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Comment on How to add a Technorati Badge to your blog by raygen79

raygen79 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:08:05 +0000

Your welcome, I am glad you found the information useful. Thanks for the comment. Take care!

Comment on Why you shouldn’t feel bad about blocking Ads by raygen79

raygen79 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:04:59 +0000

DLH:

You make a very good points. I agree that those that don’t use deceptive practices and annoying ads should beable to make something. I do not however believe a person should feel obligated to view ads, if a person wishes to block them thats their choice.

Comment on Why you shouldn’t feel bad about blocking Ads by DLH

DLH — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:36:26 +0000

The problem with ad blockers is that they don’t discriminate between advertising that is respectful of the audience and the garbage that deserves to be blocked. Advertisers and publishers that respect their audiences by avoiding garish animations and deceptive tactics should be able to earn revenue (as publishers) or get their message out (as advertisers), but blanket ad blockers prevent this. It is much more fair for surfers to take their ire out on the publishers who serve up the garbage. If I get to a site with horrible ads, I exit immediately; bad publishers deserve high bounce rates. But as someone with a startup business whose ads I want to be seen, I don’t feel right punishing everyone for the actions of some. Publishers and advertisers that respect their audience should be rewarded, and if they are, maybe more of them will conduct themselves appropriately.

Comment on How to add a Technorati Badge to your blog by John

John — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:42:22 +0000

Hey, My name is John. I added your site to my favourites at Technorati. I have a video gaming blog (http://gamesandgadgetz.com) and I wanted to add a Technorati badge to my site.I found your site from Google’s SERPs. Thank you, it helped me a lot.

Comment on Deep Link Engine – The New WordPress Trackback/Pingback Spam by raygen79

raygen79 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:46:20 +0000

Your welcome, and thanks for the comment. Yes it seems enticing to use such a tool, but it could get you put on Askimet or some other spam checking service blacklist. now that would be bad for your site. i say build links in a honest way and focus on getting users to your content that are interested in it. Take care.

Comment on Deep Link Engine – The New WordPress Trackback/Pingback Spam by daily insights

daily insights — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:05:45 +0000

Thanks for the info on the downside of using the deep link engine and explaining the trackback spam that this will cause…you saved me a lot of frustration in trying to undo this mess had I gone ahead with the install. like you said i found this plug in on the wordpress site and it has over 30k using it which can make it look enticing to bloggers that may be willing to ignore the warning signs just to cut some corners in trying to generate more traffic.

Comment on Adsense or No Adsense. That is the question by Gracie Parker

Gracie Parker — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:46:30 +0000

i haven’t signed up with clicksor yet but i want to join that program too.~”.

Comment on Is The Outcry against Facebook Due to Privacy Concerns Justified? by Wordpress Themes

Wordpress Themes — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:16:23 +0000

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Comment on Deep Link Engine – The New WordPress Trackback/Pingback Spam by raygen79

raygen79 — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:23:44 +0000

Thanks for the Comment.

I totally understand pingbacks, however 99% of all pingbacks and trackbacks today are nothing more then spammers and scrappers.

Why should I allow a blog I know nothing about get a free link on my web site?

Do you know Google and Bing will “penalize” your web site or blog for having too many bad links from sites they called “bad neighborhoods”?

Yes if you have links pointing to your blog from sites Google sees as spammers your site will be penalized in the rankings to some degree.

Spammers have abused the pingback and trackback functionality to the point it needs to be turned off to prevent spam. Even if trackback/pingback links are “no follow” they can still hurt you as Ask.com for example does not honor the no follow attribute.

There is more to this then meets the eye, and I would be very careful who you allow to link you, and who you link back to. This is even more true if your doing this without the nofollow attribute.

Comment on Deep Link Engine – The New WordPress Trackback/Pingback Spam by Jason

Jason — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:00:49 +0000

Something to keep in mind:
YOU are also getting a link when this happens – otherwise the pingback will not even register on your blog (‘verification’ that the link actually exists is part of the pingback process). And if links weren’t so valuable, spammers wouldn’t be doing it.

One of the best things I ever did was to quite worrying about pingback ‘spam’, and instead took the ‘captialist’ approach – harness the greed built-in to humans

I create my blog templates to list the pingbacks seperate from the comments, and I hacked the pingback code in wordpress to make sure the link on the other site does not have a ‘no follow’. Then I just sit back and let the links build if/when it happens.

I also put my links (and domain) in the text of every item in my rss feeds (plenty of plugins available for this), and I don’t sweat it when someone srapes my feed. I often end up with backlinks when they do (surrounded by relevant text).

I’ve noticed a lot of bloggers do not even understand how pingback’s actually work. For instance, a lot of bloggers don’t realize that their blogging software will automatically scan their blog posts for links, and will automatically do a pingback on the other site if it’s a blog. Unless “Raygen” has disabled it, then his link to the deep link engine blog generated a pingback on their blog, with “deep link engine” in the anchor text. While he may understand this, I bet there are plenty of readers who do not.

Comment on Adsense or No Adsense. That is the question by Morgan Palmer

Morgan Palmer — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:57:52 +0000

I used Clicksor and Infolinks and i would have to say that infolinks pays better than clicksor.:~,

Comment on Adsense or No Adsense. That is the question by raygen79

raygen79 — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:02:06 +0000

Yeah I don’t see ads as a decent way to make any money, and to be honest with you, internet users are getting banner blind which pretty much means they ignore ads and you gotta be really creative + have tons of trafffic to make anything from any of them. I don’t even bother anymore.

Comment on Adsense or No Adsense. That is the question by Joel Owen

Joel Owen — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:47:32 +0000

i have just signed up with the amazon affiliate program and i am still not earning a good deal of cash from them.-~’

Comment on Firefox vs IE vs Opera VS Chrome by Azmeer

Azmeer — Sun, 16 May 2010 18:53:26 +0000

I use Chrome, Opera, and Safari, all three seem to be the fastest browsers, and are the easiest, for me of course, to use.

Comment on How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog by CodyPark@Background Check

CodyPark@Background Check — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:23:37 +0000

Creating back links from commenting is a great tool. The best way to find these are to go an use googles operator for example: In the google search box enter the following: intext:”powered by wordpress” AND “KeywordLuv” OR “CommentLuv” this will pull out all blogs that provide the plugin and to filter out non blogs we incorporate the “powered by wordpress”

Comment on Firefox vs IE vs Opera VS Chrome by Ken

Ken — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:14:42 +0000

I use Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera. All of them work very well, and while Internet Explorer is sluggish, it still make a great browser with all of its nice features. Firefox, despite lacking some features unlike Internet Explorer, is faster, but not yet as fast Safari, which stands in the middle of the line, and it have a pretty user interface. I currently use Opera, as it is the second fastest, only a tiny bit slower than Google Chrome, and is impressive in features. I also love Google Chrome, as its features are catching up, or have already caught up with Safari, while it still performs extremely fast.

Comment on How to add a Technorati Badge to your blog by Paula

Paula — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:12:04 +0000

Faved!

from http://www.fether.net/

But for whatever reason it won’t let me claim my blog. Hopefully that’ll work someday.

Comment on Deep Link Engine – The New WordPress Trackback/Pingback Spam by Roezer

Roezer — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:04:58 +0000

Just having a Hard time with Trackbacks and Pingbacks after an Article I wrote more Trackbacks than visitors it’s a Shame that Bloggers can’t use this useful communication tool that is a Trackback and only Spammers. I wonder how many people actually know how to make a trackback that are not spammers I guess they are a very small Percentage.

Comment on Google Analytics vs Web Server Logs by Jayce

Jayce — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:56:30 +0000

Google Analytics is a must use tool for me. Check my blogs status everyday with it.

Comment on How to add a Technorati Badge to your blog by raygen79

raygen79 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:31:42 +0000

Yes the more Technorati favs you can get, the better your rank. This also goes along with how many blogs indexed in Technorati link to you as well.

I didn’t know Technorati Media has ads. I am looking into other ad solutions on this blog so I will check them out. Thanks for the suggestion!

Comment on How to add a Technorati Badge to your blog by Ramkumar

Ramkumar — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:36:04 +0000

Wow thanks for the info, I never knew Technorati authority will increase when the blog is added in others faves. I submitted my blog to Technorati very late , just a couple of weeks back and now I have Authority of 126. BTW why don’t you have Technorati Media ads , they have high pay rates for both CPC and CPM. Cheers

Comment on Deep Link Engine – The New WordPress Trackback/Pingback Spam by raygen79

raygen79 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:23:38 +0000

Your Welcome Roezer, I am glad I could help. Yes the Deep Link Engine is nothing more than a blog spam plug-in. I am going to post another article that will show you how to disable all trackbacks and pingbacks globally on your blog, even on posts you have already created with some SQL magic

again thanks for the comments!

Comment on Deep Link Engine – The New WordPress Trackback/Pingback Spam by Roezer

Roezer — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:32:12 +0000

@Vlad In my Case it was a New Blog so there was not much Cleaning up to Do If I had of put it on a blog with 100+posts I only Imagine what kind of mess I would have to Clean up

Comment on Deep Link Engine – The New WordPress Trackback/Pingback Spam by Vlad

Vlad — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:52:26 +0000

Good info, all their links go to spam sites, beside that it is difficult to remove links and plugin -everything needs to be removed manually, post by post and all tables from DB

Comment on Deep Link Engine – The New WordPress Trackback/Pingback Spam by Roezer

Roezer — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:01:59 +0000

I was searching for a Tagging plugin and Installed it to find that It needed a Activation code and it started to Attract my Attention that there was something very wrong with this plugin I done a search and found some articles promoting the product and yours guess which Article I will listen to thank you Very much for Clearing this up for me and I do not even know why wordpress have such plugings listed

Comment on Phoebe Prince, Megan Meier, Alexis Pilkington, and the impacts of Cyberbullying by raygen79

raygen79 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:50:25 +0000

Thank you for the comment Rick. I think this type of bullying needs to stop. This is even more true with what goes on in social media being used as tools to launch it to even higher levels then what was around when we were kids. I am sorry you had to go through being bullied as a child, but I am glad you made it through and are a strong individual because of it.

i always fought back against anyone who tried to bully me regardless of the odds, but that’s how I was raised to do. However, sometimes fighting back is not an option when its 8 vs 1 or 10 vs 1. That really makes it tough.

Hopefully more people will become aware of what is going on here, and I hope the blogosphere takes a lead on this and rallies behind this to educate and inform the public so we can all do what we can to protect the young ones. Life is hard enough as it is without adding anymore to it.

take care

Comment on Phoebe Prince, Megan Meier, Alexis Pilkington, and the impacts of Cyberbullying by Rick

Rick — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:40:51 +0000

I’m a bit behind the times on all this but I just found out about this very sad event. I was bullied at her age myself and was very depressed over it. Back then we didn’t have the internet or cell phones to add to it. I was looking for someplace that I could post something for the parents to maybe help them understand. I just can’t fathom the kinds of people that would continue to torture her poor parents after this happened. It’s all so very sad. Those poor people need closure not what they are getting. She seemed like a really sweet person in the pictures I saw. I hope that she is happy in the arms of Jesus right now.

Comment on How To Secure Your WordPress Blog by raygen79

raygen79 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:31:56 +0000

Your welcome. I think they are tips all wordpress users should follow. Thanks for stopping by.

Comment on How To Secure Your WordPress Blog by ark

ark — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:45:03 +0000

Wow, this is a very helpful post.

Thanks for this.

Comment on How To Secure Your WordPress Blog by raygen79

raygen79 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:50:45 +0000

Thanks,I am glad you found the tips useful

Comment on How To Secure Your WordPress Blog by 222.77.187.134:8080

222.77.187.134:8080 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:23:49 +0000

I agree with everything that was posted in this article, I am a faithful reader so please keep updating so often!

Comment on How To Secure Your WordPress Blog by raygen79

raygen79 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:24:44 +0000

I just noticed this myself, Thanks for the tip I will update the post accordingly. I do think password protecting the wp-admin directory is still a good idea.

Comment on How To Secure Your WordPress Blog by Trung

Trung — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:25:04 +0000

Some WP plugins and themes use jQuery, which will generate script tag

When wp-includes become password-protected, these plugins and themes will not work properly.

Comment on How To Secure Your WordPress Blog by human

human — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:07:42 +0000

Thanks for this post it is very beneficial for me to know what requires to secure your blog as, I do have a wordpress blog and I am finding some updates regarding to the installations and I found it here.

Comment on SEO Tips for Bing by Mel@Online Marketing

Mel@Online Marketing — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:56:17 +0000

Great guidelines for any SEO. I didn’t know Trackbacks can be used so effectively. We should definitely try this.

Comment on Why you shouldn’t feel bad about blocking Ads by raygen79

raygen79 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:11:09 +0000

Ok Anne, I’ll go over and check it out now. No problem I like debates as well

Comment on Why you shouldn’t feel bad about blocking Ads by Anne Moss

Anne Moss — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:20:05 +0000

Hi again Ron, my post is up here –
http://b6s.net/general/is-blocking-ads-unethical.html

Thank you for the opportunity for some wholesome debating

Comment on Why you shouldn’t feel bad about blocking Ads by Is Blocking Ads Unethical? — B6S.net

Is Blocking Ads Unethical? — B6S.net — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:09:39 +0000

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Comment on Why you shouldn’t feel bad about blocking Ads by raygen79

raygen79 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:20:21 +0000

Yes I did bring up two separate arguments.

The first is not an excuse. Yes I do run widgets on this site, however My users are not forced to view them. In fact, readers are more then happy to block them if they choose to do so.

Secondly, I use BetterPrivacy + Noscript + ABP + Private Browsing mode on Linux ensures NO cookies get left behind at all when my browsing session is over. I do use cookies on this blog to see how many visitors I get, however that information is not shared with any 3rd party marketers and I don’t share it as this blog is not a money making venture. User are free to delete them as they wish.

Third, How is me or any other user blocking an advertisement the same as stealing a copyrighted television show? I don’t follow your logic there.

I am not distributing, selling, copying any copyrighted work. If the work if made public online sponsored by advertising it is is free to read as long as I don’t copy, distribute it, or do anything that would violate IP Laws.. Am I required to look at advertisements in the newspaper?

perhaps if advertisers and site owners went to a “cost per pixel” advertising model that is a much more viable long-term solution it wouldn’t be as bad. You pay a flat cost per pixel regardless of web site views. This model worked out well for a kid from England who made a Million dollars off his Million Dollar Home page at 1$ per pixel.

Thanks for commenting on my blog as well, I look forward to reading more of your stuff. Hopefully you will drop by mine as well.

Comment on Why you shouldn’t feel bad about blocking Ads by Anne Moss

Anne Moss — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:35:16 +0000

You bring up two separate arguments –
1. Ads contain Javascript/flash etc. and therefore may harm your computer.
2. You just don’t like being exposed to ads and commercials.

I think the first is just an excuse. You run widgets on this page and other pages run them too. Next you’re going to tell me you don’t use cookies? There are ways to control your security while allowing basic scripting languages and I think you’re aware of them. As for the second argument, what you’re doing is no different than downloading a torrent of a tv show because you want the show for free and without the commercials.

I have more to say about this – I think it’s worth a post on my blog Thanks for visiting my blog btw and leaving a comment

Comment on Chromium Web Browser Review by raygen79

raygen79 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:59:28 +0000

Oh thank you, I seen you could do it that way also. I just thought the graphical way would be easier for newer users. Thanks again for the easy terminal commands! They will come in handy

Comment on Chromium Web Browser Review by Bona

Bona — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:50:12 +0000

Under Karmic, you can install the software source (repository), GPG key and Chromium itself by entering three commands in terminal. No need to swich between graphical tools and terminal.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Comment on Chromium Web Browser Review by Ron

Ron — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:48:46 +0000

Yes, It seems that the Chromium web browser does not use up as much RAM after prolonged use as Mozilla Firefox does. However, Chromium doesn’t have the extensive set of browser extensions that Firefox has at this point.

its still a very worthy brownser nonetheless

thanks for the comment!

Comment on How to Add Google Buzz to your WordPress Blog by A Hurricane Ivan Experience | Car Insurance For Students Nevada

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Comment on How to Add Google Buzz to your WordPress Blog by Ron@Raygen's Basement

Ron@Raygen's Basement — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:56:21 +0000

If anyone has any questions or problems with this, don’t hesitate to contact me or leave a comment.

Comment on How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog by raygen79

raygen79 — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:18:07 +0000

Thanks, and your welcome. I keep this blog dofollow and I am completely honest about that. I want to encourage my readers to participate, and I have no problem returning the love. Thanks for the comments.

Comment on Operation Aurora – Another Internet Explorer Zero Day by IE Vulnerability

IE Vulnerability — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:27:03 +0000

New Internet Explorer Vulnerability that can’t be fixed…

[...]talked about vulnerabilities in Microsoft[...]…

Comment on Firefox vs IE vs Opera VS Chrome by Mike @ GPS for Hiking

Mike @ GPS for Hiking — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:37:26 +0000

It could be my conspiratorial gene becoming dominant, but I understand that while Google offers some incredible free tools, they also have the right to all information collected from your use of said tools.

I suppose as long as they stick to their motto- ‘Don’t be evil’- all will be well and we can sleep safe in our beds at night. hehe

Comment on Has Google Adsense Advertising Gotten Out of Control? by raygen79

raygen79 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:39:41 +0000

True, however an individual could make more money selling ad spaces on their site themselves then the clicks one could get from google

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Weedu — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:55:34 +0000

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Comment on Is Linux Security by Obscurity? by raygen79

raygen79 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:32:28 +0000

That is a point well taken. However, it must be noted that the way Linux is designed running anti-virus would be redundant. Linux also comes with its own firewall IPTables, Pffilter, etc take your pick. Many routers home and coporate run some form of Linux/BSD on them.

MACL and digital code signing is the future for any platform.

Comment on How to get your site listed in Yahoo Search by raygen79

raygen79 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:31:28 +0000

Your welcome, i agree it is very important to get listed in all the search engines, however this seems to speed up the process some for Yahoo.

Comment on Build your own Free Internet Security Suite by raygen79

raygen79 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:30:51 +0000

I agree Norton has gone to pot recently and breaks things. It causes more problems then it solves IMO. Thanks for the comment

Comment on How to get your site listed in Yahoo Search by Follow Links

Follow Links — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:37:07 +0000

It is important to know how to get listed in each of the major search engines. Each one is bit different and there are several steps that you can do to make sure you get listed in every one. Thanks for sharing these tips for how to get ranked in Yahoo.

Comment on How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog by Jay @ Digital Life & Tools Blog

Jay @ Digital Life & Tools Blog — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:34:52 +0000

I agree that only by giving something (a linkback) can you expect something in return (people commenting on your site).

Comment on How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog by Raygen79@Raygen's Internet Stuff

Raygen79@Raygen's Internet Stuff — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:35:26 +0000

@Jon Ritchie I did a lot of research on this subject as well as observed other blogs doing this as well. It is well known that Google counts Dofollow comments, but most blogs are nofollow so it defeats the purpose. while it fights spam, it hurt the honest folks so i decided to go another route by doing DoFollow links + CommentLuv + Keyword Luv..I have Askimet and Recaptcha on here and moderate all comments so it is working out good so far.

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Comment on How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog by Jon Ritchie

Jon Ritchie — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:58:58 +0000

Interesting article. Were did you got all the information from…

Comment on SEO Tips for Newbies by raygen79

raygen79 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:05:37 +0000

Thanks Claude, I really appreciate your comments, and I am glad you took something from it. I hope to keep adding more as I get time.

Comment on SEO Tips for Newbies by Claude@bbq recipes

Claude@bbq recipes — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:29:52 +0000

I consider myself a newbie even if I’ve been learning internet marketing for about 3 years and the information provided in this post is probably in my top 5.

Thanks a lot for sharing

Comment on How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog by James@Orange County Web Design

James@Orange County Web Design — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:55:43 +0000

More bloggers should feel the way you do about DoFollow Comments. I wish this were true, but I hope that as comment filtering gets more advanced, more bloggers will be willing to allow Dofollow comments.

Comment on Ubuntu to Kubuntu – My Switch From Gnome to KDE by Raygen@Linux Security by Obscurity

Raygen@Linux Security by Obscurity — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:10:24 +0000

Yes Marry, KDE is just much more polished overall than Gnome, and even more-so than windows Vista/7 user interface is. Amarok is probably the best music player on any platform, and kden live is much better then Windows Movie Maker. The QT vs GTK application argument has been going on for sometime, Im not sure if one set of apps are better then the others. I think that depends primarily on the users needs. Brasero and k3b are extremely closes in term of which one is better. I will say that kopete is a better IM client then Pidgin or empathy though..

Comment on Google Toolbar – A must have for the aspiring web master by AARON PEARSON

AARON PEARSON — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:08:56 +0000

Alexa Ratings can be inflated VERY easily. Alexa Booster programs have been available for a long time and can sky rocket a web pages Alexa popularity like crazy. I love the ZGoogle toolbar and it is very helpful, but page rank does not mean a website will rank higher. I could give several examples of PR 2 sites linking much higher on the SERP’s than a PR 4 or a PR 5 site. Sometimes this is due to graphic or flash intro pages that have NO no onpage keyword optimization, and other times it is due to the fact that the PR was gained from not too relevant sites and google can determine this. I would much rather have 5 links from highly relevant sites with little PR, than 5 links from not relevant sites with PR3 or PR4. Thats my opinion, but it is based on years of experience.

Comment on How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog by raygen79

raygen79 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:17:44 +0000

Thats great Everything SEO. I think more people need to have their blogs as Dofollow. I think many worry too much about Google Pagerank and the Big G. Askimet does a great job filtering spam now, and I have seen a good results so far with Dofollow + CommentLuv. It encourages your readers to leave genuine comments and I think that is a plus regardless.

thanks for the comments

Comment on How to Start a Successful Blog or Web Site by Everything SEO

Everything SEO — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:57:23 +0000

Good advice – I have recently set up a blog in a niche that I am very knowledgeable about (its not the one i’m linked to – thats just my playpen). The first phase of my plan is to get on page 1 of google for a long-tail keyphrase and start building a database of email addresses, with the incentive of free, useful content.

Once I have built up a sizeable list, I intend to start monetizing the site with the use of advertising and a very specialised ebook. I already have a targeted list of affiliate sites that could really benefit from the ebook as all they crappy 1-2 cent adsense ads at the moment which can’t be making them much.

Comment on How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog by Everything SEO

Everything SEO — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:47:12 +0000

I recently changed my blog from nofollow to dofollow as well, though I haven’t installed the keyword luv plugin yet. I don’t mind giving people a free backlink if they are going to leave a useful or otherwise interesting comment. Akismet seems to have filtered out the spam comments I have had so far, and it looks as though it is serving its purpose for you too!

Comment on Ubuntu to Kubuntu – My Switch From Gnome to KDE by MarryT

MarryT — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:24:52 +0000

I myself am a recent convert from Ubuntu/gnome to Kubuntu/KDE and so far I’m very happy with the change. It feels like almost everything is on one level higher than before. The looks is awesome and even the applications are better (I love Gwenview+digiKam combination for photos, K3b is fantastic CD burning app, Kdenlive is a superb viddeo editr and Amarok is by far the best music player I’ve used). Not to mention the desktop itself. Damn I’ve never seen so powerfull stuff.. Now that I’ve learned about Kubuntu and KDE I can only wonder why this isn’t the default *buntu distro. It would have a much better position to compete with Mac OS X (Windows is way behind already anyways).

Comment on Google Toolbar – A must have for the aspiring web master by Figure Competition Coach

Figure Competition Coach — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:46:05 +0000

I never really liked GOOGLE tool bar. The SEO ToolBar with website X-ray, PageRank and Rankchecker built right into the tool bar is better imo. Plenty of free stuff from that same website as well for download. Thanks for a great blog

Comment on How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog by Rodelio Lagahit

Rodelio Lagahit — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:00:46 +0000

people went to nofollow from dofollow because they’re following orders from the big G. my site is not using commentluv either since i’m glued with disqus comment system. great read actually!

Comment on How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog by gluall

gluall — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:09:40 +0000

Commentluv seems really cool. I’ve seen that some blogs also use Keyword luv, which allows people to use their name and add a keyword for their posts. I’ve wondered how it works without keywordluv. The anchor text to our website will be our name, as opposed to our Keywords. And the latest blog post that follows won’t receive any benefit from google, from what I’ve read. In any event, I’m testing commentluv and dofollow out too. I hope to get to the bottom of those questions soon.

Comment on How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog by Keith

Keith — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:46:01 +0000

Commentluv is a very good incentive for readers to make comments on your blog, as for making your blog “do follow” it’s true that it’s all personal preference, if you can handle a few spam comments then its totally fine, you just have to be on top of your comment moderating.

Comment on How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog by raygen79

raygen79 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:55:54 +0000

To make your blog do follow or not is personal preference, I just wanted to put the information out there for people to know another way to reward their readers. thanks for your comment!

Comment on Ubuntu to Kubuntu – My Switch From Gnome to KDE by Ron

Ron — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:51:50 +0000

Thanks for the comment James. I have heard of Linux Mint, but I haven’t tried it yet. I wonder if Mint has better support for KDE than Ubuntu does? Afterall it seems Ubuntu and Gnome is where the lion share of the attention is on Ubuntu, and many say Kubuntu is like the neglected little sister

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Comment on Ubuntu to Kubuntu – My Switch From Gnome to KDE by James Cain

James Cain — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:36:28 +0000

Nice article. I agree KDE looks much more polished than Gnome. Hopefully with initiatives like Project Timelord, Kubuntu will continue to step out of the shadows and shine. If not, I predict that another Debian based distro will.

When Linux Mint 8 KDE comes out in a few weeks, you should give that a try also.

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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:35:06 +0000

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Comment on Why Microsoft Bing Sucks! by Mike D.

Mike D. — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:07:40 +0000

I agree with both the article and comments. Bing is a disaster for webmasters and the more Microsoft denies it has created a technological joke, the further irrelevant they become. I have given a lot of money to Microsoft over the years for servers, databases, operating systems and development software. I will not give Microsoft any more money than I need to and have started migrating to open source software for some servers and databases. When ‘bing’ issues are brought to the attention of Microsoft support, their answers are insulting as they blame webmasters and insinuate they have a lack of technical knowledge, when most people asking the questions have been doing development work longer than they have been around. In short they are in total denial that they developed a failed project.

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:41:24 +0000

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Comment on DMOZ – Is it Really That Important? by raygen79

raygen79 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:48:44 +0000

Well I appreciate your comments. Its good to get a dmoz editor to speak on my blog. I do not believe ALL editors at dmoz are corrupt, but there are always a few bad apples in everything. I do however appreciate your honestly and integrity for speaking your mind here. The term “high quality” is extremely vague term, what one considers high quality another may consider garbage. i have seen no real logical pattern in some of the categries that dmoz excepts sites.

for example, I have seen many sites in dmoz categories that are MFA sites, and are quite literally spam. i have seen many sites with no ads at all and good content get rejected. It makes no sense. I would really like to see some clear and concise definitions for such broad terms. I would also like to see dmoz be much more open and transparent in its goals. why is everything handled behind closed oors in secret with a big hush behind it? secrecy seems paramount in the ODP, and that is very disheartening in my opinion.

again, thanks for your comments.

Comment on DMOZ – Is it Really That Important? by DK

DK — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:41:44 +0000

Your comments perhaps are true that the directory is made to be more important than it is.
But the suggestion that editors prevent competitor listings, at least in many cases, is not.
I am a dmoz editor and I have added many competitor sites. I consider my role as an editor separate – like putting on a new hate. My job as an editor is to list the high quality web sites.
That does unfortunately lead to a lot of angst out there against dmoz, because frankly, 99% percent of the submissions are not good quality. They have missing huge gaps of content, spam ridden etc.

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Google - Why It Will Remain King of Search | Raygen's Basement — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:53:29 +0000

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Comment on The Scams Called Infomercials and why they suck! by Ray

Ray — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:41:52 +0000

Sorry about the spelling. I am typing in the dark with a tiny nightlight. Oh, the George Foreman infomercials were OK. At least he was pushing a decent product.

Comment on The Scams Called Infomercials and why they suck! by Ray

Ray — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:38:06 +0000

Hard to believe a crook like Kevin Trudeau is allows to operate on the airways. And the male enhancement? Looks like some NASCAR guy is pushing the crap now. I believe America’s collective intellect has taken a nosedive in the last 8 years. I hope the present administration will fund some additional consumer protection. This carp would not have been allowed in the pre-Reagan years. There used to be much more protection until everything was de-regulated. My personal favorite is the colon cleanse guy. He even looks like a con artist. I suppose stupid people deserve to be taken, but I would rather see them protected from spending their hard earned cash on worthless products.

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Tamera — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:23:24 +0000

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Comment on Why Microsoft Bing Sucks! by Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:10:03 +0000

Agreed Bing does suck but it is all down to the stupidity of their indexing, and it isn’t targeted at blogs alone, it’s everyone.

Bing have taken the root that in order to get listed your domain name needs to be around a while, so new websites are in trouble, and you must already have in place loads of back links, hundreds in fact. They will however list your main index page regardless; well at least that is supposed to be the plan. You can follow their guidelines to a tee and take onboard the advice of their staff but it doesn’t help.

Adding new pages to your site and getting those indexed is just as painful an experience as again they expect each page to have tonnes of back links in place even though they are new pages.

They’re acting as if they are the biggest kid on the block but they are pretty insignificant at the moment and this is growing worse as they alienate website owners – if you can’t even get listed then you’re even less likely to use it or recommend it to others.

Their current indexing policy is a joke and is backfiring on them, but they are making excuses for it. Eventually someone at Microsoft may see the stupidity of their indexing policy and the serious damage it is doing to the reputation of Bing and do something about it – or maybe they are just making excuses for it whilst they sort out all the problems. In any case Microsoft will do well to remember that you only get one chance to make a first impression.

As for me I’m on Bing, although my new pages haven’t made it yet, so I’m sticking with dependable Google. Traffic from Bing is so small that it isn’t currently worth the hassle, as long as I do what Google requires Bing will eventually include my new pages.

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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:40:02 +0000

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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:19:34 +0000

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Comment on How To Get Your Site Indexed By Microsoft Bing by raygen79

raygen79 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:15:05 +0000

Yeah i can feel your pain, you got a good web site nonstop…thats bing for ya

Comment on How To Get Your Site Indexed By Microsoft Bing by non stop giveaway

non stop giveaway — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:44:15 +0000

Yeah..It doesn’t seem to like my website either

Comment on How To Get Your Site Indexed By Microsoft Bing by raygen79

raygen79 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:26:53 +0000

Yes I have noticed that Bing hates blogs too. Mine disappeared for awhile, but is now back. Although less than half my blog is indexed now. That really sucks.

Comment on How To Get Your Site Indexed By Microsoft Bing by blog.tai.chinh

blog.tai.chinh — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:16:55 +0000

Bing seems to hate Blogger blogs (and WordPress maybe). It did index my blog some months ago, and now my blog just disappeared.

Comment on Adsense or No Adsense. That is the question by raygen79

raygen79 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:46:29 +0000

Yes it is possible, but it takes a lot of work, effort, and good ad placement to achieve it. It also strongly depends on your web site or blogs niche as well.

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Moneymaker (Beginner) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:14:15 +0000

Good evening. Is it possible to earn money at home by using adsense?
I have already Adsense account but I fail to setting up this profitable program….

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Ron — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:25:53 +0000

This article has some really good points. I totally agree with what you state about target audience and niche

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farbige kontaktlinsen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:41:42 +0000

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Comment on SEO Tips for Newbies by raygen79

raygen79 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:41:41 +0000

Sure you can use my article as long as you give me credit, take care.

Raygen

Comment on SEO Tips for Newbies by Polprav

Polprav — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:10:47 +0000

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Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?