DreamHost stats broken after installing WordPress
By Swog on December 11, 2009
If you use DreamHost for your hosting then you may not be able to access your regular web stats after installing WordPress. There is an easy fix available. If you have access to the shell then add the following lines to your .htaccess file in the root of your domain (without shell access, you’d need [...]
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More on Blog Traffic Growth
By Swog on December 5, 2009
Another small update on the traffic growth of the three blogs I have been tracking, now that the November stats are in. You’ll see previous posts here and here. The first blog, a current affairs blog. May seem to be a little bit of an aberration in relation to the natural traffic growth pattern of [...]
Full Story »Posted in Tech | Tagged Aberration, Bbc, Blog, Blogs, Current Affairs, Expat, Flu, Little Bit, Peak Travel, Resumption, Skewed Curve, Spike, Stimulus, Swine Flu Pandemic, Traffic Growth, Traffic Pattern, Traffic Update | 2 Responses
New sites and traffic growth
By Swog on June 11, 2009
With May now neatly parcelled up and shelved away in the cupboard of history, I can add to my previous post about new sites and traffic growth. First, the blogs. I started three new blogs about 6 months ago. I have performed only minimal promotional work on all of them, so the increases in traffic [...]
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Linear traffic growth
By Swog on April 27, 2009
When I bring up a new site, I now aim for month-on-month traffic growth over at least a six month period. Initially, I thought this might be an unrealistic aim, but I am finding that it is possible. I started two forums 3 months ago and at this stage, they are seeing month-on-month traffic growth just [...]
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Google PageRank Update
By Swog on April 3, 2009
It looks as though the eagerly awaited (at least by some!) Google event has set the webmaster forums adance, namely the Google PageRank export. Yesterday, I noticed an apparent change in the exported PR of one of my blogs. As it is relatively new (coupled with the fact that I have yet to start promoting [...]
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How to turn 100K email addresses in to $30K
By Swog on March 3, 2009
I’m not one to condone any form of illegal activity, but recently I was browsing an internet forum where individuals were talking about the sale of large lists of active email addresses. Why, I wondered, would anyone want such a list? Perhaps to send out unsolicited advertising of a product? To send out other unsolicited [...]
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DoFollow Forums and Blog Feeds
By Swog on February 7, 2009
Forums that have the dofollow attribute set have always been a target for link builders. This practice is often frowned upon by forum owners as far too many individuals who attempt promotion in this way go about it like a bull in a china shop. They will sign up, load their signature with links then [...]
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WP-Hashcash Plugin
By Swog on January 30, 2009
Although the powerful Akismet plug-in quells about 99% of the spam received on this blog, I have taken the step of experimenting with another plug-in, namely WP-Hashcash. This plug-in operates in an extirely different way, employing client-side javascript to determine whether the page was opened in a browser. This will block all spam bot submissions, [...]
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Finding Comment Luv Blogs
By Swog on January 9, 2009
Most blog owners understand the hazards of comment spam. Much comment spam is automated and therefore allowing comments without moderation is not a feasible option. The excellent Akismet plug-in for WordPress takes care of much automated spam. Many blog owners may wish to offer their commenters a reward for ongoing participation and commenting. One such [...]
Full Story »Posted in Tech | Tagged Blog, Commenters, English Cricket, Feasible Option, Google, Google Search, Images, Moderation, Niche, Participation, Phrase, Promoters, Search Box, Spam | 15 Responses
Two laptops, HP or Dell?
By Swog on August 28, 2008
I’ve never been a strong advocate of laptops until recently. Until a month ago, unless an individual had an extremely compelling reason not to do so, I would always recommend buying a desktop for the same money as it usually bought you more. Previous generations of laptops were notorious for being out of date the instant [...]
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Changing plans and focus for this blog
By Swog on August 26, 2008
For the last few months, I have been overwhelmed with other ventures and issues pertinent to my impending move to the extent that I have neglected this blog entirely. Although I founded this blog on a particular precept that has now expired, I plan to continue this blog as a general blog and reflect a [...]
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eBay Feedback Changes Seem Unfair
By Swog on May 20, 2008
Occasionally, I buy and sell a few things on eBay. When selling, I always try to provide the best service possible and have until now maintained a perfect 100% feedback score. However, this week, eBay made changes to the way its feedback system works that seem to make the entire setup very biased in favour [...]
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April Traffic Numbers
By Swog on May 16, 2008
The only way is up someone or other sang (rather painfully) in the late 80s and that seems to be the way for my portfolio’s traffic figures. This month, I tightened the criteria for inclusion in the monthly traffic tally. Essentially, the criteria are two-fold: i) the site should not be a trash site (like proxies [...]
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March Traffic Numbers
By Swog on April 4, 2008
March saw quite a spike in traffic for the sites in my portfolio. Aggregated across all non-trash sites (discounting sites such as proxies, MySpace resources sites etc.), 649926 pages were pushed which is a healthy increase of about 61%, far in excess of the target 10% monthly increase. Target for April remains an increase of [...]
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Get Matched with $150 per Month
By Swog on March 31, 2008
There have been numerous takes on the basic ideas of PPC and CPM style advertising. I recently discovered a further offering from the guys over at matched.co.uk. On the surface, their offering looks like a fairly easy ~ $150 per month provided you can get matched to advertisers from their pool in your niche and [...]
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February Traffic Numbers
By Swog on March 7, 2008
It seems a popular monthly ritual among webmaster bloggers to flaunt their numbers whether it be earnings figures, or pictures of AdSense checks or some other seemingly important numbers. Well, for the last few months, I have been keeping aggregated traffic stats of the sites I run and have just finished totting up the numbers [...]
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Three More Blogs Strengthen The Portfolio
By Swog on March 4, 2008
I’ve been a busy boy over the last month or so and have not been able to find time to squeeze out an update here. But, here goes. Mid-February, I commenced a mid- to long-term project centered around blogging that I hope will open up a solid revenue channel. I did the groundwork and read a [...]
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More Traffic to Your Blog #1: Forums
By Swog on February 4, 2008
Here’s the first in a series of entries I have planned on promoting your blog. One of the revenue streams I intend to significantly strengthen during the 2008 calendar year is through blogging. Consequently, I wil most likely reflect quite a bit about the process of blogging over the coming months. Let’s face it, we all want [...]
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Goals for 2008
By Swog on January 31, 2008
As we get going again (and in order to facilitate a distinct feeling of deja-vu), here are my goals for this blog project for the coming year. i. Report on making $25 000. Yes, the final target remains the same, folks. Although I set this as my target some four months since at the commencement [...]
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WordPress article directories
By Swog on March 23, 2009
WordPress seems to be put to all sorts of creative uses these days. One of the most recent developments to which it seems to be intrinsically well suited is to use it as the engine for an article directory. As an internet/bum marketer this is especially good news as links within blogs (at least at [...]
Full Story »Posted in Tech | Tagged All Sorts, Article Directory, Article Marketing, Blogs, Bum, Comments Section, Creative Uses, Directories, Google, Marketer, Recent Developments, Submission Guidelines | 2 Responses