'Wordpress' Category
Free Shirt Friday - eAdvertising
Today’s Tshirt is brought to you by eAdvertising.com, a division of LeadClick Media, Inc. Sounded just like a commercial didn’t it? I need to hop on this podcast bandwagon. Anyway, I can’t believe I haven’t joined eAdvertising.com yet, as I swear I am an affiliate for a trillion other CPA networks, so I just applied. I got the standard DirectTrack form and “will be notified in the next 72 hours.”
Speaking of CPA networks, there is nothing I hate worse than when they call and call and call and email and email and email me begging me to join their network. So I finally apply, mainly just to shut them up. Then they call and email again wanting a full explanation before they’ll approve me on why I’m joining and how will I run their offers!? Um, you wanted me, I don’t need you. Ok, off my rant rage now.
Notice my double screen monitors - love ‘em. (Ignore the messy desk) I think I need a third one as I usually have my laptop beside me as well. On the screens you’ll see a wordpress admin and my coupon code site. I’ve downloaded / uploaded a few more cool wordpress plug-ins as well…
Feed Logo/Favicon Plugin by my girl, Harley. She created this plug-in just for me! I wanted to be able add a logo and a favicon to my RSS feeds. I even found this site where you can create your own favicon from any graphic (and it’s free). The plugin doesn’t work for all feed readers, but it works good enough for me. Thanks Harley Quine! Next…
phpBay Lite Plugin This plugin allows you to add eBay auction listings to your posts and pages. You pick the keywords and how many you’d like to display. Pretty cool. See it in action here and below (I used “computer” as the keyword and wanted to show 2 results). Ciao!
MicronPC 1.7ghz P4 SFF Desktop Computer "R"
US $9.99 (0 Bid)
Auction Ends: Friday Jul-04-2008 5:30:56 PDT
Bid on this Item | Watch this Item
HAM RADIO COMPUTER HF RIG CONTROL SOFTWARE FOR YAESU
US $18.99
Auction Ends: Friday Jul-04-2008 5:31:21 PDT
Bid on this Item | Buy this Item | Watch this ItemWho is Elliott?
I have no idea who he is, but I kept seeing his name come up on trackback comments of other sites using my blog posts…
[…] post by kim and software by Elliott […]
Call me naive but at first I thought maybe it was a good thing getting free inbound links plus the posts were unaltered so contained my affiliate links. But since my blonde highlights are starting to grow out, I realized that google may penalize those sites and mine for duplicate content. So I was on a mission to try to stop Elliott’s software from scraping and stealing my posts.
Google led me to Elliott Back’s site where he claims his plugin was being misused and has taken it offline as it makes him look like the spammer. He encourages sending out DMCA notices to abusing websites by following these instructions.
I used Shawn K Hall’s Copyright infringement letter, changing the appropriate info and emailed it off to Dreamhost, host of the offending website. (Hint, you can look up the whois to see the host’s email and you can find the I.P. address of the comments in the wordpress admin.)
Within 24 hours, Dreamhost replied to me that they had taken down the prepetrator. Now I’m off to send a couple more letters to different “site stealers.”
To Follow or NoFollow? Leave your Link.
I stumbled across Andy Beard’s Ultimate List of DOFOLLOW & NOFOLLOW PlugIns looking for some “follow” advice on my blogs.
I downloaded the WP Plugin: Nofollow from Home to add the “rel=nofollow” to the homepage posts of this very site along with some of my other blogs, so Google wouldn’t follow the affiliate links. You can be penalized for too many affiliate links on a site.
Then Wordpress automatically adds the “rel=nofollow” to post comments, so I downloaded the DoFollow WP Plugin from Semiologic to remove the tag on comments and trackbacks. That will encourage other webmasters to comment and link to specific website posts knowing it will help their PR. Go ahead and try it out. Leave a comment on this very post including your URL - can’t beat a free one-way link… unless, of course, you do want to link to this site!
P.S. Yes, I know it’s Friday, and I am wearing a free t-shirt. I’ll see if I can get one of my daughters to snap a pic…
Win Free Domain Name + Wordpress Blog Hosting
Since I seem to be infatuated with setting up Wordpress Blogs lately, I had just to enter this contest I found… Win a Free Domain & Free Hosting For Your WordPress Blog Contest (and find more contests at EnterOnlineSweeps.com).
Anyhoo, to enter you have write a blog post about that very contest (thus what I’m doing right now), and for every five entries received, there will be one free domain name winner ($10 paid via PayPal to use at the domain name register of your choice - GoDaddy is only $8.95 or less per year). And for every five domain name winners, there will be a winner of free Wordpress blog website hosting for LIFE which includes 500 MB disk space, 10 GB monthly data transfer, 5 MySQL databases, E FTP, 5 sub domains and 20 POP3 email accounts! Wow, life is a heckuva long time. I’m presuming it is for the lifetime their site is up and running. Nonetheless, I’d love to win it!
While visiting Sabahan.com, I found the website interesting. Gaman, the site owner lives in Sabah, a state in east Malaysia. And he is quite ingenious when it comes to Internet Marketing. Since I am the freebie queen, I was glad to find his list of Free Photos For Your Blog Or Web Site. Time to work on adding some pics to my blogs!
