Archive for November, 2008

How to File a DMCA Complaint

What do you do if original content from your website or blog is stolen and republished in full on another site?  You fight back!
A splog or “spam blog” is a blog that steals content from other web sites, then aggregates and republishes the content on its own blog.  Splogs are created primarily to make money [...]

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Splogs: Spam Blogs and Stolen Content

Copyright infringement is the sincerest form of flattery.
What’s a Splog?
A splog or “spam blog” is a blog that steals content from other web sites, then aggregates and republishes all or some of the content on its own blog.
Splogs are created to promote and increase search engine ranking of affiliated web sites, and/or to make money [...]

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Can you Digg it? 7 Tips for Bloggers Working with Social News Sites

Social news sites first became popular when Digg.com launched on the Web in 2004. A social news site enables its users to submit news stories and vote on them. The most popular articles percolate to the top of the list and are rewarded with a huge surge in Web traffic. A candid discussion of each [...]

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Install WordPress on GoDaddy Shared Hosting

Just a few years back, if you wanted to host a WordPress blog on your own website, you avoided GoDaddy at all costs.  WordPress and other mainstream Web applications simply didn’t work on GoDaddy shared hosting without a lot of extra work.  As a result, GoDaddy quickly gained a reputation as a cheap Web host [...]

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Blogging Tips for Developers

Blogs are becoming an important and prevalent method for software developers to share knowledge, tips and code.  Unlike code-sharing sites that have publication guidelines and restrictions, blogs are typically privately-owned, which gives developers freedom to deliver and format their content in many ways.  But this freedom can also result in a poor experience for the [...]

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Embed Google Ad in First WordPress Post

The leading SEO (Search Engine Optimization) sites will tell you that placing an ad after the first post in your blog’s home page is particularly effective.  This is because the ad is essentially embedded in the blog content, hence your readers are less likely to develop “ad blindness” and skip over the ad as usual.  [...]

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008