Google Toolbar Pagerank Update Mistake : Redirection Change Effect
Google updated their Toolbar Pagerank a few days ago. Usually, I don't pay much attention to that, but this particular time there was something very interesting happening. One of the domains I have filination.com dropped from PR5 to PR2 and this was due to a Google Continue Reading →
Tired of Feedburner? Try some RSS feeds manager alternatives
Seems like people are tired of Google Feedburner glitches. Not a week goes by without a post showing up on my RSS reader that has something to do with poor performance and bad stats by Feedburner. Many of those posts end up with a cry - are there any decent Feedburner Continue Reading →
The Challenge of Getting Started on Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is a real challenge. Lots of first timers that give it a try usually give up quickly as learning the secrets of the trade takes time. Reading up on one Taiwan based blogger sharing his affiliate frustrations (and again here), I started writing Continue Reading →
Intense-Debate – Uninstalling, changing back author URLs and WordPress alternatives
A while ago I was experimenting with a relatively new comments trend in some of the WordPress blogosphere to manage and display your blog comments through 3rd parties. After looking into the options, I decided to go for Intense Debate. The main benefits considered Continue Reading →
Migrating Multi-Author WordPress Blog : Import-Export Users
How do you move WordPress users between blogs? That's a tricky one. WordPress doesn't allow you to neatly import and export users so you need to result into some plugins and a bit of easy tweaking. Ingredients : Users to CSV is a useful plugin by Joost originally Continue Reading →
WordPress 2.7, 404 errors and Magic Quotes GPC
WordPress 2.7 doesn't work well with Magic Quotes, I've learned the hard way while trying to help a fellow worker get her blog back to work this week. The symptom was a change in the wp_options table reverting this : a:63:{s:11:"robots.txt$";....... to Continue Reading →
Top Web Developer Mozilla Firefox Add-On Tools
Responding to repeating questions from clients and colleagues about recommended Firefox plugins for Web Development and basic SEO/SEM, following are the Firefox Addons I can’t do without : ColorZilla web developer addon It assists web developers and graphic Continue Reading →
Custom Google Search Provider with an Open-Search Auto Discovery for a WordPress Site
Since I spent the last half an hour doing this for one of the student WordPress websites (NCKU IIMBA Student Council), might as well explain how it’s been done. Shouldn’t take anyone more than 20 minutes. First, you’ll need to make a Google Custom Search. Continue Reading →
Pidgin (GTK) and Unicode Asian/Hebrew character font display issue
Pidgin is the best multi protocol instant messaging software out there. There’s really no reason to use all the other messaging programs separately, unless you’re in need of the more advanced features. It’s not perfect, though, and there are a few annoyances Continue Reading →
Search Engine Optimization for a Flash+HTML site
Every once in a while I get emails like this next one : I was talking with [someone] who giving me your email for try to tweak my website www.galeriadelarte.org in google engine at this time no match, seams google robot can't get anything from my site, Continue Reading →