Today, I come to you with a more somber tone. As a webmaster, this blog focuses primarily on internet and computer related topics. It also includes commentary on social networking and social media. However, this post will differ from all the other posts on this blog. Today marks another sad chapter in the world of social networking and social media.
In October of 2006 the social networking site Myspace was used as a vehicle of cyberbullying by unscrupulous people that resulted in the suicide of 13 year old Megan Meier. It was a sad day in the life of social networks and social media, but an even sadder day for a community and a family that lost friends, a daughter, and a loved one. Read the rest of this entry »
Technorati is probably the most popular blogging community on the internet. Technorati ranks blogs by popularity using its unique authority system. Its very simple how it works. The more claimed Technorati blogs that link to you, the more Technorati authority your blog gets. The more authority you have, the higher you rank in Technorati. Overall, its a pretty simple system.
Google takes a blog’s Technorati authority into account somewhat as posts will get indexed much quicker if a one has their blog listed in Technorati because it is crawled so often. This means you will have less of a wait time in getting your content indexed.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a Technorati Badge on your site like the one on to the right of this post? In this article, I will show you how to add a Technorati Badge to your blog. Read the rest of this entry »
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As anyone who has a blog knows, combating spam can be one of the most aggravating endeavours a blogger ever undertakes. It seems like every time new spam combating technologies come out, its not too long before the spammers get around them. This can make it extremely frustrating to keep your blog free of spam even with services like Askimet.
After doing some research on pingbacks, I came across a WordPress plug-in called Deep Link Engine. Even though this plug-in is hosted on the WordPress Official plug-in page, I can’t see any reason why anyone would want to use this plug-in. It reeks of spam if I have ever seen it. This plug-in is often used in conjunction with autoblogging as what I can gather from the Deep Link Engine official web site.
This spam plug-in works like this. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Analytics it seems the de facto choice today for web metrics solutions. I’d say on average over half the internet uses the Google tracking service to see how many visitors they get to their sites. The Google Anaylytics web metric software tracks various benchmarks like keywords, search engine referral, country location, time on your site, etc. Even though this seems all find and dandy, can we rely on this information? This begs the question which is better?
If you have any experience reading web server logs like those produced by Apache, then this is a very important question. Even if you have never read a server log in your, I hope you gain some insight about how important they are. We all know the information that Google Analytics gives us, but what about the information it doesn’t give us such as: Read the rest of this entry »
In the world of blogs, WordPress is by far the most popular blogging platform. The fact that it is open source and free makes it a very attractive medium to use in the online world of blogging. However WordPress like any other software can have its faults. Even though the folks at WordPress are very quick to patch any holes in the blog software, It is still very important that the end users of the WordPress blog software take measures to protect their blogs from being hacked.
I will say nothing is hack proof, but the tips in this article can help you add some security to your WordPress blog to make it more difficult to hack. Its also very important users take measures to protect their blogs. I will go over some easy tips to secure your WordPress blog below, with maximum plug-in compatibility in mind.
Steps to Harden WordPress
1. File and Folder Permissions – The first step to securing your blog is ensuring your files and folders have the correct file permissions associated with them. Your file and folder permissions should be as follows.
Folders – The Folders in your WordPress should have permissions on them set to 755
Files – The Files in your WordPress should have permissions on them set to 644 Read the rest of this entry »
Today I will review the StatPress plug-in for WordPress. StatPress is a site analytics plug-in for WordPress that will give you a ton of statistical information about your web site. StatPress includes information such as:
1. Visitors
2. What Web Browser they are using.
3. What Operating System they are using.
4. What search terms they used to find your site.
5. What Search Engine they used.
6. Geographical data
7. Logs Search Engine Spider visits (IE Yahoo Crawler, Google Crawler, Bing Crawler, etc)
8. Real-time Statisitics
9. RSS Feed Statistics
It gives as much information as Google Analytics does, but its hosted locally. It also shows you how often your site is spidered to give you a good idea of how the search engines view your web site. This plug-in will greatly aid you in your SEO efforts. The statistics delivered are real-time so you don’t have any waiting period like you do with or analytic solutions. Read the rest of this entry »
