Jun - 24th

How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation

Posted at 10:11 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, web design

Getting hacked sucks, plain and simple. It can affect your rankings, cause your readership to be exposed to virus and trojan attacks, make you an unwilling promoter to subject material you may not actually endorse, and in many cases cause the loss of valuable content. However, once it happens it is usually best to [...]

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Jun - 20th

Passwords That Are Easy To Remember But Impossible To Guess

Posted at 9:57 am | Filed Under blogthropology

For most people, changing passwords is little bit of a pain in the ass. One of the main reasons for this is that so many people have their favorite passwords, and a fear of not being able to remember the new ones. System administrators always suggest using passwords that will be difficult to guess, [...]

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Jun - 18th

EasyWP WordPress Installer - Cause There Ain’t No Such Thing As “Too Easy”

Posted at 8:30 am | Filed Under Social Media, blogthropology, coding, nerdiness

Let’s face it… generally speaking, installing WordPress is not exactly an arduous task. It’s designed to be relatively easy, allowing pretty much anyone to set up a blog of their own, regardless of their technical expertise. For the most part, WordPress succeeds at this. However,

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Jun - 10th

Google Updates List Of Third-Party Ad Providers

Posted at 2:38 pm | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds

Well, that was quick. For those of you not using my Free Google Third-Party Ad Providers Widget, which automatically updates whenever Google changes their list of third-party ad providers, it’s time to update your privacy policies once again.
If you are already using the widget,

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Jun - 5th

Did Kevin Rose Join A Gang???

Posted at 12:57 pm | Filed Under blogthropology

Last night in New York, social media giant Digg took over the Studio B nightclub, for an Internet Week New York party. In the midst of all the reveling,

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Jun - 5th

AdSense Customer Service On New Feeds Question: Look It Up Yourself!

Posted at 12:26 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding

Recently Feedburner announced that they were integrating AdSense into the feeds. Great idea, but one thing they did not cover, nor could I find when searching AdSense help, was whether or not this would conflict with AdSense TOS if someone happened to be running another contextual advertising program on their site, and the feed [...]

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May - 27th

If Googleplex Employees Don’t Understand The Webmaster Guidelines, How Can They Expect Webmasters To Adhere To Them?

Posted at 8:43 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, web design

Last month, in one of my posts, I had decided to include a few images to see how well they might rank for their keyphrases. I had never targeted any of the image searches, and due to one of the topics of the post it seemed like a good opportunity to do so. When [...]

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May - 23rd

Googlebot Creates Pages Instead of Simply Indexing Them: New FORM Crawling Algo Goes Bad

Posted at 8:03 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, blogthropology, coding, web design

Last month Google revealed a new crawling method that they were testing out, whereby they were filling out forms on sites that they came across, in order to help facilitate the discovery of new pages. Matt Cutts discussed it here last month. I had noticed the phenomena

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May - 20th

With Only 14 Accident Free Days At Google, Should Google Health Come With A Warning?

Posted at 4:12 pm | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, web design

Often times in factories around the country, looking up on the wall you can see a chalkboard or a sign boasting of how many consecutive “accident free” days those on the job have enjoyed. These are placed there as a form of encouragement for workers to be careful, to encourage healthy competition between departments, and [...]

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Apr - 27th

You MUST Charge Matt Cutts For Linking To Him

Posted at 8:05 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, Social Media, blogthropology, nerdiness

No, seriously folks. Links have value. If they didn’t have value, then Google wouldn’t care about people buying and selling them. Since they have value, we must avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Not only is it what he wants… it’s Google policy. And even if it weren’t Google policy,

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