Archive for February, 2008

Adsense notifier 0.9.6 released

A couple of months ago I noticed that the Adsense notifier down in my status bar was showing all zeros. At the same time Google started using Ajax in the Adsense pages to show reports, and I assumed the two were related. Since the last time there was a problem with the Adsense [...]

Sometimes spam is just funny

The humor on this was just too good not to post about it. I’ve got a spammer that has sent me the following email about 2 dozen times in the past week.
Good day,
My name is different names on each one and I am looking to buy links from good websites as yours (mydomain).
I [...]

Using Google Alerts to keep track of what’s said about you

I wrote about Google Alerts a few months ago to get new topic ideas for your blog or forum. There is another use for Alerts - to keep track of what’s being said about you, your site, or your company.
By entering your name, site name, or company name you can get email alerts any [...]

Using the WordPress post slug for SEO

WordPress makes it easy to have friendly URIs. Under the Options -> Permalinks tab you have several options. Of the options, I would suggest using one with %postname% as part of the URI.
But why?
If you read any web design blogs or forums you know that the words in the URI are important for [...]