [...]
Showoff Rankings Problem
I added the widget showoff rankings before because it seemed like a nice way to be transparent to all of my readers. I have found however that it doesn’t always work properly. I will look into changing it or getting rid of it altogether and finding a different way of presenting my Google [...]
Email Subscriptions
If you look in the sidebar of this site, you’ll see an email subscriptions option for this site. You can get this through your feedburner account. If people sign up, and you make posts on a day, at the end of that day, they will be sent an email with the content of [...]
New Spam Comment Technique
I have been occasionally dropping funny or strange or good comment spams for all to see. Here is a spam technique that is quite amusing, but potentially dangerous for people that trust others. If you were to give them your email, they will undoubtedly take it and add it to a list that [...]
Language Translator Plugin
I am experimenting with the Wordpress Widget Language Translator now. I had used a different language translator before that worked well, but it wasn’t happy after I changed my permalink structure so I had to drop it. There were a few plugin choices, but to be honest, I always choose the free ones. [...]
Do Follow
The Do Follow Wordpress plugin is a nice way to reward your visitors for commenting on your blog. Most people don’t know or care what “no follow” or “do follow” means, so this is for the small percentage of computer geek web heads out there that are trying to get their website/blog to [...]
Wordpress Landing Sites Plugin With Google Adsense
Adding Adsense to the Landing Sites Wordpress plugin seems like a natural choice for anyone wishing to monetize their sites. The plugin offers the user related choices from your site, so why not use some related choices form Google Adsense as well. Here is how to do it. You may want to [...]
Landing Sites Problem and My Fix
The Landing Sites Wordpress plugin is very cool. It will show what people were searching for in their search engine on your site, and then bring up a set amount of related entries to the search. Here is an example of a search for Tainan Restaurant:
tainan restaurant
You came here from www.google.com searching for [...]
If You Liked That
If You Liked That is a super easy and useful Wordpress plugin that adds a predefined amount of related posts from your site to the end of each post. Download the plugin from the If You Liked That website, re-upload it to your plugin folder, and then activate it in your plugin panel. [...]
Page Views
Page views is a stat that all stat counters give you so you can see which posts or pages are the most popular. It is indexed, and all of your pages may be ranked or have different PageRank accordingly. So, what do you do to create more pageviews.
1) Create an aesthetically pleasing [...]
Wordpress Plugin Random Flickr Favorites 2 With Google Adsense
You can use your new Random Flickr Photo div to add some Adsense advertisements to. Here is the code for you to do that. Make sure to abide by Google’s Terms of Service and don’t put too many adverts into your site (more than 3 sets). Also, make sure to add your [...]
Random Flickr Favorites 2
The Random Flickr Favorites 2 plugin allows you to access photos you like without having to purchase them. How does this work? Well, you download the plugin, re-upload it to your plugins folder, and then activate it within your plugins tab in your Wordpress. Now, if you haven’t already, get an account [...]
About 2 Weeks
This is my about 2 week anniversary, and I have noticed 3 subscribers to my RSS Feed. My goal is to have about 100 readers in 3 months. So, if you like this site, then add it to your aggregator! Check the sidebar for all the different formats available. I also [...]
Alexa Ranking
Basically, Alexa is a tool to see how your website ranks compared with other sites. How do they get this data? People download the Alexa Toolbar. and then when they visit a site, it gets tracked and then all of the site and pagehits by users of the Alexa Toolbar are added up [...]
Showoff Rankings
I found a cool widget that displays rank for Alexa, Compete, Google PR (which you manually add) and Technorati from my hopefully new friend at Average Joe Blogger. Go to the Showoff Rankings Site, add your site, check the format you’d like, then copy some code into your header.php, and then copy some code [...]
Average Joe Blogger
There is a boom in pro blogging websites, so naturally, anyone walking this path will encounter many sites of interest, and hopefully, most of us can be friends rather than competing enemies. Clear Cut Blogging aims to be a valuable resource for the Wordpress community, so naturally I will be checking out many other [...]
The Spam Issue
I sent another email to the comment spammers of this site and my other site, and I sent them this email:
I just received another spam of yours on a different blog of mine. I’ll be saving them so it will be easy to make my case.
and they sent me this:
Ok… I don’t know how this [...]
Spammers!
I received an email back form the comment spamming site I referred to in the article spam her i dont even know her. I just received my fifth spam comment on this site, and it was from the same people spamming my other site! Here is the email they replied to me with:
Sorry, I [...]
Bounce Rate
Bounce rate from Google Analytics lets you know who has come to your site and left before viewing any other pages of your site. So they came, didn’t find what they were looking for (or maybe did so quickly) and took off. Maybe they left via your Adsense ads (ideally for those that [...]
