Not too long ago I created my first wordpress plugin that would track comment statistics. The main goal was to identify where people are commenting and what was attracting spam and several other metrics. You can read about the plugin (click here), and at the time I though it was very well done [...]
Today I’m celebrating my 1000th comment spam! I guess that’s a good thing, as this site must be doing well enough to be getting hit with about 50-75 comment spams per day now (it would be nice if I got that many legit comments!).
To all of my actual readers I’d like to [...]
I’m sure that wasn’t the intention of what they’ve done, but I can’t really think of any other application for their latest research into cyber communication. The research was released yesterday through the Chronicle Online, Cornell University’s online publication that outlines their research projects and activities.
I actually came upon the research entirely [...]
Today’s post is to show you a creative little way of finding do-follow blogs, so that you can post comments on them and get some link juice from the search engines. Before I get into the details of this, I would like the record to state that this is not a very ethical method [...]
Package enclosures are a great way to increase sales and get return customers, so today I’m covering what they are and how to get started with them. Note - this marketing technique will work for anybody that ships products, regardless of whether you sell other products or not (explain below).
Imagine this, a customer buys [...]
Some of you will recall my dissatisfaction with AB testing with Google last month, which was due to a large number of technical problems we ran into when setting up their code. Suffice to say, it was a horrible failure and we crashed a site for 14 hours when we put their code in, [...]
Often times as a programmer I’m forced to use more creative solutions than are normally available. This typically applies to the case where somebody wants data from their database exported into a different program. Unfortunately, a lot of the time the standard mysql export feature isn’t an option (as they want to manipulate [...]
