Buying Adwords won’t help in organic rankings
This is something I wondered about years ago but here you go. From Matt Cutts himself. Google has a policy against giving special treatment to their customers apparently. It’s a good thing and evens the playing field.
Embed a Kickstarter Video in a WordPress Post
Kickstarter videos are iframes which can’t usually be embedded in WordPress posts. This is just silliness on Kickstarter’s part because WordPress powers a huge number of websites on the web. If people could easily embed a Kickstarter video in a WordPress post I think they would be more inclined to post about them. So I [...]
Previews for Unpublished WordPress Posts
Sometimes I do interviews on the Shirt List and I would like to send a link to the interviewees before it goes live but there was no clean way of doing this before. Now, with this new plugin you can create previews for unpublished WordPress posts. Have you ever been writing a post with the [...]
Change Chrome’s Default Language from Japanese to English
Warning: video contains vulgar language. This is something that has been annoying me for a while. I often use my wife’s PC which is Japanese and Google Chrome automatically detects the language and displays menus etc. in Japanese. That doesn’t bother me so much as I can find my way around Chrome easily enough. What [...]
Post WordPress Posts to Facebook Automatically
I think the potential of social networks to increase traffic to your blog or website is fantastic but the problem is that the time we spend on social networks is time lost creating the actual content that is needed to get people to visit your website. So we need to automate as much as possible. [...]
What are these Twitter Accounts? Spam Followers
Recently I noticed that I was being followed by these accounts with no profile images and, more surprisingly, no tweets. I wonder what they are for. I don’t know the answer but if you have some ideas about what these spam followers are up to, why not let us know in the comments. Spam Followers [...]
Sign in to Google Safely on Public Computers
Update: it seems that this is only an experiment and it will disappear at some point but the good news is that they say they are working on an even better system. We’re working on something that I believe is even better, and when that’s ready for a public trial we’ll let you know. Source: [...]
How not to steal blog content: a case study
This is about how not to steal blog content As you may or may not know, I have a blog called Tee Reviewer. It is a t-shirt news and review blog. Recently I posted a list of the 21 most important t-shirt blogs of 2011. (Please check it out.) I follow most, if not all [...]
How to import Tumblr to WordPress
I decided to learn how to import Tumblr to WordPress. The reason is a friend of mine is thinking of moving his Tumblr to a WordPress installation because he feels that the limitations of Tumblr are holding him back so I was wondering how easy it would be do make the move. In the WordPress [...]
Twitter is Everywhere
It’s true, Twitter is everywhere! I just watched the 3rd trailer for this movie over on Apple. it looks pretty good and I’m looking forward to watching it. I am enjoying Liam Neeson’s action hero status. He is a totally believable tough guy. But that’s not why I am writing this post. Link: The Grey [...]
