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Twitter vs. Capital One's Reputation. Twitter vs. "*" 4 Jul 2009

I have to admit, I underestimated the power of Twitter for awhile — but now that Twitter helped to organize a national uprising in Iran, I've reconsidered a bit. I opened my Capital One statement this month and I noticed an APR hike from 10%->17%. When I called, there was no reason they could give me [...] Related posts:

A Little Link Bait Experiment QuadsZilla's latest link bait experiment is going to read like...

I Dream Of Miss Dewey And so do you. Miss Dewey is hot, she's viral,...

3 Ways To Deal with Authorize.NET Downtime 3 Jul 2009

Authorize.NET dropped the ball again on July 3, 2009. Authorize.NET was down from approximately 03:15 EST, and they're still not 100% up @ 15:51 EST. That's pretty much 12 hours. 12 hours of downtime when you're dealing with money is really awful, and I won't even go into the details re: that. Here's the thing. [...] Related posts:

Tell Your Competitors To Use Network Solutions' DNS Today I ordered my lunch online. When I hit "confirm,"...

DiggBait 101: 8 Ways to Help You Get to Digg's Front Page 1. Make People Read Your Boring Crap with a Persuasive...

Bloggers! I Need Your Address. Free Preproduction Copies of SEO With PHP Are you a blogger? If you'd like, send me an...

Why Iran Will Eventually Lose to Technology; VPN, SSL Proxies, etc. 29 Jun 2009

In your typical game of cat and mouse, the cat only wins sometimes. Unfortunately, for the cat — eventually he meets a pretty smart mouse. And then he loses. Debkafile, over here writes how the Iranian intelligence services began to turn technology on citizens using deep packet inspection. DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report that the [...] Related posts:

Twitter vs. Capital One's Reputation. Twitter vs. "*" I have to admit, I underestimated the power of Twitter...

SEO Contemplates Suicide When Google Update Occurs Apparently, he entered a deep bout of depression on June...

eBay Integration + Fixed Price + Variations is Next "Big Thing" 17 Jun 2009

You've done it. I've done it. We've all done it. PPC can be hazardous if it's not carefully watched. Sure, you can hire a PPC management firm and dispense the buck and responsibility to a third party. But that doesn't actually dispense with any of the liability … No. That's just [...] Related posts:

Delisting 101: Bad Webhosting Can Even Get You Banished From Google You thought cheap webhosting was a bargain. Maybe … but...

The Best Libido Enhancer is No WordPress Security … for spammers, anyway. Upgrading WordPress often might just help!...

Circuit City R.I.P.; Awesome eCom Web Site, Terrible Store Circuit City was a terrible brick-and-mortar store, don't get...

Bankrupt WordPress? … "Why Not," Says European Union 13 May 2009

While the USA is plenty stupid and litigious sometimes, the EU has recently come up with one of the most destructive ideas ever: In short, they're saying "Let's explicitly legislate that software developers are liable for security lapses." Yes, possibly even for FOSS (open source software). Now this might sound like a really good idea to [...] Related posts:

Don't Get Hacked: Sandbox WordPress & Other Applications. Here's How. WordPress is great. So are most other free and/or open-source...

NY Bar Takes Aim at Cheeseball Lawyer Spam Sites The NY Bar has a new set of rules for...

The Best Libido Enhancer is No WordPress Security … for spammers, anyway. Upgrading WordPress often might just help!...

Howto: DD-WRT & Novatel Cellular USB Modem 13 Apr 2009

A bit off-topic, but useful nonetheless. One day cable went down. Optimum online is usually great — but they totally dropped the ball that day. We wanted to use our Novatel Ovation U720 cellular modem to power our network as a backup. Lots of credit goes to Dragon, and this wiki. [...] Related posts:

SSH2 & PHP Howto Guide: SSH Connections Made Easy in PHP PHP doesn't come with native support for making SSH connections...

Tell Your Competitors To Use Network Solutions' DNS Today I ordered my lunch online. When I hit "confirm,"...

When NOT To Use Canonical URL Links 16 Feb 2009

Joost de Valk wrote a great WordPress plugin that I'm about to install. From Joost de Valk: http://yoast.com/twitter-analytics/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter has a bunch of tracking parameters on it, and therefore is duplicate … so we may cite a canonical URL in <head> to fix this — <link rel="canonical" href="http://yoast.com/twitter/analytics/"/> In this case it is the only option to do so [...] Related posts:

Three approaches to the breadcrumb duplicate-content issues This is an old topic for me; one that I...

Cashing In With Legacy Link Equity Your computer sucks. The Core Duo is dead – now...

Why Google is Wrong on Paid Links I think paid links are just dandy! In every other...

3 Non-Obvious Things eCommerce Can Do When Rankings Implode 9 Feb 2009

Your friendly Captain-obvious-inspired search marketer might argue you shouldn't have done so when you depended on your organic rankings so much — but they're almost certainly vulnerable too. Let's face it. It's just plain difficult to get natural referral traffic when you're ultimately just another guy selling commodities. OK, so don't be [...] Related posts:

eBay Integration + Fixed Price + Variations is Next "Big Thing" You've done it. I've done it. We've all done it....

Noindex, follow for RSS Feeds? Guest post by Joost de Valk. Every now and then...

How You Can Stop Dirty Feed Scrapers In 3 Easy Steps Stealing is wrong; but some people just don't seem to...