News and Events
In response to Mr. Spirko
O.K. I gave my opinion on the topic of Izea and Google. In doing so I leveled some criticism at Jack Spirko of Comtechnews regarding this post.
There was a bit of confusion in the process, as my spam filters ate Jack’s response without giving me the opportunity to moderate it. Jack was understandably upset over [...]
Are Izea “Allies” doing more harm than good?
Before I continue, I need to point out that I use PayPerPost to monetize three of my blogs, one of which is fairly popular. in that sense, this is written from the standpoint of a Postie who is caught up in all of this whether he likes it or not.
In the ongoing battle between [...]
Izea, Page Rank and the ongoing slap-down
I’ve already stated that I took a hit to my Google page rank on any blog I host that is running Izea (formerly PayPerPost) sponsored ads. The big G took this action a step further a few days ago and removed all PR from my primary blog, dropping it from a PR 3 to a [...]
Ugh! New teeth, new plugins and the death of a project.
Well, the 30 days project hit a wall because of two very different but equally distracting issues in my “every day life”. First, CbsoP was accepted into a blog advertising network, which is driving the numbers higher than I could have managed on my own, therefore invalidating those statistics. (It’s a good thing, just bad [...]
Strange RSS behavior
if you’ve been getting my feeds through RSS out of order or delayed by… Forever, please excuse the confusion. Something in my previous WordPress install was causing the feed to malform pretty much randomly, which led to strange issues when attempting to get things out the door.
An upgrade to WP 2.3 seems to have remedied [...]
Stupid Theme Tricks Plugin
I’ve been working off-and-on at creating a plugin that will automatically update copyright dates. Granted, it’s a simple plugin, but there is still some basic functionality that I feel every piece of code should have, and I’m not quite there yet. I’ll post more about this as I have the time. Right [...]
It’s My Birthday!
No parties, no special anything going on, really. Just taking a day or so off in celebration.
Have fun Y’all!
Juvenile Diabetes Auction Winners
The Winners of Brenda Novak’s Third Annual On-Line Auction for Juvenile Diabetes Research have been announced, and We’re proud to announce the three people who won services from Spunpuppy Web Works.
Robin D. Owens was the highest bidder for a complete SEO and site optimization evaluation package. robin is the Rita Award Winning Author of [...]
Juvenile Diabetes Auction Results
We’re extremely happy to announce that our offerings in Brenda Novak’s Auction to benefit Juvenile Diabetes Research have earned $460.00 of the nearly quarter million raised by the event this year.
The highest bidders will be announced as soon as we are contacted, and offer our congratulations to the lucky three. We’re very proud to provide [...]
Spunpuppy’s new look goes live
We are very happy to announce the new Spunpuppy website! It’s been a long time in the making, but we feel that the new design offers quite a few advantages over the previous incarnation, including search functions and an increased ease of use for our visitors.
If you have any suggestions, please feel free to leave [...]
