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Highlight Source Pro - A must have Plugin for Code Whores
If you’re like me and occasionally need to post code snippets in your wordpress powered blog posts, then you absolutely adore the highlight source pro plugin by Christian Knoflach. Gone are the days of hard to read and uncopyable code snippets. Highlight Source pro not only displays your code as a preformatted text via the [...]
Starting a small business? An Answering Serice might be the right choice for you.
If you’re starting up your own home based business there are a lot of different things you need to consider before you go mainstream.If you are operating as a freelancer or a consultant you will most likely spend the bulk of your time out of the office or at the customers place of business. Answering [...]
Using Akregator with Firefox 3.0
If you’re a linux user like I am, there’s a good chance that you’re using Firefox as your web browser and Akgregator as your news reader. Since Firefox has no native support for Akregator, you have to set up a little script of your own to get everything working together.
First, run a text editor as [...]
And the best shared hosting comany is…
It’s not pretty when you’re hosting company fails to deliver. It’s even less pretty when your server goes down unexpectedly. Kaushal Sheth had this problem. One day out of the blue, he (and I’m only assuming “he” here.) simply didn’t have any web sites. It’s happened to most of us. Heck, [...]
A few pet peeves with WordPress 2.5
Please keep in mind that these are just my opinions and that the behavior I’m experiencing may be due to my server configuration, but there are a few things about the new WordPress Admin panel that just really annoy me.
I don’t mind fixed width layouts but please, if you’re going to use fixed widths, center [...]
Monetize your blog with Smorty
There are a bunch of different Paid Post services out there, but not all are created equal. don’t get me wrong, I belong to nearly all of them and I’ll use them if the payout on a post or review helps me to achieve my daily income goals. (Yes I have one, but that’s [...]
Protecting or regaining your Google PageRank with meta tags
If you are a blogger that accepts paid posts or paid reviews, you have either experienced or will experienced Google’s policy of wiping your PageRank to zero. I have seen several methods posted on other blogs for counteracting this issue. The most notable of these methods has been to cave completely to Google and [...]
A little Structure for your WordPress Powered Blog
It’s not often that I come across a WordPress theme that I almost instantly fall in love with. It’s even less common when that theme claims to be a “Magazine Style” theme, but when I downloaded the Structure theme from Justin Tadlock, I was hooked from the get-go.
Let me say right off the bat that [...]
Does a loss of pagerank really affect your traffic?
Google’s PageRank smackdown has left a lot of bloggers bemoaning the loss of traffic and prestige their blogs recieve, but does having your Google PR wiped out or lowered really affect how many visitors you will get on a daily basis?
From my experience, the answer is a resounding “NO”.
The first of my blogs to get [...]
Andy Beard may just have the answer to Paid advertising and Page Rank
I think Andy Beard may just be a genius. At the very least he’s got a very analytical mind and he’s put it to use in the ongoing situation of Google Page Rank Slapping. Andy came up with a method to block Paid Reviews from Google’s Spiders using Robots.txt, and now he’s filed [...]
