Last year on July 19th, Google Inc. (GOOG) managed to lose $13 Billion in after hours trading. That’s a pretty amazing amount of cash, if you ask me. However, what’s even more amazing is the fact that today, just a mere 2 days shy of the one year anniversary of that event,
Why The Google Keyword Tool Is Useless For SEO, Even With Exact Numbers
Recently there was a bit of a hubbub surrounding Google’s Keyword Tool External (the keyword suggestion portion of AdWords that was made public a couple of years back). It started when a few people, like Barry Schwartz from SERoundtable, noticed that the tool was showing specific numbers for search terms instead of just green bars. Even though at first
No, Just Lying About It Is NOT Effective Reputation Management
If your reputation management strategy is going to be centered around lying about things, then you should at least have the sense to lie in ways that aren’t easy to refute. For instance, you should steer well clear from
How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation
Update 08/13/2015 – Please note: The following Do It Yourself guide on how to de-hack your website is designed for people who don’t necessarily know how to read php, but do know how to work their way through installing WordPress, themes, and plugins. It also assumes you know your way around whichever hosting control panel it is that comes with your host. Because malicious code can be very hard to weed out from the legitimate stuff, especially for someone who is not a programmer, this guide recommends that you start over with a completely fresh theme on your site. This means that for many, the customizations that were done to the theme will be lost, or will need to be re-done. For those of you who would prefer not to do that, or who have a complicated or ecommerce site, or one with heavy traffic and you would like to completely minimize the downtime, I do offer professional cleaning services. I can de-hack and secure your site without losing any of the design or functionality, and in most cases there is only a few minutes of downtime near the end of the process. For more information, please fill out my contact form.
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 not procrastinate on the clean up process,
Passwords That Are Easy To Remember But Impossible To Guess
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, which inherently, of course, makes them harder to remember. Additionally, it is a good idea to mix both numbers and letters, and use symbols as well, since by doing so it means there are significantly more combinations that a brute force attack has to go through in order to discover the password.
To help with that,
EasyWP WordPress Installer – Cause There Ain’t No Such Thing As “Too Easy”
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,
CNN Refuses To Discuss Kucinich’s Articles Of Impeachment?
Last night Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. This would be, to most reasonable thinking persons, newsworthy. CNN, however,
Google Updates List Of Third-Party Ad Providers
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,
Did Kevin Rose Join A Gang???
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,
AdSense Customer Service On New Feeds Question: Look It Up Yourself!
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 happened to display ads that would cause a violation
