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Posted on Feb 27, 2010 - 3:12am by John P. in Thoughts, Wordpress - 4 Replies
You guys have heard me drone on and on about my hatred of Spammers. I really mean it when I say I want to shoot them. Like with a real gun. In Texas. (Yee-haw)
Anyway, some people seem to think that they are not spammers as long as they leave a nice sounding comment along with their spammy “made-for-adwords” website link. And I guess they even think it’s ok for them to use different names on different comments… and different spammy MFA website links.
In fact, here is an example of someone who used 4 different domains and two different names when leaving comments. Of course, they didn’t take into account the fact that they have the same damn IP address on every comment (all of which have now been deleted).
Oh, by the way, normally I would feel bad about putting someone’s name or email address up in an image, but since I don’t believe the names are real anyway, I have no sympathy.
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Posted on Feb 22, 2010 - 2:30pm by John P. in Tutorials, Wordpress - 15 Replies
As you may know, I use WP SuperCache on all of my blogs to enable them to handle the rather high loads the server runs at occasionally. One of the things that WP SuperCache does is enable compression for all of the cached pages. It’s an option in the control panel, which I ALWAYS enable. This saves a lot of bandwidth and makes pages download much faster for readers.
Well, what I didn’t realize was that the compression is only being performed on the cached files apparently. Because I did some testing and on the non-cached files there was no compression. So, I’ve got a really, really easy trick that anyone can do on their PHP blog to enable GZip compression.
Of course I’m going to show you how to do it in WordPress because that is what I know – but a simple one line addition to your theme file will enable it on any PHP based system (Drupal, Joomla, or whatever). If you have instructions for another CMS please let me know and I’ll add them here too.
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Posted on Feb 20, 2010 - 1:50am by Charles McKeever in Tutorials, Videos, Wordpress - No Replys
Creative ideas are everywhere, if you know how to listen.
In this article I’m going to show you how you can automatically split videos into images and then use those images to generate traffic for your website. When John Pozadzides (aka the man behind One Man’s Blog) did this, he got 10,000 pageviews on a single blog post in just 7 days.
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Posted on Feb 12, 2010 - 11:41pm by John P. in The Man's Videos, Tutorials, Wordpress - 11 Replies
On January 30, 2010 I did a lecture for the DFW WordPress Meetup group which we called, “Make More Money with WordPress, Social Media and Analytics”. This lecture was similar to the one I did two years ago called, “45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog” in that it covers a wide range of topics all targeted at helping you learn to drive more traffic and earn more revenue from your blog or Website.
As a follow up and companion to this lecture I also posted “The 8 Best Ways to Earn Money With Google Adsense Alternatives“, and I suggest that you investigate that post as well, but not until after you’ve endured this grueling 1.5 hour lecture. I know it’s long, but just remember that it took me many, many more hours to prepare for and deliver this lecture than it will take you to view it. And I’m holding nothing back here, so if you want all the secrets this is the price you have to pay.
Huge thanks go out to Cali Lewis for filming and assembling the video for this lecture, and also to Giovanni Gallucci for assisting with the videography. Also, show some love to Tony Cecala for talking me into doing this and organizing the entire venue and event, and of course thanks to the Art Institute of Dallas for hosting. Now, without further ado, here is the lecture.
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Posted on Feb 05, 2010 - 2:33am by John P. in 10 Best, Tutorials, Wordpress - 10 Replies
Ok. You’re a blogger. You want to earn money from your website (don’t we all). I realize there are a lot of folks trying to tell you how to make money with Google AdSense (even though most don’t make jack squat), and even though I certainly make a lot more than average from Google AdSense, I actually spent a lot of time researching and testing Google AdSense alternatives in order to see if we could do a little better than simply putting Google ads on our sites.
Below you will find the best Google Adsense alternatives I could find, complete with a little description and a link to the provider, in the hopes of helping you put a little more cash in your pocket.
If you have any first hand experience with these please drop a comment below and let us all know. Especially if you can share some light on actually getting paid by these advertising providers. How long it takes, how much you made, and what your general impression of working with them would be most valuable! Also, please help me spread the word on this particular post since I know it’s something a lot of people are looking for.
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Posted on Jan 26, 2010 - 3:38pm by John P. in Tutorials, Wordpress, Work - 7 Replies
Social media is an all-encompassing term used to describe any of several online channels that utilize the technology to facilitate social interaction through written, visual, or audible communication. Examples of different types of Social Media sites include:
The use of social media as a marketing and promotional tool and strategy is becoming more and more popular with businesses because it can be an extremely effective way to promote products and services to a targeted audience. Websites can function as a static billboard to promote products, services, or ideas – but social media opens up a dynamic dialogue with your audience, allowing for interaction and personal connection.
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Posted on Jan 17, 2010 - 11:42am by John P. in Wordpress - 7 Replies
Matthew “Spamboy” McGarity shows us how to preform a local installation of wordpress. This allows a user to have an installation of wordpress on a USB drive, portable hard drive or just their local machine. With this local install, a user now has a complete Wordpress development environment separate from his or her live Wordpress site.
Thanks to Dave Curlee for filming and editing this, as well as incorporating the sign language interpreters into this video, and the other videos from WordCamp Dallas 2009. You can also follow Dave on Twitter or Spamboy on Twitter.
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Posted on Jan 14, 2010 - 2:00am by John P. in Thoughts, Wordpress - 6 Replies
Folks, I’m going to be delivering a lecture to kick off the Optimization Summit in my home town of Dallas, TX on March 23, 2010. What the heck is an Optimization Summit you might ask? Well, its all about Optimizing your online, marketing, social media, and emerging media strategies. And with the exception of myself, there is an all star lineup running these workshops!
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Posted on Jan 12, 2010 - 5:22pm by John P. in Thoughts, Tutorials, Wordpress - 6 Replies
Well folks, in about two weeks, on January 30th at 4pm, I’ll be giving a complete lecture on basically everything I know about how to have a successful blog. I’m going to deal with the topics of revenue generation, social media integration, analytics and measurement, and God only knows what else! It’ll probably be like a 1.5 hour lecture, so be prepared.
Now there are a lot of local folks who are always asking me for help and advice with your Websites. This is your chance to not only get a very hefty bit of information out of me, but to meet other people who are also interested in the same thing. So, be at this event because as you all know, I don’t have time to do this sort of thing very often. Also, the event is already overbooked so you need to register FAST in order to have a shot at getting in.
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Posted on Dec 27, 2009 - 10:48pm by John P. in Tutorials, Wordpress - 6 Replies
Recently I had the need to set up a couple of blogs that I only wanted people who are logged in to be able to access. After a little research and experimentation I came across the following fix.
So lets say you wanted to set up a Blog for just the use of your own internal company. Or Family. Or whatever… But you don’t want anyone to be able to access the site unless they are logged in. It’s actually a lot easier than you think. Here’s how to do it.
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Posted on Dec 03, 2009 - 1:59pm by John P. in Security, Wordpress - 15 Replies
Dammit!!!! I HATE SPAMMERS MORE THAN ANYONE ON EARTH! I honestly, 100% mean it when I say that I want to KILL spammers. You guys are laughing right now… “hehehe. Here goes that crazy John P. with another rant about spammers. Aww, he’s just kidding!” No! I am an ex-Marine, I own guns and knives, and I’m begging a spammer to show up at my house so I can do horrible things to him!!!! GRRRRR!!!!!
Today I got an email from Google as follows:
Dear site owner or webmaster of onemansblog.com,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, the offending party gains access to an insecure directory that has open permissions. Many times, they will upload files or modify existing ones, which then show up as spam in our index.
The following is some example hidden text we found at http://onemansblog.com/:
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In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, pages from onemansblog.com are scheduled to be removed temporarily from our search results for at least 30 days.
Why, pray tell, would Google ban OneMansBlog from the index? Well, because some sneaky bastard somehow added a bunch of spam to the footer of my blog! HOW? My directory permissions are correct, I have all the latest versions of plugins installed and WordPress is up to date. So, let’s run down a checklist of things you should do so as not to fall victim to the spammers too:
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Posted on Sep 22, 2009 - 2:29am by John P. in Videos, Wordpress - 1 Reply
This is the greatest commercial that anyone has ever done for an event that I’ve seen. You’ve got Guy Kawasaki, Chris Brogen, and Cali Lewis… oh, and Chad Vader. :-)
Incidentally, I’ll be attending Blog World in Las Vegas as well, and I’ll be lecturing at the WordCamp Las Vegas event that will be happening right smack dab in the middle of Blog World! Yee Haw! It should be a blast.
I’ll be teaching you everything you ever needed to know to grow rich, powerful and sexy from your blog! Well, either that or I’ll give you some WordPress tips and tricks, as well as an overview of how to use your stats to improve the online experience.
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