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It’s been a while since I upgraded my personal work computer. My last few personal systems were from Shuttle – they make those cute toaster comps – and it has served me very well. However, I’ve decided it was time for something new and went looking in my garage for leftover computer parts. In the end, I managed to assemble […]
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David Pitlyuk sent words about a WordPress plugin that will help get you out of Google’s Supplemental index. The Duplicate Content Cure Plugin for WordPress is a very simple, yet effective SEO plugin that prevents search engines from indexing WordPress pages that contain duplicate content, like archives and category pages. It does this by adding the meta tag on the […]
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I want to take this time to say thanks to the people who were kind enough to buy me a beer. Justin from Linux Notes, Cameron Wilmot from Tweak Town, Shawn Knight from Shawn-Knight.net and OCIA.net (Shawn got me a pitcher), Ryan Shamus and Bob Buskirk. You five were the only ones evil enough to figure out that if you […]
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Ankesh Kothari just released new WordPress plugin that allows my blog readers to buy me a beer via PayPal. The plugin adds a “Buy Me a Beer” button to your sidebar and at the bottom of every post. When your readers click on the button, they are taken to the secure PayPal page so they can donate money for your […]
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I was checking the blogs in my Google reader and noticed that Kumiko made a post about PayPerPost launching a new service call PayPerPost Direct that allows advertisers to order reviews directly from a blog. To get started simply drop the appropriate HTML snippet into your blog template. Advertisers that come across your blog and love what you do can […]
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Nathan Metzger of Not So Boring Life sent me an email saying I have over 1,700 pages in Google’s Supplemental Index and I really should try to get out of it. The Google Supplemental Index is where the unworthy pages end up. According to the above SEO for Firefox plugin, I have 1,790 pages in the supplemental index. This doesn’t […]
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Kontera ContentLink is one of John’s top money makers and can be a very good income source for bloggers. One problem that many Kontera publishers run into is that the ContentLink JavaScript will sometimes link to bold and heading text. John has previously discussed some ways to optimize Kontera ContentLink, but in order to prevent bolded text from being included […]
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Google continues on their goal of taking over the world by buying up anything that has a remote chance of getting big. The latest purchase added to the growing list of Google acquisitions is FeedBurner. These are the guys that handle my RSS feed and show that fancy counter that say I have over 5,000 RSS readers. They also run […]
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