AdBlock Plus Breaks Google Adsense

I hate doing Google Adsense. I actually hate doing anything even remotely connected with internet money grubbing, because I have to crawl out of playful mode and face the upleasant reality that degenerate stupid things make money and fun interesting things don’t. As a result of extreme laziness I had let my . . . → Read More: AdBlock Plus Breaks Google Adsense

New Facebook “Like Button” Dorkage

FaceBook-LogoFacebook, as you may know, is attempting to own a greater share of the web by allowing you to put a facebook “like” button and other social widgets on any web page.   Think what you like about Facebook, their questionable privacy, and their evil plans, but the fact remains that it is the #4 most visited website today and growing.  I’ve just sort of accepted that if someone really wants to they can know pretty much everything I’ve ever done online.  Meanwhile, getting Likes in lots of people’s profiles could be some some potent leverage for me.

I’m not going to reiterate the details.  I’ll just link to them and/or quote them if necessary.  It boils down to this:  There are two ways to do a “Like” button, either insert an iframe in your site (with all the attendant ugliness of iframes), or actually enable your page and use the facebook SDK yourself.
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Creative Commons License your tweets

cc-attr-nc-saThis little TweetCC Twitter App makes it very easy for you to license your tweets, according to any of the various flavors of the Creative Commons License. All you do is press the button by your chosen flavor of creative commons, it tweets the appropriate message as a reply to @tweetcc, and then they will link to your twitterstream on their webpage.

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New Tweet This Hack but Still no Monkeys

monkeyI just finished installing the latest version of the Tweet This WordPress Plugin. It renders my Tweet This Hack obsolete. As now you can configure the text that comes out. This is as it should be. I’m so honored! Richard Thripp, the author of Tweet This, even dropped by and made a comment on that post. Since my version is standard again, I feel another hack coming on. However I still have not sensed even one monkey trying to escape from my personal solid waste disposal port yet.

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Adjix: Monetize your shrinkage

adjix-logo Is “shrinkage” ever a good thing? Actually, Jerry Seinfeld notwithstanding, yes! If you don’t know about shrinkage as it applies to the internet, learn the basics first , then come back and learn how to make money with it. I’ll wait.

There are rumblings that TinyURL, the oldest and probably most well-known URL shortener on the ‘nets, may not be the best link shrinker to use any more, mainly because you can’t track clicks.  There are many other free shorteners that allow you to track your clicks. Adjix.com gives you the option of monetizing your clicks as well. 
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Not all dofollows are created equal

nofolloway31I comment on plenty of of blogs. I never noticed my comments scoring me serious incoming links on my WP dashboard, even from so-called “dofollow” blogs. That’s what dofollows are meant to do — increase your incoming link count, and ultimately bump your Google PR.

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SEO Automatic: awesome free SEO analysis

seo-imageThis amazing free SEO analysis website deserves more than just a feeble fleeting tweet lost among all those 500 lb. canaries on Twitter.    The mostly nontechnical website owners in our local Etailing group really liked it.  Why?  Because it not only flags SEO issues, but it tells you in non geek what you can do about them.
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When Monkeys Fly Out My A$$ OR My TweetThis Hack

I was recently reading Guy Kawasaki’s blog post on how he uses Twitter.   I was thinking, sure, Twitterfeed is great because it tweets my blog posts as me, but it would be even nicer if my awesome readers had a button to tweet my blog post as them in one click, i.e.  without the brain cell killing mousage/keyboardage of 1) shrinking the URL, 2) going to twitter and 3) copy/pasting the title. That’s a good thing in three ways:

  • More cred for you if someone else besides you tweets your stuff,
  • more potential reach,
  • your friend who tweets for you appears magnanimous and with it to all his followers.

It sounded like something that would be easy to automate  and useful to a lot of people, so I thought, there has to be a WordPress plugin to do that. Sure enough there is – Tweet This by Richard X Thripp.
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HubPages: A paying outlet for your verbal diarrhea

Hub Pages LogoWant to know a little secret about bloggers?  We bloggers all have  a bad case of verbal diarrhea!  We just can’t stop spouting off and we all like an audience.  Since we’re all doomed to suffer from this malady, we might as well get paid something while we suffer from it.

The downside to blogging

The way most blogging software arranges the posts in reverse chronological order guarantees that only your most recent post will get much attention.  Sure, visitors are free to break it out by category or to search for a particular topic, but the fact remains that most visitors see the home page when following a root link to a blog.

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