Posts Tagged “google”

Need backlinks?

Build High PR Backlinks On Demand Free PDF Reveals All. Download Now! Google Adsense Advert spotted on iwebtool.com The best Irish horror movie? The Irish dickheads of the year 2007 as picked by Twenty Major. Hard to fault that list. Mind mapping for new blog post ideas. Someone stumbled upon my CFMB tag when they [...]

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Put WordPress on the map

This WordPress Map on ohloh.net is nicely populated, but I’m feeling rather lonely on the WordPress MU one! Looks like I’m the only WordPress banner waving fanatic in Ireland. Come on everybody, add yourselves! (via Barry)

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Donncha's Friday Links

There is no vulnerability in WP Super Cache. Chris blogged about it after we spent a late night of debugging it until 1.30am. But if: You are using Windows (props Computer Guru) You are using a Red Hat or Cent OS system, or just having problems with compressed content (props Dennis) You want to use [...]

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How many visitors come from Google?

I use Google Analytics to track visitor numbers to my site as well as a custom written referrers package some of the early users of WordPress.com may remember. That only records 7 days of data because of the data size so when I wanted to know how many visitors come from Google to my blog [...]

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Life after Text Link Ads

Hi, my name is Donncha and I used to have text-link-ads on my blog. They’re gone now but only after Google slapped me into submission and reduced my page rank to 4. Initially I felt angry and shocked that this happened but I have no excuse, I heard it from the horses mouth, I knew [...]

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Why you need the Adsense Competitive Ad Filter

While it didn’t invent search-triggered ads, Google figured out a far more efficient way of turning web-users into buyers. Rather than doling out premium space to the highest bidder, as its competitors did, Google used another algorithm to work out how relevant the ad text was to a given query and the odds someone would [...]

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Friends don't let friends see adverts

This post has been a long time in the writing. Ever since I started advertising on my blogs my strategies have been tweaked continuously so consider this post a snapshot description of what I’m doing with Adsense advertising now. This is a long post, but read through it. The plugin I use to do most [...]

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gmail: no third-party DSNs

Be careful if you forward email to a gmail account. Gmail doesn’t like receiving mail delivery status notices or reports. This server filled up overnight with tens of thousands of email reports bouncing back and forth between it and gmail. If you emailed me in the last 24 hours and I haven’t replied, I may [...]

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My life through Google

A large part of my online income depends on Google Adsense. I filter my email through gmail and since this morning I’m feeding a backup gmail account with a copy of every single email I get. Thanks Matt for that idea. I use Google’s search engine to find solutions to my problems. Like Tom and [...]

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Why not let Google filter your spam?

I’ve been running Spamassassin and Postgrey on my mail server for the past few months. It was only since the server was upgraded that I had enough juice to run the very intensive SA processes (even using spamd), but still on occasion the server would grind to a stop when a particularly nasty Rumpelstiltskin attack [...]

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